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 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 355 376 430
Rank change year-on-year +21 +54 +137
Contract jobs citing Payment Gateway 12 6 6
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.090% 0.037% 0.029%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.97% 0.50% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 4
10th Percentile £430 £420 £198
25th Percentile £475 £488 £312
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £669 £625 £609
90th Percentile £740 £640 £626
England median daily rate £402 £435 £548
% change year-on-year -7.59% -20.55% +1.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £77.50 -
England median hourly rate - £77.50 -

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 1,239 1,193 1,417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.26% 7.42% 6.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 755 669 873
10th Percentile £350 £375 £350
25th Percentile £425 £493 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £573 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.44% -0.43% -4.17%
75th Percentile £695 £713 £713
90th Percentile £830 £825 £800
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -3.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 13 15
10th Percentile £23.30 £24.68 £19.53
25th Percentile £29.17 £30.50 £33.13
Median hourly rate £44.75 £63.36 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.37% -6.14% +172.29%
75th Percentile £64.69 £80.75 £87.00
90th Percentile £86.75 £96.15 £93.75
England median hourly rate £41.00 £40.91 £56.49
% change year-on-year +0.21% -27.58% +25.53%

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 October 2025.

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 October 2025. 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 £550 - 7
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) AWS
1 1 (8.33%) Figma
1 1 (8.33%) GitHub
1 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) MySQL
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) CircleCI
1 1 (8.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (8.33%) Eclipse
1 1 (8.33%) Git
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (8.33%) Postman
1 1 (8.33%) REST Assured
General
1 8 (66.67%) Banking
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Advertising
4 1 (8.33%) Games
4 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Architect
1 7 (58.33%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Lead Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Lead Java Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Operations Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Payments Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Payments Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) QA Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Automation Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) CSS
1 2 (16.67%) CSS3
1 2 (16.67%) GraphQL
1 2 (16.67%) HTML
1 2 (16.67%) HTML5
1 2 (16.67%) React
1 2 (16.67%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) Gherkin
2 1 (8.33%) Hibernate
2 1 (8.33%) JPA
2 1 (8.33%) JWT
2 1 (8.33%) Node.js
2 1 (8.33%) OAuth
2 1 (8.33%) OAuth2
2 1 (8.33%) Redux
2 1 (8.33%) RESTful
2 1 (8.33%) Spring
2 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Roadmaps
2 6 (50.00%) Architectural Design
3 3 (25.00%) Agile
3 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (25.00%) Fintech
4 1 (8.33%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (8.33%) Business Development
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Front End Development
4 1 (8.33%) Manual Testing
4 1 (8.33%) Microservices
4 1 (8.33%) Performance Testing
4 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (8.33%) QA Automation
4 1 (8.33%) TDD
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (8.33%) Test Automation
4 1 (8.33%) Test Strategy
4 1 (8.33%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (8.33%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Java
1 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
2 1 (8.33%) Kotlin
2 1 (8.33%) Ruby
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) HP Quality Center