Payments Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Payments Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Payments Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 323 394 454
Rank change year-on-year +71 +60 -
Contract jobs requiring a Payments Architect 13 5 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.024% 0.033%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.026% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 5
10th Percentile £459 £649 £613
25th Percentile £478 £666 £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £713 £750
Median % change year-on-year -24.59% -4.97% -
75th Percentile £625 £741 £788
90th Percentile £685 £747 £795
UK median daily rate £600 £675 £725
% change year-on-year -11.11% -6.90% +16.00%

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 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Payments Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Payments Architect in the UK excluding London

Payments Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Payments Architect in the UK excluding London

Payments Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Payments Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Payments Architect in the UK excluding London

Payments Architect
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 Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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 +25 10 £508 -32.35% 1
North West +23 10 £508 -32.35% 1
Midlands +21 1 - -
West Midlands +13 1 - -
Scotland - 1 £625 -
South West - 1 - -
Payments Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Payments Architect 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 Architect in the job title.

1 11 (84.62%) Banking
2 6 (46.15%) Architectural Design
2 6 (46.15%) Corporate Banking
3 5 (38.46%) Finance
4 4 (30.77%) ISO 20022
4 4 (30.77%) SEPA
4 4 (30.77%) Roadmaps
5 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
5 3 (23.08%) Business Strategy
5 3 (23.08%) Digital Wallet
5 3 (23.08%) Microservices
5 3 (23.08%) Agile
5 3 (23.08%) Migration
5 3 (23.08%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (15.38%) PCI DSS
6 2 (15.38%) OAuth
6 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (15.38%) ISO 8583
6 2 (15.38%) Management Information System
6 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
6 2 (15.38%) EMV
6 2 (15.38%) Middleware
6 2 (15.38%) SDLC
6 2 (15.38%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (15.38%) Fintech
6 2 (15.38%) Waterfall
6 2 (15.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (15.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 2 (15.38%) OAuth2
6 2 (15.38%) PSD2

Payments Architect 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) AWS
General
1 11 (84.62%) Banking
2 6 (46.15%) Corporate Banking
3 5 (38.46%) Finance
4 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Middleware
1 2 (15.38%) OAuth
1 2 (15.38%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Digital Wallet
2 2 (15.38%) EMV
2 2 (15.38%) Management Information System
2 2 (15.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (7.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Architectural Design
2 4 (30.77%) Roadmaps
3 3 (23.08%) Agile
3 3 (23.08%) Business Strategy
3 3 (23.08%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (23.08%) Microservices
3 3 (23.08%) Migration
4 2 (15.38%) Event-Driven
4 2 (15.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 2 (15.38%) Fintech
4 2 (15.38%) SDLC
4 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (15.38%) Waterfall
5 1 (7.69%) Analytical Thinking
5 1 (7.69%) Innovative Thinking
5 1 (7.69%) Integration Patterns
5 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (7.69%) Project Delivery
5 1 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (7.69%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) ISO 20022
1 4 (30.77%) SEPA
2 2 (15.38%) ISO 8583
2 2 (15.38%) PCI DSS
2 2 (15.38%) PSD2
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft