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 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 426 357 384
Rank change year-on-year -69 +27 +71
Contract jobs citing Payment Gateway 19 15 7
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.095% 0.11% 0.043%
As % of the Business Applications category 1.29% 1.17% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 7 4
10th Percentile £430 £387 £398
25th Percentile £575 £426 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £620 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.81% +37.78% -45.45%
75th Percentile £738 £688 £481
90th Percentile £748 £735 £538
England median daily rate £594 £402 £445
% change year-on-year +47.70% -9.66% -28.80%

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 1,478 1,281 1,282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.36% 9.47% 7.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 895 811 782
10th Percentile £400 £360 £377
25th Percentile £466 £438 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £693 £700 £709
90th Percentile £800 £802 £825
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -1.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 16 9
10th Percentile - £22.70 £19.85
25th Percentile £18.75 £32.71 £25.40
Median hourly rate £30.57 £44.75 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.70% +44.35% +3.33%
75th Percentile £86.10 £64.06 £75.00
90th Percentile £88.75 £66.25 £101.25
England median hourly rate £40.00 £50.99 £45.00
% change year-on-year -21.55% +13.30% -19.43%

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 14 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 14 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 -24 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 1 (5.26%) Apache
1 1 (5.26%) CMS
1 1 (5.26%) Confluence
1 1 (5.26%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (5.26%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.79%) AWS
1 3 (15.79%) Azure
2 2 (10.53%) GitHub
2 2 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (5.26%) Azure API Management
3 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Functions
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Storage
3 1 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.26%) Firebase
3 1 (5.26%) GCP
3 1 (5.26%) Google Play
3 1 (5.26%) SaaS
3 1 (5.26%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) Bluetooth
1 1 (5.26%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (5.26%) MySQL
1 1 (5.26%) Redis
1 1 (5.26%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) Android Studio
2 1 (5.26%) Gradle
2 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.26%) JUnit
2 1 (5.26%) PHPUnit
General
1 12 (63.16%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Banking
2 2 (10.53%) Retail
2 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Back Office
3 1 (5.26%) Billing
3 1 (5.26%) Local Government
3 1 (5.26%) Marketing
3 1 (5.26%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Lead
2 4 (21.05%) Software Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Java Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Product Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Senior
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Applications Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Chief Technology Officer
5 1 (5.26%) Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Java Applications Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Lead Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Lead Software Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Principal Software Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Technical Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) REST
2 3 (15.79%) React
3 2 (10.53%) .NET
3 2 (10.53%) JSON
3 2 (10.53%) Middleware
4 1 (5.26%) .NET Framework
4 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET
4 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (5.26%) CSS
4 1 (5.26%) Google Maps API
4 1 (5.26%) GraphQL
4 1 (5.26%) HTML
4 1 (5.26%) jQuery
4 1 (5.26%) Material Design
4 1 (5.26%) Node.js
4 1 (5.26%) RESTful
4 1 (5.26%) SOAP
4 1 (5.26%) Spring
4 1 (5.26%) Spring Boot
4 1 (5.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Cloud Native
2 4 (21.05%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (15.79%) Onboarding
4 2 (10.53%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
5 1 (5.26%) IoT
5 1 (5.26%) Life Science
5 1 (5.26%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) Software Engineering
2 6 (31.58%) Agile
2 6 (31.58%) CI/CD
2 6 (31.58%) Decision-Making
2 6 (31.58%) Microservices
3 5 (26.32%) E-Commerce
4 4 (21.05%) Event-Driven
4 4 (21.05%) Fintech
4 4 (21.05%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (21.05%) Mentoring
4 4 (21.05%) Roadmaps
4 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (21.05%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (21.05%) Technology Roadmap
5 3 (15.79%) Code Quality
5 3 (15.79%) Design Patterns
5 3 (15.79%) DevOps
5 3 (15.79%) Observability
5 3 (15.79%) Secure Coding
5 3 (15.79%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 11 (57.89%) Kotlin
2 8 (42.11%) Java
3 6 (31.58%) TypeScript
4 3 (15.79%) C#
5 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.26%) PHP
5 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
1 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
1 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.26%) Degree
1 1 (5.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) QA
2 1 (5.26%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.26%) PSD2
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
1 1 (5.26%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Google
2 1 (5.26%) Adobe
2 1 (5.26%) Aprimo
2 1 (5.26%) ATG
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) OneTrust
2 1 (5.26%) Optimizely
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle
2 1 (5.26%) SAP
2 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.26%) Verint