Payments Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in Swansea

Solution Architect - Payments
West Wales > Swansea

The median Solution Architect - Payments daily rate in Swansea is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 January 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Payments Solutions Architect 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Swansea 3.13% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 4.17% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
West Wales median daily rate £500 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Swansea

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Swansea. 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 Swansea with a recognized job title 24 30 18
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 75.00% 100.00% 94.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 27 15
10th Percentile £206 £125 £180
25th Percentile £400 £313 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £325
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +53.85% -31.58%
75th Percentile £500 £543 £416
90th Percentile £638 £560 £490
West Wales median daily rate £425 £500 £325
% change year-on-year -15.00% +53.85% -31.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £16.65 £17.20 -
25th Percentile £17.06 £17.88 -
Median hourly rate £18.50 £20.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - -
75th Percentile £19.38 £22.38 -
90th Percentile £19.45 £23.20 -
West Wales median hourly rate £13.85 £20.00 -
% change year-on-year -30.78% - -

Payments Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 16 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea

For the 6 months to 16 January 2026, 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 Swansea region featuring Payments Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership

Payments Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification