ISO 8583 Contracts in the UK excluding London

ISO 8583
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring ISO 8583 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ISO 8583 over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 329 392 452
Rank change year-on-year +63 +60 +64
Contract jobs citing ISO 8583 5 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.039% 0.010% 0.013%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.24% 0.064% 0.084%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile £490 £556 -
25th Percentile £509 £564 £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £559 £606 £750
Median % change year-on-year -7.84% -19.17% +114.29%
75th Percentile £580 £642 £788
90th Percentile - £647 £795
UK median daily rate £600 £606 £750
% change year-on-year -1.03% -19.17% +114.29%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

ISO 8583 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 2,061 3,114 3,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.13% 15.04% 14.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,294 1,822 2,393
10th Percentile £211 £254 £219
25th Percentile £363 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £667 £687 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 307 183
10th Percentile £17.72 £10.95 £12.67
25th Percentile £24.18 £12.53 £18.09
Median hourly rate £46.30 £18.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +157.22% -48.57% +66.27%
75th Percentile £67.50 £44.38 £61.00
90th Percentile £80.32 £67.43 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £34.75 £20.61 £36.25
% change year-on-year +68.65% -43.16% +31.82%

ISO 8583
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing ISO 8583 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for ISO 8583 in the UK excluding London

ISO 8583
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ISO 8583 in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for ISO 8583 in the UK excluding London

ISO 8583
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ISO 8583 in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for ISO 8583 in the UK excluding London

ISO 8583
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 8583 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
South West - 3 £580 - 1
North of England - 2 £508 - 2
North West - 2 £508 - 2
ISO 8583
UK

ISO 8583
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:

Business Applications
1 3 (60.00%) BASE24
2 2 (40.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Apple Pay
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) NonStop SQL
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) BASE24 Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Payments Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) OAuth
1 2 (40.00%) OAuth2
1 2 (40.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) EMV
2 2 (40.00%) Digital Wallet
2 2 (40.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (20.00%) Mainframe
3 1 (20.00%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (40.00%) Fintech
1 2 (40.00%) Microservices
1 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (20.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (20.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C
1 1 (20.00%) C++
1 1 (20.00%) COBOL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (40.00%) ISO 20022
2 2 (40.00%) PSD2
2 2 (40.00%) SEPA
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) HP
2 2 (40.00%) Apple
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft