Payment Gateway Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Payment Gateway
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Payment Gateway skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 108 125
Rank change year-on-year -10 +17 -
Contract jobs citing Payment Gateway 2 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.11% 0.12% 0.092%
As % of the Business Applications category 3.39% 2.82% 2.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile - - £556
25th Percentile - - £564
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £400 £606
Median % change year-on-year -10.50% -34.02% -
75th Percentile - - £642
90th Percentile - - £647
UK median daily rate £425 £485 £550
% change year-on-year -12.37% -11.82% -4.35%

All Business Application Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 59 71 89
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 3.21% 4.37% 4.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 57 55
10th Percentile £351 £207 £235
25th Percentile £413 £404 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £622
90th Percentile £607 £625 £702
UK median daily rate £538 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -4.82% +2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 6
10th Percentile - £24.34 -
25th Percentile - £30.28 £19.25
Median hourly rate £87.00 £40.38 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +115.48% +107.05% -18.27%
75th Percentile - £50.28 £46.19
90th Percentile - £56.11 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £53.00 £60.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -11.67% +50.00% -15.79%

Payment Gateway
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Payment Gateway job vacancy trend in Scotland

Payment Gateway
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Payment Gateway.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Payment Gateway

Payment Gateway
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
Glasgow - 2 £358 - 3
Payment Gateway
UK

Payment Gateway
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (100.00%) IntelliMatch
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
1 2 (100.00%) Tableau
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Business Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Data Mapping
1 2 (100.00%) Data Matching
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 2 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Regulatory Change
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO 20022
1 2 (100.00%) ISO 8583
1 2 (100.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Alteryx
1 2 (100.00%) FIS
1 2 (100.00%) Fiserv
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) SmartStream