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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 332 383 442
Rank change year-on-year +51 +59 +58
Contract jobs citing SEPA 8 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.062% 0.010% 0.022%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.38% 0.067% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £391 - -
25th Percentile £421 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 - -
75th Percentile £497 - -
90th Percentile £528 - -
UK median daily rate £496 £700 £675
% change year-on-year -29.14% +3.70% -

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 2,108 2,969 3,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.23% 14.61% 14.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,336 1,750 2,255
10th Percentile £224 £240 £223
25th Percentile £363 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £483 £480
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +0.73% +6.56%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £650 £676 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +1.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 308 189
10th Percentile £15.48 £10.95 £13.16
25th Percentile £23.00 £12.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £46.30 £18.27 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +153.42% -43.78% +45.81%
75th Percentile £67.50 £45.00 £62.00
90th Percentile £79.74 £68.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £21.06 £35.00
% change year-on-year +63.84% -39.84% +12.90%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SEPA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 18 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 +28 7 £483 - 9
North West +17 6 £485 - 9
Wales - 1 £413 -
Yorkshire - 1 £483 -
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) RTP
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) Postman
2 1 (12.50%) Zephyr
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Banking
3 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (25.00%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Architect
2 4 (50.00%) Payments Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Payments Solutions Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Business Test Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Payments Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Payments Business Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Test Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Test Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) JSON
1 2 (25.00%) OAuth
1 2 (25.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (12.50%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) SOAP
2 1 (12.50%) XML
2 1 (12.50%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 2 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (25.00%) Digital Wallet
2 2 (25.00%) EMV
3 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
3 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Android
1 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
2 2 (25.00%) Architectural Design
2 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Event-Driven
2 2 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (25.00%) Fintech
2 2 (25.00%) Microservices
2 2 (25.00%) Migration
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (12.50%) Business Strategy
3 1 (12.50%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Epics
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (12.50%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (12.50%) Swim Lanes
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) ISEB
1 1 (12.50%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) ISO 20022
2 2 (25.00%) ISO 8583
2 2 (25.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (25.00%) PSD2
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft