SEPA Contracts in the City of London

Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 126 159
Rank change year-on-year +7 +33 +35
Contract jobs citing SEPA 8 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.43% 0.093% 0.11%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.29% 0.54% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 4
10th Percentile £365 - -
25th Percentile £375 £750 £630
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £751 £653
Median % change year-on-year -40.04% +15.02% +4.03%
75th Percentile £619 £751 £697
90th Percentile £773 - £714
Central London median daily rate £450 £751 £653
% change year-on-year -40.04% +15.02% +4.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £86.25 - -
Median hourly rate £87.50 - -
75th Percentile £88.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £87.50 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 349 369 498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 18.80% 17.21% 14.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 259 368
10th Percentile £367 £363 £393
25th Percentile £436 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £551 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% -8.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £700 £650 £713
90th Percentile £804 £767 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile £28.05 £16.78 -
25th Percentile £37.13 £17.96 -
Median hourly rate £54.50 £20.61 -
Median % change year-on-year +164.50% - -
75th Percentile £72.75 £22.65 -
90th Percentile £82.35 £23.46 -
Central London median hourly rate £34.48 £23.40 £25.00
% change year-on-year +47.35% -6.40% -39.76%

SEPA
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing SEPA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for SEPA in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SEPA in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for SEPA in the City of London

SEPA
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SEPA in the City of London over the 6 months to 10 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SEPA in the City of London

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Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SEPA within the City of London region over the 6 months to 10 July 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
London Bridge - 1 - -
SEPA
Central London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Confluence
1 1 (12.50%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Big Data
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 8 (100.00%) Banking
2 4 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Back Office
4 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Analyst
2 5 (62.50%) Payments Analyst
3 3 (37.50%) Data Analyst
3 3 (37.50%) Data Migration Analyst
3 3 (37.50%) Migration Analyst
4 2 (25.00%) Banking Analyst
4 2 (25.00%) Business Analyst
4 2 (25.00%) Payments Business Analyst
5 1 (12.50%) Banking Business Analyst
5 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
5 1 (12.50%) Payments Programme Manager
5 1 (12.50%) Programme Manager
5 1 (12.50%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (12.50%) Technical Support
5 1 (12.50%) Transformation Manager
5 1 (12.50%) Transformation Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) XML
2 2 (25.00%) JSON
3 1 (12.50%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (12.50%) Derivative
2 1 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (12.50%) PACS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Data Migration
1 3 (37.50%) Migration
2 2 (25.00%) Business Analysis
2 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (25.00%) Work Breakdown Structure
3 1 (12.50%) Agile
3 1 (12.50%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (12.50%) Defect Tracking
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) ETL
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (12.50%) Programme Management
3 1 (12.50%) Project Management
3 1 (12.50%) Scrum
3 1 (12.50%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Python
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
1 1 (12.50%) VBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) IBM
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle