SEPA Contract Job Trends in the South West

Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring SEPA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 - 134
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SEPA 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.027% - 0.038%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.18% - 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £260 - -
England median daily rate £591 £487 £700
% change year-on-year +21.29% -30.39% +9.38%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South West

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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 564 373 352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 15.17% 19.18% 13.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 337 226 184
10th Percentile £340 £235 £213
25th Percentile £413 £363 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £516 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% +3.25% -9.09%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £600
90th Percentile £713 £706 £689
England median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 46 60
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.48 £12.24
25th Percentile £17.17 £29.56 £13.26
Median hourly rate £45.83 £33.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.81% -52.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £76.00 £73.75 £74.00
England median hourly rate £33.98 £32.50 £31.12
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.43% -12.66%

SEPA
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

SEPA job vacancy trend in the South West

SEPA
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing SEPA

SEPA
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SEPA within the South West region over the 6 months to 15 September 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
Dorset - 1 £260 - 1
SEPA
England

SEPA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO 20022