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 30 April 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
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 314 840 953
Rank change year-on-year +526 +113 +145
Permanent jobs citing PayPal 455 45 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.87% 0.046% 0.033%
As % of the Vendors category 2.37% 0.12% 0.078%
Number of salaries quoted 135 15 28
10th Percentile £66,100 - £86,375
25th Percentile £66,200 £52,500 £99,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,219 £92,500 £120,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.41% -22.92% +123.26%
75th Percentile £66,261 £96,250 -
90th Percentile £66,296 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,219 £55,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year +20.40% -45.00% +100.00%

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 19,185 36,439 43,331
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.78% 37.05% 41.66%
Number of salaries quoted 11,735 25,145 24,687
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,700 £31,000
25th Percentile £37,574 £36,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,600 £68,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +5.26%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PayPal.

Salary trend for PayPal in the UK

PayPal
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PayPal over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for PayPal in the UK

PayPal
Top 16 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 30 April 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 +442 444 £66,225 -28.41% 17
UK excluding London +483 411 £66,219 +20.40% 12
England +471 388 £66,219 -28.41% 20
East of England - 141 £66,225 - 1
North of England +184 126 £63,764 +15.93% 5
Midlands +121 67 - -
Yorkshire +124 60 £63,652 - 2
North West +69 47 £63,876 +16.14% 3
South East - 37 £65,810 - 1
West Midlands +82 34 - -
East Midlands +79 33 - -
Scotland +148 23 £65,726 - 5
North East +68 19 - -
South West +122 11 £35,000 -
London +98 6 £170,000 +83.78% 13
Wales - 6 - -

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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (0.88%) CMS
2 3 (0.66%) EPiServer
3 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.22%) IIS
3 1 (0.22%) SAS
3 1 (0.22%) Umbraco
Applications
1 454 (99.78%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.66%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.22%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.22%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 4 (0.88%) Power Platform
1 4 (0.88%) Stripe
2 3 (0.66%) Google Analytics
3 2 (0.44%) Azure
4 1 (0.22%) AWS
4 1 (0.22%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (0.22%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (0.22%) GCP
4 1 (0.22%) Sage Pay
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.22%) DNS
1 1 (0.22%) FTP
1 1 (0.22%) HTTP
1 1 (0.22%) SMTP
1 1 (0.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (0.88%) Power BI
2 3 (0.66%) Looker
3 1 (0.22%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.22%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Git
1 1 (0.22%) Log4Net
1 1 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 122 (26.81%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (2.64%) Marketing
3 9 (1.98%) Agriculture
4 8 (1.76%) Aerospace
5 4 (0.88%) Games
6 3 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (0.66%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.22%) Banking
7 1 (0.22%) Finance
7 1 (0.22%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.22%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 440 (96.70%) Trainer
2 51 (11.21%) Developer
3 36 (7.91%) Software Engineer
4 20 (4.40%) Analyst
5 18 (3.96%) Cloud Engineer
6 15 (3.30%) Research Scientist
7 12 (2.64%) Biostatistician
8 9 (1.98%) Data Analyst
8 9 (1.98%) Data Engineer
9 8 (1.76%) Consultant
9 8 (1.76%) Statistician
10 6 (1.32%) Applications Developer
10 6 (1.32%) Architect
10 6 (1.32%) Database Developer
10 6 (1.32%) DevOps Engineer
10 6 (1.32%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 6 (1.32%) Software Analyst
10 6 (1.32%) Software Consultant
10 6 (1.32%) Software Developer
10 6 (1.32%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (23.08%) HTML
2 1 (0.22%) .NET
2 1 (0.22%) .NET Framework
2 1 (0.22%) Ajax
2 1 (0.22%) Angular 2
2 1 (0.22%) AngularJS
2 1 (0.22%) ASP.NET
2 1 (0.22%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (0.22%) HTML5
2 1 (0.22%) JSON
2 1 (0.22%) Ninject
2 1 (0.22%) Razor View Engine
2 1 (0.22%) Smart Contracts
2 1 (0.22%) Unity DI Container
2 1 (0.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (2.20%) Molecular Biology
2 6 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (0.22%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.22%) Windows
1 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 454 (99.78%) Artificial Intelligence
1 454 (99.78%) Conversational UI
2 144 (31.65%) Mathematics
3 130 (28.57%) Chemistry
4 104 (22.86%) Code Quality
5 87 (19.12%) Statistics
6 85 (18.68%) Computer Science
7 74 (16.26%) Physics
8 36 (7.91%) Software Engineering
9 15 (3.30%) Data Science
10 12 (2.64%) Biostatistics
11 10 (2.20%) Biochemistry
11 10 (2.20%) Biology
11 10 (2.20%) Biotechnology
11 10 (2.20%) Data Interpretation
11 10 (2.20%) Experimental Design
12 9 (1.98%) Economics
13 7 (1.54%) Data Analysis
13 7 (1.54%) DevOps
13 7 (1.54%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 123 (27.03%) C#
1 123 (27.03%) JavaScript
1 123 (27.03%) SQL
2 122 (26.81%) Python
3 104 (22.86%) C++
Qualifications
1 450 (98.90%) Degree
2 292 (64.18%) Master's Degree
2 292 (64.18%) PhD
3 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
3 1 (0.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (0.88%) GDPR
2 1 (0.22%) Basel III
2 1 (0.22%) MiFID
2 1 (0.22%) PSD2
Vendors
1 4 (0.88%) Google
2 3 (0.66%) HubSpot
3 2 (0.44%) Microsoft
3 2 (0.44%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.22%) Automation Anywhere
4 1 (0.22%) Blue Prism
4 1 (0.22%) CheckPoint
4 1 (0.22%) FIS
4 1 (0.22%) Fortinet
4 1 (0.22%) Palo Alto
4 1 (0.22%) Temenos
4 1 (0.22%) UiPath