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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 432 352 381
Rank change year-on-year -80 +29 +66
Contract jobs citing PSD2 16 12 4
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.079% 0.090% 0.025%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.41% 0.52% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 2
10th Percentile £414 £267 £503
25th Percentile £420 £311 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £571 £474 £513
Median % change year-on-year +20.46% -7.51% +2.35%
75th Percentile £658 £534 £519
90th Percentile £680 £694 £523
England median daily rate £550 £460 £500
% change year-on-year +19.70% -8.10% -0.15%

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 3,943 2,328 2,192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 19.37% 17.41% 13.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,680 1,547 1,407
10th Percentile £350 £323 £333
25th Percentile £431 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £725 £750 £800
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 49 40
10th Percentile £15.88 - £18.13
25th Percentile £21.33 £25.15 £23.35
Median hourly rate £28.00 £34.00 £29.73
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +14.36% +8.11%
75th Percentile £40.00 £42.75 £49.06
90th Percentile £55.78 £54.35 £71.88
England median hourly rate £33.00 £32.50 £33.50
% change year-on-year +1.54% -2.99% -6.94%

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 -19 4 £439 +43.85% 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) MQSeries
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) Azure
2 6 (37.50%) GitHub
3 4 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (12.50%) Apple Pay
4 2 (12.50%) Google Pay
5 1 (6.25%) Apigee
5 1 (6.25%) AWS
5 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
5 1 (6.25%) GCP
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (6.25%) OCI
5 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Big Data
1 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
1 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Jenkins
2 4 (25.00%) Maven
2 4 (25.00%) SonarQube
General
1 15 (93.75%) Banking
2 12 (75.00%) Finance
3 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
4 3 (18.75%) Retail
5 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (6.25%) Advertising
6 1 (6.25%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (6.25%) Front Office
6 1 (6.25%) General Ledger
6 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (6.25%) Investment Banking
6 1 (6.25%) Legal
6 1 (6.25%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Analyst
2 5 (31.25%) Architect
3 4 (25.00%) Banking Analyst
3 4 (25.00%) Governance Analyst
4 3 (18.75%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (12.50%) Business Analyst
5 2 (12.50%) Online Product Manager
5 2 (12.50%) Product Manager
5 2 (12.50%) Technical Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Consultant
6 1 (6.25%) Delivery Manager
6 1 (6.25%) Java Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Payments Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Payments Business Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Principal Java Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Solutions Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) Terraform
2 2 (12.50%) Kafka
2 2 (12.50%) Spring
2 2 (12.50%) Spring Boot
3 1 (6.25%) .NET
3 1 (6.25%) .NET Core
3 1 (6.25%) Micronaut
3 1 (6.25%) Node.js
3 1 (6.25%) REST
3 1 (6.25%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (18.75%) Cloud Native
3 2 (12.50%) Digital Wallet
4 1 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
4 1 (6.25%) PKI
4 1 (6.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (37.50%) DevOps
2 6 (37.50%) Fintech
2 6 (37.50%) Microservices
3 5 (31.25%) Analytics
3 5 (31.25%) Integration Patterns
3 5 (31.25%) Zero Trust
4 4 (25.00%) Agile
4 4 (25.00%) Data Analysis
4 4 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
5 3 (18.75%) Incident Management
5 3 (18.75%) Migration
5 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (18.75%) Roadmaps
5 3 (18.75%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 2 (12.50%) Customer Experience
6 2 (12.50%) Event-Driven
6 2 (12.50%) Observability
6 2 (12.50%) Product Backlog
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) SQL
2 2 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (6.25%) Korn
3 1 (6.25%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
1 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
1 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
1 1 (6.25%) PMI Certification
1 1 (6.25%) PMP
1 1 (6.25%) SAFe Agilist
1 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) SEPA
2 3 (18.75%) PCI DSS
3 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
3 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (6.25%) ITGC
3 1 (6.25%) NIST
3 1 (6.25%) QA
3 1 (6.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 4 (25.00%) Argo
3 1 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Google
2 2 (12.50%) Apple
2 2 (12.50%) Klarna
2 2 (12.50%) PayPal
3 1 (6.25%) BeyondTrust
3 1 (6.25%) Calypso
3 1 (6.25%) CyberArk
3 1 (6.25%) FIS
3 1 (6.25%) MuleSoft
3 1 (6.25%) Murex
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) SAP
3 1 (6.25%) Temenos