Payment Gateway Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Payment Gateway
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Payment Gateway skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Payment Gateway 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.034% - -
As % of the Business Applications category 0.46% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South East median daily rate £725 - -

All Business Application Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 218 136 205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.34% 9.28% 7.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 90 131
10th Percentile £453 £513 £375
25th Percentile £513 £550 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £599 £600 £605
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% -0.83% +0.83%
75th Percentile £648 £638 £693
90th Percentile £744 £653 £765
South East median daily rate £581 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -1.21% +6.91% -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 23
10th Percentile £26.28 £71.44 £30.07
25th Percentile £30.66 £73.60 £46.25
Median hourly rate £82.00 £77.19 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.23% +33.09% -
75th Percentile £97.63 £82.12 £61.60
90th Percentile £103.05 £85.08 £62.29
South East median hourly rate £36.71 £77.19 £47.50
% change year-on-year -52.44% +62.51% -24.00%

Payment Gateway
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Payment Gateway job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Payment Gateway
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Payment Gateway.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Payment Gateway

Payment Gateway
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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 - -
Payment Gateway
South East

Payment Gateway
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

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%) GoCardless
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce