Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 14 November 2019

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Payment Gateway skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Payment Gateway over the 6 months to 14 November 2019 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Payment Gateway
UK
6 months to
14 Nov 2019		 Same period 2018 Same period 2017
Rank 759 828 780
Rank change year-on-year +69 -48 +78
Contract jobs citing Payment Gateway 54 82 116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 0.064% 0.079% 0.11%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.88% 1.25% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 59 41
UK median daily rate £435 £450 £325
Median daily rate % change year-on-year -3.33% +38.46% -18.75%
10th Percentile £304 £308 £181
90th Percentile £598 £588 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £363 £303
% change year-on-year +10.34% +19.83% -13.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
UK median hourly rate - - £190.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

Payment Gateway is in the Business Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for business application skills.

All Business Application Skills
UK
Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 6,105 6,564 8,467
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.25% 6.29% 8.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,657 3,837 5,008
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £475
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +5.26% - +7.95%
10th Percentile £325 £313 £306
90th Percentile £663 £650 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £440
% change year-on-year +5.56% +2.27% +3.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 92 89
UK median hourly rate £28.50 £30.00 £27.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -5.00% +9.09% -11.93%
10th Percentile £13.93 £11.67 £12.60
90th Percentile £63.75 £64.75 £53.73
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year +34.62% +13.04% -29.23%

Payment Gateway
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Payment Gateway as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Payment Gateway in the UK

Payment Gateway
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Payment Gateway.

Contractor daily rate trend for Payment Gateway in the UK

Payment Gateway
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Payment Gateway over the 6 months to 14 November 2019.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Payment Gateway in the UK

Payment Gateway
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Payment Gateway.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Payment Gateway in the UK

Payment Gateway
Top 10 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 14 November 2019. 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
Job
Vacancies
England +69 52 £435 -3.33% 24
London +76 27 £500 - 6
UK excluding London +59 25 £400 +10.34% 19
South East +37 11 £395 +0.64% 3
Midlands +42 4 £425 +13.33% 3
West Midlands +33 4 £425 +13.33% 2
East of England +28 4 £435 -8.42% 1
South West - 4 £310 - 5
North of England +24 2 - - 6
North West +3 2 - - 5

For the 6 months to 14 November 2019, IT contractor jobs citing Payment Gateway also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads with a requirement for Payment Gateway.

1 17 (31.48%) E-Commerce
2 15 (27.78%) Retail
3 11 (20.37%) Java
4 10 (18.52%) CMS
5 9 (16.67%) PHP
6 8 (14.81%) Drupal
7 7 (12.96%) JavaScript
7 7 (12.96%) CSS
7 7 (12.96%) HTML
7 7 (12.96%) ITIL
8 6 (11.11%) Linux
8 6 (11.11%) NFS
8 6 (11.11%) DNS
8 6 (11.11%) Workflow
8 6 (11.11%) Salesforce.com
8 6 (11.11%) Configuration Management
8 6 (11.11%) Web Testing
8 6 (11.11%) iSCSI
8 6 (11.11%) Git (software)
8 6 (11.11%) CRM
8 6 (11.11%) Node.js
8 6 (11.11%) Demandware
8 6 (11.11%) Docker
8 6 (11.11%) Prototyping
8 6 (11.11%) Proactive Maintenance
9 5 (9.26%) Change Control
9 5 (9.26%) Kubernetes
9 5 (9.26%) Microservices
9 5 (9.26%) JSON
9 5 (9.26%) Business Continuity

Payment Gateway
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 10 (18.52%) CMS
2 8 (14.81%) Drupal
3 3 (5.56%) Apache
3 3 (5.56%) WordPress
4 2 (3.70%) JBoss
4 2 (3.70%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.85%) Confluence
5 1 (1.85%) Headless CMS
5 1 (1.85%) Lightstreamer
Business Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Magento
2 2 (3.70%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.85%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 4 (7.41%) AWS
2 2 (3.70%) GitHub
2 2 (3.70%) SaaS
3 1 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (1.85%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (1.85%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 1 (1.85%) Asana
3 1 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (1.85%) Azure
3 1 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (1.85%) Route 53
3 1 (1.85%) Sage Pay
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.11%) DNS
1 6 (11.11%) iSCSI
2 4 (7.41%) SAN
3 2 (3.70%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.41%) MySQL
2 3 (5.56%) Redis
3 1 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.85%) Cosmos DB
3 1 (1.85%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.85%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.85%) SQL Navigator
Development Applications
1 6 (11.11%) Git (software)
2 2 (3.70%) git-flow
2 2 (3.70%) JIRA
3 1 (1.85%) Eclipse
3 1 (1.85%) IntelliJ
3 1 (1.85%) Maven
3 1 (1.85%) SoapUI
3 1 (1.85%) Subversion
3 1 (1.85%) TortoiseSVN
3 1 (1.85%) XMLSpy
General
1 15 (27.78%) Retail
2 4 (7.41%) Banking
3 2 (3.70%) Finance
3 2 (3.70%) Games
4 1 (1.85%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 29 (53.70%) Developer
2 6 (11.11%) Analyst
2 6 (11.11%) Test Analyst
2 6 (11.11%) Web Analyst
2 6 (11.11%) Web Test Analyst
3 5 (9.26%) Drupal Developer
3 5 (9.26%) PHP Developer
4 4 (7.41%) Manual Test Analyst
4 4 (7.41%) Storage Engineer
5 3 (5.56%) Architect
5 3 (5.56%) EPoS Manager
5 3 (5.56%) EPoS Project Manager
5 3 (5.56%) Full Stack Developer
5 3 (5.56%) Java Developer
5 3 (5.56%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (5.56%) Magento Developer
5 3 (5.56%) Project Manager
5 3 (5.56%) Ruby Developer
5 3 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (5.56%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.96%) CSS
1 7 (12.96%) HTML
2 6 (11.11%) Node.js
3 5 (9.26%) JSON
4 4 (7.41%) XML
5 3 (5.56%) .NET
5 3 (5.56%) jQuery
5 3 (5.56%) Ruby on Rails
5 3 (5.56%) Vue.js
6 2 (3.70%) Ajax
6 2 (3.70%) Apache Cordova
6 2 (3.70%) CSS3
6 2 (3.70%) HTML5
6 2 (3.70%) Laravel
6 2 (3.70%) Middleware
6 2 (3.70%) React
6 2 (3.70%) Spring
7 1 (1.85%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.85%) LESS
7 1 (1.85%) Memcached
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.56%) Chip and PIN
1 3 (5.56%) EMV
1 3 (5.56%) EPoS
1 3 (5.56%) Mobile App
1 3 (5.56%) Social Network
2 2 (3.70%) Mobile Payment
3 1 (1.85%) Fat Client
3 1 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.85%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.11%) Linux
2 4 (7.41%) Data ONTAP
2 4 (7.41%) Windows
3 3 (5.56%) Android
3 3 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.70%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.85%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (31.48%) E-Commerce
2 7 (12.96%) ITIL
3 6 (11.11%) Configuration Management
3 6 (11.11%) CRM
3 6 (11.11%) Proactive Maintenance
3 6 (11.11%) Prototyping
3 6 (11.11%) Web Testing
3 6 (11.11%) Workflow
4 5 (9.26%) Business Continuity
4 5 (9.26%) Change Control
4 5 (9.26%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (9.26%) Microservices
4 5 (9.26%) MVC
5 4 (7.41%) Agile Software Development
5 4 (7.41%) Data Protection
5 4 (7.41%) OO
5 4 (7.41%) Performance Management
5 4 (7.41%) Technical Debt
6 3 (5.56%) Mobile Development
6 3 (5.56%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (20.37%) Java
2 9 (16.67%) PHP
3 7 (12.96%) JavaScript
4 3 (5.56%) C
4 3 (5.56%) C#
4 3 (5.56%) Embedded C
4 3 (5.56%) Python
4 3 (5.56%) Ruby
4 3 (5.56%) SQL
5 1 (1.85%) Java 8
5 1 (1.85%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (7.41%) NCDA
1 4 (7.41%) NCIE
1 4 (7.41%) NCSIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.70%) ISO 8583
1 2 (3.70%) PCI DSS
1 2 (3.70%) PSD2
2 1 (1.85%) GDPR
2 1 (1.85%) SEPA
System Software
1 6 (11.11%) Docker
1 6 (11.11%) NFS
2 4 (7.41%) Firmware
2 4 (7.41%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (9.26%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.56%) Ansible
2 3 (5.56%) Opscode Chef
2 3 (5.56%) Puppet
3 2 (3.70%) Terraform
4 1 (1.85%) Packer
Vendors
1 6 (11.11%) Demandware
1 6 (11.11%) Salesforce.com
2 5 (9.26%) VMware
3 4 (7.41%) NetApp
4 3 (5.56%) PayPal
4 3 (5.56%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.70%) Oracle
5 2 (3.70%) Sage
5 2 (3.70%) WooCommerce
6 1 (1.85%) Avaya
6 1 (1.85%) Cisco
6 1 (1.85%) Google
6 1 (1.85%) VeriFone
6 1 (1.85%) WorldPay
6 1 (1.85%) Xamarin