Payments Architect Contracts in Cheshire

Payments Architect
North West > Cheshire

The median Payments Architect daily rate in Cheshire is £574, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 57 -
Rank change year-on-year +7 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Payments Architect 8 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.78% 0.20% -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.03% 0.21% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £470 - -
25th Percentile £504 £750 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £574 £751 -
Median % change year-on-year -23.58% - -
75th Percentile £656 £751 -
90th Percentile £697 - -
North West median daily rate £508 £751 -
% change year-on-year -32.35% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cheshire. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Cheshire with a recognized job title 394 472 477
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 87.75% 93.65% 90.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 324 329
10th Percentile £313 £275 £263
25th Percentile £358 £374 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +9.20%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £640 £629 £651
North West median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 36 20
10th Percentile £19.00 £14.00 £14.23
25th Percentile £26.71 £16.47 £19.71
Median hourly rate £47.50 £20.11 £29.26
Median % change year-on-year +136.20% -31.27% +19.43%
75th Percentile £86.00 £38.00 £35.00
90th Percentile - £43.75 £42.58
North West median hourly rate £29.23 £26.53 £30.54
% change year-on-year +10.20% -13.15% +50.37%

Payments Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Payments Architect in Cheshire

Payments Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Payments Architect in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for Payments Architect in Cheshire

Payments Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Payments Architect in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Payments Architect in Cheshire

Payments Architect
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Payments Architect within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Chester -5 2 £700 -6.73% 1
Knutsford - 1 £447 -
Payments Architect
North West

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Payments Architect contract 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 contract job ads across the Cheshire region featuring Payments Architect in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Banking
2 6 (75.00%) Architectural Design
2 6 (75.00%) Corporate Banking
3 4 (50.00%) Finance
3 4 (50.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (37.50%) Business Strategy
4 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (25.00%) ISO 20022
5 2 (25.00%) SEPA
5 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
5 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (12.50%) Agile
6 1 (12.50%) TOGAF
6 1 (12.50%) Migration
6 1 (12.50%) Degree
6 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
6 1 (12.50%) Domain-Driven Design
6 1 (12.50%) AWS
6 1 (12.50%) Waterfall
6 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (12.50%) SDLC
6 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
6 1 (12.50%) Requirements Management
6 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (12.50%) Analytical Thinking
6 1 (12.50%) Innovative Thinking
6 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (12.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (12.50%) Backlog Prioritisation

Payments Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
General
1 8 (100.00%) Banking
2 6 (75.00%) Corporate Banking
3 4 (50.00%) Finance
4 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Architectural Design
2 4 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (37.50%) Business Strategy
3 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (12.50%) Agile
5 1 (12.50%) Analytical Thinking
5 1 (12.50%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (12.50%) Domain-Driven Design
5 1 (12.50%) Innovative Thinking
5 1 (12.50%) Integration Patterns
5 1 (12.50%) Migration
5 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (12.50%) Requirements Management
5 1 (12.50%) SDLC
5 1 (12.50%) TOGAF
5 1 (12.50%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) ISO 20022
1 2 (25.00%) SEPA