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 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 174 166 208
Rank change year-on-year -8 +42 +39
Contract jobs citing Payment Gateway 10 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.22% 0.055% 0.040%
As % of the Business Applications category 2.34% 0.92% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 2
10th Percentile £355 £313 -
25th Percentile £370 £318 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £331 £575
Median % change year-on-year +21.63% -42.52% -23.33%
75th Percentile £415 £338 £588
90th Percentile £738 £340 -
England median daily rate £415 £341 £563
% change year-on-year +21.70% -39.38% -8.72%

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 428 218 369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 9.63% 5.98% 7.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 122 238
10th Percentile £403 £422 £403
25th Percentile £513 £503 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £590 £528
Median % change year-on-year - +11.85% -3.71%
75th Percentile £670 £650 £650
90th Percentile £760 £700 £725
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -2.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 10 17
10th Percentile £18.50 £31.17 £13.05
25th Percentile £35.00 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £81.00 £35.00 £61.79
Median % change year-on-year +131.43% -43.36% +37.17%
75th Percentile £90.09 £59.76 £63.29
90th Percentile - £74.88 £90.25
England median hourly rate £45.00 £43.84 £56.49
% change year-on-year +2.65% -22.39% +61.40%

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 27 December 2025.

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 27 December 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
Hampshire -11 7 £402 +21.63%
West Sussex - 2 £725 - 1
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 2 (20.00%) ArcGIS
1 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (20.00%) Azure Functions
1 2 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 2 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 2 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
1 2 (20.00%) PaaS
1 2 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
General
1 6 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Aviation
2 2 (20.00%) Banking
2 2 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Analyst
1 3 (30.00%) Business Analyst
1 3 (30.00%) Payments Analyst
1 3 (30.00%) Payments Business Analyst
1 3 (30.00%) Product Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Product Owner
3 1 (10.00%) PCI DSS Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) .NET
1 2 (20.00%) Next.js
1 2 (20.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 3 (30.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (20.00%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Agile
1 6 (60.00%) Regulatory Change
2 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (40.00%) Fintech
3 4 (40.00%) Product Vision
3 4 (40.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (30.00%) Cost Control
4 3 (30.00%) E-Commerce
4 3 (30.00%) Market Research
4 3 (30.00%) Product Management
4 3 (30.00%) Risk Management
4 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (30.00%) Scrum
4 3 (30.00%) Strategic Roadmap
4 3 (30.00%) User Stories
5 2 (20.00%) API Development
5 2 (20.00%) DevOps
5 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (20.00%) KYC
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) C#
1 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) CBAP
1 2 (20.00%) PMI Certification
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) PCI DSS
2 3 (30.00%) PSD2
3 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (20.00%) ISO 8583
3 2 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft