Contactless Contracts

Contactless
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Contactless in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Contactless over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 566 685 845
Rank change year-on-year +119 +160 -115
Contract jobs citing Contactless 18 12 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.022% 0.003%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.14% 0.065% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 2
10th Percentile £429 £405 £317
25th Percentile £463 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £484
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -6.98% +20.94%
75th Percentile £644 - £592
90th Percentile £674 £514 £649
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £425 £675
% change year-on-year +29.41% -37.04% -

All Generic Skills
UK

Contactless falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,045 18,435 29,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.87% 33.19% 33.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,307 12,697 20,403
10th Percentile £275 £310 £315
25th Percentile £413 £446 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £678 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 939 605 684
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.29
25th Percentile £15.39 £10.63 £17.50
Median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%
75th Percentile £61.40 £58.75 £50.77
90th Percentile £71.88 £75.00 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.25 £22.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +60.23% +2.33% -4.44%

Contactless
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Contactless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Contactless in the UK

Contactless
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Contactless.

Daily rate trend for Contactless in the UK

Contactless
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Contactless over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Contactless in the UK

Contactless
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Contactless.

Hourly rate trend for Contactless in the UK

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Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Contactless within the UK over the 6 months to 12 June 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
England +93 16 £535 +29.70% 3
Work from Home +118 12 £550 +22.22% 1
London +89 12 £535 +33.75% 2
UK excluding London +29 4 £550 +29.41% 1
South East - 2 £645 -
North of England +17 1 £475 +11.76% 1
North West +15 1 £475 +11.76% 1
South West 0 1 £475 -

Contactless
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 14 (77.78%) Azure
2 13 (72.22%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (11.11%) Stripe
4 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (61.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Selenium
1 1 (5.56%) SpecFlow
1 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio
1 1 (5.56%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (16.67%) Back Office
1 3 (16.67%) Banking
1 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Billing
3 1 (5.56%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Local Government
3 1 (5.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Developer
1 7 (38.89%) Senior
2 6 (33.33%) Senior Developer
3 5 (27.78%) Senior Software Developer
3 5 (27.78%) Software Developer
4 3 (16.67%) Lead
4 3 (16.67%) Technical Leader
5 2 (11.11%) Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Azure Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Payments Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Consultant
6 1 (5.56%) Delivery Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Digital Transformation Project Manager
6 1 (5.56%) IAM Consultant
6 1 (5.56%) IT Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Project Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Security Consultant
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (44.44%) XML
2 7 (38.89%) ARM Templates
3 5 (27.78%) .NET
4 3 (16.67%) .NET Core
5 2 (11.11%) FIDO
5 2 (11.11%) RESTful
6 1 (5.56%) .NET Framework
6 1 (5.56%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 2 (11.11%) Digital Wallet
2 2 (11.11%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (77.78%) DevOps
2 13 (72.22%) Agile
3 8 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 8 (44.44%) Scrum
4 3 (16.67%) Clean Code
4 3 (16.67%) OO
4 3 (16.67%) OOD
4 3 (16.67%) TDD
5 2 (11.11%) API Design
5 2 (11.11%) Architecture Roadmap
5 2 (11.11%) B2B
5 2 (11.11%) Biometrics
5 2 (11.11%) Data Protection
5 2 (11.11%) Digital Banking
5 2 (11.11%) E-Commerce
5 2 (11.11%) Kanban
5 2 (11.11%) Machine Learning
5 2 (11.11%) Microservices
5 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (11.11%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) Bicep
2 8 (44.44%) PowerShell
3 4 (22.22%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) CISM
2 1 (5.56%) CISSP
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) GDPR
1 2 (11.11%) PCI DSS
1 2 (11.11%) PSD2
1 2 (11.11%) RMADS
2 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 11 (61.11%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) PayPal