Payment Gateway Contract Job Trends

Payment Gateway
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Payment Gateway skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 599 508 558
Rank change year-on-year -91 +50 +86
Contract jobs citing Payment Gateway 60 42 35
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.13% 0.082%
As % of the Business Applications category 1.58% 1.55% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 29 21
10th Percentile £358 £317 £375
25th Percentile £397 £388 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £455 £450
Median % change year-on-year +18.02% +1.11% -21.74%
75th Percentile £663 £540 £550
90th Percentile £738 £639 £615
UK excluding London median daily rate £394 £426 £445
% change year-on-year -7.57% -4.27% -6.32%

All Business Application Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 3,796 2,710 3,123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.21% 8.29% 7.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,119 1,536 1,822
10th Percentile £363 £377 £363
25th Percentile £451 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - -
75th Percentile £650 £669 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 65 118
10th Percentile £20.31 £20.19 £18.25
25th Percentile £30.00 £30.25 £25.25
Median hourly rate £52.00 £57.50 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% +42.59% -19.35%
75th Percentile £71.91 £70.00 £58.44
90th Percentile £90.30 £85.60 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £60.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -20.83% +50.00% -27.27%

Payment Gateway
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Payment Gateway job vacancy trend in the UK

Payment Gateway
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Payment Gateway

Payment Gateway
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Payment Gateway over the 6 months to 13 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Payment Gateway in the UK

Payment Gateway
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Payment Gateway.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Payment Gateway

Payment Gateway
Top 13 Contract Job 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 13 July 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
England -95 54 £537 +17.51% 9
UK excluding London -81 37 £394 -7.57% 8
Work from Home -44 25 £408 -9.44% 5
North of England -59 21 £366 -23.43% 2
London -58 20 £625 +0.81% 3
North West -38 18 £368 -23.12% 1
South West -27 6 £513 +44.37%
Scotland -12 4 £358 -10.50%
East Midlands -23 3 £538 +18.78% 1
Midlands -59 3 £538 +18.13% 1
Yorkshire - 3 £334 - 1
South East -75 2 £350 -12.94% 3
East of England -21 1 £750 - 1

Payment Gateway
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 5 (8.33%) Confluence
2 1 (1.67%) Apache
2 1 (1.67%) Apache Pulsar
2 1 (1.67%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.33%) BASE24
1 2 (3.33%) IntelliMatch
2 1 (1.67%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 7 (11.67%) AWS
1 7 (11.67%) Azure
2 5 (8.33%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
3 3 (5.00%) GCP
3 3 (5.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 2 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (3.33%) GitHub
4 2 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (3.33%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.67%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.67%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (1.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (1.67%) Apigee
5 1 (1.67%) AWS KMS
5 1 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.67%) Azure AKS
5 1 (1.67%) Azure API Management
5 1 (1.67%) Firebase
5 1 (1.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (1.67%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.67%) Bluetooth
1 1 (1.67%) CTI
1 1 (1.67%) Firewall
1 1 (1.67%) HTTP
1 1 (1.67%) HTTPS
1 1 (1.67%) NFC
1 1 (1.67%) PSTN
1 1 (1.67%) RTP
1 1 (1.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.33%) NonStop SQL
1 2 (3.33%) Power BI
1 2 (3.33%) Tableau
2 1 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.67%) MySQL
2 1 (1.67%) OLTP
2 1 (1.67%) Redis
2 1 (1.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (1.67%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 11 (18.33%) Postman
2 8 (13.33%) Cucumber
2 8 (13.33%) REST Assured
3 7 (11.67%) Git
4 5 (8.33%) JIRA
5 2 (3.33%) Gradle
5 2 (3.33%) Jenkins
5 2 (3.33%) JUnit
5 2 (3.33%) Selenium
6 1 (1.67%) Android Studio
6 1 (1.67%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.67%) Gatling
6 1 (1.67%) GitLab
6 1 (1.67%) JMeter
6 1 (1.67%) Maven
6 1 (1.67%) Newman
6 1 (1.67%) PHPUnit
6 1 (1.67%) SoapUI
6 1 (1.67%) TestNG
6 1 (1.67%) Zephyr
General
1 28 (46.67%) Banking
2 21 (35.00%) Finance
3 14 (23.33%) Social Skills
4 8 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (11.67%) Corporate Banking
5 7 (11.67%) Investment Banking
6 5 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (8.33%) Retail
7 3 (5.00%) Marketing
7 3 (5.00%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.67%) Back Office
8 1 (1.67%) Billing
8 1 (1.67%) International Banking
8 1 (1.67%) Legal
8 1 (1.67%) Local Government
8 1 (1.67%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.67%) Publishing
8 1 (1.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (36.67%) Architect
2 16 (26.67%) Solutions Architect
3 13 (21.67%) Payments Architect
4 12 (20.00%) Payments Solutions Architect
5 8 (13.33%) Lead
5 8 (13.33%) Test Engineer
6 7 (11.67%) Developer
6 7 (11.67%) Salesforce Engineer
7 5 (8.33%) Analyst
7 5 (8.33%) Business Analyst
7 5 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
7 5 (8.33%) Salesforce Architect
8 4 (6.67%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud Architect
9 3 (5.00%) Payments Analyst
9 3 (5.00%) Payments Business Analyst
9 3 (5.00%) Principal Engineer
9 3 (5.00%) Software Engineer
10 2 (3.33%) Lead Architect
10 2 (3.33%) Product Manager
10 2 (3.33%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (20.00%) REST
2 9 (15.00%) React
3 8 (13.33%) Playwright
4 7 (11.67%) SOAP
5 6 (10.00%) JSON
6 5 (8.33%) XML
7 4 (6.67%) Kafka
7 4 (6.67%) Middleware
7 4 (6.67%) Node.js
8 3 (5.00%) OAuth
8 3 (5.00%) Swagger
9 2 (3.33%) .NET
9 2 (3.33%) .NET Framework
9 2 (3.33%) JWT
9 2 (3.33%) Micronaut
9 2 (3.33%) OAuth2
9 2 (3.33%) SAML
9 2 (3.33%) Spring
9 2 (3.33%) Spring Boot
10 1 (1.67%) Android Jetpack
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.67%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 4 (6.67%) Product Ownership
4 3 (5.00%) Digital Wallet
4 3 (5.00%) EMV
4 3 (5.00%) Management Information System
4 3 (5.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 2 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.33%) Tandem
6 1 (1.67%) Chip and PIN
6 1 (1.67%) Contactless
6 1 (1.67%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.67%) IoT
6 1 (1.67%) IVR
6 1 (1.67%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.67%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.67%) Android
1 1 (1.67%) Linux
1 1 (1.67%) Unix
1 1 (1.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (33.33%) Agile
1 20 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 14 (23.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 13 (21.67%) Mentoring
3 13 (21.67%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 12 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 11 (18.33%) Integration Testing
6 10 (16.67%) DevOps
7 9 (15.00%) High Availability
7 9 (15.00%) Microservices
7 9 (15.00%) Scrum
7 9 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (13.33%) API Testing
8 8 (13.33%) Architectural Design
8 8 (13.33%) BDD
8 8 (13.33%) CRM
8 8 (13.33%) E-Commerce
8 8 (13.33%) Secure Coding
9 7 (11.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 16 (26.67%) Java
2 11 (18.33%) JavaScript
2 11 (18.33%) Kotlin
3 8 (13.33%) SQL
4 6 (10.00%) Apex Code
4 6 (10.00%) TypeScript
5 3 (5.00%) C#
6 2 (3.33%) C
6 2 (3.33%) COBOL
6 2 (3.33%) Python
7 1 (1.67%) Bicep
7 1 (1.67%) C++
7 1 (1.67%) PHP
7 1 (1.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (15.00%) Degree
2 5 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (6.67%) ISTQB
3 4 (6.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (3.33%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.33%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.67%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.67%) PMP
5 1 (1.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (21.67%) PCI DSS
2 7 (11.67%) ISO 8583
3 6 (10.00%) ISO 20022
4 4 (6.67%) PSD2
4 4 (6.67%) QA
5 3 (5.00%) GDPR
6 2 (3.33%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (3.33%) Docker
2 1 (1.67%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 4 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.33%) Terraform
3 1 (1.67%) Grafana
3 1 (1.67%) Istio
3 1 (1.67%) linkerd
3 1 (1.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (20.00%) Salesforce
2 7 (11.67%) Conga
2 7 (11.67%) GoCardless
3 3 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.00%) Oracle
4 2 (3.33%) Alteryx
4 2 (3.33%) FIS
4 2 (3.33%) Fiserv
4 2 (3.33%) Google
4 2 (3.33%) HP
4 2 (3.33%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 2 (3.33%) SmartStream
4 2 (3.33%) Splunk
5 1 (1.67%) Adobe
5 1 (1.67%) ATG
5 1 (1.67%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.67%) Pega
5 1 (1.67%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.67%) Telerik
5 1 (1.67%) Verint