Payments Analyst Contracts

Payments Analyst
UK

The median Payments Analyst daily rate in the UK is £410, 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 484 553 702
Rank change year-on-year +69 +149 +91
Contract jobs requiring a Payments Analyst 36 29 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.067% 0.027%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.072% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 23 11
10th Percentile £302 £433 £413
25th Percentile £358 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -36.92% +13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £500 £700 £700
90th Percentile £642 - £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £358 £490 £525
% change year-on-year -26.94% -6.67% +16.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Payments Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Payments Analyst in the UK

Payments Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Payments Analyst.

Daily rate trend for Payments Analyst in the UK

Payments Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Payments Analyst over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Payments Analyst in the UK

Payments Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Payments Analyst.

Hourly rate trend for Payments Analyst in the UK

Payments Analyst
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 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
England +68 33 £405 -42.14% 10
London +41 23 £430 -38.57% 9
UK excluding London +73 12 £358 -26.94% 4
Work from Home +31 9 £500 -23.08% 7
North of England - 5 £358 -
North West - 4 £313 -
Scotland +15 3 £488 -0.51%
South East - 2 £398 - 3
South West +46 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 £447 -
East Midlands - 1 £317 -
Midlands - 1 £317 -

Payments Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 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 featuring Payments Analyst in the job title.

1 19 (52.78%) Finance
2 16 (44.44%) Banking
3 15 (41.67%) Social Skills
4 12 (33.33%) SEPA
5 11 (30.56%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (27.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 8 (22.22%) Agile
8 6 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (13.89%) JIRA
9 5 (13.89%) Migration
10 4 (11.11%) Data Analysis
11 3 (8.33%) Business Analysis
11 3 (8.33%) QA
11 3 (8.33%) AWS
11 3 (8.33%) Confluence
11 3 (8.33%) Time Management
11 3 (8.33%) Data Migration
11 3 (8.33%) Change Management
11 3 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
11 3 (8.33%) SQL
11 3 (8.33%) Oracle
11 3 (8.33%) Project Delivery
11 3 (8.33%) ISO 20022
12 2 (5.56%) SDLC
12 2 (5.56%) JSON
12 2 (5.56%) Waterfall
12 2 (5.56%) Oracle Exadata
12 2 (5.56%) Data Governance
12 2 (5.56%) Process Improvement
12 2 (5.56%) Kafka

Payments Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (8.33%) Confluence
2 1 (2.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (2.78%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 3 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (2.78%) Azure
2 1 (2.78%) GCP
2 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.56%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.78%) Power BI
2 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (13.89%) JIRA
2 1 (2.78%) IBM UrbanCode
2 1 (2.78%) JMeter
General
1 19 (52.78%) Finance
2 16 (44.44%) Banking
3 15 (41.67%) Social Skills
4 11 (30.56%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.56%) Retail Banking
6 1 (2.78%) Back Office
6 1 (2.78%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (2.78%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.56%) JSON
1 2 (5.56%) Kafka
1 2 (5.56%) XML
2 1 (2.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 2 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.78%) Digital Wallet
3 1 (2.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.78%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) Unix
1 1 (2.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (22.22%) Agile
2 6 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (13.89%) Migration
4 4 (11.11%) Data Analysis
5 3 (8.33%) Business Analysis
5 3 (8.33%) Change Management
5 3 (8.33%) Data Migration
5 3 (8.33%) Project Delivery
5 3 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (8.33%) Time Management
6 2 (5.56%) Analytics
6 2 (5.56%) Data Analytics
6 2 (5.56%) Data Governance
6 2 (5.56%) Data Science
6 2 (5.56%) Decision-Making
6 2 (5.56%) Process Improvement
6 2 (5.56%) Proprietary Trading
6 2 (5.56%) SDLC
6 2 (5.56%) Waterfall
6 2 (5.56%) Work Breakdown Structure
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.33%) SQL
2 1 (2.78%) MATLAB
2 1 (2.78%) Python
2 1 (2.78%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (2.78%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (33.33%) SEPA
2 3 (8.33%) ISO 20022
2 3 (8.33%) QA
3 2 (5.56%) GDPR
4 1 (2.78%) TARGET2
System Software
1 1 (2.78%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 1 (2.78%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 3 (8.33%) Oracle
2 2 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.78%) Adobe
3 1 (2.78%) Google
3 1 (2.78%) IBM
3 1 (2.78%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.78%) Murex