Payments Architect Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Payments Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Payments Architect daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £600, 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 293 334 457
Rank change year-on-year +41 +123 +152
Contract jobs requiring a Payments Architect 11 11 20
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.072% 0.077%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.077% 0.081%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 17
10th Percentile - - £538
25th Percentile - £550 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £700
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -10.71% +36.92%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £738
90th Percentile £620 £688 £753
UK median daily rate £600 £675 £725
% change year-on-year -11.11% -6.90% +16.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Payments Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Payments Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Payments Architect trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Payments Architect
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Payments Architect.

Payments Architect daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Payments Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Payments Architect in the job title.

1 9 (81.82%) Banking
2 8 (72.73%) Roadmaps
3 7 (63.64%) Corporate Banking
4 5 (45.45%) Architectural Design
5 3 (27.27%) ISO 20022
5 3 (27.27%) Finance
5 3 (27.27%) Oracle
6 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
6 2 (18.18%) Azure
6 2 (18.18%) AWS
6 2 (18.18%) SEPA
6 2 (18.18%) Fintech
6 2 (18.18%) Client Onboarding
6 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
6 2 (18.18%) Middleware
6 2 (18.18%) Business Strategy
7 1 (9.09%) WebSphere
7 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery
7 1 (9.09%) Business Case
7 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
7 1 (9.09%) Workshop Facilitation
7 1 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
7 1 (9.09%) Architecture Roadmap
7 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 1 (9.09%) Waterfall
7 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
7 1 (9.09%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (9.09%) Oracle Exadata

Payments Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (9.09%) JBoss
1 1 (9.09%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Exadata
General
1 9 (81.82%) Banking
2 7 (63.64%) Corporate Banking
3 3 (27.27%) Finance
4 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Middleware
2 1 (9.09%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
1 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
2 1 (9.09%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Roadmaps
2 5 (45.45%) Architectural Design
3 2 (18.18%) Business Strategy
3 2 (18.18%) Client Onboarding
3 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (18.18%) Fintech
3 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (9.09%) Agile
4 1 (9.09%) Architecture Roadmap
4 1 (9.09%) Business Case
4 1 (9.09%) Microservices
4 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery
4 1 (9.09%) Risk Management
4 1 (9.09%) SDLC
4 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (9.09%) Waterfall
4 1 (9.09%) Workshop Facilitation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) ISO 20022
2 2 (18.18%) SEPA
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) MuleSoft