Smartcard Contracts in the UK excluding London

Smart Card
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Smartcard in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Smartcard over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 390 438 478
Rank change year-on-year +48 +40 -42
Contract jobs citing Smartcard 4 8 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.020% 0.035% 0.068%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.068% 0.11% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 10
10th Percentile - - £209
25th Percentile £463 £205 £235
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £210 £263
Median % change year-on-year +126.19% -20.00% -50.12%
75th Percentile £488 £501 £352
90th Percentile - £673 £397
UK median daily rate £475 £363 £263
% change year-on-year +31.03% +38.10% -41.67%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Smartcard is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,882 7,500 9,860
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.02% 32.42% 32.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,536 5,039 6,865
10th Percentile £210 £220 £205
25th Percentile £378 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £595 £612 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £671
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 719 423 458
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.48
25th Percentile £14.06 £10.63 £15.63
Median hourly rate £30.00 £22.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% +4.76% -10.83%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £45.89
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.80 £61.70
UK median hourly rate £31.50 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +41.54% -17.57% +3.85%

Smartcard
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Smartcard as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Smartcard in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Smartcard in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Smartcard in the UK excluding London

Smartcard
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Smartcard in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Smartcard in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Smartcard within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +21 2 £475 - 1
Wales - 1 - - 1
Scotland - 1 - -
Smartcard
UK

Smartcard
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Spreadsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) LAN
1 1 (25.00%) RFID
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Back Office
1 1 (25.00%) Electronics
1 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (25.00%) Marketing
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Delivery Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Desktop Support
2 1 (25.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (25.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Support
2 1 (25.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Software Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) React
1 1 (25.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) CMDB
1 1 (25.00%) iPhone
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Android
1 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (25.00%) Break/Fix
2 1 (25.00%) Change Control
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) Contract Negotiation
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow