PayPal
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of PayPal products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PayPal over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within PayPal.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 351 - 832
Rank change year-on-year - - -135
Contract jobs citing PayPal 243 0 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.56% - 0.019%
As % of the Vendors category 1.32% - 0.048%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 14
10th Percentile - - £516
25th Percentile - - £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £545
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.79%
75th Percentile - - £675
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Vendors
UK

PayPal is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,361 24,927 35,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.58% 42.91% 39.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,363 16,680 23,333
10th Percentile £263 £271 £293
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £630 £645 £635
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £465
% change year-on-year - +7.53% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,115 691 877
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.21 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.79 £15.04
Median hourly rate £22.00 £42.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.24% +97.67% -2.27%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £61.26
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £18.70
% change year-on-year -42.77% +100.53% +1.08%

PayPal
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for PayPal in the UK

PayPal
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for PayPal in the UK

PayPal
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for PayPal in the UK

PayPal
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PayPal within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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
Work from Home - 243 £550 - 3
England - 218 - - 6
UK excluding London - 216 - - 3
North of England - 121 - - 2
North West - 49 - - 2
Midlands - 48 - - 1
Yorkshire - 46 - -
North East - 26 - -
London - 25 - - 2
South West - 24 - -
East Midlands - 24 - -
West Midlands - 24 - - 1
Scotland - 23 - -

PayPal
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:

Applications
1 241 (99.18%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.82%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (0.82%) Azure
1 2 (0.82%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (0.82%) Stripe
General
1 2 (0.82%) Banking
Job Titles
1 241 (99.18%) Developer
1 241 (99.18%) Software Developer
2 2 (0.82%) Architect
2 2 (0.82%) Payments Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (49.79%) HTML
2 2 (0.82%) FIDO
2 2 (0.82%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (0.82%) Contactless
1 2 (0.82%) Digital Wallet
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (99.18%) Artificial Intelligence
1 241 (99.18%) Code Quality
1 241 (99.18%) Conversational UI
2 121 (49.79%) Software Engineering
3 2 (0.82%) API Design
3 2 (0.82%) Architecture Roadmap
3 2 (0.82%) Customer Experience
3 2 (0.82%) Data Encryption
3 2 (0.82%) Data Protection
3 2 (0.82%) DevOps
3 2 (0.82%) Digital Banking
3 2 (0.82%) E-Commerce
3 2 (0.82%) Fraud Detection
3 2 (0.82%) Kanban
3 2 (0.82%) Machine Learning
3 2 (0.82%) Microservices
3 2 (0.82%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (0.82%) Regulatory Compliance
3 2 (0.82%) Roadmaps
3 2 (0.82%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 121 (49.79%) C#
1 121 (49.79%) JavaScript
1 121 (49.79%) Python
1 121 (49.79%) SQL
Qualifications
1 241 (99.18%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.82%) GDPR
1 2 (0.82%) PCI DSS
1 2 (0.82%) PSD2