Payments Architect Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Payments Architect
England > East Midlands

The median Payments Architect daily rate in the East Midlands is £468, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025.

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

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Payments Architect 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.56% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £429 - -
25th Percentile £465 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile £534 - -
England median daily rate £525 £663 £650
% change year-on-year -20.75% +1.92% -10.34%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. 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 the East Midlands with a recognized job title 818 548 686
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.91% 92.10% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 497 339 483
10th Percentile £180 £221 £190
25th Percentile £352 £321 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year - -5.56% -2.17%
75th Percentile £525 £528 £550
90th Percentile £625 £625 £675
England median daily rate £508 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -3.33% -0.47% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 24 49
10th Percentile £16.17 £15.10 £12.93
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £20.67 £22.05 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.26% +10.23% +15.94%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £28.75
90th Percentile £25.29 £33.15 £59.00
England median hourly rate £26.30 £35.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year -25.92% -22.62% +41.17%

Payments Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Payments Architect job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Payments Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Payments Architect job vacancies in the East Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Payments Architect job vacancies in the East Midlands

Payments Architect
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 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
Northamptonshire - 5 £468 - 2
Payments Architect
England

Payments Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 25 December 2025, Payments 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 East Midlands region featuring Payments Architect in the job title.

1 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (40.00%) Architectural Design
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Business Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 2 (40.00%) Confluence
2 2 (40.00%) Data Transformation
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) ETL
2 2 (40.00%) High Availability
2 2 (40.00%) IT Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (40.00%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Records Management
2 2 (40.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (40.00%) Tableau
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Debt
2 2 (40.00%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (20.00%) Java

Payments Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (40.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (80.00%) Banking
2 3 (60.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) RAML
1 1 (20.00%) SOAP
1 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (40.00%) Architectural Design
2 2 (40.00%) Business Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 2 (40.00%) Data Transformation
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) ETL
2 2 (40.00%) High Availability
2 2 (40.00%) IT Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Records Management
2 2 (40.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Debt
2 2 (40.00%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) TOGAF Certification
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft