Hybrid/Remote GoCardless Contract Job Trends

GoCardless
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring knowledge or experience of GoCardless products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GoCardless over the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GoCardless 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.025% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.055% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £438 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £513 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £475 £115 -
% change year-on-year +313.04% - -

All Vendors
Work from Home

GoCardless falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a remote or hybrid options requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 5,504 4,469 6,416
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 45.36% 45.76% 42.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,542 2,920 4,007
10th Percentile £340 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £625
90th Percentile £715 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £515
% change year-on-year -2.91% - -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 119 216
10th Percentile £17.34 £14.20 £13.65
25th Percentile £22.63 £20.58 £16.68
Median hourly rate £57.50 £53.50 £30.56
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% +75.08% -43.41%
75th Percentile £67.50 £67.50 £58.13
90th Percentile £75.33 £86.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.11 £26.04 £22.50
% change year-on-year +23.32% +15.73% -48.50%

GoCardless
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GoCardless and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

GoCardless job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

GoCardless
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing GoCardless.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing GoCardless

GoCardless
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 2 (66.67%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Apple Pay
1 2 (66.67%) Google Pay
1 2 (66.67%) Stripe
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) Postman
2 1 (33.33%) REST Assured
General
1 2 (66.67%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior WordPress Developer
1 2 (66.67%) WordPress Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Salesforce Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) CSS
1 2 (66.67%) CSS3
1 2 (66.67%) HTML
1 2 (66.67%) HTML5
1 2 (66.67%) JSON
1 2 (66.67%) JWT
1 2 (66.67%) Middleware
1 2 (66.67%) OAuth
1 2 (66.67%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) Playwright
2 1 (33.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) FMCG
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) API Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Webhook
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) API Testing
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Defect Tracking
3 1 (33.33%) Exploratory Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) PHP
3 1 (33.33%) Apex Code
3 1 (33.33%) Java
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Apple
1 2 (66.67%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Conga
2 1 (33.33%) Salesforce