SEPA Contract Job Trends in London

Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring SEPA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 340 381
Rank change year-on-year -68 +41 +64
Contract jobs citing SEPA 39 33 11
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.19% 0.25% 0.068%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.01% 1.44% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 26 7
10th Percentile £425 £354 £615
25th Percentile £453 £405 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £550 £700
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -21.50% +10.24%
75th Percentile £658 £689 -
90th Percentile £803 £703 £720
England median daily rate £590 £487 £700
% change year-on-year +21.09% -30.39% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £87.50 -
England median hourly rate - £87.50 -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 3,874 2,298 2,219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 19.17% 17.16% 13.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,614 1,527 1,450
10th Percentile £350 £325 £337
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £737 £750 £800
England median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 51 40
10th Percentile £19.76 - £18.13
25th Percentile £23.50 £25.15 £23.35
Median hourly rate £28.55 £34.00 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year -16.03% +21.78% -20.23%
75th Percentile £40.00 £43.98 £50.44
90th Percentile £58.25 £55.00 £72.56
England median hourly rate £36.07 £32.00 £28.00
% change year-on-year +12.72% +14.29% -20.00%

SEPA
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SEPA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

SEPA job vacancy trend in London

SEPA
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing SEPA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing SEPA

SEPA
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SEPA in London over the 6 months to 7 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SEPA in London

SEPA
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing SEPA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing SEPA

SEPA
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 7 September 2026. 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
Central London -20 4 £638 +58.39% 4
SEPA
England

SEPA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (15.38%) Confluence
2 1 (2.56%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 2 (5.13%) NetSuite
2 1 (2.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (30.77%) AWS
1 12 (30.77%) Azure
2 5 (12.82%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (10.26%) GitHub
4 2 (5.13%) Boomi
4 2 (5.13%) Workato
5 1 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.56%) GCP
5 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) Network Security
1 1 (2.56%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.69%) Db2
2 2 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.13%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.56%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.56%) OLTP
3 1 (2.56%) Power BI
3 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (17.95%) JIRA
2 5 (12.82%) Jenkins
3 4 (10.26%) Maven
3 4 (10.26%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.56%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.56%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.56%) Flyway
4 1 (2.56%) Gatling
4 1 (2.56%) Git
4 1 (2.56%) JMeter
4 1 (2.56%) Liquibase
4 1 (2.56%) Postman
4 1 (2.56%) REST Assured
4 1 (2.56%) Selenium
4 1 (2.56%) SoapUI
4 1 (2.56%) TeamCity
4 1 (2.56%) TestCafe
General
1 32 (82.05%) Banking
2 29 (74.36%) Finance
3 10 (25.64%) Social Skills
4 6 (15.38%) Billing
5 4 (10.26%) Financial Institution
6 2 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.13%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.56%) International Banking
7 1 (2.56%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (46.15%) Architect
2 13 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
3 12 (30.77%) Payments Architect
4 10 (25.64%) Senior
5 9 (23.08%) Payments Solutions Architect
6 6 (15.38%) Analyst
6 6 (15.38%) Payments Analyst
7 5 (12.82%) Banking Analyst
8 4 (10.26%) Banking Business Analyst
8 4 (10.26%) Business Analyst
8 4 (10.26%) Developer
8 4 (10.26%) Java Engineer
8 4 (10.26%) Payments Business Analyst
8 4 (10.26%) Payments Project Manager
8 4 (10.26%) Project Manager
8 4 (10.26%) Senior Java Engineer
9 3 (7.69%) Senior Architect
10 2 (5.13%) Integration Specialist
10 2 (5.13%) Senior Solutions Architect
10 2 (5.13%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (28.21%) Kafka
2 6 (15.38%) Spring
2 6 (15.38%) Spring Boot
3 4 (10.26%) Middleware
3 4 (10.26%) REST
3 4 (10.26%) Terraform
4 2 (5.13%) OAuth
4 2 (5.13%) OAuth2
4 2 (5.13%) Restlet
4 2 (5.13%) SOAP
5 1 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.56%) XML
5 1 (2.56%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 30 (76.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 6 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 6 (15.38%) Mainframe
2 6 (15.38%) Product Ownership
3 4 (10.26%) Low-Code
4 2 (5.13%) PACS
4 2 (5.13%) PMI
5 1 (2.56%) Clustering
5 1 (2.56%) Fedwire
5 1 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.13%) Linux
1 2 (5.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (38.46%) Stakeholder Management
2 13 (33.33%) Microservices
2 13 (33.33%) Migration
3 9 (23.08%) Agile
3 9 (23.08%) Cash Management
4 8 (20.51%) DevOps
4 8 (20.51%) Roadmaps
5 7 (17.95%) Waterfall
6 6 (15.38%) Architectural Patterns
6 6 (15.38%) Architecture Governance
6 6 (15.38%) Architecture Roadmap
6 6 (15.38%) CRM
6 6 (15.38%) Event-Driven
6 6 (15.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 6 (15.38%) High Availability
6 6 (15.38%) KYC
6 6 (15.38%) TOGAF
6 6 (15.38%) User Acceptance Testing
7 5 (12.82%) Decision-Making
7 5 (12.82%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 9 (23.08%) Java
2 5 (12.82%) SQL
3 3 (7.69%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.13%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.56%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.56%) Python
5 1 (2.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (12.82%) CISA
2 4 (10.26%) PMI Certification
3 2 (5.13%) PMP
3 2 (5.13%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (64.10%) ISO 20022
2 5 (12.82%) PSD2
3 4 (10.26%) TARGET2
4 3 (7.69%) PMO
5 2 (5.13%) QA
System Software
1 5 (12.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (12.82%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.26%) Argo
3 1 (2.56%) Ansible
3 1 (2.56%) Control-M
3 1 (2.56%) Grafana
3 1 (2.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (10.26%) IBM
2 2 (5.13%) Dell
2 2 (5.13%) Oracle
3 1 (2.56%) AppDynamics
3 1 (2.56%) Broadcom
3 1 (2.56%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.56%) Fiserv
3 1 (2.56%) SmartStream
3 1 (2.56%) Splunk