Payments Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Solution Architect - Payments
UK > England

The median Solution Architect - Payments daily rate in England is £525, 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 526 497 555
Rank change year-on-year -29 +58 +175
Contract jobs requiring a Payments Solutions Architect 16 7 8
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.051% 0.024% 0.021%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.056% 0.026% 0.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 2 7
10th Percentile £456 £395 £525
25th Percentile £495 £448 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £546 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -16.00% -8.77%
75th Percentile £551 £647 £669
90th Percentile £640 £701 £693
UK median daily rate £525 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -16.00% -3.85% -10.34%

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 28,510 26,921 34,873
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.24% 92.92% 93.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,200 16,785 23,966
10th Percentile £291 £300 £288
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,749 853 1,358
10th Percentile £14.37 £15.73 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.24 £21.25 £19.50
Median hourly rate £26.50 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.39% -20.00% +38.46%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.10 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.47 £34.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -25.09% -23.60% +48.33%

Payments Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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 England.

Payments Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in England

Payments Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Payments Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Payments Solutions Architect in England

Payments Solutions Architect
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 Solutions Architect within the England 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
London +1 7 £550 -24.14%
North West -12 7 £516 +40.50% 1
North of England -44 7 £516 +40.50% 1
Midlands - 3 £465 - 2
East Midlands - 2 £465 - 1
West Midlands - 1 - - 1
Payments Solutions Architect
UK

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

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 England region featuring Payments Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 10 (62.50%) Microservices
2 9 (56.25%) Azure
3 8 (50.00%) AWS
4 7 (43.75%) Roadmaps
5 6 (37.50%) Architectural Patterns
5 6 (37.50%) GCP
5 6 (37.50%) Payment Gateway
6 5 (31.25%) Docker
6 5 (31.25%) Java
6 5 (31.25%) TOGAF
7 4 (25.00%) Architectural Design
7 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
7 4 (25.00%) Data Modelling
7 4 (25.00%) Google
7 4 (25.00%) ISO 20022
7 4 (25.00%) OO
7 4 (25.00%) OOA/OOD
7 4 (25.00%) PCI DSS
7 4 (25.00%) Spring
7 4 (25.00%) Spring Boot
7 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (25.00%) UML
8 3 (18.75%) Architecture Roadmap
8 3 (18.75%) Business Strategy
8 3 (18.75%) Logical Data Model
8 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
8 3 (18.75%) Technical Leadership
8 3 (18.75%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (18.75%) Translating Business Requirements
9 2 (12.50%) Agile

Payments Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 (6.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (6.25%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) Azure
2 8 (50.00%) AWS
3 6 (37.50%) GCP
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (6.25%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (6.25%) BigQuery
1 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (6.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 9 (56.25%) Banking
2 8 (50.00%) Finance
2 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Billing
3 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) Spring
1 4 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (12.50%) Middleware
2 2 (12.50%) REST
2 2 (12.50%) Web Services
3 1 (6.25%) GraphQL
3 1 (6.25%) gRPC
3 1 (6.25%) RAML
3 1 (6.25%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.25%) PACS
3 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Microservices
2 7 (43.75%) Roadmaps
3 6 (37.50%) Architectural Patterns
4 5 (31.25%) TOGAF
5 4 (25.00%) Architectural Design
5 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 4 (25.00%) Data Modelling
5 4 (25.00%) OO
5 4 (25.00%) OOA/OOD
5 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (25.00%) UML
6 3 (18.75%) Architecture Roadmap
6 3 (18.75%) Business Strategy
6 3 (18.75%) Logical Data Model
6 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
6 3 (18.75%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (18.75%) Translating Business Requirements
7 2 (12.50%) API Design
7 2 (12.50%) DevOps
7 2 (12.50%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) TOGAF Certification
2 2 (12.50%) AWS Certification
2 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (12.50%) Degree
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
3 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) ISO 20022
1 4 (25.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (6.25%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Google
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) HubSpot
3 1 (6.25%) Salesforce