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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 322 376
Rank change year-on-year -42 +54 +136
Contract jobs citing SEPA 23 30 22
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.15% 0.22% 0.12%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.82% 1.56% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 24 21
10th Percentile £309 £400 £610
25th Percentile £390 £522 £640
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £600 £700
Median % change year-on-year -21.00% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £656 £643 -
90th Percentile £711 £675 -
England median daily rate £474 £600 £688
% change year-on-year -21.00% -12.73% +1.85%

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 2,808 1,929 2,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.56% 14.28% 13.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,856 1,176 1,826
10th Percentile £350 £300 £363
25th Percentile £419 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £670 £688
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 29 61
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.27 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.57 £39.00 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -31.87% +35.65% +0.88%
75th Percentile £35.50 £83.20 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.67 £95.50 £61.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £30.99 £25.00
% change year-on-year -18.83% +23.94% -14.24%

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 11 February 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 11 February 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 -15 5 £490 -17.65% 1
East London 0 2 £416 +4.00%
South London - 1 - - 1
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 (17.39%) Confluence
2 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.35%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (8.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) AWS
1 7 (30.43%) Azure
2 4 (17.39%) GCP
3 3 (13.04%) Azure API Management
4 2 (8.70%) GitHub
4 2 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (8.70%) OpenShift
5 1 (4.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) Oracle Database
2 2 (8.70%) Hazelcast
2 2 (8.70%) NoSQL
2 2 (8.70%) Redis
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle Database 10g
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) JIRA
2 3 (13.04%) JUnit
2 3 (13.04%) SoapUI
3 2 (8.70%) Gatling
3 2 (8.70%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.35%) Ant
4 1 (4.35%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 19 (82.61%) Finance
2 18 (78.26%) Banking
3 10 (43.48%) Social Skills
4 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (13.04%) Financial Institution
5 3 (13.04%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (8.70%) Investment Banking
7 1 (4.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Analyst
2 6 (26.09%) Business Analyst
2 6 (26.09%) Payments Analyst
3 5 (21.74%) Developer
4 4 (17.39%) Architect
4 4 (17.39%) Payments Business Analyst
5 3 (13.04%) Middleware Developer
5 3 (13.04%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (8.70%) Java Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Payments Architect
6 2 (8.70%) Payments Solutions Architect
7 1 (4.35%) Applications Architect
7 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Architect
7 1 (4.35%) Technical Analyst
7 1 (4.35%) Technical Business Analyst
7 1 (4.35%) Technical Specialist
7 1 (4.35%) Test Analyst
7 1 (4.35%) Treasury Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) Kafka
2 4 (17.39%) Middleware
3 3 (13.04%) IBM Integration Bus
3 3 (13.04%) SOAP
4 2 (8.70%) Apache Avro
4 2 (8.70%) EDI
4 2 (8.70%) JSON
4 2 (8.70%) Micronaut
4 2 (8.70%) OAuth
4 2 (8.70%) OAuth2
4 2 (8.70%) OpenID
4 2 (8.70%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (8.70%) Quarkus
4 2 (8.70%) Spring
4 2 (8.70%) Spring Boot
4 2 (8.70%) XML
5 1 (4.35%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 17 (73.91%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 3 (13.04%) Product Ownership
2 3 (13.04%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (8.70%) Management Information System
3 2 (8.70%) PMI
4 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Linux
1 3 (13.04%) Unix
1 3 (13.04%) Windows
2 2 (8.70%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) User Acceptance Testing
2 7 (30.43%) Agile
3 6 (26.09%) Acceptance Criteria
3 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (21.74%) Anti-Money Laundering
4 5 (21.74%) Regulatory Change
4 5 (21.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 5 (21.74%) System Integration Testing
4 5 (21.74%) User Stories
5 4 (17.39%) CI/CD
5 4 (17.39%) Containerisation
5 4 (17.39%) Event-Driven
5 4 (17.39%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 4 (17.39%) Fintech
5 4 (17.39%) Microservices
5 4 (17.39%) Regression Testing
6 3 (13.04%) Migration
6 3 (13.04%) Project Delivery
6 3 (13.04%) Project Management
6 3 (13.04%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 6 (26.09%) Java
2 5 (21.74%) Korn
2 5 (21.74%) SQL
3 3 (13.04%) Perl
3 3 (13.04%) PL/SQL
4 1 (4.35%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) CBAP
1 2 (8.70%) Degree
1 2 (8.70%) PMI Certification
1 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (69.57%) ISO 20022
2 12 (52.17%) PSD2
3 6 (26.09%) QA
4 2 (8.70%) ISO 8583
4 2 (8.70%) TARGET2
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.70%) Ansible
2 2 (8.70%) Argo
2 2 (8.70%) Grafana
2 2 (8.70%) Prometheus
2 2 (8.70%) Terraform
3 1 (4.35%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Oracle
2 4 (17.39%) IBM
3 2 (8.70%) Confluent
4 1 (4.35%) Aquila
4 1 (4.35%) FIS
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft