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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 340 400
Rank change year-on-year -29 +60 +146
Contract jobs citing PSD2 19 19 1
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.13% 0.14% 0.005%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.70% 0.98% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 13 0
10th Percentile £308 £540 -
25th Percentile £404 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -21.00% - -
75th Percentile £550 - -
90th Percentile £675 £710 -
England median daily rate £443 £600 £425
% change year-on-year -26.17% +41.18% -26.60%

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 2,700 1,931 2,535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.29% 13.98% 13.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,789 1,171 1,852
10th Percentile £350 £300 £363
25th Percentile £415 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £665 £696
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £500 £530
% change year-on-year - -5.66% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 30 57
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.00 £13.51
25th Percentile £21.29 £24.57 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.34 £37.90 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -30.50% +31.83% -17.86%
75th Percentile £37.12 £82.00 £50.75
90th Percentile £75.94 £95.25 £62.85
England median hourly rate £25.46 £30.21 £30.00
% change year-on-year -15.72% +0.70% +4.35%

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 January 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 January 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 +2 11 £525 -
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 3 (15.79%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (10.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 6 (31.58%) AWS
2 3 (15.79%) Azure
3 2 (10.53%) GCP
3 2 (10.53%) GitHub
3 2 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (10.53%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Hazelcast
1 2 (10.53%) NoSQL
1 2 (10.53%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) JIRA
2 2 (10.53%) Gatling
2 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (78.95%) Finance
2 14 (73.68%) Banking
3 7 (36.84%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (10.53%) Law
4 2 (10.53%) Legal
5 1 (5.26%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (5.26%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (52.63%) Analyst
2 8 (42.11%) Payments Analyst
3 7 (36.84%) Business Analyst
4 6 (31.58%) Payments Business Analyst
5 4 (21.05%) Technical Analyst
6 3 (15.79%) Developer
7 2 (10.53%) Architect
7 2 (10.53%) Java Developer
7 2 (10.53%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (5.26%) ForgeRock Developer
8 1 (5.26%) ForgeRock Engineer
8 1 (5.26%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) OAuth
1 4 (21.05%) OAuth2
1 4 (21.05%) OpenID
2 3 (15.79%) JSON
3 2 (10.53%) Apache Avro
3 2 (10.53%) Kafka
3 2 (10.53%) Micronaut
3 2 (10.53%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (10.53%) Quarkus
3 2 (10.53%) Spring
3 2 (10.53%) Spring Boot
4 1 (5.26%) JDBC
4 1 (5.26%) OpenAPI
4 1 (5.26%) REST
4 1 (5.26%) RESTful
4 1 (5.26%) SAML
4 1 (5.26%) SOAP
4 1 (5.26%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 5 (26.32%) Onboarding
2 5 (26.32%) Product Ownership
3 4 (21.05%) PMI
4 3 (15.79%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (10.53%) Credit Risk
5 2 (10.53%) Digital Wallet
6 1 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (5.26%) PKI
6 1 (5.26%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) User Acceptance Testing
2 9 (47.37%) Agile
3 8 (42.11%) Anti-Money Laundering
4 7 (36.84%) User Stories
5 6 (31.58%) KYC
5 6 (31.58%) Project Delivery
6 5 (26.32%) Acceptance Criteria
6 5 (26.32%) Regulatory Change
6 5 (26.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (26.32%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (21.05%) Event-Driven
7 4 (21.05%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 4 (21.05%) Fintech
7 4 (21.05%) Microservices
7 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (21.05%) Project Management
7 4 (21.05%) Scrum
7 4 (21.05%) Use Case
7 4 (21.05%) Workshop Facilitation
8 3 (15.79%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.79%) Java
2 2 (10.53%) SQL
3 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) CBAP
1 4 (21.05%) PMI Certification
2 2 (10.53%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (63.16%) ISO 20022
2 9 (47.37%) SEPA
3 6 (31.58%) QA
4 4 (21.05%) ISO 8583
5 3 (15.79%) GDPR
6 2 (10.53%) PCI DSS
7 1 (5.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Ansible
1 2 (10.53%) Argo
1 2 (10.53%) Grafana
1 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
1 2 (10.53%) Prometheus
1 2 (10.53%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (10.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) Confluent
2 2 (10.53%) ForgeRock
3 1 (5.26%) Ping Identity