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 11 May 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
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 325 853 946
Rank change year-on-year +528 +93 +127
Permanent jobs citing PayPal 484 45 35
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.88% 0.045% 0.035%
As % of the Vendors category 2.39% 0.12% 0.083%
Number of salaries quoted 135 15 29
10th Percentile £66,100 - £89,250
25th Percentile £66,200 £52,500 £97,500
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% +110.53%

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 20,245 36,376 42,200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.00% 36.66% 41.78%
Number of salaries quoted 11,996 24,993 24,141
10th Percentile £26,875 £26,700 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £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 £75,000
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 11 May 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 11 May 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 +430 473 £66,225 -28.41% 376
UK excluding London +477 436 £66,219 +20.40% 280
England +452 414 £66,219 -28.41% 267
North of England +173 143 £63,764 +15.93% 125
East of England - 141 £66,225 - 19
Midlands +133 74 - - 50
Yorkshire +130 73 £63,652 - 44
North West +41 50 £63,876 +16.14% 58
West Midlands +97 40 - - 34
South East - 38 £65,810 - 37
East Midlands +75 34 - - 16
Scotland +142 23 £65,726 - 31
North East +67 20 - - 23
South West +114 11 £35,000 - 12
London +105 7 £170,000 +83.78% 28
Wales - 6 - - 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 (0.83%) CMS
2 3 (0.62%) EPiServer
3 1 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.21%) IIS
3 1 (0.21%) SAS
3 1 (0.21%) Umbraco
Applications
1 482 (99.59%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.83%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.21%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.21%) Finacle
3 1 (0.21%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 5 (1.03%) Stripe
2 4 (0.83%) Power Platform
3 3 (0.62%) Azure
3 3 (0.62%) Google Analytics
4 2 (0.41%) AWS
4 2 (0.41%) GCP
5 1 (0.21%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.21%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (0.21%) Sage Pay
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.41%) SSL
2 1 (0.21%) DNS
2 1 (0.21%) FTP
2 1 (0.21%) HTTP
2 1 (0.21%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (0.83%) Power BI
2 3 (0.62%) Looker
3 1 (0.21%) Redis
3 1 (0.21%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.21%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.21%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Git
1 1 (0.21%) JIRA
1 1 (0.21%) Log4Net
1 1 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 148 (30.58%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (2.69%) Marketing
3 9 (1.86%) Agriculture
4 8 (1.65%) Aerospace
5 4 (0.83%) Games
6 3 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (0.62%) Manufacturing
7 2 (0.41%) Social Skills
8 1 (0.21%) Banking
8 1 (0.21%) Finance
8 1 (0.21%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.21%) Retail
Job Titles
1 468 (96.69%) Trainer
2 53 (10.95%) Developer
3 36 (7.44%) Software Engineer
4 20 (4.13%) Analyst
5 18 (3.72%) Cloud Engineer
6 15 (3.10%) Research Scientist
7 12 (2.48%) Biostatistician
8 9 (1.86%) Data Analyst
8 9 (1.86%) Data Engineer
9 8 (1.65%) Consultant
9 8 (1.65%) Lecturer
9 8 (1.65%) Statistician
10 6 (1.24%) Applications Developer
10 6 (1.24%) Architect
10 6 (1.24%) Database Developer
10 6 (1.24%) DevOps Engineer
10 6 (1.24%) Software Analyst
10 6 (1.24%) Software Consultant
10 6 (1.24%) Software Developer
10 6 (1.24%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (21.69%) HTML
2 1 (0.21%) .NET
2 1 (0.21%) .NET Framework
2 1 (0.21%) Ajax
2 1 (0.21%) Angular 2
2 1 (0.21%) AngularJS
2 1 (0.21%) ASP.NET
2 1 (0.21%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (0.21%) HTML5
2 1 (0.21%) JSON
2 1 (0.21%) Middleware
2 1 (0.21%) Ninject
2 1 (0.21%) Razor View Engine
2 1 (0.21%) Smart Contracts
2 1 (0.21%) Unity DI Container
2 1 (0.21%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (2.48%) Molecular Biology
2 6 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (0.21%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.21%) Windows
1 1 (0.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 482 (99.59%) Artificial Intelligence
1 482 (99.59%) Conversational UI
2 156 (32.23%) Chemistry
3 144 (29.75%) Mathematics
4 104 (21.49%) Code Quality
5 87 (17.98%) Statistics
6 86 (17.77%) Computer Science
7 74 (15.29%) Physics
8 36 (7.44%) Software Engineering
9 15 (3.10%) Data Science
10 12 (2.48%) Biochemistry
10 12 (2.48%) Biology
10 12 (2.48%) Biostatistics
10 12 (2.48%) Biotechnology
10 12 (2.48%) Data Interpretation
10 12 (2.48%) Experimental Design
11 9 (1.86%) Economics
12 7 (1.45%) Data Analysis
12 7 (1.45%) DevOps
12 7 (1.45%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 124 (25.62%) SQL
2 123 (25.41%) C#
2 123 (25.41%) JavaScript
3 122 (25.21%) Python
4 104 (21.49%) C++
5 1 (0.21%) PHP
Qualifications
1 479 (98.97%) Degree
2 320 (66.12%) Master's Degree
2 320 (66.12%) PhD
3 2 (0.41%) PMI Certification
3 2 (0.41%) PMP
4 1 (0.21%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (0.83%) GDPR
2 1 (0.21%) Basel III
2 1 (0.21%) MiFID
2 1 (0.21%) PSD2
2 1 (0.21%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.21%) Varnish
Vendors
1 5 (1.03%) Google
2 3 (0.62%) HubSpot
3 2 (0.41%) Microsoft
3 2 (0.41%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.21%) Adobe
4 1 (0.21%) Automation Anywhere
4 1 (0.21%) Blue Prism
4 1 (0.21%) CheckPoint
4 1 (0.21%) FIS
4 1 (0.21%) Fortinet
4 1 (0.21%) Freshdesk
4 1 (0.21%) Palo Alto
4 1 (0.21%) Temenos
4 1 (0.21%) UiPath