PSD2 Contracts in Northamptonshire

EU Revised Directive on Payment Services (PSD2)
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire requiring PSD2 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PSD2 over the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing PSD2 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 0.33% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.32% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £354 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 - -
75th Percentile £361 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median daily rate £358 £615 -
% change year-on-year -41.87% - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 76 35 23
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 25.25% 13.16% 11.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 28 15
10th Percentile £350 £311 £166
25th Percentile £358 £375 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £472 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.16% -5.70% +13.64%
75th Percentile £441 £596 £565
90th Percentile £472 £621 £567
East Midlands median daily rate £406 £495 £444
% change year-on-year -17.98% +11.55% +9.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £35.08
25th Percentile - - £40.07
Median hourly rate - - £48.38
Median % change year-on-year - - +101.14%
75th Percentile - - £56.69
90th Percentile - - £61.68
East Midlands median hourly rate £21.92 £19.64 £31.76
% change year-on-year +11.57% -38.15% +61.51%

PSD2
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

Job postings citing PSD2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire.

Job vacancy trend for PSD2 in Northamptonshire

PSD2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PSD2 in Northamptonshire.

Daily rate trend for PSD2 in Northamptonshire

PSD2
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PSD2 within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 14 August 2025. 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
Northampton - 1 £358 - 1
PSD2
East Midlands

PSD2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Payment Gateway
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Product Owner
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Management
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 1 (100.00%) Fintech
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Product Backlog
1 1 (100.00%) Product Vision
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Change
1 1 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Review
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS