Payments Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Solution Architect - Payments
England > East Midlands

The median Solution Architect - Payments daily rate in the East Midlands is £465, 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 71 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Payments Solutions Architect 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.23% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £417 - -
25th Percentile £435 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 - -
75th Percentile £495 - -
90th Percentile £513 - -
England median daily rate £525 £546 £650
% change year-on-year -3.85% -16.00% -8.77%

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 807 548 693
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.02% 91.95% 94.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 491 333 491
10th Percentile £180 £228 £200
25th Percentile £352 £325 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year - -5.56% -2.17%
75th Percentile £525 £530 £568
90th Percentile £625 £635 £685
England median daily rate £510 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
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 £21.25 £22.05 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% +10.23% +16.79%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £25.18
90th Percentile £25.29 £33.15 £57.80
England median hourly rate £26.50 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -26.39% -20.00% +38.46%

Payments Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Payments Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Payments Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

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

Payments Solutions 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 Solutions Architect within the East Midlands 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
Northamptonshire - 2 £465 - 1
Payments Solutions Architect
England

Payments Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 25 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region featuring Payments Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (50.00%) IT Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (50.00%) Project Governance
2 1 (50.00%) RAML
2 1 (50.00%) SOA
2 1 (50.00%) SOAP
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Debt
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services

Payments Solutions 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) RAML
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (50.00%) IT Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Project Governance
2 1 (50.00%) SOA
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Debt
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) TOGAF Certification
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft