SEPA Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring SEPA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SEPA 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.027% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.18% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
England median daily rate £500 £600 £688
% change year-on-year -16.67% -12.73% +1.85%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 566 356 393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 15.39% 17.16% 14.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 363 224 287
10th Percentile £306 £197 £259
25th Percentile £401 £313 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £428 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.42% -9.84% +5.56%
75th Percentile £571 £538 £588
90th Percentile £674 £618 £725
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 17 33
10th Percentile £12.63 £12.55 £11.06
25th Percentile £13.14 - £13.18
Median hourly rate £16.00 £14.70 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year +8.84% -14.78% +1.86%
75th Percentile £20.56 £31.76 £35.00
90th Percentile £25.50 £41.25 £58.75
England median hourly rate £25.50 £30.99 £26.66
% change year-on-year -17.70% +16.22% -23.83%

SEPA
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SEPA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

SEPA job vacancy trend in the Midlands

SEPA
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing SEPA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing SEPA

SEPA
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SEPA within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 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
East Midlands - 1 £700 -
SEPA
England

SEPA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Payments Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Payments Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) ArchiMate
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Model Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Order Management
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Thought Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO 20022