Head of Payments Jobs in London

Head of Payments
England > London

The median Head of Payments salary in London is £135,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 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
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 399 506 -
Rank change year-on-year +107 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Head of Payments 2 2 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.016% 0.008% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.017% 0.009% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £130,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £135,000 £120,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -
75th Percentile £140,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £135,000 £120,000 -
% change year-on-year +12.50% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

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

Permanent vacancies in London with a recognized job title 11,599 22,211 32,675
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.15% 94.13% 95.00%
Number of salaries quoted 7,448 16,662 24,070
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Head of Payments
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Head of Payments in London

Head of Payments
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Head of Payments in London.

Salary trend for Head of Payments in London

Head of Payments
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Head of Payments within the London region over the 6 months to 10 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
Central London - 2 £135,000 - 1
Head of Payments
England

Head of Payments Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 10 May 2025, Head of Payments 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 London region featuring Head of Payments in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (50.00%) Adaptive Web Design
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Debt
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Architecture Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) OLAP
2 1 (50.00%) OLTP
2 1 (50.00%) SLA
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering

Head of Payments Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (50.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (50.00%) OLAP
1 1 (50.00%) OLTP
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Adaptive Web Design
2 1 (50.00%) ArchiMate
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) CQRS
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Fintech
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Stress Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Debt
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (50.00%) QA
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google