Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring SEPA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SEPA over the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 775 735 1080
Rank change year-on-year -40 +345 -9
Permanent jobs citing SEPA 9 29 46
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.051% 0.034%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.082% 0.35% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1 28 23
10th Percentile - £63,165 £56,060
25th Percentile £67,500 £68,718 £68,002
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,576 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.82% -11.78% +14.29%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,433 £89,141
90th Percentile - £76,385 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary - £70,576 £69,750
% change year-on-year - +1.18% +39.50%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

SEPA falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 10,986 8,217 23,774
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.54% 14.39% 17.52%
Number of salaries quoted 4,456 6,035 12,632
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,824 £60,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +5.26% +3.64%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,750 £95,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +6.38%

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 7 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 8 November 2024. 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
England -46 7 £70,000 -0.82% 3
UK excluding London -62 6 - -
North of England -25 4 - -
North West - 4 - -
London +13 3 £70,000 -9.68% 3
Scotland -15 2 - -
Work from Home +1 1 £70,000 -0.82%

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 5 (55.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
1 5 (55.56%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) JIRA
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Analyst
1 7 (77.78%) Business Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Payments Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Payments Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Payments Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Agile
2 7 (77.78%) DevOps
3 5 (55.56%) Business Analysis
3 5 (55.56%) Microservices
3 5 (55.56%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (55.56%) Use Case
3 5 (55.56%) User Stories
3 5 (55.56%) Wireframes
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (22.22%) Design Thinking
4 2 (22.22%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (22.22%) Fintech
4 2 (22.22%) Impact Assessments
4 2 (22.22%) IT Strategy
4 2 (22.22%) Technology Strategy
5 1 (11.11%) Coaching
5 1 (11.11%) Epics
5 1 (11.11%) Product Backlog
5 1 (11.11%) Product Management
5 1 (11.11%) Product Vision
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) ISO 20022
1 5 (55.56%) TARGET2
2 2 (22.22%) QA