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 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 413 354 391
Rank change year-on-year -59 +37 +78
Contract jobs citing Payment Gateway 20 12 8
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.10% 0.091% 0.045%
As % of the Business Applications category 1.43% 1.03% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 5 5
10th Percentile £407 £402 £405
25th Percentile £487 £453 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £620 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.81% +37.78% -37.93%
75th Percentile £738 £675 £575
90th Percentile £745 £690 -
England median daily rate £537 £457 £450
% change year-on-year +17.51% +1.56% -28.00%

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 1,394 1,164 1,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.21% 8.81% 7.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 861 740 860
10th Percentile £400 £388 £400
25th Percentile £463 £456 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £579
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% -0.65% -3.54%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £706
90th Percentile £800 £799 £825
England median daily rate £550 £550 £560
% change year-on-year - -1.79% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 13 11
10th Percentile - £23.80 £15.43
25th Percentile £18.75 £34.48 £18.25
Median hourly rate £51.50 £45.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.44% +130.77% -35.00%
75th Percentile £86.99 £65.00 £47.27
90th Percentile £88.75 £67.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £47.50 £60.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -20.83% +50.00% -23.81%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 -23 1 - - 2
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 (5.00%) Apache
1 1 (5.00%) Confluence
1 1 (5.00%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) BASE24
2 1 (5.00%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) AWS
1 3 (15.00%) Azure
2 2 (10.00%) GCP
2 2 (10.00%) GitHub
2 2 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (5.00%) Firebase
3 1 (5.00%) Google Play
3 1 (5.00%) SaaS
3 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Bluetooth
1 1 (5.00%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.00%) MySQL
2 1 (5.00%) OLTP
2 1 (5.00%) Redis
2 1 (5.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (5.00%) Android Studio
2 1 (5.00%) Gradle
2 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.00%) JUnit
2 1 (5.00%) PHPUnit
General
1 12 (60.00%) Finance
2 4 (20.00%) Banking
3 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Retail
5 1 (5.00%) Back Office
5 1 (5.00%) Billing
5 1 (5.00%) Local Government
5 1 (5.00%) Marketing
5 1 (5.00%) Publishing
5 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Lead
2 5 (25.00%) Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Principal Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Software Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Java Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Product Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Applications Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Chief Technology Officer
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Java Applications Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Java Mobile Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Lead Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Lead Enterprise Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Lead Software Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Magento Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Payments Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Principal Software Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior
5 1 (5.00%) Testing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) REST
2 2 (10.00%) JSON
2 2 (10.00%) Kafka
2 2 (10.00%) Micronaut
2 2 (10.00%) Middleware
2 2 (10.00%) React
2 2 (10.00%) Spring
2 2 (10.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (5.00%) .NET
3 1 (5.00%) Android SDK
3 1 (5.00%) CSS
3 1 (5.00%) Google Maps API
3 1 (5.00%) HTML
3 1 (5.00%) jQuery
3 1 (5.00%) Node.js
3 1 (5.00%) OAuth
3 1 (5.00%) OAuth2
3 1 (5.00%) OpenID
3 1 (5.00%) RESTful
3 1 (5.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 4 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (15.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (10.00%) EMV
3 2 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (10.00%) Tandem
4 1 (5.00%) IoT
4 1 (5.00%) Mobile App
4 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (30.00%) Microservices
1 6 (30.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (25.00%) Agile
2 5 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 5 (25.00%) Event-Driven
3 4 (20.00%) E-Commerce
3 4 (20.00%) Fintech
3 4 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 4 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 4 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
4 3 (15.00%) DevOps
4 3 (15.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (15.00%) Observability
4 3 (15.00%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (15.00%) Secure Coding
4 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 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%) SQL
5 2 (10.00%) C
5 2 (10.00%) C#
5 2 (10.00%) COBOL
6 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) PCI DSS
2 3 (15.00%) QA
3 2 (10.00%) ISO 8583
4 1 (5.00%) PSD2
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
1 1 (5.00%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Google
1 2 (10.00%) HP
2 1 (5.00%) Adobe
2 1 (5.00%) ATG
2 1 (5.00%) ForgeRock
2 1 (5.00%) Okta
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.00%) SAP
2 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.00%) Verint