Payments Analyst Contracts in England

Payments Analyst
UK > England

The median Payments Analyst daily rate in England is £405, 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 452 520 640
Rank change year-on-year +68 +120 +94
Contract jobs requiring a Payments Analyst 33 22 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.059% 0.026%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.064% 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 17 11
10th Percentile £299 £448 £413
25th Percentile £354 £613 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £700 £575
Median % change year-on-year -42.14% +21.74% +4.55%
75th Percentile £513 - £700
90th Percentile £646 - £713
UK median daily rate £410 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -36.92% +13.04% +4.55%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Payments Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Payments Analyst in England

Payments Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Payments Analyst in England.

Daily rate trend for Payments Analyst in England

Payments Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Payments Analyst in England

Payments Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Payments Analyst in England.

Hourly rate trend for Payments Analyst in England

Payments Analyst
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Payments Analyst within the England 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
London +41 23 £430 -38.57% 9
North of England - 5 £358 -
North West - 4 £313 -
South East - 2 £398 - 3
South West +46 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 £447 -
East Midlands - 1 £317 -
Midlands - 1 £317 -
Payments Analyst
UK

Payments Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Payments Analyst 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 England region featuring Payments Analyst in the job title.

1 18 (54.55%) Finance
2 15 (45.45%) Social Skills
3 13 (39.39%) Banking
4 12 (36.36%) SEPA
5 11 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (24.24%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 7 (21.21%) Agile
8 6 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (15.15%) JIRA
9 5 (15.15%) Migration
10 4 (12.12%) Data Analysis
11 3 (9.09%) AWS
11 3 (9.09%) Confluence
11 3 (9.09%) Data Migration
11 3 (9.09%) Business Analysis
11 3 (9.09%) QA
11 3 (9.09%) Change Management
11 3 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
11 3 (9.09%) SQL
11 3 (9.09%) Oracle
11 3 (9.09%) ISO 20022
12 2 (6.06%) Product Ownership
12 2 (6.06%) Proprietary Trading
12 2 (6.06%) Waterfall
12 2 (6.06%) SDLC
12 2 (6.06%) Oracle Exadata
12 2 (6.06%) Data Governance
12 2 (6.06%) Process Improvement
12 2 (6.06%) Kafka
12 2 (6.06%) Data Science

Payments Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (9.09%) Confluence
2 1 (3.03%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 3 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (3.03%) Azure
2 1 (3.03%) GCP
2 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (3.03%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.03%) Power BI
2 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (15.15%) JIRA
2 1 (3.03%) IBM UrbanCode
2 1 (3.03%) JMeter
General
1 18 (54.55%) Finance
2 15 (45.45%) Social Skills
3 13 (39.39%) Banking
4 11 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Back Office
5 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.06%) JSON
1 2 (6.06%) Kafka
1 2 (6.06%) XML
2 1 (3.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (24.24%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 2 (6.06%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.03%) Digital Wallet
3 1 (3.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.03%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.03%) Unix
1 1 (3.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (21.21%) Agile
2 6 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (15.15%) Migration
4 4 (12.12%) Data Analysis
5 3 (9.09%) Business Analysis
5 3 (9.09%) Change Management
5 3 (9.09%) Data Migration
5 3 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (6.06%) Algorithmic Trading
6 2 (6.06%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (6.06%) Data Mapping
6 2 (6.06%) Data Modelling
6 2 (6.06%) Data Science
6 2 (6.06%) Decision-Making
6 2 (6.06%) GAP Analysis
6 2 (6.06%) Project Delivery
6 2 (6.06%) Software Engineering
6 2 (6.06%) Software Testing
6 2 (6.06%) Time Management
6 2 (6.06%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.09%) SQL
2 1 (3.03%) MATLAB
2 1 (3.03%) Python
2 1 (3.03%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (3.03%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (36.36%) SEPA
2 3 (9.09%) ISO 20022
2 3 (9.09%) QA
3 2 (6.06%) GDPR
4 1 (3.03%) TARGET2
System Software
1 1 (3.03%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 1 (3.03%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 3 (9.09%) Oracle
2 2 (6.06%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.03%) Google
3 1 (3.03%) IBM
3 1 (3.03%) MuleSoft
3 1 (3.03%) Murex