Payment Gateway Contract Job Trends in London

Payment Gateway
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Payment Gateway skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 349 372 453
Rank change year-on-year +23 +81 +120
Contract jobs citing Payment Gateway 12 8 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.091% 0.050% 0.036%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.95% 0.66% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 4
10th Percentile £421 £405 £198
25th Percentile £453 - £312
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £700 £600 £609
90th Percentile £753 £630 £626
England median daily rate £445 £445 £550
% change year-on-year - -19.09% +4.76%

All Business Application Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 1,260 1,220 1,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.52% 7.59% 6.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 789 695 872
10th Percentile £357 £363 £363
25th Percentile £441 £485 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £695 £723 £725
90th Percentile £825 £825 £800
England median daily rate £550 £550 £555
% change year-on-year - -0.90% -1.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 12 9
10th Percentile £22.74 £22.25 £17.84
25th Percentile £27.40 £25.17 £21.00
Median hourly rate £44.50 £33.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.85% +26.92% -40.57%
75th Percentile £63.75 £67.52 £54.50
90th Percentile £66.00 £97.50 £74.50
England median hourly rate £41.00 £42.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year -3.53% -24.77% +32.92%

Payment Gateway
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Payment Gateway in London

Payment Gateway
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Payment Gateway
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Payment Gateway in London over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Payment Gateway in London

Payment Gateway
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Payment Gateway.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Payment Gateway

Payment Gateway
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 15 September 2025. 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
Central London - 5 £550 - 1
Payment Gateway
England

Payment Gateway
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 1 (8.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) Figma
2 1 (8.33%) GCP
2 1 (8.33%) GitHub
2 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) MySQL
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) CircleCI
1 1 (8.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (8.33%) Eclipse
1 1 (8.33%) Git
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (8.33%) Postman
1 1 (8.33%) REST Assured
General
1 6 (50.00%) Banking
2 4 (33.33%) Finance
3 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Advertising
4 1 (8.33%) Billing
4 1 (8.33%) Games
4 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Architect
2 5 (41.67%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Consultant
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Account Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Billing Architect
4 1 (8.33%) E-Commerce Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Operations Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Payments Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Payments Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Payments Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Programme Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Automation Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) CSS
1 2 (16.67%) CSS3
1 2 (16.67%) GraphQL
1 2 (16.67%) HTML
1 2 (16.67%) HTML5
1 2 (16.67%) React
1 2 (16.67%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) Gherkin
2 1 (8.33%) Hibernate
2 1 (8.33%) JPA
2 1 (8.33%) JWT
2 1 (8.33%) Node.js
2 1 (8.33%) OAuth
2 1 (8.33%) OAuth2
2 1 (8.33%) Redux
2 1 (8.33%) RESTful
2 1 (8.33%) Spring
2 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Roadmaps
2 4 (33.33%) Architectural Design
3 3 (25.00%) Agile
3 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (25.00%) Fintech
3 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) E-Commerce
5 1 (8.33%) Business Development
5 1 (8.33%) Data Analysis
5 1 (8.33%) DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) Manual Testing
5 1 (8.33%) Microservices
5 1 (8.33%) Performance Testing
5 1 (8.33%) Programme Management
5 1 (8.33%) Regression Testing
5 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (8.33%) TDD
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (8.33%) Test Automation
5 1 (8.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Java
1 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
2 1 (8.33%) Kotlin
2 1 (8.33%) Ruby
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Google