PayPal Contract Job Trends in the City of London

PayPal
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring knowledge or experience of PayPal products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PayPal over the 6 months leading up to 5 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within PayPal.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing PayPal 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.042% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.10% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Central London median daily rate - - -

All Vendors
City of London

PayPal falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 956 766 934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.59% 45.35% 43.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 618 463 687
10th Percentile £350 £313 £316
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £667 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £758 £795
Central London median daily rate £535 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -1.93% -0.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 8
10th Percentile - £22.00 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £25.25 £15.19
Median hourly rate £19.50 £31.00 £21.75
Median % change year-on-year -37.10% +42.53% -56.50%
75th Percentile £24.22 £53.75 £24.56
90th Percentile £39.70 £100.00 £63.53
Central London median hourly rate £20.88 £29.07 £21.75
% change year-on-year -28.16% +33.66% -42.00%

PayPal
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PayPal relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

PayPal job vacancy trend in the City of London

PayPal
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing PayPal.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing PayPal

PayPal
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Apple Pay
1 1 (100.00%) Google Pay
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Online Product Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Product Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Wallet
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Product Backlog
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (100.00%) PSD2
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Apple
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Klarna