GoCardless Contract Job Trends in the South East

GoCardless
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring knowledge or experience of GoCardless products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GoCardless over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within GoCardless Ltd.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GoCardless 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.017% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.041% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £513 £115 -
% change year-on-year +345.65% - -

All Vendors
South East

GoCardless falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,461 1,565 2,557
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 41.77% 52.75% 46.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,699 1,044 1,559
10th Percentile £300 £222 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% +1.50% -
75th Percentile £610 £600 £600
90th Percentile £700 £663 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £518
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.45% -2.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 87 182
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £12.00
25th Percentile £26.40 £16.95 £16.81
Median hourly rate £47.54 £24.66 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +92.78% -49.42% +8.33%
75th Percentile £85.44 £58.72 £61.30
90th Percentile £88.00 £72.25 £66.82
England median hourly rate £32.50 £26.45 £22.50
% change year-on-year +22.87% +17.56% -43.11%

GoCardless
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GoCardless within the South East region over the 6 months to 15 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
Berkshire - 1 - -
Thames Valley - 1 - -
GoCardless
England

GoCardless
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Payment Gateway
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Test Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) Exploratory Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Apex Code
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Conga
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce