Payment Gateway Contracts in the UK excluding London

Payment Gateway
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Payment Gateway skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Payment Gateway over the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 338 359 420
Rank change year-on-year +21 +61 +88
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Payment Gateway 31 21 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.12% 0.032%
As % of the Business Applications category 2.98% 1.98% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 14 3
10th Percentile £320 £359 £420
25th Percentile £364 £416 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £445 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.66% -22.61% +17.95%
75th Percentile £473 £525 £588
90th Percentile £539 £618 -
UK median daily rate £421 £450 £588
% change year-on-year -6.44% -23.40% +11.90%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 1,041 1,058 1,396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.78% 5.83% 6.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 624 642 845
10th Percentile £355 £313 £335
25th Percentile £447 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.24% +3.57% -1.13%
75th Percentile £630 £643 £631
90th Percentile £703 £726 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 68 60
10th Percentile £12.82 £25.70 £34.29
25th Percentile £20.84 £35.36 £49.00
Median hourly rate £44.24 £45.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -1.69% -20.34% +67.39%
75th Percentile £66.88 £60.40 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.75 £65.00 £88.75
UK median hourly rate £35.48 £45.00 £54.33
% change year-on-year -21.16% -17.18% +20.74%

Payment Gateway
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Payment Gateway as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Payment Gateway 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 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract 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 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands -3 15 £402 -9.66% 2
East Midlands +3 14 £399 -10.45% 2
South East +18 8 £402 +21.63% 11
North of England -25 7 £478 +3.35% 3
Yorkshire - 4 £440 -
North West -14 3 £508 +9.78% 2
Scotland 0 2 £400 -34.02%
West Midlands - 1 £525 -
Payment Gateway
UK

Payment Gateway
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (16.13%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 10 (32.26%) Azure
2 9 (29.03%) AWS
3 7 (22.58%) Serverless
4 4 (12.90%) Figma
4 4 (12.90%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
5 3 (9.68%) Amazon EMR
5 3 (9.68%) Amazon Kinesis
5 3 (9.68%) Amazon S3
5 3 (9.68%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (9.68%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.68%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (9.68%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (9.68%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (12.90%) Storybook
2 3 (9.68%) Jenkins
General
1 16 (51.61%) Banking
2 11 (35.48%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (35.48%) Social Skills
3 10 (32.26%) Finance
4 5 (16.13%) Retail
5 3 (9.68%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (6.45%) Games
7 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (38.71%) Architect
2 5 (16.13%) Enterprise Architect
3 4 (12.90%) Lead
3 4 (12.90%) Payments Architect
3 4 (12.90%) Product Manager
3 4 (12.90%) Product Owner
3 4 (12.90%) Senior
3 4 (12.90%) Technical Leader
4 3 (9.68%) Analyst
4 3 (9.68%) Business Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) Data Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (6.45%) Java Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Project Manager
5 2 (6.45%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Senior Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (19.35%) RESTful
2 4 (12.90%) Bootstrap
2 4 (12.90%) CSS
2 4 (12.90%) CSS3
2 4 (12.90%) Express.js
2 4 (12.90%) HTML
2 4 (12.90%) HTML5
2 4 (12.90%) Next.js
2 4 (12.90%) Node.js
2 4 (12.90%) React
2 4 (12.90%) Redux
3 3 (9.68%) Kafka
4 2 (6.45%) OAuth
4 2 (6.45%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Data Centre
1 6 (19.35%) Product Ownership
2 4 (12.90%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (9.68%) Cloud Native
4 2 (6.45%) Digital Wallet
4 2 (6.45%) EMV
4 2 (6.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.68%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (38.71%) Agile
1 12 (38.71%) Roadmaps
2 11 (35.48%) Strategic Roadmap
3 10 (32.26%) Analytics
3 10 (32.26%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (29.03%) ETL
4 9 (29.03%) Fintech
5 8 (25.81%) Microservices
6 7 (22.58%) IT Strategy
6 7 (22.58%) Product Vision
6 7 (22.58%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 7 (22.58%) Technology Strategy
7 6 (19.35%) Data Transformation
7 6 (19.35%) E-Commerce
7 6 (19.35%) High Availability
7 6 (19.35%) Regulatory Change
7 6 (19.35%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (19.35%) Technical Debt
8 5 (16.13%) Enterprise Architecture
8 5 (16.13%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.13%) Java
2 3 (9.68%) Python
2 3 (9.68%) Scala
2 3 (9.68%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (9.68%) AWS Certification
1 3 (9.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (6.45%) Degree
2 2 (6.45%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.13%) PCI DSS
2 4 (12.90%) PSD2
3 3 (9.68%) Data Quality
4 2 (6.45%) ISO 20022
4 2 (6.45%) ISO 8583
4 2 (6.45%) SEPA
5 1 (3.23%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (9.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (9.68%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (32.26%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.90%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.23%) Optimizely