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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 679 880 956
Rank change year-on-year +201 +76 +192
Permanent jobs citing SEPA 13 16 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.025% 0.016% 0.032%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.15% 0.12% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3 10 12
10th Percentile - £30,250 £85,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,938 £91,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,288 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.76% -40.65% +15.79%
75th Percentile £118,750 £72,433 £120,000
90th Percentile £155,500 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary - £70,576 -

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 8,849 13,550 19,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.00% 13.76% 19.15%
Number of salaries quoted 4,601 9,267 9,193
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +5.04%

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
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SEPA over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SEPA in the UK

SEPA
Top 6 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 1 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +172 8 £55,000 - 32
UK excluding London +203 7 - - 12
London +112 5 £55,000 +80.33% 27
Scotland +130 4 - - 2
North of England - 3 - - 5
North West - 3 - - 5

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 4 (30.77%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (23.08%) MS Visio
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Aladdin
2 1 (7.69%) SAP CO
2 1 (7.69%) SAP FI
2 1 (7.69%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (23.08%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (23.08%) Amazon S3
3 2 (15.38%) Azure
3 2 (15.38%) GCP
3 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Internet
1 1 (7.69%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Data Lake
1 3 (23.08%) MongoDB
1 3 (23.08%) Tableau
2 2 (15.38%) Power BI
2 2 (15.38%) Qlik Sense
2 2 (15.38%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) JIRA
General
1 8 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Finance
3 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Banking
4 2 (15.38%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Analyst
1 7 (53.85%) Business Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) Software Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Agile Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) REST
2 3 (23.08%) J2EE
2 3 (23.08%) Kafka
2 3 (23.08%) Spring
2 3 (23.08%) XML
3 2 (15.38%) FpML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (61.54%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (15.38%) DTCC
2 2 (15.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (7.69%) Fedwire
3 1 (7.69%) Online Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Agile
1 10 (76.92%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (53.85%) Business Analysis
3 6 (46.15%) Use Case
3 6 (46.15%) User Stories
4 4 (30.77%) Migration
5 3 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (23.08%) High Availability
5 3 (23.08%) Information Security
5 3 (23.08%) Prototyping
5 3 (23.08%) Requirements Analysis
5 3 (23.08%) Roadmaps
5 3 (23.08%) Scenario Testing
5 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
5 3 (23.08%) Test Automation
5 3 (23.08%) Validation
6 2 (15.38%) Data Flow Diagram
6 2 (15.38%) Epics
6 2 (15.38%) Visualisation
6 2 (15.38%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) Java
2 2 (15.38%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (69.23%) ISO 20022
2 2 (15.38%) EMIR
2 2 (15.38%) MiFID
2 2 (15.38%) QA
2 2 (15.38%) TARGET2
3 1 (7.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Avaloq
1 2 (15.38%) Bloomberg
1 2 (15.38%) Calypso
1 2 (15.38%) Charles River
1 2 (15.38%) Cloudera
1 2 (15.38%) Currenex
1 2 (15.38%) Murex
1 2 (15.38%) OneTrust
1 2 (15.38%) Varonis
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) SAP