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 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 539 528 585
Rank change year-on-year -11 +57 +156
Contract jobs citing Payment Gateway 45 16 20
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.047% 0.045%
As % of the Business Applications category 1.41% 0.63% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 11 11
10th Percentile £366 £303 £450
25th Percentile £401 £310 £536
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £341 £575
Median % change year-on-year +20.23% -40.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £515 £609 £638
90th Percentile £568 £650 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £410 £320 £560
% change year-on-year +28.13% -42.86% -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £77.50 -
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 3,181 2,537 3,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.64% 7.42% 8.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,835 1,354 1,987
10th Percentile £358 £363 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £661 £665 £674
90th Percentile £760 £756 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £540 £525
% change year-on-year +1.85% +2.86% -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 55 88
10th Percentile £18.80 £22.27 £30.00
25th Percentile £26.72 £30.21 £49.00
Median hourly rate £41.86 £41.50 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +0.86% -26.54% +51.45%
75th Percentile £81.00 £66.25 £80.00
90th Percentile £90.82 £80.75 £89.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.00 £46.18 £56.49
% change year-on-year +16.93% -18.25% +51.45%

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 19 December 2025.

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 11 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 19 December 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 +4 45 £410 +20.23% 10
UK excluding London -12 32 £410 +28.13% 8
Work from Home +5 14 £402 +21.45% 4
London -3 13 £426 -34.46% 4
North of England -41 12 £499 +63.44% 3
East Midlands - 11 £402 - 1
Midlands - 11 £402 - 2
South East -16 9 £402 +21.63% 3
North West -22 8 £505 +65.57% 2
Yorkshire - 4 £440 - 1
South West - 1 £460 -

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 4 (8.89%) CMS
2 2 (4.44%) Confluence
3 1 (2.22%) ArcGIS
3 1 (2.22%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (6.67%) BASE24
2 1 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 13 (28.89%) Azure
2 8 (17.78%) AWS
3 5 (11.11%) Figma
3 5 (11.11%) GCP
3 5 (11.11%) Serverless
4 4 (8.89%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
5 2 (4.44%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.22%) GitHub
6 1 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.22%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.22%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.67%) NonStop SQL
1 3 (6.67%) OLTP
2 1 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.22%) MySQL
2 1 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (8.89%) Storybook
2 2 (4.44%) Git
2 2 (4.44%) JIRA
2 2 (4.44%) Postman
3 1 (2.22%) CircleCI
3 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
General
1 21 (46.67%) Banking
2 19 (42.22%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (35.56%) Finance
4 13 (28.89%) Social Skills
5 7 (15.56%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (13.33%) Retail
7 3 (6.67%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.22%) Advertising
8 1 (2.22%) Aviation
8 1 (2.22%) Games
Job Titles
1 13 (28.89%) Architect
2 12 (26.67%) Analyst
2 12 (26.67%) Business Analyst
3 11 (24.44%) Payments Analyst
3 11 (24.44%) Payments Business Analyst
3 11 (24.44%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (15.56%) Payments Architect
5 6 (13.33%) Payments Solutions Architect
6 5 (11.11%) Developer
6 5 (11.11%) Lead
7 4 (8.89%) Product Manager
7 4 (8.89%) Product Owner
7 4 (8.89%) Technical Leader
8 2 (4.44%) Banking Analyst
8 2 (4.44%) Banking Business Analyst
8 2 (4.44%) Enterprise Architect
8 2 (4.44%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (4.44%) Salesforce Technical Leader
9 1 (2.22%) Lead Java Developer
9 1 (2.22%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.56%) React
2 6 (13.33%) CSS
2 6 (13.33%) CSS3
2 6 (13.33%) HTML
2 6 (13.33%) HTML5
2 6 (13.33%) Spring
2 6 (13.33%) Spring Boot
3 5 (11.11%) Next.js
3 5 (11.11%) Node.js
3 5 (11.11%) Redux
3 5 (11.11%) RESTful
4 4 (8.89%) Bootstrap
4 4 (8.89%) Express.js
5 3 (6.67%) REST
6 2 (4.44%) GraphQL
6 2 (4.44%) JSON
6 2 (4.44%) SOAP
6 2 (4.44%) Swagger
6 2 (4.44%) XML
7 1 (2.22%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 7 (15.56%) Onboarding
3 6 (13.33%) PMI
4 5 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (8.89%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (6.67%) Data Centre
6 3 (6.67%) EMV
6 3 (6.67%) Tandem
7 2 (4.44%) Digital Wallet
8 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
8 1 (2.22%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (44.44%) Agile
2 18 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (31.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 13 (28.89%) E-Commerce
4 13 (28.89%) Regulatory Change
4 13 (28.89%) Roadmaps
5 10 (22.22%) Fintech
6 9 (20.00%) Scrum
6 9 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
6 9 (20.00%) User Stories
7 8 (17.78%) Microservices
7 8 (17.78%) User Acceptance Testing
7 8 (17.78%) Workshop Facilitation
8 7 (15.56%) Anti-Money Laundering
8 7 (15.56%) KYC
8 7 (15.56%) Product Vision
8 7 (15.56%) Requirements Gathering
8 7 (15.56%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 7 (15.56%) Strategic Roadmap
9 6 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.33%) Java
2 5 (11.11%) SQL
3 3 (6.67%) C
3 3 (6.67%) COBOL
3 3 (6.67%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.44%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.22%) C#
5 1 (2.22%) Kotlin
5 1 (2.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (13.33%) CBAP
1 6 (13.33%) PMI Certification
2 4 (8.89%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.22%) Degree
3 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.22%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (37.78%) PCI DSS
2 10 (22.22%) ISO 8583
2 10 (22.22%) PSD2
3 7 (15.56%) ISO 20022
3 7 (15.56%) QA
4 1 (2.22%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.22%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (24.44%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.11%) Google
3 4 (8.89%) Salesforce
4 3 (6.67%) HP
5 1 (2.22%) Cisco