Payments Architect
UK

The median Payments Architect salary in the UK is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 874 957 1140
Rank change year-on-year +83 +183 -274
Permanent jobs requiring a Payments Architect 20 32 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.020% 0.030% 0.036%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.033% 0.038%
Number of salaries quoted 1 11 32
10th Percentile - £61,750 £70,000
25th Percentile - £66,250 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £90,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -44.44% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile - £100,000 £105,000
90th Percentile - £107,250 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary - £67,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year - -15.63% -20.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 92,894 96,310 147,847
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.58% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,756 60,420 85,018
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.80% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Payments Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Payments Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Payments Architect in the UK

Payments Architect
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Payments Architect.

Salary trend for Payments Architect in the UK

Payments Architect
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Payments Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +99 16 £50,000 -36.51% 4
London +116 11 £50,000 -44.44% 2
UK excluding London +2 6 - - 2
North of England - 2 - - 2
South East +21 1 - -
Midlands +4 1 - -
East Midlands -19 1 - -
Scotland -63 1 - -
South West - 1 - -
North West - 1 - - 2
Yorkshire - 1 - -

Payments Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Payments Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Payments Architect in the job title.

1 15 (75.00%) IT Strategy
2 13 (65.00%) Finance
3 12 (60.00%) Microservices
4 11 (55.00%) Retail
5 8 (40.00%) Technical Architecture
5 8 (40.00%) Open Source
5 8 (40.00%) Splunk
5 8 (40.00%) Process Improvement
5 8 (40.00%) Kafka
5 8 (40.00%) Financial Institution
5 8 (40.00%) Firewall
5 8 (40.00%) GAP Analysis
5 8 (40.00%) Management Information System
5 8 (40.00%) Middleware
5 8 (40.00%) Java
5 8 (40.00%) SQL
5 8 (40.00%) Linux
5 8 (40.00%) Data Modelling
5 8 (40.00%) AppDynamics
5 8 (40.00%) Kubernetes
5 8 (40.00%) Spring Boot
5 8 (40.00%) API Design
5 8 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 8 (40.00%) Sonatype Nexus
5 8 (40.00%) JVM Tuning
5 8 (40.00%) Ansible
5 8 (40.00%) Docker
5 8 (40.00%) DevOps
5 8 (40.00%) CockroachDB
5 8 (40.00%) Jenkins

Payments Architect Skill Set
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 1 (5.00%) Postilion
Communications & Networking
1 8 (40.00%) Firewall
2 1 (5.00%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (40.00%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 8 (40.00%) Jaeger
1 8 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 8 (40.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (65.00%) Finance
2 11 (55.00%) Retail
3 8 (40.00%) Financial Institution
3 8 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (25.00%) Law
4 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
5 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (5.00%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (40.00%) Kafka
1 8 (40.00%) Middleware
1 8 (40.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 8 (40.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
1 8 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.00%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (5.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 8 (40.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (75.00%) IT Strategy
2 12 (60.00%) Microservices
3 8 (40.00%) API Design
3 8 (40.00%) Application Security
3 8 (40.00%) Business Strategy
3 8 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 8 (40.00%) DevOps
3 8 (40.00%) DevSecOps
3 8 (40.00%) GAP Analysis
3 8 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 8 (40.00%) JVM Tuning
3 8 (40.00%) Observability
3 8 (40.00%) Open Source
3 8 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 8 (40.00%) Process Improvement
3 8 (40.00%) Technical Architecture
3 8 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
3 8 (40.00%) Technology Strategy
4 7 (35.00%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) Java
1 8 (40.00%) SQL
System Software
1 8 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (40.00%) Ansible
1 8 (40.00%) Kiali
1 8 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) AppDynamics
1 8 (40.00%) Splunk
2 1 (5.00%) IBM