ISO 20022 Contracts in the North West

ISO 20022
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring ISO 20022 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ISO 20022 over the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 - 151
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing ISO 20022 6 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.27% - 0.033%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.83% - 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £434 - -
25th Percentile £462 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 - £425
75th Percentile £514 - £438
90th Percentile £539 - -
England median daily rate £489 £500 £775
% change year-on-year -2.20% -35.48% +19.23%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 327 347 444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.87% 14.40% 14.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 197 257
10th Percentile £313 £363 £316
25th Percentile £392 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £500 £486
Median % change year-on-year -7.15% +2.88% +2.32%
75th Percentile £590 £585 £588
90th Percentile £688 £672 £647
England median daily rate £500 £525 £536
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.05% +2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 37 36
10th Percentile £13.50 - £17.20
25th Percentile £25.50 - £29.83
Median hourly rate £49.82 £10.95 £37.55
Median % change year-on-year +354.98% -70.84% -46.36%
75th Percentile £74.44 £18.11 £49.52
90th Percentile £85.07 £43.10 £76.19
England median hourly rate £31.64 £27.50 £38.46
% change year-on-year +15.05% -28.50% +56.98%

ISO 20022
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing ISO 20022 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for ISO 20022 in the North West

ISO 20022
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ISO 20022 in the North West.

Daily rate trend for ISO 20022 in the North West

ISO 20022
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 14 August 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
Cheshire - 4 £465 - 4
Manchester - 2 £508 -
ISO 20022
England

ISO 20022
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 6 (100.00%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Corporate Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Architect
1 4 (66.67%) Payments Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Payments Solutions Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) JMS
1 2 (33.33%) OAuth
1 2 (33.33%) OAuth2
1 2 (33.33%) REST
1 2 (33.33%) Spring
1 2 (33.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (33.33%) Digital Wallet
2 2 (33.33%) EMV
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Agile
1 2 (33.33%) Anti-Money Laundering
1 2 (33.33%) Architectural Design
1 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps
1 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven
1 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (33.33%) Fintech
1 2 (33.33%) Microservices
1 2 (33.33%) Migration
1 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
1 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
1 2 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (16.67%) SDLC
2 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) SEPA
2 4 (66.67%) PSD2
3 2 (33.33%) ISO 8583
3 2 (33.33%) PCI DSS
3 2 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle