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 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 409 331 373
Rank change year-on-year -78 +42 +68
Contract jobs citing SEPA 39 33 12
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.19% 0.25% 0.074%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.00% 1.42% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 26 8
10th Percentile £425 £354 £598
25th Percentile £556 £405 £633
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £592 £550 £700
Median % change year-on-year +7.73% -21.50% +9.38%
75th Percentile £680 £698 -
90th Percentile £837 £709 £715
England median daily rate £590 £487 £670
% change year-on-year +21.09% -27.28% +4.69%
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 3,887 2,325 2,228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 19.30% 17.39% 13.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,639 1,549 1,435
10th Percentile £350 £325 £333
25th Percentile £430 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £725 £750 £800
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 49 40
10th Percentile £15.88 - £18.13
25th Percentile £21.33 £25.15 £23.35
Median hourly rate £28.00 £34.00 £29.73
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +14.36% +14.35%
75th Percentile £40.00 £42.75 £49.06
90th Percentile £55.78 £54.35 £71.88
England median hourly rate £33.00 £32.50 £33.07
% change year-on-year +1.54% -1.72% -8.14%

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 21 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 21 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 -22 5 £638 +58.39% 5
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 2 (5.13%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 2 (5.13%) NetSuite
2 1 (2.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (35.90%) Azure
2 13 (33.33%) AWS
3 6 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (12.82%) GitHub
5 2 (5.13%) Boomi
5 2 (5.13%) GCP
5 2 (5.13%) Power Platform
5 2 (5.13%) Workato
6 1 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.56%) Apigee
6 1 (2.56%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.69%) Db2
2 2 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.13%) Power BI
2 2 (5.13%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.56%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.56%) Big Data
3 1 (2.56%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.56%) OLTP
3 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (20.51%) JIRA
2 6 (15.38%) 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 34 (87.18%) Banking
2 29 (74.36%) Finance
3 11 (28.21%) Social Skills
4 6 (15.38%) Billing
5 4 (10.26%) Financial Institution
6 2 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.13%) International Banking
6 2 (5.13%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.56%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.56%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (46.15%) Architect
2 14 (35.90%) Solutions Architect
3 12 (30.77%) Senior
4 11 (28.21%) Payments Architect
5 9 (23.08%) Payments Solutions Architect
6 7 (17.95%) Analyst
6 7 (17.95%) 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
9 3 (7.69%) Senior Solutions Architect
9 3 (7.69%) Test Analyst
10 2 (5.13%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (30.77%) Kafka
2 7 (17.95%) Spring
2 7 (17.95%) Spring Boot
3 5 (12.82%) REST
3 5 (12.82%) Terraform
4 4 (10.26%) Middleware
5 3 (7.69%) SOAP
6 2 (5.13%) OAuth
6 2 (5.13%) OAuth2
6 2 (5.13%) Restlet
7 1 (2.56%) .NET
7 1 (2.56%) .NET Core
7 1 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (2.56%) Node.js
7 1 (2.56%) XML
7 1 (2.56%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 30 (76.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 7 (17.95%) Cloud Native
2 7 (17.95%) Product Ownership
3 6 (15.38%) Mainframe
4 4 (10.26%) Low-Code
5 2 (5.13%) PACS
5 2 (5.13%) PMI
6 1 (2.56%) Clustering
6 1 (2.56%) Fedwire
6 1 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.13%) Linux
1 2 (5.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (43.59%) Stakeholder Management
2 14 (35.90%) Microservices
3 13 (33.33%) Migration
4 10 (25.64%) Agile
4 10 (25.64%) Cash Management
5 9 (23.08%) DevOps
6 8 (20.51%) Roadmaps
6 8 (20.51%) Waterfall
7 7 (17.95%) Architecture Governance
7 7 (17.95%) Architecture Roadmap
7 7 (17.95%) Event-Driven
7 7 (17.95%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 7 (17.95%) KYC
7 7 (17.95%) TOGAF
8 6 (15.38%) Architectural Patterns
8 6 (15.38%) CRM
8 6 (15.38%) High Availability
9 5 (12.82%) B2B
9 5 (12.82%) Integration Patterns
9 5 (12.82%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (25.64%) Java
2 6 (15.38%) 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
1 5 (12.82%) PMI Certification
2 3 (7.69%) PMP
3 1 (2.56%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.56%) Degree
3 1 (2.56%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.56%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (64.10%) ISO 20022
2 5 (12.82%) PSD2
2 5 (12.82%) TARGET2
3 3 (7.69%) PMO
4 1 (2.56%) QA
System Software
1 6 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (15.38%) 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 3 (7.69%) IBM
1 3 (7.69%) Oracle
2 2 (5.13%) Dell
3 1 (2.56%) AppDynamics
3 1 (2.56%) Calypso
3 1 (2.56%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.56%) FIS
3 1 (2.56%) Google
3 1 (2.56%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.56%) Murex
3 1 (2.56%) SAP
3 1 (2.56%) SmartStream
3 1 (2.56%) Splunk
3 1 (2.56%) Temenos