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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 412 347 383
Rank change year-on-year -65 +36 +62
Contract jobs citing Payment Gateway 22 15 6
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.11% 0.11% 0.037%
As % of the Business Applications category 1.49% 1.19% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 7 3
10th Percentile £402 £387 £390
25th Percentile £537 £426 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +22.22% -28.00%
75th Percentile £738 £688 -
90th Percentile £745 £735 -
England median daily rate £574 £440 £445
% change year-on-year +30.34% -1.12% -25.83%

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 1,259 1,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.35% 9.41% 7.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 886 790 719
10th Percentile £400 £355 £363
25th Percentile £480 £425 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £561 £567 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.93% -1.48% -4.17%
75th Percentile £700 £695 £708
90th Percentile £800 £825 £825
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 17 10
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.74 £20.93
25th Percentile £25.25 £27.40 £24.72
Median hourly rate £51.50 £44.50 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.73% +50.85% +5.36%
75th Percentile £88.75 £63.75 £72.51
90th Percentile - £66.00 £100.63
England median hourly rate £40.00 £44.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year -10.61% -0.56% -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 27 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 27 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 -23 2 £572 +4.00% 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 3 (13.64%) CMS
2 2 (9.09%) Confluence
3 1 (4.55%) Apache
3 1 (4.55%) EPiServer
3 1 (4.55%) nginx
3 1 (4.55%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (4.55%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 6 (27.27%) Azure
2 4 (18.18%) AWS
3 3 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (13.64%) Azure Functions
3 3 (13.64%) Azure Service Bus
3 3 (13.64%) Serverless
4 2 (9.09%) Azure API Management
4 2 (9.09%) Azure Event Grid
4 2 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (9.09%) Azure Storage
4 2 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (9.09%) Entra ID
4 2 (9.09%) GitHub
4 2 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (4.55%) Firebase
5 1 (4.55%) Google Play
5 1 (4.55%) SaaS
5 1 (4.55%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) Bluetooth
1 1 (4.55%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (4.55%) MySQL
1 1 (4.55%) Redis
1 1 (4.55%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Git
2 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.55%) Android Studio
3 1 (4.55%) GitLab
3 1 (4.55%) Gradle
3 1 (4.55%) JUnit
3 1 (4.55%) PHPUnit
3 1 (4.55%) REST Assured
3 1 (4.55%) Selenium
3 1 (4.55%) WebDriver
General
1 13 (59.09%) Finance
2 4 (18.18%) Banking
2 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Retail
4 1 (4.55%) Back Office
4 1 (4.55%) Billing
4 1 (4.55%) Local Government
4 1 (4.55%) Marketing
4 1 (4.55%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Lead
2 4 (18.18%) Developer
2 4 (18.18%) Software Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Architect
3 3 (13.64%) Principal Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Senior
4 2 (9.09%) Java Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Lead Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Product Manager
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Technical Architect
5 1 (4.55%) .NET Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Chief Technology Officer
5 1 (4.55%) Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Java Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Lead Software Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Principal Software Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (27.27%) REST
2 3 (13.64%) .NET
2 3 (13.64%) React
3 2 (9.09%) ASP.NET
3 2 (9.09%) ASP.NET Core
3 2 (9.09%) JSON
3 2 (9.09%) Middleware
4 1 (4.55%) CSS
4 1 (4.55%) Google Maps API
4 1 (4.55%) HTML
4 1 (4.55%) jQuery
4 1 (4.55%) Kafka
4 1 (4.55%) KnockoutJS
4 1 (4.55%) Material Design
4 1 (4.55%) Node.js
4 1 (4.55%) RESTful
4 1 (4.55%) SOAP
4 1 (4.55%) Spring
4 1 (4.55%) Terraform
4 1 (4.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 5 (22.73%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (13.64%) Onboarding
4 2 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (9.09%) Life Science
4 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
5 1 (4.55%) IoT
5 1 (4.55%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) CI/CD
1 8 (36.36%) Microservices
2 7 (31.82%) Agile
2 7 (31.82%) E-Commerce
2 7 (31.82%) Software Engineering
3 5 (22.73%) Decision-Making
3 5 (22.73%) DevOps
3 5 (22.73%) Event-Driven
3 5 (22.73%) Fintech
3 5 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (18.18%) CRM
4 4 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (13.64%) B2B
5 3 (13.64%) B2C
5 3 (13.64%) Enterprise Architecture
5 3 (13.64%) ERP
5 3 (13.64%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 3 (13.64%) Observability
5 3 (13.64%) Pair Programming
5 3 (13.64%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (50.00%) Kotlin
2 9 (40.91%) Java
3 6 (27.27%) TypeScript
4 5 (22.73%) C#
5 2 (9.09%) Python
5 2 (9.09%) SQL
6 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.55%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
1 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
1 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (4.55%) Degree
1 1 (4.55%) ISTQB
1 1 (4.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
1 1 (4.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) ISO 20022
2 1 (4.55%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.55%) PSD2
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 2 (9.09%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) Aprimo
2 2 (9.09%) OneTrust
2 2 (9.09%) Optimizely
3 1 (4.55%) Adobe
3 1 (4.55%) Adyen
3 1 (4.55%) ATG
3 1 (4.55%) Google
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle
3 1 (4.55%) SAP
3 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.55%) Verint