SEPA Contracts with Work from Home Options

Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 325 449 587
Rank change year-on-year +124 +138 -88
Contract jobs citing SEPA 16 8 36
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.034% 0.082%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.79% 0.27% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 2 23
10th Percentile £633 - -
25th Percentile - £450 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +47.37% -13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile - £525 £691
90th Percentile - £540 £699
UK median daily rate £700 £653 £675
% change year-on-year +7.28% -3.33% +13.68%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,036 2,982 5,763
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 13.80% 12.49% 13.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,430 2,167 4,130
10th Percentile £300 £325 £313
25th Percentile £413 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £521 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% +1.56% +7.89%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £613
90th Percentile £750 £743 £700
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -2.86% +1.94% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 71 128
10th Percentile £12.23 £17.50 £12.02
25th Percentile £14.00 £20.94 £19.44
Median hourly rate £24.50 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -21.35% +134.21%
75th Percentile £48.75 £58.38 £56.60
90th Percentile £66.75 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £37.75 £27.73
% change year-on-year -36.95% +36.13% +32.05%

SEPA
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SEPA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SEPA trend for jobs with a WFH option

SEPA
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SEPA.

SEPA daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SEPA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (6.25%) JBoss
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 4 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 12 (75.00%) Finance
2 11 (68.75%) Social Skills
3 9 (56.25%) Banking
4 4 (25.00%) Front Office
5 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Analyst
1 10 (62.50%) Business Analyst
1 10 (62.50%) Payments Analyst
1 10 (62.50%) Payments Business Analyst
2 5 (31.25%) Developer
3 4 (25.00%) C# Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (6.25%) Apache Camel
1 1 (6.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (62.50%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 2 (12.50%) Derivative
2 2 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (6.25%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Software Engineering
2 2 (12.50%) Agile
2 2 (12.50%) Business Analysis
3 1 (6.25%) API Development
3 1 (6.25%) Commercialisation
3 1 (6.25%) Creative Problem-Solving
3 1 (6.25%) Data Protection
3 1 (6.25%) Financial Modelling
3 1 (6.25%) Impact Analysis
3 1 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (6.25%) Project Management
3 1 (6.25%) Scrum
3 1 (6.25%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (6.25%) Java
2 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
2 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) CBAP
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
1 1 (6.25%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) EMIR
1 2 (12.50%) MiFID
2 1 (6.25%) TARGET2
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Bloomberg
1 2 (12.50%) Reuters
2 1 (6.25%) IBM
2 1 (6.25%) Temenos