Payment Gateway Job Trends

Payment Gateway
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Payment Gateway skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 729 639 837
Rank change year-on-year -90 +198 -76
Permanent jobs citing Payment Gateway 19 42 50
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.019% 0.086% 0.049%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.63% 1.71% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 17 37 42
10th Percentile £42,000 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £56,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% +17.89% -26.92%
75th Percentile - £87,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £99,500 £91,750 £63,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +77.78% - -25.00%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring business application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 3,027 2,453 4,486
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.08% 5.00% 4.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,939 1,610 2,896
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £82,250 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -1.96% -11.30%

Payment Gateway
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Payment Gateway relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Payment Gateway job vacancy trend in the UK

Payment Gateway
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Payment Gateway.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Payment Gateway

Payment Gateway
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Payment Gateway over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Payment Gateway in the UK

Payment Gateway
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Payment Gateway within the UK over the 6 months to 11 July 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London -66 12 £80,000 +77.78% 8
England -98 12 £72,500 +29.46% 11
London -34 7 £82,500 -2.94% 5
Wales - 7 £80,000 - 1
South East -28 3 £47,500 - 3
Work from Home -31 3 £55,000 +22.22% 6
East Midlands -28 2 £50,000 -44.44% 1
Midlands -31 2 £50,000 -44.44% 1

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 3 (15.79%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 9 (47.37%) AWS
2 6 (31.58%) Amazon ECS
2 6 (31.58%) Amazon EKS
2 6 (31.58%) Amazon S3
2 6 (31.58%) AWS CloudFormation
2 6 (31.58%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (31.58%) CloudFront
2 6 (31.58%) GitHub
2 6 (31.58%) GitHub Actions
2 6 (31.58%) Serverless
3 2 (10.53%) Azure
3 2 (10.53%) Cloudflare
3 2 (10.53%) Google Tag Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
3 2 (10.53%) Stripe
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.26%) PaaS
4 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (10.53%) MariaDB
2 2 (10.53%) MySQL
2 2 (10.53%) Redis
3 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (36.84%) Jenkins
2 3 (15.79%) JIRA
3 2 (10.53%) PHPUnit
4 1 (5.26%) Git
4 1 (5.26%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 8 (42.11%) Public Sector
2 5 (26.32%) Finance
2 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Advertising
3 3 (15.79%) Back Office
3 3 (15.79%) Retail
4 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Legal
5 1 (5.26%) Marketing
5 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Architect
1 6 (31.58%) Solutions Architect
2 5 (26.32%) Senior
3 4 (21.05%) Developer
4 3 (15.79%) Analyst
4 3 (15.79%) Senior Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Business Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) E-Commerce Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Senior Performance Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Software Developer
6 1 (5.26%) .NET Software Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Account Manager
6 1 (5.26%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Lead
6 1 (5.26%) Product Owner
6 1 (5.26%) Senior .NET Software Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior C# Software Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (42.11%) REST
2 7 (36.84%) Node.js
3 6 (31.58%) AWS CDK
3 6 (31.58%) GraphQL
3 6 (31.58%) Ruby on Rails
3 6 (31.58%) Spring Boot
4 4 (21.05%) CSS
4 4 (21.05%) RESTful
5 3 (15.79%) HTML
5 3 (15.79%) React
6 2 (10.53%) .NET
6 2 (10.53%) .NET Core
6 2 (10.53%) .NET Framework
6 2 (10.53%) Kafka
6 2 (10.53%) LAMP
6 2 (10.53%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (10.53%) Sass
7 1 (5.26%) Next.js
7 1 (5.26%) Playwright
7 1 (5.26%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) Cloud Native
1 7 (36.84%) Digital Wallet
2 6 (31.58%) Mainframe
3 1 (5.26%) Driving Licence
3 1 (5.26%) EPoS
3 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Debian
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
2 1 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Agile
2 9 (47.37%) Microservices
3 8 (42.11%) AI
3 8 (42.11%) CI/CD
3 8 (42.11%) Migration
4 7 (36.84%) Data Protection
4 7 (36.84%) E-Commerce
4 7 (36.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (36.84%) Software Engineering
4 7 (36.84%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 6 (31.58%) Biometrics
5 6 (31.58%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (31.58%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 6 (31.58%) Domain-Driven Design
5 6 (31.58%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 6 (31.58%) Information Assurance
5 6 (31.58%) Machine Learning
5 6 (31.58%) Technical Leadership
5 6 (31.58%) Threat Modelling
5 6 (31.58%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) COBOL
1 6 (31.58%) Java
1 6 (31.58%) Ruby
2 4 (21.05%) JavaScript
2 4 (21.05%) PHP
3 3 (15.79%) SQL
4 2 (10.53%) C#
5 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) AWS Certification
1 6 (31.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 6 (31.58%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (5.26%) CSPO
2 1 (5.26%) Degree
2 1 (5.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (31.58%) Government Security Classifications
1 6 (31.58%) NCSC
2 4 (21.05%) PCI DSS
3 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.26%) GDPR
3 1 (5.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (47.37%) Terraform
2 2 (10.53%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Google
1 2 (10.53%) PayPal
1 2 (10.53%) Salesforce
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft