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 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 343 395
Rank change year-on-year -43 +52 +77
Contract jobs citing Payment Gateway 14 7 7
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.080% 0.055% 0.039%
As % of the Business Applications category 1.02% 0.66% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 4
10th Percentile £400 £410 -
25th Percentile £404 £492 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £635 £500
Median % change year-on-year -31.10% +27.00% -20.63%
75th Percentile £512 £675 £575
90th Percentile £638 £688 -
England median daily rate £431 £482 £500
% change year-on-year -10.44% -3.70% -20.00%

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 1,366 1,061 1,395
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.80% 8.33% 7.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 852 682 907
10th Percentile £356 £404 £400
25th Percentile £452 £480 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £594
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -3.20% -1.00%
75th Percentile £675 £705 £712
90th Percentile £763 £838 £813
England median daily rate £538 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 12 15
10th Percentile £18.75 - £15.76
25th Percentile £19.06 £22.27 £18.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £37.30 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.25% +86.48% -42.23%
75th Percentile £72.50 £68.13 £80.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £80.43 £86.50
England median hourly rate £56.44 £60.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -5.93% +50.00% -15.79%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 -8 4 £405 -37.69% 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 (7.14%) Apache
1 1 (7.14%) nginx
Business Applications
1 5 (35.71%) BASE24
2 1 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (7.14%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) AWS
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
1 2 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (7.14%) SaaS
2 1 (7.14%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) NonStop SQL
2 4 (28.57%) OLTP
3 1 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (7.14%) MySQL
3 1 (7.14%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) PHPUnit
General
1 9 (64.29%) Finance
2 7 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (35.71%) Banking
4 2 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (14.29%) Retail
5 1 (7.14%) Back Office
5 1 (7.14%) Billing
5 1 (7.14%) Local Government
5 1 (7.14%) Marketing
5 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Business Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Lead
3 2 (14.29%) Payments Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Payments Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Chief Technology Officer
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365 Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Lead Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Lead Enterprise Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Magento Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Payments Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Testing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) Middleware
1 2 (14.29%) REST
2 1 (7.14%) .NET
2 1 (7.14%) .NET Framework
2 1 (7.14%) CSS
2 1 (7.14%) GraphQL
2 1 (7.14%) HTML
2 1 (7.14%) jQuery
2 1 (7.14%) JSON
2 1 (7.14%) Kafka
2 1 (7.14%) KnockoutJS
2 1 (7.14%) Next.js
2 1 (7.14%) Node.js
2 1 (7.14%) OAuth
2 1 (7.14%) OAuth2
2 1 (7.14%) OpenID
2 1 (7.14%) SAML
2 1 (7.14%) SOAP
2 1 (7.14%) Spring
2 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) EMV
1 5 (35.71%) Tandem
2 3 (21.43%) Onboarding
2 3 (21.43%) Product Ownership
3 2 (14.29%) PMI
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
4 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (42.86%) Agile
2 6 (42.86%) High Availability
2 6 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (35.71%) E-Commerce
4 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (21.43%) CRM
5 3 (21.43%) Regulatory Compliance
5 3 (21.43%) Scrum
5 3 (21.43%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (14.29%) Anti-Money Laundering
6 2 (14.29%) DevOps
6 2 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 2 (14.29%) Fintech
6 2 (14.29%) Kanban
6 2 (14.29%) KYC
6 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
6 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (14.29%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) SQL
2 5 (35.71%) C
2 5 (35.71%) COBOL
3 2 (14.29%) C#
4 1 (7.14%) Java
4 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.14%) Kotlin
4 1 (7.14%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (14.29%) CBAP
1 2 (14.29%) PMI Certification
2 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (50.00%) ISO 8583
1 7 (50.00%) PCI DSS
2 3 (21.43%) QA
3 2 (14.29%) PSD2
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
1 1 (7.14%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) HP
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) Adobe
3 1 (7.14%) ATG
3 1 (7.14%) ForgeRock
3 1 (7.14%) Google
3 1 (7.14%) Okta
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle
3 1 (7.14%) SAP
3 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow
3 1 (7.14%) Verint