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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 889 960 1171
Rank change year-on-year +71 +211 -284
Permanent jobs citing SEPA 15 33 58
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.015% 0.032% 0.037%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.11% 0.17% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 9 12 20
10th Percentile £30,250 £85,250 £51,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £91,250 £73,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £110,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -45.45% +15.79% +21.41%
75th Percentile £72,433 £120,000 £102,500
90th Percentile - - £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,576 - £32,500

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 13,528 19,692 26,225
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.72% 18.97% 16.76%
Number of salaries quoted 9,247 9,122 13,236
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,438 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -

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 3 May 2024.

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 3 May 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
UK excluding London +20 12 £70,576 -
Work from Home +84 10 £60,000 -36.84% 1
England +70 10 £55,000 -50.00% 4
South West - 7 £56,250 -
Scotland -64 5 £70,576 -
London +100 3 £30,500 -72.27% 4

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 2 (13.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (13.33%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) SaaS
2 3 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Git
2 2 (13.33%) JUnit
2 2 (13.33%) Maven
General
1 15 (100.00%) Banking
2 12 (80.00%) Finance
3 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
4 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (33.33%) Investment Banking
4 5 (33.33%) Law
4 5 (33.33%) Legal
4 5 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (20.00%) Retail
6 2 (13.33%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Analyst
1 5 (33.33%) Architect
1 5 (33.33%) Business Analyst
1 5 (33.33%) Migration Analyst
1 5 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Senior
2 2 (13.33%) Senior Software Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Software Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (46.67%) Spring
1 7 (46.67%) Spring Boot
2 5 (33.33%) Kafka
3 2 (13.33%) Hibernate
3 2 (13.33%) JSON
3 2 (13.33%) RESTful
3 2 (13.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Blockchain
1 5 (33.33%) Product Ownership
1 5 (33.33%) Robotics
1 5 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
1 5 (33.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 3 (20.00%) Digital Currency
3 2 (13.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (13.33%) Online Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
4 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Agile
1 8 (53.33%) Microservices
2 7 (46.67%) Architectural Patterns
3 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (33.33%) API Design
4 5 (33.33%) Business Analysis
4 5 (33.33%) Commercialisation
4 5 (33.33%) Creative Problem-Solving
4 5 (33.33%) Fintech
4 5 (33.33%) Impact Analysis
4 5 (33.33%) Open Source
4 5 (33.33%) Project Planning
4 5 (33.33%) SDLC
4 5 (33.33%) Software Architecture
4 5 (33.33%) Systems Thinking
4 5 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
4 5 (33.33%) Time Management
4 5 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
5 3 (20.00%) DevOps
6 2 (13.33%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Java
2 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
2 2 (13.33%) SQL
3 1 (6.67%) Go
3 1 (6.67%) Groovy
3 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
1 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) TARGET2
2 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Graphite
1 5 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Ansible
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) SAP