Payments Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Payments Architect
England > London

The median Payments Architect daily rate in London is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025.

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

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 373 364 392
Rank change year-on-year -9 +28 +134
Contract jobs requiring a Payments Architect 11 9 7
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.076% 0.060% 0.038%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.083% 0.064% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 6
10th Percentile £443 £623 £494
25th Percentile £513 £656 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £725 £625
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +16.00% -13.79%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £678
90th Percentile £743 - £694
England median daily rate £530 £663 £650
% change year-on-year -19.98% +1.92% -10.34%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 13,298 14,027 17,250
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.33% 93.50% 93.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,806 9,073 12,454
10th Percentile £344 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% -1.79% -3.45%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £760 £800 £788
England median daily rate £510 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -2.86% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 154 210
10th Percentile £17.50 £18.65 £17.23
25th Percentile £22.00 £23.80 £21.56
Median hourly rate £28.13 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.64% - -
75th Percentile £57.00 £54.69 £58.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £80.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £26.40 £35.00 £45.21
% change year-on-year -24.57% -22.58% +39.02%

Payments Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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 London.

Payments Architect job vacancy trend in London

Payments Architect
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Payments Architect job vacancies in London

Payments Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Payments Architect in London over the 6 months to 24 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Payments Architect in London

Payments Architect
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 24 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
Central London - 4 £550 - 1
Payments Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 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 London region featuring Payments Architect in the job title.

1 8 (72.73%) Microservices
2 5 (45.45%) Azure
3 4 (36.36%) Integration Patterns
4 3 (27.27%) AWS
4 3 (27.27%) Decision-Making
4 3 (27.27%) Event-Driven
4 3 (27.27%) Roadmaps
4 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (27.27%) TOGAF
5 2 (18.18%) Agile
5 2 (18.18%) API Design
5 2 (18.18%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (18.18%) Architecture Governance
5 2 (18.18%) AWS Certification
5 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
5 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
5 2 (18.18%) Degree
5 2 (18.18%) DevOps
5 2 (18.18%) ERP
5 2 (18.18%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 2 (18.18%) GCP
5 2 (18.18%) Java
5 2 (18.18%) REST
5 2 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (18.18%) Technology Transformation
5 2 (18.18%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (9.09%) AI
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (9.09%) Analytics

Payments Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 (9.09%) NetSuite
1 1 (9.09%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (9.09%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) AWS
3 2 (18.18%) GCP
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (9.09%) iPaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (9.09%) BigQuery
1 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
General
1 8 (72.73%) Finance
2 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
3 4 (36.36%) Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Billing
4 1 (9.09%) Financial Institution
4 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) REST
2 1 (9.09%) GraphQL
2 1 (9.09%) gRPC
2 1 (9.09%) Middleware
2 1 (9.09%) Quarkus
2 1 (9.09%) SOAP
2 1 (9.09%) Spring
2 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Cloud Native
1 3 (27.27%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
3 1 (9.09%) Blockchain
3 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
3 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Microservices
2 4 (36.36%) Integration Patterns
3 3 (27.27%) Decision-Making
3 3 (27.27%) Event-Driven
3 3 (27.27%) Roadmaps
3 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (27.27%) TOGAF
4 2 (18.18%) Agile
4 2 (18.18%) API Design
4 2 (18.18%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (18.18%) Architecture Governance
4 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
4 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
4 2 (18.18%) DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) ERP
4 2 (18.18%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 2 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (18.18%) Technology Transformation
5 1 (9.09%) Impact Assessments
5 1 (9.09%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) AWS Certification
1 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
1 2 (18.18%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
2 1 (9.09%) CISSP
2 1 (9.09%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) ISO 20022
1 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Calypso
1 1 (9.09%) HubSpot
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 1 (9.09%) Murex
1 1 (9.09%) Salesforce
1 1 (9.09%) SAP
1 1 (9.09%) Sparx