Mobile Payment Contracts

Mobile Payment
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mobile Payment in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mobile Payment over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 515 591 706
Rank change year-on-year +76 +115 +143
Contract jobs citing Mobile Payment 4 9 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.021% 0.012%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.040% 0.068% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 6
10th Percentile £209 £336 £353
25th Percentile £299 £435 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £450 £563
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% -20.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile - £544 £588
90th Percentile - £606 £681
UK excluding London median daily rate £447 - -

All Generic Skills
UK

Mobile Payment 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 9,915 13,252 19,898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.91% 30.40% 33.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,331 8,505 13,670
10th Percentile £300 £263 £308
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
75th Percentile £650 £660 £680
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.90% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 394 910 640
10th Percentile £16.46 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.00 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.66 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.99 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.93 £27.75 £22.00
% change year-on-year +11.46% +26.14% +9.64%

Mobile Payment
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Mobile Payment as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Mobile Payment in the UK

Mobile Payment
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mobile Payment.

Daily rate trend for Mobile Payment in the UK

Mobile Payment
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mobile Payment over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mobile Payment in the UK

Mobile Payment
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mobile Payment.

Hourly rate trend for Mobile Payment in the UK

Mobile Payment
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mobile Payment within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +57 3 £447 -0.67% 11
Work from Home +48 2 £150 -72.73% 4
UK excluding London - 2 £447 -
North of England - 2 £447 -
North West - 2 £447 -
London +27 1 £150 -66.67% 11

Mobile Payment
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) CICS
1 2 (50.00%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Apple Pay
1 1 (25.00%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (50.00%) DB2
1 2 (50.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (50.00%) Selenium
1 2 (50.00%) SOAtest
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) General Ledger
1 2 (50.00%) Retail Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Billing
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Test Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) iOS Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Junior
2 1 (25.00%) Junior Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Mainframe Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Applications Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior iOS Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) J2EE
1 2 (50.00%) JSON
1 2 (50.00%) Web Services
1 2 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) iOS SDK
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Mainframe
1 2 (50.00%) VSAM
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (25.00%) EMV
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Apple iOS
1 2 (50.00%) Unix
2 1 (25.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) API Testing
1 2 (50.00%) ETL
1 2 (50.00%) Impact Analysis
1 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Performance Management
1 2 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
1 2 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (50.00%) Test Planning
1 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
1 2 (50.00%) User Stories
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) iOS Development
2 1 (25.00%) Runbook
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) COBOL
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) JCL
1 2 (50.00%) REXX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Ab Initio
1 2 (50.00%) Apple
1 2 (50.00%) Informatica
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
1 2 (50.00%) Parasoft
2 1 (25.00%) Google