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 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 148 -
Rank change year-on-year -60 - -
Contract jobs citing Payment Gateway 5 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.084% 0.10% -
As % of the Business Applications category 1.15% 1.28% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile £423 - -
25th Percentile £531 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £402 -
Median % change year-on-year +80.35% - -
75th Percentile £738 £426 -
90th Percentile - £440 -
England median daily rate £488 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -23.40%

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 433 234 335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 7.25% 8.04% 6.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 150 205
10th Percentile £416 £406 £304
25th Percentile £483 £512 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £583 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.37% +6.00% -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £686
90th Percentile £738 £675 £742
England median daily rate £545 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -5.22% +4.55% -3.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 4 38
10th Percentile £26.70 £49.70 £13.05
25th Percentile £34.01 £62.75 £26.03
Median hourly rate £38.56 £73.60 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.61% +54.94% -24.00%
75th Percentile £62.00 £79.66 £61.08
90th Percentile £102.17 £84.09 £61.60
England median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £37.83
% change year-on-year -8.33% +58.63% -22.81%

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 26 May 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 26 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
Hampshire -31 2 £350 -12.94% 1
West Sussex - 2 £725 -
Thames Valley - 1 - -
Berkshire - 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 (40.00%) ArcGIS
1 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Functions
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (40.00%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (40.00%) PaaS
2 2 (40.00%) Serverless
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (20.00%) Apigee
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (20.00%) AWS KMS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure API Management
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (20.00%) Kong
3 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (20.00%) Postman
2 1 (20.00%) REST Assured
General
1 2 (40.00%) Aviation
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Delivery Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Delivery Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Salesforce Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Test Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) React
2 2 (40.00%) .NET
2 2 (40.00%) Next.js
3 1 (20.00%) Kafka
3 1 (20.00%) OAuth
3 1 (20.00%) OAuth2
3 1 (20.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (20.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Chip and PIN
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) API Development
3 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven
3 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Front End Development
3 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (40.00%) Secure Coding
4 1 (20.00%) API Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Data Encryption
4 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (20.00%) Exploratory Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Remediation Plan
4 1 (20.00%) Re-Platforming
4 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Apex Code
3 1 (20.00%) Bicep
3 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (20.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (20.00%) ISO 20022
2 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Grafana
2 1 (20.00%) Istio
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) linkerd
2 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Conga
1 1 (20.00%) GoCardless
1 1 (20.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk