Payments Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Solution Architect - Payments
England > London

The median Solution Architect - Payments daily rate in London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025.

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

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 383 363 399
Rank change year-on-year -20 +36 +153
Contract jobs requiring a Payments Solutions Architect 6 6 6
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.042% 0.040% 0.031%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.046% 0.042% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 5
10th Percentile £478 - £555
25th Percentile £524 £713 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £725 £650
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +11.54% -10.34%
75th Percentile £659 £738 £688
90th Percentile £676 - £695
England median daily rate £526 £546 £650
% change year-on-year -3.73% -16.00% -8.77%

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 13,145 14,173 17,825
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.24% 93.50% 93.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,721 9,174 12,891
10th Percentile £340 £338 £329
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -2.22% -3.02%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £683
90th Percentile £763 £800 £788
England median daily rate £510 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 152 209
10th Percentile £17.50 £18.19 £17.95
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £27.71 £35.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.49% +2.14% -
75th Percentile £56.63 £54.06 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £26.40 £36.08 £45.00
% change year-on-year -26.83% -19.82% +38.46%

Payments Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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 London.

Payments Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in London

Payments Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Payments Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Payments Solutions Architect in London over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Payments Solutions Architect in London

Payments Solutions 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 Solutions Architect within the London region over the 6 months to 15 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 - 2 £550 -
Payments Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 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 London region featuring Payments Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 5 (83.33%) Microservices
2 4 (66.67%) Azure
3 3 (50.00%) AWS
3 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (50.00%) TOGAF
4 2 (33.33%) API Design
4 2 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (33.33%) Architecture Governance
4 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
4 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (33.33%) Degree
4 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven
4 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 2 (33.33%) GCP
4 2 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
4 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (33.33%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (16.67%) Agile
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (16.67%) Analytics
5 1 (16.67%) Architectural Design
5 1 (16.67%) Architecture Roadmap
5 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
5 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (16.67%) Batch Processing
5 1 (16.67%) BigQuery
5 1 (16.67%) Business Strategy
5 1 (16.67%) Business Transformation

Payments Solutions 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 (16.67%) NetSuite
1 1 (16.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) AWS
3 2 (33.33%) GCP
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) iPaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (16.67%) BigQuery
1 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
General
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
2 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Billing
3 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) GraphQL
1 1 (16.67%) gRPC
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
1 1 (16.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Microservices
2 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (50.00%) TOGAF
3 2 (33.33%) API Design
3 2 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (33.33%) Architecture Governance
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
3 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (16.67%) Architectural Design
4 1 (16.67%) Batch Processing
4 1 (16.67%) Business Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
4 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) Technology Transformation
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
1 2 (33.33%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) HubSpot
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Salesforce