Stripe Job Trends

Stripe
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Stripe skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 628 685 728
Rank change year-on-year +57 +43 +259
Permanent jobs citing Stripe 22 14 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.036% 0.026% 0.015%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.11% 0.073% 0.037%
Number of salaries quoted 12 4 8
10th Percentile £19,775 £48,375 -
25th Percentile £54,688 £53,438 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +27.78% -25.00%
75th Percentile £70,625 £90,313 £57,500
90th Percentile £83,375 £147,125 £69,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +27.78% -21.74%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

Stripe falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 20,790 19,180 24,026
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.00% 36.26% 39.63%
Number of salaries quoted 11,300 11,228 19,741
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,750 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

Stripe
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Stripe job vacancy trend in the UK

Stripe
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Stripe.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Stripe

Stripe
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Stripe over the 6 months to 20 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Stripe in the UK

Stripe
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Stripe within the UK over the 6 months to 20 January 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
England +77 20 £55,000 -50.00% 83
UK excluding London +53 13 £55,000 -4.35% 75
South East - 11 £55,000 - 26
London +59 7 £68,750 -59.56% 15
Work from Home +59 5 £55,000 -4.35% 36
South West +7 2 £16,000 - 8

Stripe
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 (4.55%) CMS
1 1 (4.55%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (4.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (4.55%) Magento
2 1 (4.55%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 4 (18.18%) GitHub
2 3 (13.64%) GCP
3 2 (9.09%) Algolia
3 2 (9.09%) Cloud Functions
3 2 (9.09%) Firebase
3 2 (9.09%) Heroku
3 2 (9.09%) SaaS
3 2 (9.09%) Sentry
3 2 (9.09%) Serverless
3 2 (9.09%) Snowflake
4 1 (4.55%) AWS
4 1 (4.55%) BigCommerce
4 1 (4.55%) Cloudflare
4 1 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.55%) Miro
4 1 (4.55%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) BigQuery
2 2 (9.09%) NoSQL
2 2 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (9.09%) Tableau
3 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Git
2 2 (9.09%) JIRA
2 2 (9.09%) Storybook
General
1 14 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 6 (27.27%) Finance
3 5 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (18.18%) Marketing
5 3 (13.64%) Billing
5 3 (13.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (13.64%) Legal
6 2 (9.09%) Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (45.45%) Senior
2 9 (40.91%) Senior Software Engineer
2 9 (40.91%) Software Engineer
3 8 (36.36%) PHP Software Engineer
4 5 (22.73%) Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (9.09%) PHP Developer
5 2 (9.09%) PHP Laravel Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Project Manager
6 1 (4.55%) E-Commerce Manager
6 1 (4.55%) E-Commerce Project Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Engineering Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Product Owner
6 1 (4.55%) Ruby Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior E-Commerce Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Technical Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Technical Project Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Technical Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (50.00%) React
2 10 (45.45%) Laravel
3 4 (18.18%) CSS
4 3 (13.64%) HTML
4 3 (13.64%) RESTful
4 3 (13.64%) Sass
5 2 (9.09%) AngularJS
5 2 (9.09%) CSS3
5 2 (9.09%) Express.js
5 2 (9.09%) HTML5
5 2 (9.09%) Jest
5 2 (9.09%) JWT
5 2 (9.09%) Node.js
5 2 (9.09%) OAuth
5 2 (9.09%) Ruby on Rails
5 2 (9.09%) RxJS
6 1 (4.55%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 10 (45.45%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (13.64%) Product Ownership
3 2 (9.09%) Data Structures
3 2 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (63.64%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (59.09%) Continuous Improvement
3 12 (54.55%) User Experience
4 11 (50.00%) Software Engineering
5 6 (27.27%) Agile
6 5 (22.73%) Scrum
7 4 (18.18%) Collaborative Working
8 3 (13.64%) Analytics
8 3 (13.64%) CI/CD
8 3 (13.64%) Computer Science
8 3 (13.64%) Data Protection
8 3 (13.64%) Decision-Making
8 3 (13.64%) Regulatory Compliance
8 3 (13.64%) Sprint Planning
8 3 (13.64%) Sprint Retrospective
8 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (9.09%) Business Case
9 2 (9.09%) Customer Experience
9 2 (9.09%) Monorepo
9 2 (9.09%) Product Backlog
Programming Languages
1 13 (59.09%) JavaScript
2 11 (50.00%) PHP
3 3 (13.64%) TypeScript
4 2 (9.09%) Ruby
4 2 (9.09%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.55%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (13.64%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) PCI DSS
2 2 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 2 (9.09%) PSD2
2 2 (9.09%) QA
2 2 (9.09%) WCAG
3 1 (4.55%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (45.45%) HubSpot
2 3 (13.64%) Google
2 3 (13.64%) SendGrid
2 3 (13.64%) Zuora
3 2 (9.09%) Adyen
3 2 (9.09%) GoCardless
3 2 (9.09%) PayPal
3 2 (9.09%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.55%) Adobe
4 1 (4.55%) Atlassian
4 1 (4.55%) mParticle
4 1 (4.55%) Optimizely