Mobile Payment Contracts

Mobile Payment
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mobile Payment in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Mobile Payment over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 567 693 854
Rank change year-on-year +126 +161 -201
Contract jobs citing Mobile Payment 12 7 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.028% 0.012% 0.007%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.091% 0.035% 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 5
10th Percentile £393 £353 £488
25th Percentile £450 £475 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £650 £588 £675
90th Percentile £755 £681 £698
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Generic Skills
UK

Mobile Payment 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 with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,235 19,964 29,268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.39% 33.29% 32.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,477 13,730 20,414
10th Percentile £263 £306 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £680 £650
90th Percentile £788 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 910 654 727
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £13.89
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.75 £16.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £22.49 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.42% -16.72% +2.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.50 £49.88
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% +10.00% -16.67%

Mobile Payment
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Mobile Payment in the UK

Mobile Payment
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Mobile Payment in the UK

Mobile Payment
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mobile Payment over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Mobile Payment in the UK

Mobile Payment
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Mobile Payment in the UK

Mobile Payment
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mobile Payment within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 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 +121 12 £550 +10.00% 3
London +119 12 £550 +10.00% 3
Work from Home - 5 £650 -

Mobile Payment
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:

Business Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (8.33%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Redis
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Billing
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Architect
2 3 (25.00%) Lead
2 3 (25.00%) Payments Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Technical Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Backend Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Payments Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) QA Leader
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Backend Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Mobile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) .NET
1 3 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (8.33%) .NET Core
2 1 (8.33%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (8.33%) CSS
2 1 (8.33%) GraphQL
2 1 (8.33%) HTML
2 1 (8.33%) React
2 1 (8.33%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Digital Wallet
1 3 (25.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (8.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Android
1 2 (16.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (25.00%) API Design
2 3 (25.00%) API Integration
2 3 (25.00%) B2B
2 3 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (25.00%) KYC
2 3 (25.00%) Security Architecture
2 3 (25.00%) Target Operating Model
3 1 (8.33%) Agile
3 1 (8.33%) Analytics
3 1 (8.33%) B2C
3 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (8.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) E-Commerce
3 1 (8.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (8.33%) Microservices
3 1 (8.33%) Scrum
3 1 (8.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) C#
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) Bicep
3 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) SEPA
2 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Apple
1 1 (8.33%) Google
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft