Smart Card
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Smartcard in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 859 954 1223
Rank change year-on-year +95 +269 -294
Permanent jobs citing Smartcard 25 21 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.025% 0.021% 0.012%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.071% 0.050% 0.024%
Number of salaries quoted 23 16 12
10th Percentile - £35,000 -
25th Percentile - £58,563 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,000 £77,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -67.74% +72.22% -18.18%
75th Percentile £28,500 £81,250 £54,063
90th Percentile £60,000 £95,750 £57,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £25,000 £90,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -72.38% +101.11% +5.88%

All Generic Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 35,155 42,392 77,992
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.18% 42.62% 47.91%
Number of salaries quoted 23,026 23,184 34,267
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,483 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £109,865 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Smartcard
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Smartcard in the UK

Smartcard
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Smartcard in the UK

Smartcard
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Smartcard over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Smartcard in the UK

Smartcard
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Smartcard within the UK 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +101 25 £25,000 -72.38% 4
UK excluding London +10 25 £25,000 -72.38% 4
West Midlands - 12 £25,000 -
Midlands - 12 £25,000 -
East of England - 9 £27,000 -
Work from Home +70 2 £60,000 -22.58% 3
South East +11 2 £60,000 -37.50% 1
South West -22 2 £55,000 -

Smartcard
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (8.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (8.00%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 12 (48.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 12 (48.00%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (28.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 12 (48.00%) Power Platform
2 7 (28.00%) Amazon EC2
2 7 (28.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (28.00%) DHCP
1 7 (28.00%) DNS
1 7 (28.00%) VoIP
2 2 (8.00%) NAS
2 2 (8.00%) Skype
2 2 (8.00%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (48.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 19 (76.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (52.00%) Finance
3 12 (48.00%) Back Office
3 12 (48.00%) Local Government
4 3 (12.00%) Aerospace
5 2 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (4.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (48.00%) Analyst
1 12 (48.00%) Commercial Analyst
2 7 (28.00%) IT Assistant
3 2 (8.00%) Lead
3 2 (8.00%) Team Leader
3 2 (8.00%) Technical Leader
3 2 (8.00%) Technical Team Leader
3 2 (8.00%) Wintel Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Project Manager
4 1 (4.00%) Software Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Software Manager
4 1 (4.00%) Software Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (8.00%) CMDB
2 2 (8.00%) PKI
3 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (44.00%) Windows
1 11 (44.00%) Windows Server
2 7 (28.00%) Android
3 2 (8.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (84.00%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (48.00%) Business Intelligence
2 12 (48.00%) Data Analysis
2 12 (48.00%) Economics
2 12 (48.00%) Mathematics
3 7 (28.00%) CRM
3 7 (28.00%) ERP
4 2 (8.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (8.00%) High Availability
4 2 (8.00%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (8.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (8.00%) Migration
4 2 (8.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 2 (8.00%) Project Management
4 2 (8.00%) Security Hardening
4 2 (8.00%) Security Monitoring
4 2 (8.00%) Security Patching
4 2 (8.00%) Service Delivery
4 2 (8.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 7 (28.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (8.00%) C#
2 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (64.00%) Degree
2 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (8.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.00%) DBS Check
4 1 (4.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 11 (44.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (16.00%) vSphere
3 3 (12.00%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (8.00%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (8.00%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 2 (8.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 16 (64.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) BMC
2 2 (8.00%) VMware
3 1 (4.00%) Thales