SEPA Contracts in Cheshire

Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring SEPA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SEPA over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 59 -
Rank change year-on-year +5 - -
Contract jobs citing SEPA 9 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.79% 0.18% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.50% 0.91% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £375 - -
25th Percentile £376 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 - -
75th Percentile £503 - -
90th Percentile £506 - -
North West median daily rate £492 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Cheshire

SEPA falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 72 110 80
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 14.34% 20.00% 15.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 57 48
10th Percentile £313 £380 £288
25th Percentile £358 £405 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £439 £500 £456
Median % change year-on-year -12.30% +9.59% +7.35%
75th Percentile £568 £565 £550
90th Percentile £671 £580 £652
North West median daily rate £465 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -6.95% +5.26% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 10
10th Percentile £37.60 £17.53 £14.56
25th Percentile £49.75 £26.66 £20.76
Median hourly rate £70.00 £42.50 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +64.71% +39.16% +9.52%
75th Percentile £77.63 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £82.20 - £38.20
North West median hourly rate £47.25 £12.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +293.75% -68.00% -25.02%

SEPA
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing SEPA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for SEPA in Cheshire

SEPA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SEPA in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for SEPA in Cheshire

SEPA
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SEPA in Cheshire over the 6 months to 10 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SEPA in Cheshire

SEPA
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SEPA within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 10 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford - 7 £492 - 2
SEPA
North West

SEPA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (33.33%) Banking
4 2 (22.22%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Architect
2 4 (44.44%) Test Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Payments Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Payments Solutions Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Development Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Software Development Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) JSON
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Android
1 4 (44.44%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) CI/CD
1 7 (77.78%) Test Automation
2 4 (44.44%) End-to-End Testing
2 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (33.33%) Component Testing
3 3 (33.33%) DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Architectural Design
4 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
5 1 (11.11%) API Testing
5 1 (11.11%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) ISO 20022