Payments Architect Jobs in the UK excluding London

Payments Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Payments Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 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
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 583 - 739
Rank change year-on-year - - +96
Permanent jobs requiring a Payments Architect 2 0 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.005% - 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.006% - 0.021%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £61,750
25th Percentile £87,500 - £62,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 - £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -21.74%
75th Percentile £92,500 - £68,750
90th Percentile - - £83,875
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year - -44.44% -5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 35,427 67,196 53,197
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 94.83% 89.21%
Number of salaries quoted 18,481 47,540 30,291
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,750 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Payments Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Payments Architect in the UK excluding London

Payments Architect
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Payments Architect in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Payments Architect in the UK excluding London

Payments Architect
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Payments Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 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
East Midlands - 1 £90,000 - 1
Midlands - 1 £90,000 - 1
South East - 1 - - 6
Payments Architect
UK

Payments Architect Skill Set
Top 16 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 15 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 UK excluding London region featuring Payments Architect in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) API Design
2 1 (50.00%) API Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Zachman Framework

Payments Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (50.00%) API Design
2 1 (50.00%) API Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Zachman Framework