Payments Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Solution Architect - Payments
UK > UK excluding London

The median Solution Architect - Payments daily rate in the UK excluding London is £498, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 September 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
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 371 358 419
Rank change year-on-year -13 +61 +96
Contract jobs requiring a Payments Solutions Architect 9 7 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.059% 0.040% 0.009%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.066% 0.043% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 2
10th Percentile £426 £373 £661
25th Percentile £459 £392 £678
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £425 £713
Median % change year-on-year +17.06% -40.35% +1.79%
75th Percentile £500 £588 £753
90th Percentile £513 £686 £774
UK median daily rate £500 £425 £600
% change year-on-year +17.65% -29.17% -4.00%

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 13,712 16,275 20,396
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.83% 92.25% 94.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,420 9,402 13,621
10th Percentile £213 £220 £225
25th Percentile £361 £375 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £598 £600
90th Percentile £663 £676 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,267 1,386 1,212
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.41 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.28 £19.52 £17.78
Median hourly rate £25.11 £43.90 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -42.80% +0.34% +98.86%
75th Percentile £51.65 £66.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.06 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%

Payments Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Payments Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

Payments Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Payments Solutions Architect job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Payments Solutions Architect job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Payments Solutions 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 Solutions Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 September 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
Midlands -6 5 £500 +17.65%
North West -10 5 £498 -10.96%
North of England -26 5 £498 -10.96% 1
East Midlands -1 4 £500 +17.65%
West Midlands -8 1 - -
South West - 1 - -
Payments Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 September 2025, Payments Solutions 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 Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 7 (77.78%) Banking
2 5 (55.56%) TOGAF
2 5 (55.56%) Finance
3 4 (44.44%) Migration
3 4 (44.44%) Requirements Management
3 4 (44.44%) AWS
4 3 (33.33%) Architectural Design
4 3 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (33.33%) Business Strategy
4 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 3 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
4 3 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
4 3 (33.33%) Cloud Native
5 2 (22.22%) Web Services
6 1 (11.11%) SOA
6 1 (11.11%) ETL
6 1 (11.11%) ATM
6 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
6 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
6 1 (11.11%) Java
6 1 (11.11%) SOAP
6 1 (11.11%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (11.11%) ISO 8583
6 1 (11.11%) PACS
6 1 (11.11%) Agile
6 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (11.11%) Impact Assessments
6 1 (11.11%) Technology Strategy

Payments Solutions 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 1 (11.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) ATM
General
1 7 (77.78%) Banking
2 5 (55.56%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Corporate Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Web Services
2 1 (11.11%) RAML
2 1 (11.11%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Digital Wallet
2 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) PACS
2 1 (11.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) TOGAF
2 4 (44.44%) Migration
2 4 (44.44%) Requirements Management
3 3 (33.33%) Architectural Design
3 3 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 3 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
3 3 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
3 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 1 (11.11%) Agile
4 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (11.11%) Data Transformation
4 1 (11.11%) ETL
4 1 (11.11%) High Availability
4 1 (11.11%) Impact Assessments
4 1 (11.11%) Microservices
4 1 (11.11%) Project Governance
4 1 (11.11%) SOA
4 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (11.11%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) ISO 8583
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft