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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 328 387 475
Rank change year-on-year +59 +88 +75
Contract jobs citing SEPA 32 20 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.24% 0.11% 0.043%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.49% 0.83% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 16 8
10th Percentile £379 £638 £494
25th Percentile £405 £659 £601
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 £653
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.28% -3.33%
75th Percentile £675 - £697
90th Percentile £705 £713 £729
England median daily rate £496 £700 £653
% change year-on-year -29.14% +7.28% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £86.25 - -
Median hourly rate £87.50 - -
75th Percentile £88.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 2,152 2,424 3,401
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 16.42% 13.75% 13.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,424 1,696 2,507
10th Percentile £325 £350 £359
25th Percentile £413 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £761 £800 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 61 34
10th Percentile £22.75 £12.50 £19.10
25th Percentile £25.15 £18.00 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.50 £23.80 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year +44.96% -9.33% -35.98%
75th Percentile £49.38 £43.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £65.00 £55.00 £81.75
England median hourly rate £32.00 £24.31 £42.50
% change year-on-year +31.66% -42.81% +63.46%

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 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SEPA in London

SEPA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SEPA in London.

Hourly rate trend 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 3 July 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 +15 9 £450 - 7
East London - 2 £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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (12.50%) WebSphere
2 1 (3.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (9.38%) MS Visio
2 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.50%) Azure
2 3 (9.38%) Azure API Management
3 2 (6.25%) SaaS
4 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.13%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.38%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.88%) Oracle Database
2 2 (6.25%) Oracle Database 10g
3 1 (3.13%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 5 (15.63%) JIRA
2 4 (12.50%) IBM UrbanCode
3 3 (9.38%) Ant
3 3 (9.38%) SoapUI
3 3 (9.38%) Toad
4 2 (6.25%) JUnit
5 1 (3.13%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
5 1 (3.13%) LoadRunner
General
1 23 (71.88%) Banking
2 19 (59.38%) Finance
3 16 (50.00%) Social Skills
4 6 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (9.38%) Financial Institution
5 3 (9.38%) Legal
6 2 (6.25%) Law
7 1 (3.13%) Back Office
7 1 (3.13%) Investment Banking
7 1 (3.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (62.50%) Analyst
2 19 (59.38%) Payments Analyst
3 9 (28.13%) Banking Analyst
4 8 (25.00%) Business Analyst
4 8 (25.00%) Payments Business Analyst
5 5 (15.63%) Banking Business Analyst
6 4 (12.50%) Data Analyst
6 4 (12.50%) Data Migration Analyst
6 4 (12.50%) Migration Analyst
6 4 (12.50%) Technical Analyst
6 4 (12.50%) Test Analyst
7 3 (9.38%) Developer
7 3 (9.38%) Integration Developer
7 3 (9.38%) Payments Project Manager
7 3 (9.38%) Project Manager
7 3 (9.38%) Senior
8 2 (6.25%) Compliance Specialist
8 2 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (6.25%) Senior Test Analyst
9 1 (3.13%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.75%) XML
2 3 (9.38%) EDI
2 3 (9.38%) IBM Integration Bus
2 3 (9.38%) Kafka
2 3 (9.38%) Middleware
2 3 (9.38%) SOAP
3 2 (6.25%) JSON
4 1 (3.13%) Gherkin
4 1 (3.13%) Spring
4 1 (3.13%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.13%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 22 (68.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 2 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (6.25%) PACS
3 1 (3.13%) Derivative
3 1 (3.13%) Online Banking
3 1 (3.13%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.38%) AIX
1 3 (9.38%) Linux
1 3 (9.38%) Unix
1 3 (9.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (15.63%) Migration
2 4 (12.50%) Data Migration
2 4 (12.50%) Defect Tracking
2 4 (12.50%) Performance Monitoring
2 4 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (9.38%) Agile
3 3 (9.38%) API Management
3 3 (9.38%) Business Analysis
3 3 (9.38%) Integration Testing
3 3 (9.38%) Project Delivery
3 3 (9.38%) Project Management
3 3 (9.38%) Software Engineering
3 3 (9.38%) Test Scripting
3 3 (9.38%) Validation
4 2 (6.25%) Change Control
4 2 (6.25%) Computer Science
4 2 (6.25%) GAP Analysis
4 2 (6.25%) Risk Management
4 2 (6.25%) Work Breakdown Structure
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.50%) Java
1 4 (12.50%) SQL
2 3 (9.38%) Korn
2 3 (9.38%) Perl
2 3 (9.38%) PL/SQL
3 1 (3.13%) Python
3 1 (3.13%) Shell Script
3 1 (3.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (3.13%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (34.38%) ISO 20022
2 3 (9.38%) PSD2
3 2 (6.25%) GDPR
4 1 (3.13%) QA
4 1 (3.13%) TARGET2
System Software
1 4 (12.50%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 4 (12.50%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 7 (21.88%) IBM
1 7 (21.88%) Oracle
2 3 (9.38%) Perforce
3 1 (3.13%) Murex