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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 163 196
Rank change year-on-year -71 +33 +14
Contract jobs citing Payment Gateway 2 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.030% 0.087% 0.038%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.40% 1.21% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - - £313
25th Percentile - - £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £402 £331
Median % change year-on-year -12.94% +21.63% -42.52%
75th Percentile - £426 £338
90th Percentile - £440 £340
England median daily rate £588 £455 £445
% change year-on-year +29.12% +2.25% -28.80%

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 498 248 327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 7.54% 7.21% 6.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 144 193
10th Percentile £412 £401 £304
25th Percentile £487 £500 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £688
90th Percentile £733 £710 £746
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 4 30
10th Percentile £26.90 £34.92 £22.18
25th Percentile £34.01 £38.83 £28.90
Median hourly rate £47.50 £55.50 £48.18
Median % change year-on-year -14.41% +15.19% -22.91%
75th Percentile £83.00 £74.26 £61.60
90th Percentile £106.90 £81.94 £61.94
England median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -30.43% +35.29% -20.80%

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
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 July 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 -37 1 £350 -12.94%
Thames Valley - 1 - - 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 1 (50.00%) Apache Pulsar
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (50.00%) Apigee
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) AWS KMS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure API Management
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 1 (50.00%) Kong
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) Postman
1 1 (50.00%) REST Assured
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Delivery Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Delivery Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Delivery Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (50.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Chip and PIN
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Network Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Release Management
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Apex Code
1 1 (50.00%) Bicep
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (50.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO 20022
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Istio
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) linkerd
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Conga
1 1 (50.00%) GoCardless
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk