Payments Architect Contract Job Trends in West Wales

Payments Architect
Wales > West Wales

The median Payments Architect daily rate in West Wales 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 11 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Payments Architect 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Wales 2.44% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 3.13% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
Wales median daily rate £500 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
West Wales

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in West Wales. 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 West Wales with a recognized job title 32 31 18
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 78.05% 100.00% 94.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 28 15
10th Percentile £206 £125 £180
25th Percentile £400 £186 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £325
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +53.85% -31.58%
75th Percentile £500 £539 £416
90th Percentile £638 £558 £490
Wales median daily rate £413 £425 £388
% change year-on-year -2.76% +9.68% -14.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 0
10th Percentile - £17.20 -
25th Percentile £13.33 £17.88 -
Median hourly rate £13.85 £20.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.78% - -
75th Percentile £16.43 £22.38 -
90th Percentile £19.28 £23.20 -
Wales median hourly rate £19.00 £25.36 £32.50
% change year-on-year -25.08% -21.97% +113.68%

Payments Architect
Contract Job Locations in West Wales

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 West Wales region over the 6 months to 16 January 2026. 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
Swansea - 1 £500 -
Payments Architect
Wales

Payments Architect Skill Set
Top 16 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Wales

For the 6 months to 16 January 2026, Payments 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 West Wales region featuring Payments 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 Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Wales 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