Payment Gateway Contract Job Trends in the South East

Payment Gateway
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Payment Gateway skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Payment Gateway 9 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.19% - -
As % of the Business Applications category 2.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £381 - -
25th Percentile £404 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 - -
75th Percentile £738 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £423 £459 £550
% change year-on-year -7.95% -16.55% -11.29%

All Business Application Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 420 207 328
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 8.64% 6.62% 5.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 123 218
10th Percentile £414 £423 £363
25th Percentile £500 £512 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £589 £600 £536
Median % change year-on-year -1.83% +11.94% -7.59%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £638
90th Percentile £750 £675 £699
England median daily rate £550 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 10 29
10th Percentile £22.75 £31.17 £13.05
25th Percentile £35.00 £35.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £57.13 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.23% -1.50% -13.75%
75th Percentile £88.32 £73.75 £62.54
90th Percentile £90.09 £78.18 £74.45
England median hourly rate £56.50 £60.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -5.83% +26.32% +27.35%

Payment Gateway
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Payment Gateway job vacancy trend in the South East

Payment Gateway
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Payment Gateway.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Payment Gateway

Payment Gateway
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Payment Gateway in the South East over the 6 months to 25 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Payment Gateway in the South East

Payment Gateway
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 Payment Gateway within the South East region over the 6 months to 25 February 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
Hampshire - 5 £404 -
West Sussex - 3 £725 -
Kent - 1 - -
Payment Gateway
England

Payment Gateway
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (33.33%) ArcGIS
1 3 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (11.11%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Azure Functions
2 3 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
2 3 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
2 3 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (33.33%) PaaS
2 3 (33.33%) Serverless
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (11.11%) Apigee
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (11.11%) AWS KMS
3 1 (11.11%) Azure AKS
3 1 (11.11%) Azure API Management
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (11.11%) Kong
3 1 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Git
General
1 3 (33.33%) Aviation
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Banking
2 2 (22.22%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Retail
3 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Analyst
1 3 (33.33%) Business Analyst
1 3 (33.33%) Developer
1 3 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
1 3 (33.33%) Payments Analyst
1 3 (33.33%) Payments Business Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Delivery Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Delivery Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) PCI DSS Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) .NET
1 3 (33.33%) Next.js
1 3 (33.33%) React
2 1 (11.11%) Kafka
2 1 (11.11%) OAuth
2 1 (11.11%) OAuth2
2 1 (11.11%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 2 (22.22%) PMI
2 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
3 1 (11.11%) Chip and PIN
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
1 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (33.33%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) API Development
2 3 (33.33%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) E-Commerce
2 3 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 3 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 3 (33.33%) Front End Development
2 3 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
2 3 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) Secure Coding
2 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (22.22%) Kanban
3 2 (22.22%) Scrum
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (22.22%) Use Case
3 2 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) C#
1 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) PMI Certification
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) CBAP
2 2 (22.22%) Degree
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
3 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (11.11%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) PCI DSS
2 3 (33.33%) Accessibility
3 2 (22.22%) ISO 8583
3 2 (22.22%) PSD2
3 2 (22.22%) QA
4 1 (11.11%) ISO 20022
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Grafana
2 1 (11.11%) Istio
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) linkerd
2 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Splunk