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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 341 368
Rank change year-on-year -24 +27 +161
Contract jobs citing SEPA 21 25 23
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.15% 0.18% 0.13%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.80% 1.27% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 21 20
10th Percentile £310 £400 £593
25th Percentile £416 £573 £633
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £625 £688
Median % change year-on-year -19.92% -9.09% +5.77%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £700
90th Percentile £703 £688 £705
England median daily rate £474 £625 £675
% change year-on-year -24.16% -7.41% +3.85%

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 2,624 1,964 2,510
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.23% 13.78% 13.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,757 1,191 1,841
10th Percentile £343 £300 £363
25th Percentile £415 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £573
Median % change year-on-year - -8.30% +4.09%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £700
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 30 48
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.81 £18.75
25th Percentile £25.15 £22.65 £24.79
Median hourly rate £27.75 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% - +22.81%
75th Percentile £39.87 £78.40 £52.50
90th Percentile £74.48 £95.25 £64.65
England median hourly rate £26.11 £30.21 £33.00
% change year-on-year -13.57% -8.45% +36.08%

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 January 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 January 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 -6 5 £490 -21.60% 3
East London +1 2 £416 +4.00%
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 4 (19.05%) Confluence
2 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (9.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 5 (23.81%) AWS
1 5 (23.81%) Azure
2 3 (14.29%) Azure API Management
3 2 (9.52%) GCP
3 2 (9.52%) GitHub
3 2 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (9.52%) OpenShift
4 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) Oracle Database
2 2 (9.52%) Hazelcast
2 2 (9.52%) NoSQL
2 2 (9.52%) Redis
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle Database 10g
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) JIRA
2 3 (14.29%) JUnit
2 3 (14.29%) SoapUI
3 2 (9.52%) Gatling
3 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.76%) Ant
General
1 18 (85.71%) Banking
2 15 (71.43%) Finance
3 10 (47.62%) Social Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Financial Institution
4 2 (9.52%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (47.62%) Analyst
2 9 (42.86%) Business Analyst
3 7 (33.33%) Payments Analyst
4 6 (28.57%) Payments Business Analyst
5 5 (23.81%) Developer
6 3 (14.29%) Middleware Developer
7 2 (9.52%) Banking Analyst
7 2 (9.52%) Banking Business Analyst
7 2 (9.52%) Java Developer
8 1 (4.76%) Architect
8 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Architect
8 1 (4.76%) Technical Analyst
8 1 (4.76%) Technical Business Analyst
8 1 (4.76%) Technical Specialist
8 1 (4.76%) Test Analyst
8 1 (4.76%) Treasury Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) Kafka
2 4 (19.05%) XML
3 3 (14.29%) IBM Integration Bus
3 3 (14.29%) Middleware
3 3 (14.29%) SOAP
4 2 (9.52%) Apache Avro
4 2 (9.52%) EDI
4 2 (9.52%) JSON
4 2 (9.52%) Micronaut
4 2 (9.52%) OAuth
4 2 (9.52%) OAuth2
4 2 (9.52%) OpenID
4 2 (9.52%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (9.52%) Quarkus
4 2 (9.52%) Spring
4 2 (9.52%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 15 (71.43%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 3 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 3 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (9.52%) Management Information System
3 2 (9.52%) PACS
3 2 (9.52%) PMI
4 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Linux
1 3 (14.29%) Unix
1 3 (14.29%) Windows
2 2 (9.52%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 6 (28.57%) Agile
3 5 (23.81%) Acceptance Criteria
3 5 (23.81%) System Integration Testing
3 5 (23.81%) User Stories
4 4 (19.05%) Anti-Money Laundering
4 4 (19.05%) Event-Driven
4 4 (19.05%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 4 (19.05%) Fintech
4 4 (19.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (14.29%) API Management
5 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (14.29%) Project Delivery
5 3 (14.29%) Project Management
5 3 (14.29%) Regression Testing
5 3 (14.29%) Regulatory Change
5 3 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
6 2 (9.52%) Migration
6 2 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (33.33%) SQL
2 5 (23.81%) Java
2 5 (23.81%) Korn
3 3 (14.29%) Perl
3 3 (14.29%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) CBAP
1 2 (9.52%) Degree
1 2 (9.52%) PMI Certification
1 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (66.67%) ISO 20022
2 9 (42.86%) PSD2
3 5 (23.81%) QA
4 2 (9.52%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Ansible
1 2 (9.52%) Argo
1 2 (9.52%) Grafana
1 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
1 2 (9.52%) Prometheus
1 2 (9.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Oracle
2 3 (14.29%) IBM
3 2 (9.52%) Confluent
4 1 (4.76%) Aquila
4 1 (4.76%) FIS
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft