SEPA Contracts in the UK excluding London

Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 330 401 449
Rank change year-on-year +71 +48 +69
Contract jobs citing SEPA 4 2 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.031% 0.010% 0.029%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.19% 0.065% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £482 - -
25th Percentile £488 - £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 - £513
75th Percentile £537 - £519
90th Percentile £548 - -
UK median daily rate £581 £700 £653
% change year-on-year -16.96% +7.28% +0.38%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,065 3,098 3,539
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.15% 14.99% 14.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,295 1,815 2,383
10th Percentile £211 £254 £213
25th Percentile £363 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £478
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.09% +6.11%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £666 £685 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +1.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 308 185
10th Percentile £17.31 £10.95 £12.67
25th Percentile £24.18 £12.58 £18.09
Median hourly rate £46.30 £18.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +157.22% -48.57% +66.27%
75th Percentile £66.56 £45.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.51 £67.65 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £20.80 £35.00
% change year-on-year +65.85% -40.56% +26.13%

SEPA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SEPA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SEPA in the UK excluding London

SEPA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SEPA in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SEPA in the UK excluding London

SEPA
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 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
North of England +20 4 £508 - 5
North West +18 4 £508 - 5
SEPA
UK

SEPA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Payment Gateway
General
1 4 (100.00%) Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Corporate Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Architect
1 4 (100.00%) Payments Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Payments Solutions Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) OAuth
1 2 (50.00%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Digital Wallet
1 2 (50.00%) EMV
1 2 (50.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Architectural Design
1 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (50.00%) Fintech
1 2 (50.00%) Microservices
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) ISO 20022
2 2 (50.00%) ISO 8583
2 2 (50.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (50.00%) PSD2
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft