Near Field Communication (NFC)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring NFC skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited NFC over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 901 916 1142
Rank change year-on-year +15 +226 -181
Permanent jobs citing NFC 3 3 121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% 0.003% 0.070%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.022% 0.020% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - - £35,500
25th Percentile - £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -20.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile - £45,000 £51,250
90th Percentile - - £52,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 - £42,500
% change year-on-year - - -22.73%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

NFC falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,853 15,169 22,929
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.61% 16.40% 13.27%
Number of salaries quoted 9,443 7,634 11,811
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £51,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% -2.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,938 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,886 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -0.25% -5.26% +5.56%

NFC
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for NFC in the UK

NFC
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing NFC.

Salary trend for NFC in the UK

NFC
Top 4 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NFC within the UK over the 6 months to 13 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England - 3 £70,000 - 3
UK excluding London - 3 £70,000 - 3
East of England - 2 - - 2
South East - 1 £70,000 -

NFC
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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DECT
1 2 (66.67%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (66.67%) ZigBee
General
1 2 (66.67%) Electronics
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Embedded Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Payments Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Payments Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Embedded Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Analogue Electronics
1 2 (66.67%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Chip Card
2 1 (33.33%) Contactless
2 1 (33.33%) EMV
2 1 (33.33%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Embedded Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
1 2 (66.67%) Schematic Capture
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Firmware