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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 405 337 377
Rank change year-on-year -68 +40 +59
Contract jobs citing SEPA 35 33 13
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.17% 0.25% 0.080%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.92% 1.44% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 26 8
10th Percentile £425 £354 £615
25th Percentile £425 £405 £647
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £576 £550 £700
Median % change year-on-year +4.87% -21.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £628 £689 £703
90th Percentile £680 £703 £724
England median daily rate £590 £492 £688
% change year-on-year +19.92% -28.44% +5.36%
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 3,817 2,299 2,230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.97% 17.07% 13.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,572 1,533 1,467
10th Percentile £350 £325 £338
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 £738 £756 £800
England median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 51 40
10th Percentile £20.13 - £18.13
25th Percentile £23.16 £25.15 £23.35
Median hourly rate £28.55 £34.00 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year -16.03% +21.78% +1.53%
75th Percentile £40.00 £43.98 £50.44
90th Percentile £58.00 £55.00 £72.56
England median hourly rate £36.07 £31.64 £27.50
% change year-on-year +14.00% +15.05% -21.43%

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 31 August 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 31 August 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 -21 2 £575 +42.86% 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 (17.14%) Confluence
2 1 (2.86%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 2 (5.71%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 11 (31.43%) AWS
1 11 (31.43%) Azure
2 5 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (11.43%) GitHub
4 2 (5.71%) Boomi
4 2 (5.71%) Workato
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.86%) GCP
5 1 (2.86%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) Network Security
1 1 (2.86%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.57%) Db2
2 2 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.71%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.86%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.86%) OLTP
3 1 (2.86%) Power BI
3 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (20.00%) JIRA
2 5 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 4 (11.43%) Maven
3 4 (11.43%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.86%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.86%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.86%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.86%) Flyway
4 1 (2.86%) Gatling
4 1 (2.86%) Git
4 1 (2.86%) JMeter
4 1 (2.86%) Liquibase
4 1 (2.86%) Postman
4 1 (2.86%) REST Assured
4 1 (2.86%) Selenium
4 1 (2.86%) SoapUI
4 1 (2.86%) TeamCity
4 1 (2.86%) TestCafe
General
1 28 (80.00%) Banking
2 27 (77.14%) Finance
3 8 (22.86%) Social Skills
4 5 (14.29%) Billing
5 4 (11.43%) Financial Institution
6 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.71%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (48.57%) Architect
2 12 (34.29%) Payments Architect
2 12 (34.29%) Solutions Architect
3 9 (25.71%) Payments Solutions Architect
3 9 (25.71%) Senior
4 6 (17.14%) Analyst
4 6 (17.14%) Payments Analyst
5 5 (14.29%) Banking Analyst
6 4 (11.43%) Banking Business Analyst
6 4 (11.43%) Business Analyst
6 4 (11.43%) Developer
6 4 (11.43%) Java Engineer
6 4 (11.43%) Payments Business Analyst
6 4 (11.43%) Senior Java Engineer
7 3 (8.57%) Senior Architect
8 2 (5.71%) Backend Developer
8 2 (5.71%) Integration Developer
8 2 (5.71%) Integration Specialist
8 2 (5.71%) NetSuite Developer
8 2 (5.71%) NetSuite Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (28.57%) Kafka
2 6 (17.14%) Spring
2 6 (17.14%) Spring Boot
3 4 (11.43%) Middleware
3 4 (11.43%) REST
3 4 (11.43%) Terraform
4 2 (5.71%) OAuth
4 2 (5.71%) OAuth2
4 2 (5.71%) Restlet
4 2 (5.71%) SOAP
5 1 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.86%) XML
5 1 (2.86%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 26 (74.29%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 6 (17.14%) Cloud Native
2 6 (17.14%) Mainframe
2 6 (17.14%) Product Ownership
3 4 (11.43%) Low-Code
4 2 (5.71%) PMI
5 1 (2.86%) Clustering
5 1 (2.86%) Fedwire
5 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.71%) Linux
1 2 (5.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (37.14%) Stakeholder Management
2 12 (34.29%) Microservices
3 10 (28.57%) Migration
4 8 (22.86%) DevOps
5 7 (20.00%) Roadmaps
6 6 (17.14%) Agile
6 6 (17.14%) Architectural Patterns
6 6 (17.14%) High Availability
6 6 (17.14%) User Acceptance Testing
7 5 (14.29%) Architecture Governance
7 5 (14.29%) Architecture Roadmap
7 5 (14.29%) B2B
7 5 (14.29%) Cash Management
7 5 (14.29%) CRM
7 5 (14.29%) Decision-Making
7 5 (14.29%) Event-Driven
7 5 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 5 (14.29%) KYC
7 5 (14.29%) TOGAF
7 5 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 8 (22.86%) Java
2 5 (14.29%) SQL
3 3 (8.57%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.71%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.86%) Python
5 1 (2.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (14.29%) CISA
2 2 (5.71%) PMI Certification
2 2 (5.71%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.86%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (60.00%) ISO 20022
2 5 (14.29%) PSD2
3 2 (5.71%) QA
4 1 (2.86%) PMO
4 1 (2.86%) TARGET2
System Software
1 5 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 4 (11.43%) Argo
3 1 (2.86%) Ansible
3 1 (2.86%) Control-M
3 1 (2.86%) Grafana
3 1 (2.86%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (11.43%) IBM
2 2 (5.71%) Dell
2 2 (5.71%) Oracle
3 1 (2.86%) AppDynamics
3 1 (2.86%) Broadcom
3 1 (2.86%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.86%) Fiserv
3 1 (2.86%) SmartStream
3 1 (2.86%) Splunk