Payment Gateway Contract Job Trends in the North West

Payment Gateway
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Payment Gateway skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 122 141
Rank change year-on-year -7 +19 +21
Contract jobs citing Payment Gateway 17 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.64% 0.14% 0.035%
As % of the Business Applications category 6.77% 1.48% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 1
10th Percentile £365 - -
25th Percentile £395 £303 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £305 £545
Median % change year-on-year +46.56% -44.04% -5.22%
75th Percentile £531 £309 £568
90th Percentile £581 £310 -
England median daily rate £408 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -32.08% +9.09% -9.28%

All Business Application Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 251 203 202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 9.49% 9.70% 7.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 111 134
10th Percentile £357 £356 £353
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £533 £525
Median % change year-on-year +12.68% +1.43% +10.53%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £552
90th Percentile £716 £714 £631
England median daily rate £550 £552 £550
% change year-on-year -0.32% +0.32% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 7
10th Percentile £23.96 £46.18 £14.13
25th Percentile £34.39 £57.63 £22.07
Median hourly rate £41.86 £86.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.33% +186.67% -19.57%
75th Percentile £65.47 - £46.54
90th Percentile £90.50 - £53.40
England median hourly rate £54.50 £49.34 £49.00
% change year-on-year +10.46% +0.69% +31.37%

Payment Gateway
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Payment Gateway relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Payment Gateway job vacancy trend in the North West

Payment Gateway
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Payment Gateway.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Payment Gateway

Payment Gateway
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Payment Gateway in the North West over the 6 months to 30 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Payment Gateway in the North West

Payment Gateway
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 30 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
Cheshire -7 14 £447 +46.56% 4
Manchester - 3 - - 4
Payment Gateway
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (23.53%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) AWS
1 5 (29.41%) Azure
1 5 (29.41%) GCP
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Postman
2 4 (23.53%) JIRA
General
1 16 (94.12%) Banking
2 9 (52.94%) Social Skills
3 5 (29.41%) Finance
4 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (23.53%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (23.53%) Investment Banking
5 1 (5.88%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (70.59%) Architect
1 12 (70.59%) Solutions Architect
2 8 (47.06%) Payments Architect
2 8 (47.06%) Payments Solutions Architect
3 5 (29.41%) Analyst
3 5 (29.41%) Business Analyst
3 5 (29.41%) Payments Analyst
3 5 (29.41%) Payments Business Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Banking Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Banking Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) JSON
1 5 (29.41%) REST
1 5 (29.41%) SOAP
1 5 (29.41%) Spring
1 5 (29.41%) Spring Boot
1 5 (29.41%) Swagger
1 5 (29.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Digital Wallet
1 5 (29.41%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (23.53%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) API Design
1 5 (29.41%) API Integration
1 5 (29.41%) Architectural Patterns
1 5 (29.41%) Containerisation
1 5 (29.41%) Data Modelling
1 5 (29.41%) Integration Patterns
1 5 (29.41%) Microservices
1 5 (29.41%) OO
1 5 (29.41%) OOA/OOD
1 5 (29.41%) Requirements Gathering
1 5 (29.41%) Stakeholder Management
1 5 (29.41%) System Integration Testing
1 5 (29.41%) UML
1 5 (29.41%) User Acceptance Testing
1 5 (29.41%) Validation
1 5 (29.41%) Workshop Facilitation
2 4 (23.53%) Architectural Design
2 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (23.53%) Roadmaps
2 4 (23.53%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (23.53%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (52.94%) PCI DSS
2 5 (29.41%) ISO 20022
2 5 (29.41%) PSD2
3 3 (17.65%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Docker
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Google