Payment Gateway Contracts

Payment Gateway
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Payment Gateway skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Payment Gateway over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 575 685 790
Rank change year-on-year +110 +105 -138
Contract jobs citing Payment Gateway 23 34 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.053% 0.057% 0.066%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.71% 0.89% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 22 38
10th Percentile £420 £345 £423
25th Percentile £450 £419 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £531
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +8.24% +37.10%
75th Percentile £575 £788 £597
90th Percentile £618 £1,135 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% +62.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Business Application Skills
UK

Payment Gateway is in the Business Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for business application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 3,225 3,814 5,060
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.45% 6.38% 5.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,885 2,195 3,127
10th Percentile £363 £363 £375
25th Percentile £463 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £685 £650
90th Percentile £775 £794 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £515
% change year-on-year - +1.94% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 56 57
10th Percentile £14.71 £21.25 £16.80
25th Percentile £21.25 £29.21 £21.00
Median hourly rate £43.75 £47.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +35.71% +5.26%
75th Percentile £59.82 £63.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £73.75 £63.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £49.00 £23.53
% change year-on-year -8.16% +108.29% +12.02%

Payment Gateway
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Payment Gateway in the UK

Payment Gateway
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Payment Gateway in the UK

Payment Gateway
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Payment Gateway over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Payment Gateway in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Payment Gateway in the UK

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Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Payment Gateway within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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 +113 14 £500 -18.03% 14
Work from Home +127 13 £500 -9.09% 2
UK excluding London +69 9 £500 +5.26% 9
London +85 7 £500 -20.00% 5
North of England +37 5 £463 - 4
North West +20 5 £463 - 1
Scotland - 2 £606 -
Midlands +21 1 £615 +29.47% 2
East Midlands +16 1 £615 +29.47%
South West - 1 - - 1

Payment Gateway
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 4 (17.39%) Umbraco
2 3 (13.04%) CMS
2 3 (13.04%) Headless CMS
3 1 (4.35%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 6 (26.09%) AWS
1 6 (26.09%) Stripe
2 5 (21.74%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (21.74%) Azure
3 3 (13.04%) Contentstack
3 3 (13.04%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.35%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) MySQL
1 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
General
1 6 (26.09%) Banking
2 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Finance
4 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.35%) Retail
4 1 (4.35%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (56.52%) Developer
2 8 (34.78%) Full Stack Developer
3 5 (21.74%) Architect
3 5 (21.74%) E-Commerce Developer
4 4 (17.39%) Umbraco Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Lead
5 2 (8.70%) Payments Architect
6 1 (4.35%) CRM Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Finance Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Lead Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Lead PHP Developer
6 1 (4.35%) MySQL Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Operations Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) Payments Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) PCI DSS Specialist
6 1 (4.35%) PHP MySQL Developer
6 1 (4.35%) PHP WordPress Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Project Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Senior
6 1 (4.35%) WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) .NET
1 6 (26.09%) GraphQL
1 6 (26.09%) REST
2 5 (21.74%) Node.js
2 5 (21.74%) React
3 3 (13.04%) CSS
3 3 (13.04%) HTML
3 3 (13.04%) Next.js
4 2 (8.70%) ASP.NET
4 2 (8.70%) Express.js
4 2 (8.70%) Fastify
4 2 (8.70%) FIDO
4 2 (8.70%) Kafka
4 2 (8.70%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (8.70%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Mobile Payment
2 2 (8.70%) Contactless
2 2 (8.70%) Digital Wallet
2 2 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.35%) EMV
3 1 (4.35%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) E-Commerce
2 8 (34.78%) Full Stack Development
3 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (17.39%) Microservices
5 3 (13.04%) API Integration
5 3 (13.04%) Content Management
5 3 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (13.04%) User Experience
6 2 (8.70%) Agile
6 2 (8.70%) B2B
6 2 (8.70%) Data Encryption
6 2 (8.70%) Data Protection
6 2 (8.70%) Fraud Detection
6 2 (8.70%) High Availability
6 2 (8.70%) Kanban
6 2 (8.70%) Machine Learning
6 2 (8.70%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (8.70%) Product Management
6 2 (8.70%) Regulatory Compliance
6 2 (8.70%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (21.74%) JavaScript
1 5 (21.74%) TypeScript
2 3 (13.04%) C#
3 2 (8.70%) SQL
4 1 (4.35%) Apex Code
4 1 (4.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) PCI DSS
2 3 (13.04%) PSD2
3 2 (8.70%) GDPR
3 2 (8.70%) ISO 20022
3 2 (8.70%) ISO 8583
4 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 5 (21.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (8.70%) PayPal
2 1 (4.35%) Salesforce