PayPal Job Trends

PayPal
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of PayPal products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited PayPal over the 6 months leading up to 7 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within PayPal.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 736 677
Rank change year-on-year +643 -59 +346
Permanent jobs citing PayPal 1,480 6 33
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.62% 0.010% 0.065%
As % of the Vendors category 7.39% 0.027% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 4 3 3
10th Percentile £67,750 £43,500 -
25th Percentile £75,625 £52,500 £110,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £85,000 £120,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% -29.17% +50.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £143,750 £130,000
90th Percentile - £168,500 -
UK excluding London median annual salary - - -

All Vendors
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 20,014 21,997 21,134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.49% 35.41% 41.87%
Number of salaries quoted 11,276 11,556 16,437
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £32,851 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £91,934
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £49,250
% change year-on-year -15.00% +1.52% -1.50%

PayPal
Job Vacancy Trend

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

PayPal job vacancy trend in the UK

PayPal
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PayPal.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PayPal

PayPal
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PayPal over the 6 months to 7 December 2025.

Salary histogram for PayPal in the UK

PayPal
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PayPal within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Work from Home +439 1,479 £80,000 +113.33% 430
UK excluding London +522 1,251 - - 354
England +605 1,165 £85,000 - 333
North of England +253 558 - - 78
Midlands - 263 - - 75
Yorkshire +133 259 - - 36
North West - 214 - - 37
West Midlands - 173 - - 33
South East - 130 - - 81
South West - 128 - - 33
Scotland - 116 - - 19
East Midlands - 90 - - 38
North East - 85 - - 5
East of England - 74 - - 56
London +136 72 £85,000 - 10
Wales - 41 - - 7
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 7

PayPal
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 1 (0.068%) HCL Notes
1 1 (0.068%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1,476 (99.73%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.068%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.068%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.068%) FastStats
2 1 (0.068%) Magento
2 1 (0.068%) Raiser’s Edge
2 1 (0.068%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 3 (0.20%) Azure
2 2 (0.14%) AWS
2 2 (0.14%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (0.14%) GCP
3 1 (0.068%) Azure Storage
3 1 (0.068%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (0.068%) BigCommerce
3 1 (0.068%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (0.068%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (0.068%) Power Platform
3 1 (0.068%) SaaS
3 1 (0.068%) Stripe
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.068%) Power BI
1 1 (0.068%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (0.068%) Git
1 1 (0.068%) JIRA
General
1 496 (33.51%) Analytical Skills
2 63 (4.26%) Retail
3 20 (1.35%) Agriculture
4 19 (1.28%) Law
4 19 (1.28%) Legal
4 19 (1.28%) Marketing
5 11 (0.74%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.068%) Finance
6 1 (0.068%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1,473 (99.53%) Trainer
2 167 (11.28%) Content Editor
3 103 (6.96%) Customer Support Specialist
3 103 (6.96%) Support Specialist
4 93 (6.28%) Research Scientist
5 45 (3.04%) Biostatistician
6 41 (2.77%) Customer Service Representative
7 27 (1.82%) Communications Manager
8 21 (1.42%) Lecturer
9 20 (1.35%) Coordinator
10 17 (1.15%) Biologist
11 14 (0.95%) Marketing Specialist
12 10 (0.68%) Physicist
13 8 (0.54%) Developer
14 7 (0.47%) Digital Content Editor
14 7 (0.47%) Digital Editor
14 7 (0.47%) Instructor
14 7 (0.47%) Mathematician
14 7 (0.47%) Statistician
15 6 (0.41%) Copywriter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.14%) .NET
1 2 (0.14%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 119 (8.04%) Molecular Biology
2 3 (0.20%) Social Media
3 2 (0.14%) Media Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,476 (99.73%) AI
1 1,476 (99.73%) Conversational UI
2 516 (34.86%) Chemistry
3 220 (14.86%) Content Writing
4 180 (12.16%) Mathematics
5 145 (9.80%) Physics
6 119 (8.04%) Biochemistry
6 119 (8.04%) Biology
6 119 (8.04%) Biotechnology
6 119 (8.04%) Data Interpretation
6 119 (8.04%) Experimental Design
7 104 (7.03%) Customer Service
8 66 (4.46%) Computer Science
8 66 (4.46%) Statistics
9 45 (3.04%) Biostatistics
10 20 (1.35%) Economics
11 19 (1.28%) Cybersecurity
12 8 (0.54%) Content Development
13 4 (0.27%) Data Analysis
13 4 (0.27%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.068%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (0.068%) PHP
1 1 (0.068%) Python
1 1 (0.068%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1,464 (98.92%) Degree
2 826 (55.81%) Master's Degree
2 826 (55.81%) PhD
3 1 (0.068%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.068%) DBS Check
Vendors
1 3 (0.20%) Google
2 2 (0.14%) Gigya
3 1 (0.068%) Adobe
3 1 (0.068%) Atlassian
3 1 (0.068%) dotdigital
3 1 (0.068%) HubSpot
3 1 (0.068%) Lotus
3 1 (0.068%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.068%) Salesforce