Payments Analyst Contracts in the UK excluding London

Payments Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median Payments Analyst daily rate in the UK excluding London is £403, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 330 387 433
Rank change year-on-year +57 +46 +67
Contract jobs requiring a Payments Analyst 13 3 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.015% 0.026%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.016% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 4
10th Percentile £288 £355 -
25th Percentile £327 £376 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £415 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.01% -20.95% +16.67%
75th Percentile £496 £456 £578
90th Percentile £500 £480 £584
UK median daily rate £483 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -25.77% +13.04% +4.55%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,837 18,742 21,756
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.97% 92.49% 94.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,537 11,429 15,189
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 842 2,251 1,113
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.75 £18.08
Median hourly rate £27.24 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.91% -5.88% +112.50%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.60 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.18 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.79% -18.89% +87.50%

Payments Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Payments Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Payments Analyst in the UK excluding London

Payments Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Payments Analyst in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Payments Analyst in the UK excluding London

Payments Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Payments Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Payments Analyst in the UK excluding London

Payments Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Payments Analyst within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 May 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 of England - 5 £358 - 2
Scotland +12 4 £488 -0.51%
North West - 3 £358 - 2
South East +52 2 £398 +16.91% 5
Yorkshire - 2 £465 -
South West +41 1 - - 1
East Midlands - 1 £317 -
Midlands - 1 £317 -
Payments Analyst
UK

Payments Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, Payments Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Payments Analyst in the job title.

1 8 (61.54%) Banking
2 7 (53.85%) Agile
3 5 (38.46%) Finance
4 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
5 3 (23.08%) Customer Experience
5 3 (23.08%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 3 (23.08%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 3 (23.08%) Data Analytics
5 3 (23.08%) Analytics
5 3 (23.08%) Retail Banking
6 2 (15.38%) Corporate Banking
6 2 (15.38%) Retail
6 2 (15.38%) Investment Banking
6 2 (15.38%) Wealth Management
6 2 (15.38%) JIRA
6 2 (15.38%) Confluence
6 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (15.38%) Scrum
6 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
6 2 (15.38%) Adobe
6 2 (15.38%) User Stories
6 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
6 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (15.38%) Acceptance Criteria
6 2 (15.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (15.38%) Product Ownership
7 1 (7.69%) Traceability Matrix
7 1 (7.69%) Collaborative Working
7 1 (7.69%) Digital Wallet

Payments Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 2 (15.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) AWS
1 1 (7.69%) Azure
1 1 (7.69%) GCP
1 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) JIRA
General
1 8 (61.54%) Banking
2 5 (38.46%) Finance
3 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
4 3 (23.08%) Retail Banking
5 2 (15.38%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (15.38%) Investment Banking
5 2 (15.38%) Retail
6 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 2 (15.38%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (7.69%) Digital Wallet
3 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Agile
2 3 (23.08%) Analytics
2 3 (23.08%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 3 (23.08%) Customer Experience
2 3 (23.08%) Data Analytics
3 2 (15.38%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
3 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (15.38%) Scrum
3 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (15.38%) User Stories
3 2 (15.38%) Wealth Management
4 1 (7.69%) Business Analysis
4 1 (7.69%) Change Management
4 1 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (7.69%) Data Protection
4 1 (7.69%) GAP Analysis
4 1 (7.69%) Time Management
4 1 (7.69%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (7.69%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) SEPA
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Adobe
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) MuleSoft