Payments Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Solution Architect - Payments
England > North of England

The median Solution Architect - Payments daily rate in the North of England is £516, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 201 160 -
Rank change year-on-year -41 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Payments Solutions Architect 7 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.15% 0.028% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.030% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £494 - -
25th Percentile £498 £360 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £367 -
Median % change year-on-year +40.50% - -
75th Percentile £548 £375 -
90th Percentile £576 - -
England median daily rate £525 £546 £650
% change year-on-year -3.85% -16.00% -8.77%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 4,299 3,311 4,324
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.49% 92.10% 93.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,880 1,913 2,894
10th Percentile £213 £230 £265
25th Percentile £363 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.37% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £592
90th Percentile £650 £651 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 173 205
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.36 £15.48
25th Percentile £20.00 £18.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £30.99 £25.30 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.49% -8.00% +27.91%
75th Percentile £55.50 £43.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £73.75 £60.00 £61.99
England median hourly rate £26.30 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -26.94% -20.00% +38.46%

Payments Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of 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 the North of England.

Payments Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in the North of England

Payments Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

Payments Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Payments Solutions Architect in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Payments Solutions Architect in the North of England

Payments Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 17 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
North West -22 7 £516 +40.50% 2
Payments Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 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 North of England region featuring Payments Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 4 (57.14%) Architectural Patterns
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
1 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
1 4 (57.14%) Data Modelling
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
1 4 (57.14%) GCP
1 4 (57.14%) Google
1 4 (57.14%) ISO 20022
1 4 (57.14%) Java
1 4 (57.14%) Microservices
1 4 (57.14%) OO
1 4 (57.14%) OOA/OOD
1 4 (57.14%) Payment Gateway
1 4 (57.14%) Spring
1 4 (57.14%) Spring Boot
1 4 (57.14%) UML
2 3 (42.86%) Architectural Design
2 3 (42.86%) Logical Data Model
2 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
2 3 (42.86%) PCI DSS
2 3 (42.86%) Translating Business Requirements
3 2 (28.57%) Architecture Roadmap
3 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
4 1 (14.29%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) ATM
4 1 (14.29%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 1 (14.29%) Business Strategy
4 1 (14.29%) Confluence
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement

Payments Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 (14.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
1 4 (57.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 7 (100.00%) Banking
2 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Finance
4 1 (14.29%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Spring
1 4 (57.14%) Spring Boot
2 1 (14.29%) Middleware
2 1 (14.29%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) PACS
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Architectural Patterns
1 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
1 4 (57.14%) Data Modelling
1 4 (57.14%) Microservices
1 4 (57.14%) OO
1 4 (57.14%) OOA/OOD
1 4 (57.14%) UML
2 3 (42.86%) Architectural Design
2 3 (42.86%) Logical Data Model
2 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
2 3 (42.86%) Translating Business Requirements
3 2 (28.57%) Architecture Roadmap
3 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
4 1 (14.29%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 1 (14.29%) Business Strategy
4 1 (14.29%) Design Patterns
4 1 (14.29%) Fintech
4 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) SDLC
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) ISO 20022
2 3 (42.86%) PCI DSS
3 1 (14.29%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Google