ISO 20022 Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

ISO 20022
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring ISO 20022 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing ISO 20022 15 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 2.12% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 14.56% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 15 0 0
10th Percentile £409 - -
25th Percentile £419 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 - -
75th Percentile £500 - -
90th Percentile £549 - -
North West median daily rate £492 - £550

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Cheshire

ISO 20022 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 requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 103 99 57
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 14.55% 19.26% 14.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 63 30
10th Percentile £350 £313 £265
25th Percentile £377 £358 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £457 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.55% -4.76% +31.25%
75th Percentile £520 £561 £555
90th Percentile £638 £632 £593
North West median daily rate £450 £450 £486
% change year-on-year - -7.41% +2.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 11
10th Percentile - - £15.00
25th Percentile £30.00 £21.05 £17.14
Median hourly rate £32.00 £23.14 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.32% +32.20% +8.90%
75th Percentile £34.00 £24.18 £27.91
90th Percentile - - £35.75
North West median hourly rate £63.40 £23.14 £28.30
% change year-on-year +174.04% -18.25% -59.02%

ISO 20022
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ISO 20022 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

ISO 20022 job vacancy trend in Cheshire

ISO 20022
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing ISO 20022.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing ISO 20022

ISO 20022
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISO 20022 in Cheshire over the 6 months to 5 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ISO 20022 in Cheshire

ISO 20022
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISO 20022 within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 5 November 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford - 14 £492 - 1
ISO 20022
North West

ISO 20022
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 11 (73.33%) AWS
1 11 (73.33%) Azure
2 5 (33.33%) GCP
Development Applications
1 10 (66.67%) JIRA
2 8 (53.33%) Git
General
1 13 (86.67%) Banking
2 11 (73.33%) Finance
3 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Developer
2 5 (33.33%) Architect
2 5 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 5 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Payments Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Payments Solutions Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Business Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Product Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Product Business Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Product Owner
5 1 (6.67%) Senior
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (86.67%) Spring
1 13 (86.67%) Spring Boot
2 8 (53.33%) JMS
2 8 (53.33%) REST
3 2 (13.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 9 (60.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 8 (53.33%) Cloud Native
3 5 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (13.33%) Onboarding
4 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Containerisation
2 10 (66.67%) Agile
3 9 (60.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 8 (53.33%) Anti-Money Laundering
4 8 (53.33%) CI/CD
4 8 (53.33%) DevOps
4 8 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (46.67%) Microservices
6 6 (40.00%) SDLC
6 6 (40.00%) Test Automation
7 5 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
7 5 (33.33%) Data Modelling
7 5 (33.33%) Integration Testing
7 5 (33.33%) Logical Data Model
7 5 (33.33%) OOA/OOD
7 5 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
7 5 (33.33%) UML
7 5 (33.33%) Unit Testing
8 4 (26.67%) OO
8 4 (26.67%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 13 (86.67%) Java
2 8 (53.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (13.33%) CBAP
2 2 (13.33%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (60.00%) SEPA
2 8 (53.33%) PSD2
2 8 (53.33%) QA
3 6 (40.00%) PCI DSS
4 2 (13.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Oracle
2 4 (26.67%) Google
3 2 (13.33%) IBM
3 2 (13.33%) IBM Sterling
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft