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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 403 341 390
Rank change year-on-year -62 +49 +76
Contract jobs citing Payment Gateway 11 8 7
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.062% 0.065% 0.040%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.82% 0.76% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 5
10th Percentile £396 £410 £405
25th Percentile £413 £492 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £635 £450
Median % change year-on-year -29.61% +41.11% -28.00%
75th Percentile £537 £675 £575
90th Percentile £648 £688 -
England median daily rate £447 £478 £475
% change year-on-year -6.49% +0.63% -22.13%

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 1,348 1,048 1,374
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.54% 8.46% 7.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 833 675 876
10th Percentile £363 £401 £400
25th Percentile £463 £475 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £681 £725 £725
90th Percentile £775 £833 £825
England median daily rate £538 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.43% +4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 13 12
10th Percentile £18.75 - £15.51
25th Percentile £19.38 £22.27 £17.75
Median hourly rate £53.00 £38.11 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.07% +95.44% -40.11%
75th Percentile £88.75 £65.00 £25.38
90th Percentile - £75.00 £61.48
England median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -8.33% +50.00% -18.37%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -7 2 £475 -26.92% 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 (9.09%) Apache
1 1 (9.09%) nginx
Business Applications
1 5 (45.45%) BASE24
2 1 (9.09%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
1 2 (18.18%) GCP
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (9.09%) SaaS
2 1 (9.09%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) NonStop SQL
2 4 (36.36%) OLTP
3 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (9.09%) MySQL
3 1 (9.09%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) PHPUnit
General
1 7 (63.64%) Finance
2 5 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (45.45%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Back Office
3 1 (9.09%) Billing
3 1 (9.09%) Local Government
3 1 (9.09%) Marketing
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Chief Technology Officer
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Lead Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Lead Enterprise Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Magento Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Payments Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Testing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Middleware
1 2 (18.18%) REST
2 1 (9.09%) .NET
2 1 (9.09%) .NET Framework
2 1 (9.09%) CSS
2 1 (9.09%) GraphQL
2 1 (9.09%) HTML
2 1 (9.09%) JSON
2 1 (9.09%) JWT
2 1 (9.09%) Kafka
2 1 (9.09%) Keycloak
2 1 (9.09%) KnockoutJS
2 1 (9.09%) Micronaut
2 1 (9.09%) Next.js
2 1 (9.09%) Node.js
2 1 (9.09%) OAuth2
2 1 (9.09%) OpenID
2 1 (9.09%) SAML
2 1 (9.09%) SOAP
2 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) EMV
1 5 (45.45%) Tandem
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) High Availability
1 6 (54.55%) Performance Tuning
2 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
4 3 (27.27%) Agile
4 3 (27.27%) Regulatory Compliance
5 2 (18.18%) AI
5 2 (18.18%) CRM
5 2 (18.18%) DevOps
5 2 (18.18%) E-Commerce
5 2 (18.18%) Event-Driven
5 2 (18.18%) Fintech
5 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
5 2 (18.18%) Microservices
5 2 (18.18%) Observability
5 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
5 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (18.18%) Technology Roadmap
5 2 (18.18%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) SQL
2 5 (45.45%) C
2 5 (45.45%) COBOL
3 2 (18.18%) C#
4 1 (9.09%) Java
4 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 1 (9.09%) Kotlin
4 1 (9.09%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) ISO 8583
1 5 (45.45%) PCI DSS
2 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
1 1 (9.09%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) HP
2 1 (9.09%) Adobe
2 1 (9.09%) ATG
2 1 (9.09%) ForgeRock
2 1 (9.09%) Google
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Okta
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) SAP
2 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
2 1 (9.09%) Verint