SEPA Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA)
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring SEPA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SEPA 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 0.38% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.44% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £358 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 41 84 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 15.47% 27.45% 10.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 72 23
10th Percentile £383 £350 £272
25th Percentile £402 £358 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% - -19.60%
75th Percentile £517 £447 £591
90th Percentile £537 £486 £613
East Midlands median daily rate £475 £415 £469
% change year-on-year +14.46% -11.47% -1.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £17.36 - -
Median hourly rate £19.29 - -
75th Percentile £21.22 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £16.30 £20.83 £13.52
% change year-on-year -21.77% +54.07% -34.08%

SEPA
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

SEPA job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

SEPA
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing SEPA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing SEPA

SEPA
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SEPA within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 2 October 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
Northampton - 1 £358 -
SEPA
East Midlands

SEPA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Product Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Product Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (100.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Epics
1 1 (100.00%) Product Backlog
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO 20022