GoCardless Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

GoCardless
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring knowledge or experience of GoCardless products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GoCardless over the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within GoCardless Ltd.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 429 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GoCardless 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.012% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.031% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £438 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £513 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £475 £115 -
% change year-on-year +313.04% - -

All Vendors
UK excluding London

GoCardless falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 9,727 6,199 8,722
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 40.32% 48.68% 42.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,220 3,917 5,251
10th Percentile £270 £217 £205
25th Percentile £400 £365 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £498 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.51% -0.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £660 £693
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £515
% change year-on-year -2.91% - -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 841 420 937
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.20 £11.79
25th Percentile £18.25 £16.95 £14.16
Median hourly rate £28.00 £24.09 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.23% +12.05% -45.64%
75th Percentile £60.00 £58.70 £59.95
90th Percentile £77.50 £73.88 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.11 £26.04 £22.50
% change year-on-year +23.32% +15.73% -48.50%

GoCardless
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GoCardless relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

GoCardless job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

GoCardless
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing GoCardless.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing GoCardless

GoCardless
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GoCardless within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
Scotland - 2 £475 -
South West - 1 - - 2
GoCardless
UK

GoCardless
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (66.67%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Apple Pay
1 2 (66.67%) Google Pay
1 2 (66.67%) Stripe
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) Postman
2 1 (33.33%) REST Assured
General
1 2 (66.67%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior WordPress Developer
1 2 (66.67%) WordPress Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Salesforce Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) CSS
1 2 (66.67%) CSS3
1 2 (66.67%) HTML
1 2 (66.67%) HTML5
1 2 (66.67%) JSON
1 2 (66.67%) JWT
1 2 (66.67%) Middleware
1 2 (66.67%) OAuth
1 2 (66.67%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) Playwright
2 1 (33.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) FMCG
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) API Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Webhook
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) API Testing
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Defect Tracking
3 1 (33.33%) Exploratory Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) PHP
3 1 (33.33%) Apex Code
3 1 (33.33%) Java
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Apple
1 2 (66.67%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Conga
2 1 (33.33%) Salesforce