Payment Gateway Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Payment Gateway
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Payment Gateway skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 376 348 398
Rank change year-on-year -28 +50 +78
Contract jobs citing Payment Gateway 33 8 6
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.054% 0.031%
As % of the Business Applications category 2.46% 0.92% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 7 4
10th Percentile £360 £303 £440
25th Percentile £402 £306 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £320 £560
Median % change year-on-year +29.69% -42.86% -8.42%
75th Percentile £529 £336 £588
90th Percentile £585 £345 -
UK median daily rate £415 £341 £575
% change year-on-year +21.70% -40.70% -6.12%

All Business Application Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 1,339 872 1,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.28% 5.90% 6.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 841 503 797
10th Percentile £363 £340 £375
25th Percentile £460 £438 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £533 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% +1.43% -1.41%
75th Percentile £648 £638 £626
90th Percentile £725 £712 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 38 73
10th Percentile £17.27 £22.33 £27.67
25th Percentile £20.45 £35.00 £49.00
Median hourly rate £47.48 £46.18 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -18.25% +51.45%
75th Percentile £83.50 £61.32 £62.54
90th Percentile £90.09 £70.59 £87.00
UK median hourly rate £41.86 £41.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year +0.86% -26.54% +51.45%

Payment Gateway
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Payment Gateway job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Payment Gateway
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Payment Gateway
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Payment Gateway in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Payment Gateway in the UK excluding London

Payment Gateway
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Payment Gateway.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Payment Gateway

Payment Gateway
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 Payment Gateway within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 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
North of England -50 12 £499 +63.44% 11
East Midlands - 11 £402 - 1
Midlands - 11 £402 - 2
South East -4 10 £402 +21.63% 5
North West -23 8 £505 +65.57% 11
Yorkshire - 4 £440 -
South West - 1 £460 -
Payment Gateway
UK

Payment Gateway
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 4 (12.12%) CMS
2 2 (6.06%) ArcGIS
2 2 (6.06%) Confluence
2 2 (6.06%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 14 (42.42%) Azure
2 8 (24.24%) AWS
3 6 (18.18%) Serverless
4 5 (15.15%) GCP
5 4 (12.12%) Figma
5 4 (12.12%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 2 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Functions
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (6.06%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (6.06%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.06%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Storybook
2 2 (6.06%) Git
2 2 (6.06%) JIRA
2 2 (6.06%) Postman
General
1 14 (42.42%) Analytical Skills
1 14 (42.42%) Banking
2 12 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 9 (27.27%) Finance
4 5 (15.15%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (15.15%) Retail
5 2 (6.06%) Aviation
5 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (27.27%) Analyst
1 9 (27.27%) Architect
1 9 (27.27%) Business Analyst
1 9 (27.27%) Payments Analyst
1 9 (27.27%) Payments Business Analyst
2 7 (21.21%) Solutions Architect
3 6 (18.18%) Payments Architect
4 5 (15.15%) Payments Solutions Architect
5 4 (12.12%) Lead
5 4 (12.12%) Product Manager
5 4 (12.12%) Product Owner
5 4 (12.12%) Technical Leader
6 2 (6.06%) Banking Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Banking Business Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Enterprise Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Salesforce Technical Leader
7 1 (3.03%) Onboarding Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) PCI DSS Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.18%) Next.js
1 6 (18.18%) React
2 5 (15.15%) Spring
2 5 (15.15%) Spring Boot
3 4 (12.12%) Bootstrap
3 4 (12.12%) CSS
3 4 (12.12%) CSS3
3 4 (12.12%) Express.js
3 4 (12.12%) HTML
3 4 (12.12%) HTML5
3 4 (12.12%) Node.js
3 4 (12.12%) Redux
3 4 (12.12%) RESTful
4 2 (6.06%) .NET
4 2 (6.06%) JSON
4 2 (6.06%) REST
4 2 (6.06%) SOAP
4 2 (6.06%) Swagger
4 2 (6.06%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.21%) Product Ownership
2 5 (15.15%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (15.15%) Onboarding
3 4 (12.12%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (12.12%) PMI
4 3 (9.09%) Data Centre
5 2 (6.06%) Digital Wallet
6 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
6 1 (3.03%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (42.42%) Agile
2 13 (39.39%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (36.36%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (30.30%) Regulatory Change
5 9 (27.27%) E-Commerce
5 9 (27.27%) Roadmaps
6 8 (24.24%) Microservices
6 8 (24.24%) Translating Business Requirements
7 7 (21.21%) Fintech
7 7 (21.21%) Product Vision
7 7 (21.21%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 7 (21.21%) Scrum
7 7 (21.21%) Strategic Roadmap
7 7 (21.21%) User Stories
8 6 (18.18%) Requirements Gathering
8 6 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
8 6 (18.18%) Workshop Facilitation
9 5 (15.15%) Anti-Money Laundering
9 5 (15.15%) Data Modelling
9 5 (15.15%) KYC
Programming Languages
1 5 (15.15%) Java
2 2 (6.06%) C#
2 2 (6.06%) JavaScript
2 2 (6.06%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (12.12%) CBAP
1 4 (12.12%) PMI Certification
1 4 (12.12%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.03%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (39.39%) PCI DSS
2 8 (24.24%) PSD2
3 7 (21.21%) ISO 20022
4 5 (15.15%) ISO 8583
5 4 (12.12%) QA
6 2 (6.06%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (15.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.06%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (24.24%) Microsoft
2 5 (15.15%) Google
3 4 (12.12%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.03%) Cisco