SEPA Contracts in England

Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 456 516 631
Rank change year-on-year +60 +115 +96
Contract jobs citing SEPA 29 26 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.070% 0.044%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.75% 0.49% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 23 9
10th Percentile £375 £618 £511
25th Percentile £462 £656 £630
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £700 £675
Median % change year-on-year -15.18% +3.70% -
75th Percentile £650 - £725
90th Percentile £676 £710 £728
UK median daily rate £594 £700 £653
% change year-on-year -15.18% +7.28% +0.38%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 3,865 5,295 6,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.87% 14.24% 13.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,481 3,378 4,585
10th Percentile £270 £300 £276
25th Percentile £400 £408 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -
75th Percentile £635 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 347 206
10th Percentile £17.78 £10.95 £13.94
25th Percentile £22.27 £13.09 £19.50
Median hourly rate £34.75 £22.34 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.55% -46.17% +50.91%
75th Percentile £65.00 £45.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £79.11 £67.38 £79.88
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £20.80 £37.50
% change year-on-year +65.85% -44.53% +33.93%

SEPA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SEPA in England

SEPA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SEPA in England

SEPA
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SEPA in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SEPA in England

SEPA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SEPA in England.

Hourly rate trend for SEPA in England

SEPA
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SEPA within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +39 24 £625 -10.71% 40
North of England +22 4 £508 - 5
North West +20 4 £508 - 5
SEPA
UK

SEPA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (3.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (6.90%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle E-Business Tax
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle iProcurement
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.90%) Azure
1 2 (6.90%) Azure API Management
2 1 (3.45%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.45%) Big Data
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle Database 10g
2 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Ant
1 2 (6.90%) SoapUI
1 2 (6.90%) Toad
2 1 (3.45%) Cucumber
2 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.45%) JIRA
2 1 (3.45%) JUnit
2 1 (3.45%) LoadRunner
2 1 (3.45%) NUnit
2 1 (3.45%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (3.45%) TeamCity
General
1 15 (51.72%) Banking
1 15 (51.72%) Finance
2 13 (44.83%) Social Skills
3 4 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Corporate Banking
4 2 (6.90%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.45%) General Ledger
5 1 (3.45%) Legal
Job Titles
1 15 (51.72%) Analyst
2 12 (41.38%) Payments Analyst
3 6 (20.69%) Test Analyst
4 5 (17.24%) Business Analyst
4 5 (17.24%) Payments Business Analyst
5 4 (13.79%) Architect
5 4 (13.79%) Data Analyst
5 4 (13.79%) Data Migration Analyst
5 4 (13.79%) Migration Analyst
5 4 (13.79%) Payments Architect
6 3 (10.34%) Banking Analyst
6 3 (10.34%) Banking Business Analyst
6 3 (10.34%) Developer
6 3 (10.34%) Project Manager
6 3 (10.34%) Senior
7 2 (6.90%) Payments Project Manager
7 2 (6.90%) Payments Solutions Architect
7 2 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (6.90%) UAT Analyst
7 2 (6.90%) UAT Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.79%) XML
2 3 (10.34%) JSON
3 2 (6.90%) EDI
3 2 (6.90%) IBM Integration Bus
3 2 (6.90%) Kafka
3 2 (6.90%) Middleware
3 2 (6.90%) OAuth
3 2 (6.90%) OAuth2
3 2 (6.90%) SOAP
4 1 (3.45%) .NET
4 1 (3.45%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.45%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.45%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (3.45%) Entity Framework
4 1 (3.45%) Gherkin
4 1 (3.45%) Kendo UI
4 1 (3.45%) Spring
4 1 (3.45%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (44.83%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 2 (6.90%) Digital Wallet
2 2 (6.90%) EMV
3 1 (3.45%) EFT
3 1 (3.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (3.45%) Online Banking
3 1 (3.45%) PACS
3 1 (3.45%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.34%) Unix
1 3 (10.34%) Windows
2 2 (6.90%) AIX
2 2 (6.90%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (27.59%) Migration
2 5 (17.24%) Data Migration
2 5 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (10.34%) Software Engineering
4 2 (6.90%) Algorithmic Trading
4 2 (6.90%) Architectural Design
4 2 (6.90%) Business Analysis
4 2 (6.90%) Event-Driven
4 2 (6.90%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 2 (6.90%) GAP Analysis
4 2 (6.90%) Integration Testing
4 2 (6.90%) Microservices
4 2 (6.90%) Project Delivery
4 2 (6.90%) Project Management
4 2 (6.90%) Roadmaps
4 2 (6.90%) SDLC
4 2 (6.90%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (6.90%) Test Scripting
4 2 (6.90%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (6.90%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.34%) Java
1 3 (10.34%) SQL
2 2 (6.90%) Korn
2 2 (6.90%) Perl
2 2 (6.90%) PL/SQL
3 1 (3.45%) C#
3 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.45%) Python
3 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
3 1 (3.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (3.45%) Degree
1 1 (3.45%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (34.48%) ISO 20022
2 2 (6.90%) ISO 8583
2 2 (6.90%) PCI DSS
2 2 (6.90%) PSD2
2 2 (6.90%) QA
3 1 (3.45%) TARGET2
Vendors
1 4 (13.79%) Oracle
2 2 (6.90%) IBM
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.90%) Perforce
3 1 (3.45%) Murex