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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 320 374 482
Rank change year-on-year +54 +108 +64
Contract jobs citing SEPA 30 22 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.24% 0.13% 0.050%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.51% 0.89% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 21 8
10th Percentile £375 £638 £595
25th Percentile £405 £663 £630
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 £675
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +3.70% -
75th Percentile £650 - £725
90th Percentile £706 £713 £729
England median daily rate £500 £700 £675
% change year-on-year -28.57% +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 1,988 2,474 3,414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 16.00% 14.16% 13.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,322 1,745 2,472
10th Percentile £325 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £798
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 62 37
10th Percentile £19.63 £12.70 £20.55
25th Percentile £22.27 £17.85 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.50 £24.18 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.68% -30.91% -21.35%
75th Percentile £65.00 £47.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £85.31 £57.13 £81.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £22.42 £37.50
% change year-on-year +56.11% -40.21% +28.78%

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 19 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 19 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 - 8 £550 - 2
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 2 (6.67%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (10.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 3 (10.00%) Azure
1 3 (10.00%) Azure API Management
2 2 (6.67%) SaaS
3 1 (3.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.67%) Oracle Database
2 2 (6.67%) Oracle Database 10g
3 1 (3.33%) Big Data
3 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Ant
1 3 (10.00%) SoapUI
1 3 (10.00%) Toad
2 2 (6.67%) IBM UrbanCode
2 2 (6.67%) JIRA
2 2 (6.67%) JUnit
3 1 (3.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.33%) LoadRunner
General
1 19 (63.33%) Finance
2 17 (56.67%) Banking
3 13 (43.33%) Social Skills
4 4 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (10.00%) Financial Institution
5 3 (10.00%) Legal
6 2 (6.67%) Law
7 1 (3.33%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 17 (56.67%) Analyst
2 14 (46.67%) Payments Analyst
3 6 (20.00%) Banking Analyst
3 6 (20.00%) Test Analyst
4 5 (16.67%) Business Analyst
4 5 (16.67%) Payments Business Analyst
5 4 (13.33%) Banking Business Analyst
5 4 (13.33%) Data Analyst
5 4 (13.33%) Data Migration Analyst
5 4 (13.33%) Migration Analyst
6 3 (10.00%) Developer
6 3 (10.00%) Integration Developer
6 3 (10.00%) Project Manager
7 2 (6.67%) Compliance Specialist
7 2 (6.67%) Payments Project Manager
7 2 (6.67%) Technical Analyst
7 2 (6.67%) UAT Analyst
7 2 (6.67%) UAT Test Analyst
8 1 (3.33%) Programme Manager
8 1 (3.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.67%) XML
2 3 (10.00%) EDI
2 3 (10.00%) IBM Integration Bus
2 3 (10.00%) Kafka
2 3 (10.00%) Middleware
2 3 (10.00%) SOAP
3 2 (6.67%) JSON
4 1 (3.33%) Gherkin
4 1 (3.33%) Spring
4 1 (3.33%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (53.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (3.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (3.33%) Online Banking
2 1 (3.33%) PACS
2 1 (3.33%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.33%) Unix
1 4 (13.33%) Windows
2 3 (10.00%) AIX
2 3 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (16.67%) Migration
1 5 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (13.33%) Data Migration
2 4 (13.33%) Software Engineering
3 3 (10.00%) API Management
3 3 (10.00%) Business Analysis
3 3 (10.00%) Project Management
3 3 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (6.67%) Algorithmic Trading
4 2 (6.67%) Change Control
4 2 (6.67%) Computer Science
4 2 (6.67%) Data Science
4 2 (6.67%) GAP Analysis
4 2 (6.67%) Integration Testing
4 2 (6.67%) Project Delivery
4 2 (6.67%) Risk Management
4 2 (6.67%) Test Scripting
4 2 (6.67%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (6.67%) Validation
4 2 (6.67%) Work Breakdown Structure
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.33%) Java
2 3 (10.00%) Korn
2 3 (10.00%) Perl
2 3 (10.00%) PL/SQL
2 3 (10.00%) SQL
3 1 (3.33%) Python
3 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
3 1 (3.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) Degree
2 1 (3.33%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (30.00%) ISO 20022
2 2 (6.67%) GDPR
2 2 (6.67%) PSD2
2 2 (6.67%) QA
3 1 (3.33%) TARGET2
System Software
1 2 (6.67%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) Oracle
2 5 (16.67%) IBM
3 3 (10.00%) Perforce
4 1 (3.33%) Murex