Payment Gateway Contracts

Payment Gateway
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Payment Gateway skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Payment Gateway over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 551 662 801
Rank change year-on-year +111 +139 -129
Contract jobs citing Payment Gateway 28 32 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.066% 0.056% 0.070%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.88% 0.86% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 20 41
10th Percentile £409 £341 £363
25th Percentile £445 £403 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.83% -2.38% +25.37%
75th Percentile £569 £838 £568
90th Percentile £616 £1,155 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £455 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -4.21% -2.56% +56.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Business Application Skills
UK

Payment Gateway is in the Business Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for business application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 3,178 3,712 5,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.47% 6.48% 5.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,854 2,133 3,142
10th Percentile £375 £363 £375
25th Percentile £463 £460 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £688 £680 £656
90th Percentile £788 £799 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £538 £520
% change year-on-year -2.33% +3.37% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 58 55
10th Percentile £14.71 £22.05 £15.80
25th Percentile £21.25 £31.16 £20.95
Median hourly rate £40.00 £49.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.37% +50.79% -11.58%
75th Percentile £59.50 £63.75 £54.38
90th Percentile £65.00 £79.38 £64.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.16 £52.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -23.50% +133.33% -30.77%

Payment Gateway
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Payment Gateway as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Payment Gateway in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Payment Gateway.

Daily rate trend for Payment Gateway in the UK

Payment Gateway
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Payment Gateway over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Payment Gateway in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Payment Gateway.

Hourly rate trend for Payment Gateway in the UK

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Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Payment Gateway within the UK over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +107 19 £450 -23.08% 23
Work from Home +114 14 £500 +8.11% 8
UK excluding London +59 13 £455 -4.21% 15
London +89 8 £450 -28.00% 8
North of England +34 5 £463 - 6
Midlands +20 5 £445 -6.32% 4
North West +20 5 £463 - 2
East Midlands +19 5 £445 -6.32% 2
Scotland - 2 £606 -
South West - 1 - - 1

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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 (14.29%) Umbraco
2 3 (10.71%) CMS
2 3 (10.71%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 9 (32.14%) AWS
1 9 (32.14%) Azure
2 6 (21.43%) Stripe
3 5 (17.86%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (10.71%) Contentstack
4 3 (10.71%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.57%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Git
1 1 (3.57%) Gradle
1 1 (3.57%) TeamCity
General
1 10 (35.71%) Banking
2 7 (25.00%) Finance
3 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.57%) Retail
4 1 (3.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (46.43%) Developer
2 9 (32.14%) Architect
3 8 (28.57%) Full Stack Developer
4 5 (17.86%) E-Commerce Developer
5 4 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (14.29%) Umbraco Developer
6 3 (10.71%) Payments Architect
6 3 (10.71%) Senior
7 2 (7.14%) Lead
8 1 (3.57%) Cloud Architect
8 1 (3.57%) Cloud Solutions Architect
8 1 (3.57%) Finance Manager
8 1 (3.57%) Lead Developer
8 1 (3.57%) Operations Consultant
8 1 (3.57%) Payments Consultant
8 1 (3.57%) Payments Solutions Architect
8 1 (3.57%) PCI DSS Specialist
8 1 (3.57%) Senior Developer
8 1 (3.57%) Senior Manager
8 1 (3.57%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.00%) .NET
1 7 (25.00%) REST
2 5 (17.86%) GraphQL
2 5 (17.86%) Node.js
2 5 (17.86%) React
3 3 (10.71%) ASP.NET
3 3 (10.71%) CSS
3 3 (10.71%) HTML
3 3 (10.71%) Next.js
4 2 (7.14%) Express.js
4 2 (7.14%) Fastify
4 2 (7.14%) FIDO
4 2 (7.14%) Kafka
4 2 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (7.14%) RESTful
5 1 (3.57%) AngularJS
5 1 (3.57%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (3.57%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 1 (3.57%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (3.57%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Data Centre
1 3 (10.71%) Mobile Payment
2 2 (7.14%) Contactless
2 2 (7.14%) Digital Wallet
2 2 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.57%) EMV
3 1 (3.57%) FMCG
3 1 (3.57%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (32.14%) E-Commerce
2 8 (28.57%) Full Stack Development
3 7 (25.00%) Microservices
4 6 (21.43%) Roadmaps
5 5 (17.86%) High Availability
5 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (14.29%) Business Strategy
6 4 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (14.29%) IT Strategy
6 4 (14.29%) Strategic Roadmap
6 4 (14.29%) Technology Strategy
7 3 (10.71%) API Integration
7 3 (10.71%) Collaborative Culture
7 3 (10.71%) Content Management
7 3 (10.71%) Data Transformation
7 3 (10.71%) DevOps
7 3 (10.71%) ETL
7 3 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (10.71%) Technical Debt
7 3 (10.71%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.86%) JavaScript
1 5 (17.86%) TypeScript
2 4 (14.29%) C#
3 3 (10.71%) SQL
4 2 (7.14%) Java
5 1 (3.57%) Apex Code
5 1 (3.57%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) Degree
2 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) PCI DSS
2 3 (10.71%) ISO 20022
2 3 (10.71%) PSD2
3 2 (7.14%) GDPR
3 2 (7.14%) ISO 8583
4 1 (3.57%) ISO 15022
System Software
1 6 (21.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.57%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2 (7.14%) PayPal
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.57%) Salesforce