Payment Gateway Contracts

Payment Gateway
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Payment Gateway skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Payment Gateway 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 492 577 679
Rank change year-on-year +85 +102 +117
Contract jobs citing Payment Gateway 27 23 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.092% 0.053% 0.057%
As % of the Business Applications category 1.12% 0.71% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 13 22
10th Percentile £317 £420 £345
25th Percentile £368 £450 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.82% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £788
90th Percentile £675 £618 £1,135
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -20.00% +5.26% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 2,403 3,240 3,813
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.22% 7.43% 6.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,353 1,893 2,192
10th Percentile £400 £363 £363
25th Percentile £475 £463 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% - -
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £788 £775 £794
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £525 £527
% change year-on-year +4.76% -0.38% +0.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 110 56
10th Percentile £22.27 £14.71 £21.25
25th Percentile £40.00 £21.25 £29.21
Median hourly rate £60.00 £43.75 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +37.14% -7.89% +35.71%
75th Percentile £77.50 £59.82 £63.75
90th Percentile £86.00 £65.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £45.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year +33.33% -8.16% +108.29%

Payment Gateway
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Payment Gateway in the UK

Payment Gateway
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Payment Gateway in the UK

Payment Gateway
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Payment Gateway in the UK

Payment Gateway
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Payment Gateway in the UK

Payment Gateway
Top 12 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 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 +69 20 £482 -3.70% 38
UK excluding London +58 13 £400 -20.00% 18
Work from Home +48 11 £485 -3.00% 19
London +35 7 £635 +27.00% 21
Midlands +28 5 £367 -40.33% 3
North of England +27 4 £478 +3.35% 8
East Midlands +13 4 £342 -44.39% 1
North West +10 4 £478 +3.35% 5
Scotland +9 2 £400 -34.02% 3
South West +45 1 £355 -
West Midlands - 1 £525 - 2
East of England - 1 - - 3

Payment Gateway
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 1 (3.70%) CMS
1 1 (3.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.70%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 5 (18.52%) AWS
2 3 (11.11%) Azure
3 2 (7.41%) Amazon EMR
3 2 (7.41%) Amazon Kinesis
3 2 (7.41%) Amazon S3
3 2 (7.41%) Apple Pay
3 2 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (7.41%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (7.41%) Serverless
4 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.70%) Commercetools
4 1 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.70%) GCP
4 1 (3.70%) GitHub
4 1 (3.70%) Google Pay
4 1 (3.70%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 2 (7.41%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.70%) MySQL
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle ODI
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) JIRA
2 2 (7.41%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.70%) Git
3 1 (3.70%) GitLab
3 1 (3.70%) TestRail
General
1 14 (51.85%) Social Skills
2 9 (33.33%) Banking
3 8 (29.63%) Finance
4 6 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (11.11%) Retail
6 2 (7.41%) Billing
6 2 (7.41%) Games
6 2 (7.41%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (3.70%) Back Office
7 1 (3.70%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (25.93%) Architect
1 7 (25.93%) Senior
2 6 (22.22%) Developer
3 5 (18.52%) Senior Developer
4 4 (14.81%) Analyst
5 3 (11.11%) Business Analyst
6 2 (7.41%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Consultant
6 2 (7.41%) Java Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Payments Architect
6 2 (7.41%) Ruby Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Senior Ruby Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (7.41%) Tester
7 1 (3.70%) Billing Architect
7 1 (3.70%) Data Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Digital Product Owner
7 1 (3.70%) E-Commerce Architect
7 1 (3.70%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.11%) RESTful
2 2 (7.41%) Kafka
2 2 (7.41%) OAuth
2 2 (7.41%) OAuth2
2 2 (7.41%) Ruby on Rails
3 1 (3.70%) Flutter
3 1 (3.70%) iOS SDK
3 1 (3.70%) Laravel
3 1 (3.70%) Middleware
3 1 (3.70%) React
3 1 (3.70%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Product Ownership
1 4 (14.81%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 3 (11.11%) Digital Wallet
2 3 (11.11%) EMV
3 2 (7.41%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.70%) EPoS
4 1 (3.70%) Mobile Payment
4 1 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Linux
2 1 (3.70%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.70%) Windows
2 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (37.04%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (22.22%) Analytics
2 6 (22.22%) CRM
2 6 (22.22%) Customer Experience
3 5 (18.52%) Agile
3 5 (18.52%) Data Analytics
3 5 (18.52%) Mentoring
4 4 (14.81%) API Development
4 4 (14.81%) CI/CD
4 4 (14.81%) Fintech
4 4 (14.81%) Integration Testing
4 4 (14.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (11.11%) Change Management
5 3 (11.11%) Computer Science
5 3 (11.11%) DevOps
5 3 (11.11%) ETL
5 3 (11.11%) Migration
5 3 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (11.11%) Test Automation
5 3 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (22.22%) SQL
2 5 (18.52%) Java
3 3 (11.11%) Python
4 2 (7.41%) Ruby
4 2 (7.41%) Scala
5 1 (3.70%) C#
5 1 (3.70%) Dart
5 1 (3.70%) PHP
5 1 (3.70%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) AWS Certification
1 3 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (11.11%) Degree
2 2 (7.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (18.52%) PCI DSS
2 3 (11.11%) QA
3 2 (7.41%) Data Quality
3 2 (7.41%) ISO 20022
3 2 (7.41%) ISO 8583
3 2 (7.41%) PSD2
3 2 (7.41%) SEPA
4 1 (3.70%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.70%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.41%) Oracle
2 2 (7.41%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.70%) Apple
3 1 (3.70%) Avaloq
3 1 (3.70%) Google
3 1 (3.70%) HP
3 1 (3.70%) Klarna
3 1 (3.70%) Optimizely
3 1 (3.70%) Zuora