Digital Wallet Contracts

Digital Wallet
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Digital Wallet in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Digital Wallet 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 543 557 665
Rank change year-on-year +14 +108 +191
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Digital Wallet 11 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.034% 0.005% 0.006%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.095% 0.017% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile £492 - £620
25th Percentile £513 - £631
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -15.38% +0.97%
75th Percentile £556 - -
90th Percentile £613 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £508 - -

All Generic Skills
UK

Digital Wallet falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,598 11,740 16,564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.40% 30.27% 32.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,105 7,419 11,447
10th Percentile £300 £300 £300
25th Percentile £406 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £825 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 577 563 422
10th Percentile £15.00 £12.30 £16.85
25th Percentile £18.87 £18.35 £21.00
Median hourly rate £29.50 £44.04 £43.38
Median % change year-on-year -33.02% +1.53% +63.68%
75th Percentile £56.00 £68.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £47.50 £45.85
% change year-on-year -36.84% +3.60% +113.26%

Digital Wallet
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Digital Wallet as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Digital Wallet in the UK

Digital Wallet
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Digital Wallet.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Digital Wallet

Digital Wallet
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Wallet over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Wallet in the UK

Digital Wallet
Top 7 DemandTrendContract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Wallet within the UK 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
England - 10 £525 - 13
UK excluding London - 8 £508 - 9
South West - 6 - -
Work from Home +28 4 £525 -4.55% 1
London - 2 £525 - 11
North West - 2 £508 -
North of England - 2 £508 -

Digital Wallet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Apple Pay
1 3 (27.27%) Google Pay
General
1 9 (81.82%) Banking
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Architect
2 4 (36.36%) Analyst
2 4 (36.36%) Business Analyst
3 3 (27.27%) Banking Analyst
3 3 (27.27%) Banking Business Analyst
3 3 (27.27%) Payments Architect
3 3 (27.27%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (18.18%) Android Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Digital Analyst
4 2 (18.18%) Digital Architect
4 2 (18.18%) Digital Business Analyst
4 2 (18.18%) Digital Solutions Architect
4 2 (18.18%) Java Android Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Java Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Payments Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Payments Business Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Payments Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) OAuth
1 2 (18.18%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (18.18%) EMV
2 2 (18.18%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Agile
2 2 (18.18%) Android Development
2 2 (18.18%) Design Patterns
2 2 (18.18%) Event-Driven
2 2 (18.18%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (18.18%) Fintech
2 2 (18.18%) Microservices
2 2 (18.18%) Migration
2 2 (18.18%) MVVM
3 1 (9.09%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Java
1 2 (18.18%) Kotlin
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) ISO 20022
1 2 (18.18%) ISO 8583
1 2 (18.18%) PCI DSS
1 2 (18.18%) PSD2
1 2 (18.18%) SEPA
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) Apple
2 3 (27.27%) Google
2 3 (27.27%) Oracle
2 3 (27.27%) Salesforce
2 3 (27.27%) SAP
2 3 (27.27%) ServiceNow
3 2 (18.18%) Virgin Media