GoCardless Contract Job Trends

GoCardless
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 618 529 -
Rank change year-on-year -89 - -
Contract jobs citing GoCardless 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.006% 0.003% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.015% 0.007% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £438 £108 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £115 -
Median % change year-on-year +313.04% - -
75th Percentile £513 £123 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 - -

All Vendors
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 19,748 13,810 18,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.61% 47.45% 42.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,551 8,637 11,343
10th Percentile £313 £285 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% - -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £630
90th Percentile £703 £714 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £498 £500
% change year-on-year -1.51% -0.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 988 563 1,092
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.84 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.56 £14.41
Median hourly rate £32.11 £26.04 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.32% +15.73% -48.50%
75th Percentile £60.00 £56.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £78.61 £75.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £24.09 £21.50
% change year-on-year +16.23% +12.05% -45.64%

GoCardless
Job Vacancy Trend

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

GoCardless job vacancy trend in the UK

GoCardless
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

GoCardless
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

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 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
Work from Home - 3 £475 - 1
UK excluding London - 3 £475 - 3
Scotland - 2 £475 -
England -108 1 - - 3
South West - 1 - - 2

GoCardless
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Defect Tracking
3 1 (33.33%) Exploratory Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Functional Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
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