SEPA Contracts in London

Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring SEPA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SEPA over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 329 368 478
Rank change year-on-year +39 +110 +69
Contract jobs citing SEPA 24 23 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.19% 0.13% 0.055%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.20% 0.92% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 22 8
10th Percentile £375 £638 £595
25th Percentile £415 £663 £630
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £700 £675
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +3.70% -
75th Percentile £650 - £725
90th Percentile £680 £711 £729
England median daily rate £594 £700 £675
% change year-on-year -15.18% +3.70% -

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 1,992 2,495 3,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.88% 13.99% 13.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,317 1,770 2,546
10th Percentile £313 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £792
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 62 36
10th Percentile £19.44 £12.70 £20.25
25th Percentile £22.27 £17.85 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.75 £24.75 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year +40.40% -19.51% -30.90%
75th Percentile £57.50 £43.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £86.37 £53.73 £81.25
England median hourly rate £34.75 £22.34 £41.50
% change year-on-year +55.55% -46.17% +50.91%

SEPA
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing SEPA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for SEPA in London

SEPA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SEPA in London.

Daily rate trend for SEPA in London

SEPA
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SEPA in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SEPA in London

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 1 May 2025. 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 - 5 £450 - 2
East London - 1 £415 -
SEPA
England

SEPA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (8.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle E-Business Tax
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle iProcurement
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.33%) Azure
1 2 (8.33%) Azure API Management
2 1 (4.17%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.17%) Big Data
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle Database 10g
2 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Ant
1 2 (8.33%) SoapUI
1 2 (8.33%) Toad
2 1 (4.17%) Cucumber
2 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.17%) JUnit
2 1 (4.17%) LoadRunner
2 1 (4.17%) NUnit
2 1 (4.17%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (4.17%) TeamCity
General
1 15 (62.50%) Finance
2 11 (45.83%) Banking
2 11 (45.83%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.17%) General Ledger
5 1 (4.17%) Legal
Job Titles
1 14 (58.33%) Analyst
2 11 (45.83%) Payments Analyst
3 6 (25.00%) Test Analyst
4 4 (16.67%) Business Analyst
4 4 (16.67%) Data Analyst
4 4 (16.67%) Data Migration Analyst
4 4 (16.67%) Migration Analyst
4 4 (16.67%) Payments Business Analyst
5 3 (12.50%) Banking Analyst
5 3 (12.50%) Banking Business Analyst
5 3 (12.50%) Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Project Manager
6 2 (8.33%) Integration Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Payments Project Manager
6 2 (8.33%) Senior
6 2 (8.33%) UAT Analyst
6 2 (8.33%) UAT Test Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) Java Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Payments Tester
7 1 (4.17%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) XML
2 3 (12.50%) JSON
3 2 (8.33%) EDI
3 2 (8.33%) IBM Integration Bus
3 2 (8.33%) Kafka
3 2 (8.33%) Middleware
3 2 (8.33%) SOAP
4 1 (4.17%) .NET
4 1 (4.17%) .NET Framework
4 1 (4.17%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.17%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (4.17%) Entity Framework
4 1 (4.17%) Gherkin
4 1 (4.17%) Kendo UI
4 1 (4.17%) Spring
4 1 (4.17%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (41.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (4.17%) EFT
2 1 (4.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (4.17%) Online Banking
2 1 (4.17%) PACS
2 1 (4.17%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Unix
1 3 (12.50%) Windows
2 2 (8.33%) AIX
2 2 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (25.00%) Migration
2 5 (20.83%) Data Migration
2 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (12.50%) Software Engineering
4 2 (8.33%) Algorithmic Trading
4 2 (8.33%) API Management
4 2 (8.33%) Business Analysis
4 2 (8.33%) GAP Analysis
4 2 (8.33%) Integration Testing
4 2 (8.33%) Project Delivery
4 2 (8.33%) Project Management
4 2 (8.33%) Proprietary Trading
4 2 (8.33%) SDLC
4 2 (8.33%) Test Scripting
4 2 (8.33%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (8.33%) Validation
4 2 (8.33%) Work Breakdown Structure
5 1 (4.17%) Collaborative Culture
5 1 (4.17%) Customer Requirements
5 1 (4.17%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.50%) Java
1 3 (12.50%) SQL
2 2 (8.33%) Korn
2 2 (8.33%) Perl
2 2 (8.33%) PL/SQL
3 1 (4.17%) C#
3 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.17%) Python
3 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
3 1 (4.17%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (4.17%) Degree
1 1 (4.17%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (25.00%) ISO 20022
2 2 (8.33%) QA
3 1 (4.17%) TARGET2
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Oracle
2 2 (8.33%) IBM
2 2 (8.33%) Perforce
3 1 (4.17%) Murex