Payment Gateway Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Payment Gateway
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Payment Gateway skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 52 -
Rank change year-on-year -7 - -
Contract jobs citing Payment Gateway 14 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 2.12% 0.66% -
As % of the Business Applications category 13.86% 4.35% -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 0
10th Percentile £365 - -
25th Percentile £395 £303 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £305 -
Median % change year-on-year +46.56% - -
75th Percentile £531 £309 -
90th Percentile £581 £310 -
North West median daily rate £447 £305 £545
% change year-on-year +46.56% -44.04% -5.22%

All Business Application Skills
Cheshire

Payment Gateway falls under the Business Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring business application skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 101 69 78
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 15.28% 15.27% 15.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 36 61
10th Percentile £458 £355 £65
25th Percentile £525 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £627 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +25.30% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £714 £646 £550
90th Percentile £717 £688 £560
North West median daily rate £600 £533 £525
% change year-on-year +12.68% +1.43% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 0
10th Percentile £86.98 - -
25th Percentile £88.44 - -
Median hourly rate £91.25 £86.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.10% - -
75th Percentile £94.44 - -
90th Percentile £96.13 - -
North West median hourly rate £41.86 £86.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -51.33% +186.67% -19.57%

Payment Gateway
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Payment Gateway relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Payment Gateway job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Payment Gateway
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Payment Gateway.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Payment Gateway

Payment Gateway
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Payment Gateway in Cheshire over the 6 months to 30 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Payment Gateway in Cheshire

Payment Gateway
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 30 January 2026. 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
Knutsford -18 10 £447 +46.56% 1
Chester - 4 - - 1
Payment Gateway
North West

Payment Gateway
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (28.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) AWS
1 5 (35.71%) Azure
1 5 (35.71%) GCP
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Postman
2 4 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 13 (92.86%) Banking
2 9 (64.29%) Social Skills
3 5 (35.71%) Finance
4 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (28.57%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (28.57%) Investment Banking
5 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) Architect
1 9 (64.29%) Solutions Architect
2 8 (57.14%) Payments Architect
2 8 (57.14%) Payments Solutions Architect
3 5 (35.71%) Analyst
3 5 (35.71%) Business Analyst
3 5 (35.71%) Payments Analyst
3 5 (35.71%) Payments Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Banking Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Banking Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) JSON
1 5 (35.71%) REST
1 5 (35.71%) SOAP
1 5 (35.71%) Spring
1 5 (35.71%) Spring Boot
1 5 (35.71%) Swagger
1 5 (35.71%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Digital Wallet
1 5 (35.71%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (28.57%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) API Design
1 5 (35.71%) API Integration
1 5 (35.71%) Architectural Patterns
1 5 (35.71%) Containerisation
1 5 (35.71%) Data Modelling
1 5 (35.71%) Integration Patterns
1 5 (35.71%) Microservices
1 5 (35.71%) OO
1 5 (35.71%) OOA/OOD
1 5 (35.71%) Requirements Gathering
1 5 (35.71%) Stakeholder Management
1 5 (35.71%) System Integration Testing
1 5 (35.71%) UML
1 5 (35.71%) User Acceptance Testing
1 5 (35.71%) Validation
1 5 (35.71%) Workshop Facilitation
2 4 (28.57%) Logical Data Model
2 4 (28.57%) Mentoring
2 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (28.57%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (28.57%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (64.29%) PCI DSS
2 5 (35.71%) ISO 20022
2 5 (35.71%) PSD2
3 3 (21.43%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Docker
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Google