Payment Gateway Contracts

Payment Gateway
UK

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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 560 662 780
Rank change year-on-year +102 +118 -108
Contract jobs citing Payment Gateway 23 34 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.054% 0.058% 0.069%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.72% 0.91% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 22 40
10th Percentile £404 £345 £356
25th Percentile £450 £419 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +27.27%
75th Percentile £575 £788 £569
90th Percentile £618 £1,135 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% +56.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Business Application Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 3,215 3,736 5,048
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.52% 6.42% 5.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,873 2,146 3,123
10th Percentile £375 £363 £375
25th Percentile £463 £461 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £688 £680 £653
90th Percentile £788 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £526 £515
% change year-on-year -0.10% +2.04% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 57 55
10th Percentile £14.71 £22.58 £16.13
25th Percentile £21.25 £30.25 £21.00
Median hourly rate £40.33 £49.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.70% +40.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £59.50 £65.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £80.00 £61.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.78 £50.00 £23.53
% change year-on-year -18.45% +112.54% -5.90%

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 13 May 2024.

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 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 13 May 2024. 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 +89 14 £475 -22.13% 21
Work from Home +114 13 £500 -9.09% 6
UK excluding London +73 9 £500 +5.26% 12
London +73 7 £450 -28.00% 8
North West +28 5 £463 - 1
North of England +26 5 £463 - 4
Scotland - 2 £606 -
Midlands +31 1 £615 +29.47% 4
East Midlands +22 1 £615 +29.47% 2
South West - 1 - - 1

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 4 (17.39%) Umbraco
2 3 (13.04%) CMS
2 3 (13.04%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 6 (26.09%) AWS
1 6 (26.09%) Azure
1 6 (26.09%) Stripe
2 5 (21.74%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (13.04%) Contentstack
3 3 (13.04%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.35%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Git
1 1 (4.35%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (26.09%) Banking
2 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Finance
3 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.35%) Retail
3 1 (4.35%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (56.52%) Developer
2 8 (34.78%) Full Stack Developer
3 5 (21.74%) Architect
3 5 (21.74%) E-Commerce Developer
4 4 (17.39%) Umbraco Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Lead
5 2 (8.70%) Payments Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Senior
6 1 (4.35%) Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) Finance Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Lead Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Operations Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) Payments Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) PCI DSS Specialist
6 1 (4.35%) Project Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Project Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Support Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (30.43%) .NET
2 6 (26.09%) REST
3 5 (21.74%) GraphQL
3 5 (21.74%) Node.js
3 5 (21.74%) React
4 3 (13.04%) ASP.NET
4 3 (13.04%) CSS
4 3 (13.04%) HTML
4 3 (13.04%) Next.js
5 2 (8.70%) Express.js
5 2 (8.70%) Fastify
5 2 (8.70%) FIDO
5 2 (8.70%) Kafka
5 2 (8.70%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (8.70%) RESTful
6 1 (4.35%) AngularJS
6 1 (4.35%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (4.35%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 1 (4.35%) SOAP
6 1 (4.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Mobile Payment
2 2 (8.70%) Contactless
2 2 (8.70%) Digital Wallet
2 2 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.35%) EMV
3 1 (4.35%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) E-Commerce
2 8 (34.78%) Full Stack Development
3 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (17.39%) Microservices
5 3 (13.04%) API Integration
5 3 (13.04%) Content Management
5 3 (13.04%) DevOps
5 3 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (13.04%) User Experience
6 2 (8.70%) Agile
6 2 (8.70%) Architecture Roadmap
6 2 (8.70%) B2B
6 2 (8.70%) Customer Experience
6 2 (8.70%) Data Protection
6 2 (8.70%) Digital Banking
6 2 (8.70%) Kanban
6 2 (8.70%) Product Management
6 2 (8.70%) Roadmaps
6 2 (8.70%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (8.70%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (21.74%) JavaScript
1 5 (21.74%) TypeScript
2 4 (17.39%) C#
3 3 (13.04%) SQL
4 1 (4.35%) Apex Code
4 1 (4.35%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) PCI DSS
2 3 (13.04%) ISO 20022
2 3 (13.04%) PSD2
3 2 (8.70%) GDPR
3 2 (8.70%) ISO 8583
4 1 (4.35%) ISO 15022
System Software
1 5 (21.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.35%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2 (8.70%) PayPal
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.35%) Salesforce