PSD2 Contract Job Trends in London

EU Revised Directive on Payment Services (PSD2)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring PSD2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 358 376
Rank change year-on-year -50 +18 +86
Contract jobs citing PSD2 26 10 3
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.13% 0.074% 0.018%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.70% 0.43% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 0
10th Percentile £419 - -
25th Percentile £423 £260 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £592 £663 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.64% - -
75th Percentile £665 £681 -
90th Percentile £680 £702 -
England median daily rate £544 £594 £615
% change year-on-year -8.46% -3.46% +34.28%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
London

PSD2 falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 3,692 2,302 2,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.53% 16.97% 13.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,477 1,548 1,565
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £426 £413 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -3.51%
75th Percentile £634 £660 £675
90th Percentile £725 £750 £796
England median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 35 48
10th Percentile £21.07 £22.75 £16.68
25th Percentile £25.25 £25.15 £20.28
Median hourly rate £28.80 £34.48 £26.62
Median % change year-on-year -16.49% +29.53% -32.47%
75th Percentile £53.56 £46.13 £43.75
90th Percentile £65.02 £56.05 £56.50
England median hourly rate £38.72 £31.64 £26.62
% change year-on-year +22.38% +18.86% -33.98%

PSD2
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PSD2 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

PSD2 job vacancy trend in London

PSD2
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing PSD2.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing PSD2

PSD2
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PSD2 in London over the 6 months to 28 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PSD2 in London

PSD2
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 PSD2 within the London region over the 6 months to 28 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 - 5 £440 - 3
South London - 3 - -
PSD2
England

PSD2
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:

Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 11 (42.31%) Azure
2 5 (19.23%) AWS
2 5 (19.23%) GCP
2 5 (19.23%) GitHub
3 4 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (7.69%) Apple Pay
4 2 (7.69%) Google Pay
5 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.85%) OCI
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Jenkins
1 4 (15.38%) Maven
1 4 (15.38%) SonarQube
General
1 23 (88.46%) Banking
2 22 (84.62%) Finance
3 12 (46.15%) Social Skills
4 5 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (11.54%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (11.54%) Retail
6 2 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (3.85%) Advertising
7 1 (3.85%) Front Office
7 1 (3.85%) General Ledger
7 1 (3.85%) Investment Banking
7 1 (3.85%) Law
7 1 (3.85%) Legal
7 1 (3.85%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (38.46%) Architect
2 8 (30.77%) Solutions Architect
3 7 (26.92%) Analyst
4 4 (15.38%) Applications Architect
4 4 (15.38%) Payments Architect
4 4 (15.38%) Payments Solutions Architect
5 3 (11.54%) Banking Analyst
5 3 (11.54%) Business Analyst
5 3 (11.54%) Governance Analyst
5 3 (11.54%) Payments Analyst
5 3 (11.54%) Product Manager
6 2 (7.69%) Online Product Manager
6 2 (7.69%) Payments Business Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) Technical Architect
7 1 (3.85%) Cloud Architect
7 1 (3.85%) Cloud Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.85%) Data Manager
7 1 (3.85%) Principal Java Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Strategy Manager
7 1 (3.85%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) .NET
2 2 (7.69%) Middleware
3 1 (3.85%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.85%) Kafka
3 1 (3.85%) Micronaut
3 1 (3.85%) React
3 1 (3.85%) Spring
3 1 (3.85%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (30.77%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 3 (11.54%) Digital Wallet
2 3 (11.54%) Product Ownership
3 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.85%) PKI
4 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (46.15%) Stakeholder Management
2 11 (42.31%) Microservices
3 9 (34.62%) DevOps
4 8 (30.77%) Agile
5 7 (26.92%) Anti-Money Laundering
5 7 (26.92%) User Acceptance Testing
6 6 (23.08%) Migration
6 6 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (19.23%) AI
7 5 (19.23%) Analytics
7 5 (19.23%) CI/CD
7 5 (19.23%) Fintech
7 5 (19.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (19.23%) Zero Trust
8 4 (15.38%) Business Strategy
8 4 (15.38%) Integration Patterns
8 4 (15.38%) Regulatory Change
8 4 (15.38%) Regulatory Compliance
9 3 (11.54%) Containerisation
9 3 (11.54%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 5 (19.23%) Java
2 4 (15.38%) Python
2 4 (15.38%) SQL
3 3 (11.54%) JavaScript
4 2 (7.69%) C#
4 2 (7.69%) Korn
5 1 (3.85%) Kotlin
5 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.85%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) PMI Certification
2 1 (3.85%) PMP
2 1 (3.85%) SAFe Agilist
2 1 (3.85%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (46.15%) ISO 20022
2 11 (42.31%) SEPA
3 3 (11.54%) PCI DSS
3 3 (11.54%) TARGET2
4 2 (7.69%) GDPR
5 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
5 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (3.85%) ITGC
5 1 (3.85%) NIST
5 1 (3.85%) QA
5 1 (3.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (26.92%) Docker
2 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 5 (19.23%) Terraform
3 4 (15.38%) Argo
4 1 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (7.69%) Apple
1 2 (7.69%) Google
1 2 (7.69%) Klarna
1 2 (7.69%) PayPal
2 1 (3.85%) BeyondTrust
2 1 (3.85%) CyberArk