SEPA Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring SEPA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 - 143
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SEPA 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.046% - 0.039%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.27% - 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £753
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £765
75th Percentile - - £778
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate - - £765

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 372 287 488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 17.23% 16.80% 18.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 130 290
10th Percentile £305 £234 £150
25th Percentile £406 £400 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £478
Median % change year-on-year - +4.71% +6.11%
75th Percentile £600 £609 £588
90th Percentile £650 £677 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £501
% change year-on-year - -0.10% +9.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 9 22
10th Percentile £13.59 £17.20 £24.03
25th Percentile £18.90 £60.75 £24.57
Median hourly rate £36.00 £61.50 £40.53
Median % change year-on-year -41.46% +51.74% +68.86%
75th Percentile £81.00 £64.73 £71.62
90th Percentile £81.70 £65.99 £79.78
South East median hourly rate £36.00 £28.00 £48.75
% change year-on-year +28.57% -42.56% +98.98%

SEPA
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

SEPA job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

SEPA
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing SEPA

SEPA
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SEPA within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 24 January 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
Buckinghamshire - 1 - - 1
SEPA
South East

SEPA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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%) Migration
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