Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SEPA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SEPA over the 6 months to 30 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 697 1046 1079
Rank change year-on-year +349 +33 -341
Permanent jobs citing SEPA 30 44 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.056% 0.035% 0.019%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.38% 0.20% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 28 23 13
10th Percentile £63,165 £61,840 £44,000
25th Percentile £68,718 £69,626 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,576 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.78% +14.29% -1.75%
75th Percentile £72,433 £105,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £76,385 £120,000 £102,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,576 £69,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.18% +39.50% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

SEPA is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 7,933 22,280 20,189
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.73% 17.63% 15.59%
Number of salaries quoted 5,817 12,040 12,594
10th Percentile £31,500 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,875 £40,293
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -3.67%

SEPA
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SEPA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SEPA in the UK

SEPA
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SEPA.

Salary trend for SEPA in the UK

SEPA
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SEPA within the UK over the 6 months to 30 November 2023. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +262 28 £70,576 +1.18% 4
Work from Home +280 25 £70,576 +17.63% 6
Scotland - 19 £70,576 - 1
England +291 11 £70,576 -14.45% 5
Midlands - 5 £70,576 -
West Midlands - 5 £70,576 -
Yorkshire - 4 £70,576 -
North of England - 4 £70,576 -
London +248 2 £71,250 -16.18% 1

SEPA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (3.33%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 13 (43.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (43.33%) Big Data
General
1 29 (96.67%) Banking
1 29 (96.67%) Finance
2 28 (93.33%) Legal
3 1 (3.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (93.33%) Architect
1 28 (93.33%) Solutions Architect
2 4 (13.33%) Senior
3 3 (10.00%) Senior Architect
3 3 (10.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.33%) Analyst
4 1 (3.33%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (3.33%) Senior Technical Analyst
4 1 (3.33%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (93.33%) Kafka
1 28 (93.33%) Spring
1 28 (93.33%) Spring Boot
2 1 (3.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 14 (46.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 13 (43.33%) Blockchain
2 13 (43.33%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (93.33%) Agile
1 28 (93.33%) API Design
1 28 (93.33%) Architectural Patterns
1 28 (93.33%) Microservices
1 28 (93.33%) SDLC
1 28 (93.33%) Software Architecture
1 28 (93.33%) Systems Thinking
1 28 (93.33%) Technical Leadership
2 18 (60.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 13 (43.33%) Fintech
3 13 (43.33%) Open Source
4 1 (3.33%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 28 (93.33%) Java
2 2 (6.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (50.00%) ISO 20022
2 1 (3.33%) PSD2
2 1 (3.33%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) TARGET2
System Software
1 28 (93.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (93.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle