Payments Project Manager Contracts

Project Manager - Payments
UK

The median Project Manager - Payments daily rate in the UK is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2024.

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

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 549 628 825
Rank change year-on-year +79 +197 -40
Contract jobs requiring a Payments Project Manager 17 18 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.036% 0.033%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.048% 0.038% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 18
10th Percentile £380 £546 £465
25th Percentile £400 £600 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £613 £569
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £750 £650
90th Percentile £678 - £779
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £613 £538
% change year-on-year -34.69% +13.95% -2.27%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 35,672 46,944 81,846
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.92% 94.15% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,921 32,148 57,528
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £419 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,658 1,511 1,784
10th Percentile £14.73 £14.93 £13.02
25th Percentile £20.30 £19.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £43.00 £44.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.37% +71.15% +30.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.90 £43.75 £22.00
% change year-on-year +0.34% +98.86% +22.22%

Payments Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Payments Project Manager in the UK

Payments Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Payments Project Manager.

Daily rate trend for Payments Project Manager in the UK

Payments Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Payments Project Manager over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Payments Project Manager in the UK

Payments Project Manager
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Payments Project Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 20 September 2024. 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
England +73 15 £575 -6.12%
London +70 14 £588 -12.96%
Work from Home +82 4 £350 -41.67%
UK excluding London +42 1 £400 -34.69%
North of England +31 1 £400 -34.69%
East Midlands - 1 £400 -
Midlands - 1 £400 -
North West - 1 £400 -

Payments Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 20 September 2024, Payments Project Manager 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 job ads featuring Payments Project Manager in the job title.

1 14 (82.35%) Finance
2 9 (52.94%) Banking
3 7 (41.18%) Agile
4 6 (35.29%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 5 (29.41%) Retail
6 4 (23.53%) Google
6 4 (23.53%) Degree
6 4 (23.53%) User Acceptance Testing
6 4 (23.53%) Data Mapping
6 4 (23.53%) PRINCE2
6 4 (23.53%) Financial Institution
6 4 (23.53%) Calypso
6 4 (23.53%) PMP
6 4 (23.53%) PMI Certification
6 4 (23.53%) Apple
6 4 (23.53%) Straight-Through Processing
6 4 (23.53%) Regulatory Compliance
6 4 (23.53%) Decision-Making
6 4 (23.53%) Apple Pay
6 4 (23.53%) Google Pay
6 4 (23.53%) Contract Negotiation
6 4 (23.53%) Requirements Gathering
6 4 (23.53%) Business Case
7 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
7 3 (17.65%) ISO 20022
7 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (11.76%) Waterfall
9 1 (5.88%) DevOps
9 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
9 1 (5.88%) mPOS

Payments Project Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (5.88%) PeopleSoft Financials
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) Apple Pay
1 4 (23.53%) Google Pay
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
General
1 14 (82.35%) Finance
2 9 (52.94%) Banking
3 5 (29.41%) Retail
4 4 (23.53%) Financial Institution
5 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
6 1 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (5.88%) Spanish Language
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (5.88%) EPoS
2 1 (5.88%) mPOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Agile
2 4 (23.53%) Business Case
2 4 (23.53%) Contract Negotiation
2 4 (23.53%) Data Mapping
2 4 (23.53%) Decision-Making
2 4 (23.53%) PRINCE2
2 4 (23.53%) Regulatory Compliance
2 4 (23.53%) Requirements Gathering
2 4 (23.53%) Straight-Through Processing
2 4 (23.53%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (11.76%) Waterfall
5 1 (5.88%) Accounts Payable
5 1 (5.88%) Budgeting
5 1 (5.88%) Budgeting and Forecasting
5 1 (5.88%) CI/CD
5 1 (5.88%) DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) Fintech
5 1 (5.88%) Project Delivery
5 1 (5.88%) Scaled Agile Framework
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Degree
1 4 (23.53%) PMI Certification
1 4 (23.53%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) ISO 20022
2 1 (5.88%) GRC
2 1 (5.88%) SEPA
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Apple
1 4 (23.53%) Calypso
1 4 (23.53%) Google
2 1 (5.88%) PeopleSoft