ISO 20022 Contract Job Trends in London

ISO 20022
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring ISO 20022 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 335 381
Rank change year-on-year -29 +46 +64
Contract jobs citing ISO 20022 52 20 19
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.28% 0.16% 0.11%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.52% 1.00% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 13 11
10th Percentile £425 £379 £413
25th Percentile £481 £401 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +30.56% -10.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £706 £756 £573
90th Percentile £737 £781 £650
England median daily rate £600 £464 £500
% change year-on-year +29.31% -7.20% -25.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £87.50 -
England median hourly rate - £87.50 -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 3,426 2,003 2,435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.18% 16.31% 13.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,297 1,327 1,709
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £766 £800
England median daily rate £500 £505 £525
% change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 26 65
10th Percentile £19.04 £20.63 £13.29
25th Percentile £22.91 £22.75 £18.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £34.50 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year -18.84% +42.68% -7.00%
75th Percentile £41.68 £53.13 £43.75
90th Percentile £63.05 £74.20 £56.00
England median hourly rate £34.49 £33.50 £24.18
% change year-on-year +2.97% +38.52% -43.11%

ISO 20022
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

ISO 20022 job vacancy trend in London

ISO 20022
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

ISO 20022
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISO 20022 in London over the 6 months to 13 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ISO 20022 in London

ISO 20022
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 13 June 2026. 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
Central London -11 11 £575 +42.86% 3
South London - 4 - -
ISO 20022
England

ISO 20022
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 4 (7.69%) Confluence
2 3 (5.77%) Apache Spark
2 3 (5.77%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (3.85%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.85%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Actimize
1 1 (1.92%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (1.92%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (1.92%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 19 (36.54%) AWS
2 8 (15.38%) Azure
3 7 (13.46%) GCP
4 6 (11.54%) Amazon EventBridge
4 6 (11.54%) Amazon Kinesis
4 6 (11.54%) Amazon MSK
4 6 (11.54%) Amazon S3
4 6 (11.54%) Apigee
4 6 (11.54%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (11.54%) AWS Step Functions
4 6 (11.54%) Serverless
5 3 (5.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (3.85%) GitHub
6 2 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (3.85%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.92%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.54%) Amazon Athena
1 6 (11.54%) Amazon Aurora
1 6 (11.54%) Amazon QuickSight
1 6 (11.54%) Amazon Redshift
1 6 (11.54%) Apache Iceberg
1 6 (11.54%) Data Vault
1 6 (11.54%) Flink
1 6 (11.54%) OLTP
1 6 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (11.54%) Star Schema
1 6 (11.54%) Tableau
2 2 (3.85%) Hazelcast
2 2 (3.85%) NoSQL
2 2 (3.85%) Redis
3 1 (1.92%) Db2
3 1 (1.92%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.92%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (9.62%) Jenkins
1 5 (9.62%) JIRA
2 3 (5.77%) GitLab
3 2 (3.85%) Gatling
4 1 (1.92%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 42 (80.77%) Finance
2 37 (71.15%) Banking
3 16 (30.77%) Social Skills
4 14 (26.92%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (13.46%) Financial Institution
6 4 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (5.77%) Law
8 2 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.92%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.92%) Private Banking
9 1 (1.92%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (30.77%) Architect
2 14 (26.92%) Analyst
3 9 (17.31%) Senior
3 9 (17.31%) Solutions Architect
4 8 (15.38%) Business Analyst
4 8 (15.38%) Payments Analyst
5 7 (13.46%) Java Engineer
5 7 (13.46%) Lead
5 7 (13.46%) Payments Architect
5 7 (13.46%) Senior Java Engineer
6 6 (11.54%) Data Architect
6 6 (11.54%) Payments Solutions Architect
7 4 (7.69%) Applications Architect
7 4 (7.69%) Developer
7 4 (7.69%) Product Lead
7 4 (7.69%) Technical Analyst
8 3 (5.77%) Java Developer
8 3 (5.77%) Kafka Architect
8 3 (5.77%) Payments Business Analyst
9 2 (3.85%) Banking Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (30.77%) Kafka
2 10 (19.23%) Spring Boot
3 8 (15.38%) Apache Avro
3 8 (15.38%) Spring
4 6 (11.54%) JSON
4 6 (11.54%) Protocol Buffers
5 4 (7.69%) .NET
5 4 (7.69%) Middleware
6 3 (5.77%) XML
7 2 (3.85%) Micronaut
7 2 (3.85%) OAuth
7 2 (3.85%) OAuth2
7 2 (3.85%) OpenID
7 2 (3.85%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (3.85%) Quarkus
7 2 (3.85%) REST
7 2 (3.85%) SOAP
8 1 (1.92%) AngularJS
8 1 (1.92%) React
8 1 (1.92%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 31 (59.62%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 6 (11.54%) Cloud Native
2 6 (11.54%) PACS
3 4 (7.69%) Low-Code
3 4 (7.69%) Product Ownership
4 3 (5.77%) Digital Wallet
5 2 (3.85%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.85%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.85%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.92%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.69%) Linux
2 3 (5.77%) Unix
3 1 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (28.85%) Agile
1 15 (28.85%) Microservices
2 13 (25.00%) Migration
2 13 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 12 (23.08%) Event-Driven
3 12 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (19.23%) Anti-Money Laundering
4 10 (19.23%) Business Analysis
4 10 (19.23%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 10 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (19.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 9 (17.31%) CI/CD
6 8 (15.38%) Analytics
6 8 (15.38%) Data Modelling
6 8 (15.38%) Observability
7 7 (13.46%) Acceptance Criteria
7 7 (13.46%) Containerisation
7 7 (13.46%) Data Architecture
7 7 (13.46%) Test Automation
8 6 (11.54%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 15 (28.85%) Java
2 8 (15.38%) SQL
3 7 (13.46%) Python
4 4 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 3 (5.77%) Scala
6 2 (3.85%) C#
7 1 (1.92%) C
7 1 (1.92%) C++
7 1 (1.92%) Groovy
7 1 (1.92%) Korn
7 1 (1.92%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.92%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (13.46%) SC Cleared
1 7 (13.46%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.85%) Degree
2 2 (3.85%) IIBA
2 2 (3.85%) ISEB
2 2 (3.85%) ISTQB
2 2 (3.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (1.92%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.92%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.92%) CISA
3 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.92%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (40.38%) SEPA
2 16 (30.77%) PSD2
3 5 (9.62%) ISO 15022
3 5 (9.62%) QA
4 4 (7.69%) ISO 8583
5 3 (5.77%) TARGET2
6 2 (3.85%) GDPR
7 1 (1.92%) PMO
7 1 (1.92%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (13.46%) Docker
2 1 (1.92%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 7 (13.46%) Kubernetes
2 5 (9.62%) Grafana
2 5 (9.62%) Prometheus
2 5 (9.62%) Terraform
3 2 (3.85%) Ansible
3 2 (3.85%) Argo
4 1 (1.92%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 8 (15.38%) Confluent
2 6 (11.54%) Oracle
3 5 (9.62%) IBM
4 3 (5.77%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.85%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.85%) Splunk
6 1 (1.92%) SAP
6 1 (1.92%) SmartStream
6 1 (1.92%) Snow