Payments Architect Jobs in England

Payments Architect
UK > England

The median Payments Architect salary in England is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 670 832 898
Rank change year-on-year +162 +66 +241
Permanent jobs requiring a Payments Architect 13 10 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.027% 0.011% 0.026%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.012% 0.029%
Number of salaries quoted 11 1 9
10th Percentile - - £61,750
25th Percentile - - £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - -25.93% -28.95%
75th Percentile - - £100,000
90th Percentile £85,000 - -
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £78,750
% change year-on-year - -36.51% -17.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 43,919 83,679 79,671
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.79% 94.64% 91.48%
Number of salaries quoted 23,116 62,210 50,998
10th Percentile £29,250 £28,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,084 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Payments Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Payments Architect in England

Payments Architect
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Payments Architect in England.

Salary trend for Payments Architect in England

Payments Architect
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Payments Architect in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Payments Architect in England

Payments Architect
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Payments Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 28 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +120 10 £50,000 - 4
East Midlands - 1 £90,000 -
Midlands - 1 £90,000 -
North West - 1 - - 1
South East - 1 - - 3
North of England - 1 - - 1
Payments Architect
UK

Payments Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, Payments Architect 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 permanent job ads across the England region featuring Payments Architect in the job title.

1 11 (84.62%) Finance
1 11 (84.62%) API Integration
2 10 (76.92%) Banking
3 9 (69.23%) ATM
3 9 (69.23%) IBM
3 9 (69.23%) zOS
3 9 (69.23%) Mainframe
3 9 (69.23%) IBM Mainframe
3 9 (69.23%) Postilion
4 3 (23.08%) API Design
4 3 (23.08%) TOGAF
5 2 (15.38%) Azure
5 2 (15.38%) AWS
5 2 (15.38%) Microservices
5 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
5 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (7.69%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (7.69%) Architectural Design
6 1 (7.69%) Customer Requirements
6 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (7.69%) Strategic Thinking
6 1 (7.69%) Mobile Wallet
6 1 (7.69%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (7.69%) Wearables
6 1 (7.69%) Business Strategy
6 1 (7.69%) Integration Patterns
6 1 (7.69%) Architectural Patterns
6 1 (7.69%) API Management

Payments Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 9 (69.23%) Postilion
2 1 (7.69%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) AWS
1 2 (15.38%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) GCP
2 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (69.23%) ATM
General
1 11 (84.62%) Finance
2 10 (76.92%) Banking
3 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Retail
4 1 (7.69%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (69.23%) IBM Mainframe
1 9 (69.23%) Mainframe
2 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.69%) Mobile Wallet
Operating Systems
1 9 (69.23%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) API Integration
2 3 (23.08%) API Design
2 3 (23.08%) TOGAF
3 2 (15.38%) Microservices
3 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (7.69%) API Management
4 1 (7.69%) Architectural Design
4 1 (7.69%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (7.69%) Business Strategy
4 1 (7.69%) Computer Science
4 1 (7.69%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (7.69%) Fintech
4 1 (7.69%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (7.69%) Presales
4 1 (7.69%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 1 (7.69%) SDLC
4 1 (7.69%) Software Engineering
4 1 (7.69%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
1 1 (7.69%) TOGAF Certification
Vendors
1 9 (69.23%) IBM
2 1 (7.69%) Google