ISO 20022 Contracts in the UK excluding London

ISO 20022
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 341 391 440
Rank change year-on-year +50 +49 +62
Contract jobs citing ISO 20022 7 4 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.054% 0.020% 0.048%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.33% 0.13% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 6
10th Percentile £359 £395 £444
25th Percentile £478 £453 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £675
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% -11.11% +25.58%
75th Percentile £719 £634 £775
90th Percentile £723 £644 £788
UK median daily rate £508 £500 £675
% change year-on-year +1.55% -25.93% +3.85%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,107 2,969 3,395
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.23% 14.63% 14.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,336 1,751 2,261
10th Percentile £224 £250 £223
25th Percentile £362 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £484 £480
Median % change year-on-year -1.76% +0.83% +6.56%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £650 £680 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 308 188
10th Percentile £15.48 £10.95 £13.16
25th Percentile £23.00 £12.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £46.30 £18.27 £32.94
Median % change year-on-year +153.42% -44.54% +46.41%
75th Percentile £67.50 £45.00 £62.00
90th Percentile £79.74 £68.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £21.06 £35.00
% change year-on-year +63.84% -39.84% +7.69%

ISO 20022
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing ISO 20022 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for ISO 20022 in the UK excluding London

ISO 20022
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ISO 20022 in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for ISO 20022 in the UK excluding London

ISO 20022
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISO 20022 in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ISO 20022 in the UK excluding London

ISO 20022
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
North of England +21 4 £508 +40.07% 2
North West - 4 £508 - 2
Scotland +8 2 £706 +16.49%
South West - 1 £280 - 3
ISO 20022
UK

ISO 20022
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (14.29%) Confluence
1 1 (14.29%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Payment Gateway
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 6 (85.71%) Banking
2 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Corporate Banking
3 2 (28.57%) Finance
3 2 (28.57%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Architect
1 4 (57.14%) Payments Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Migration Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Payments Solutions Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Implementation Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Junior
3 1 (14.29%) Junior Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Junior Oracle Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Delivery Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Implementation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) OAuth
1 2 (28.57%) OAuth2
1 2 (28.57%) XML
2 1 (14.29%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 2 (28.57%) Digital Wallet
2 2 (28.57%) EMV
3 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Unix
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Migration
2 2 (28.57%) Architectural Design
2 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven
2 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (28.57%) Fintech
2 2 (28.57%) Microservices
2 2 (28.57%) Project Management
2 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
3 1 (14.29%) Anti-Money Laundering
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (14.29%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
3 1 (14.29%) SDLC
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Java
1 1 (14.29%) Python
1 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) SEPA
2 2 (28.57%) ISO 8583
2 2 (28.57%) PCI DSS
2 2 (28.57%) PSD2
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle