Mobile Payment Contracts

Mobile Payment
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mobile Payment in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Mobile Payment over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 559 682 838
Rank change year-on-year +123 +156 -139
Contract jobs citing Mobile Payment 12 5 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.028% 0.009% 0.007%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.093% 0.026% 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 5
10th Percentile £375 £318 £488
25th Percentile £430 £409 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% -4.17% -
75th Percentile - £681 £675
90th Percentile £588 £738 £698
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Generic Skills
UK

Mobile Payment is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,884 18,935 29,011
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.26% 33.25% 33.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,299 13,036 20,297
10th Percentile £266 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £680 £660
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 896 624 711
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.16 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.38 £22.26 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.98% -19.07% +4.90%
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £22.00 £21.13
% change year-on-year +36.36% +4.14% -11.29%

Mobile Payment
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Mobile Payment in the UK

Mobile Payment
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Mobile Payment in the UK

Mobile Payment
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mobile Payment over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Mobile Payment in the UK

Mobile Payment
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Mobile Payment in the UK

Mobile Payment
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mobile Payment within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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 +117 12 £450 -11.11% 4
London +109 12 £450 -11.11% 2
Work from Home - 5 £483 - 2

Mobile Payment
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:

Business Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
2 4 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (8.33%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Redis
1 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Billing
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (8.33%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Backend Developer
1 4 (33.33%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Architect
2 3 (25.00%) Lead
2 3 (25.00%) Senior
2 3 (25.00%) Senior Backend Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Senior Mobile Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Cloud Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Payments Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Technical Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Developer
4 1 (8.33%) C# Developer
4 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) QA Leader
4 1 (8.33%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) .NET
1 6 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 4 (33.33%) .NET Core
2 4 (33.33%) ASP.NET Core
2 4 (33.33%) CSS
2 4 (33.33%) HTML
2 4 (33.33%) React
2 4 (33.33%) XML
3 1 (8.33%) GraphQL
3 1 (8.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Digital Wallet
2 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (8.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Android
1 2 (16.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Agile
1 4 (33.33%) B2C
1 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 4 (33.33%) DevOps
1 4 (33.33%) Scrum
1 4 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (25.00%) API Design
2 3 (25.00%) API Integration
3 1 (8.33%) Analytics
3 1 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (8.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (8.33%) E-Commerce
3 1 (8.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (8.33%) Microservices
3 1 (8.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) C#
2 4 (33.33%) Bicep
2 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 4 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 4 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 2 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
1 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Apple
2 1 (8.33%) Google