Payments Architect Contract Job Trends in Northampton

Payments Architect
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The median Payments Architect daily rate in Northampton is £468, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025.

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

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Payments Architect 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northampton 2.20% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.35% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £429 - -
25th Percentile £465 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile £534 - -
Northamptonshire median daily rate £468 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Northampton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Northampton. 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 Northampton with a recognized job title 213 94 90
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.83% 83.93% 96.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 81 71
10th Percentile £313 £308 £313
25th Percentile £358 £356 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £400 £489
Median % change year-on-year +1.25% -18.20% +12.41%
75th Percentile £475 £500 £532
90th Percentile £538 £575 £538
Northamptonshire median daily rate £420 £400 £480
% change year-on-year +5.00% -16.67% +7.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £27.91
25th Percentile - - £32.01
Median hourly rate - - £40.09
Median % change year-on-year - - +115.08%
75th Percentile - - £49.42
90th Percentile - - £54.27
Northamptonshire median hourly rate - £24.20 £19.89
% change year-on-year - +21.68% +11.35%

Payments Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

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 Northampton.

Payments Architect job vacancy trend in Northampton

Payments Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

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

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

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

For the 6 months to 25 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 Northampton region featuring Payments Architect in the job title.

1 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (40.00%) Architectural Design
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Business Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 2 (40.00%) Confluence
2 2 (40.00%) Data Transformation
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) ETL
2 2 (40.00%) High Availability
2 2 (40.00%) IT Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (40.00%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Records Management
2 2 (40.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (40.00%) Tableau
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Debt
2 2 (40.00%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (20.00%) Java

Payments Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northampton 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 2 (40.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (80.00%) Banking
2 3 (60.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) RAML
1 1 (20.00%) SOAP
1 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (40.00%) Architectural Design
2 2 (40.00%) Business Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 2 (40.00%) Data Transformation
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) ETL
2 2 (40.00%) High Availability
2 2 (40.00%) IT Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Records Management
2 2 (40.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Debt
2 2 (40.00%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) TOGAF Certification
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft