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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 423 353 385
Rank change year-on-year -70 +32 +66
Contract jobs citing Payment Gateway 20 16 7
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.100% 0.12% 0.043%
As % of the Business Applications category 1.36% 1.25% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 8 4
10th Percentile £401 £390 £398
25th Percentile £537 £439 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £585 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.70% +30.00% -28.00%
75th Percentile £738 £681 £481
90th Percentile £746 £726 £538
England median daily rate £575 £440 £445
% change year-on-year +30.68% -1.12% -22.61%

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 1,476 1,276 1,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.36% 9.50% 7.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 892 807 763
10th Percentile £400 £358 £375
25th Percentile £480 £431 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £573
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -1.31% -4.58%
75th Percentile £700 £695 £702
90th Percentile £800 £801 £825
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 17 9
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.74 £19.85
25th Percentile £20.38 £27.40 £25.40
Median hourly rate £43.25 £44.50 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.81% +43.55% +3.33%
75th Percentile £87.87 £63.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £88.75 £66.00 £101.25
England median hourly rate £40.00 £47.48 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.75% +5.50% -20.34%

Payment Gateway
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Payment Gateway job vacancy trend 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 20 August 2026.

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 20 August 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
Central London -14 1 - - 1
Payment Gateway
England

Payment Gateway
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (10.00%) Confluence
2 1 (5.00%) Apache
2 1 (5.00%) CMS
2 1 (5.00%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (5.00%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 4 (20.00%) AWS
1 4 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (10.00%) GitHub
2 2 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (5.00%) Azure API Management
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Functions
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Storage
3 1 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.00%) Firebase
3 1 (5.00%) Google Play
3 1 (5.00%) SaaS
3 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Bluetooth
1 1 (5.00%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (5.00%) MySQL
1 1 (5.00%) Redis
1 1 (5.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Git
2 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.00%) Android Studio
3 1 (5.00%) GitLab
3 1 (5.00%) Gradle
3 1 (5.00%) JUnit
3 1 (5.00%) PHPUnit
3 1 (5.00%) REST Assured
3 1 (5.00%) Selenium
3 1 (5.00%) WebDriver
General
1 13 (65.00%) Finance
2 4 (20.00%) Banking
3 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Retail
3 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Back Office
4 1 (5.00%) Billing
4 1 (5.00%) Local Government
4 1 (5.00%) Marketing
4 1 (5.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Lead
2 4 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Principal Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Senior
4 2 (10.00%) Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Java Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Product Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Business Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Chief Technology Officer
5 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Java Applications Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Lead Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Lead Software Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Principal Software Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) REST
2 3 (15.00%) React
3 2 (10.00%) JSON
3 2 (10.00%) Middleware
4 1 (5.00%) .NET
4 1 (5.00%) Android SDK
4 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET
4 1 (5.00%) CSS
4 1 (5.00%) Google Maps API
4 1 (5.00%) HTML
4 1 (5.00%) jQuery
4 1 (5.00%) Kafka
4 1 (5.00%) KnockoutJS
4 1 (5.00%) Node.js
4 1 (5.00%) RESTful
4 1 (5.00%) SOAP
4 1 (5.00%) Spring
4 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
4 1 (5.00%) Terraform
4 1 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 4 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (15.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (5.00%) IoT
4 1 (5.00%) Life Science
4 1 (5.00%) Mobile App
4 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Microservices
1 7 (35.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (30.00%) Agile
2 6 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 5 (25.00%) E-Commerce
3 5 (25.00%) Fintech
4 4 (20.00%) DevOps
4 4 (20.00%) Event-Driven
4 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (15.00%) CRM
5 3 (15.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (15.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (15.00%) Observability
5 3 (15.00%) Pair Programming
5 3 (15.00%) Secure Coding
5 3 (15.00%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (15.00%) Technology Roadmap
5 3 (15.00%) Test Automation
5 3 (15.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 11 (55.00%) Kotlin
2 9 (45.00%) Java
3 6 (30.00%) TypeScript
4 3 (15.00%) C#
5 2 (10.00%) SQL
6 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.00%) PHP
6 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.00%) Degree
1 1 (5.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (5.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (5.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) ISO 20022
2 1 (5.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.00%) PSD2
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.00%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (5.00%) Adobe
1 1 (5.00%) Aprimo
1 1 (5.00%) ATG
1 1 (5.00%) Google
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (5.00%) OneTrust
1 1 (5.00%) Optimizely
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle
1 1 (5.00%) SAP
1 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (5.00%) Verint