Payments Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Solution Architect - Payments
North West > Cheshire

The median Solution Architect - Payments daily rate in Cheshire is £516, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 54 -
Rank change year-on-year -12 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Payments Solutions Architect 6 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.94% 0.22% -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.06% 0.25% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £494 - -
25th Percentile £498 £360 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £367 -
Median % change year-on-year +40.50% - -
75th Percentile £548 £375 -
90th Percentile £576 - -
North West median daily rate £516 £367 -
% change year-on-year +40.50% - -

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 564 405 349
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.68% 88.82% 87.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 409 234 233
10th Percentile £270 £305 £265
25th Percentile £358 £361 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £551 £575 £540
90th Percentile £688 £645 £586
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 20 25
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.35 £16.22
25th Percentile £19.00 £16.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.50 £22.09 £23.61
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -6.44% +33.69%
75th Percentile £36.75 £25.45 £35.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £86.00 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £30.99 £27.13 £35.00
% change year-on-year +14.25% -22.50% +59.09%

Payments Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Payments Solutions Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Payments Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Payments Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Payments Solutions Architect job vacancies in Cheshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Payments Solutions Architect job vacancies in Cheshire

Payments Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Payments Solutions Architect in Cheshire over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Payments Solutions Architect in Cheshire

Payments Solutions 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 Solutions Architect within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 18 December 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
Knutsford -17 6 £516 +40.50% 1
Payments Solutions Architect
North West

Payments Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire

For the 6 months to 18 December 2025, Payments Solutions Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cheshire region featuring Payments Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) Architectural Patterns
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
1 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 4 (66.67%) Data Modelling
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
1 4 (66.67%) GCP
1 4 (66.67%) Google
1 4 (66.67%) ISO 20022
1 4 (66.67%) Java
1 4 (66.67%) Microservices
1 4 (66.67%) OO
1 4 (66.67%) OOA/OOD
1 4 (66.67%) Payment Gateway
1 4 (66.67%) Spring
1 4 (66.67%) Spring Boot
1 4 (66.67%) UML
2 3 (50.00%) Logical Data Model
2 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (50.00%) PCI DSS
2 3 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 2 (33.33%) Architectural Design
3 2 (33.33%) Architecture Roadmap
3 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 1 (16.67%) ATM
4 1 (16.67%) Business Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) Confluence
4 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture

Payments Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 (16.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
1 4 (66.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 6 (100.00%) Banking
2 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Spring
1 4 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (16.67%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (16.67%) PACS
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Architectural Patterns
1 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 4 (66.67%) Data Modelling
1 4 (66.67%) Microservices
1 4 (66.67%) OO
1 4 (66.67%) OOA/OOD
1 4 (66.67%) UML
2 3 (50.00%) Logical Data Model
2 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 2 (33.33%) Architectural Design
3 2 (33.33%) Architecture Roadmap
3 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 1 (16.67%) Business Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
4 1 (16.67%) Fintech
4 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Records Management
4 1 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) ISO 20022
2 3 (50.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (16.67%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Google