ISO 20022 Contract Job Trends

ISO 20022
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring ISO 20022 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 594 523 545
Rank change year-on-year -71 +22 +64
Contract jobs citing ISO 20022 76 28 27
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.085% 0.069%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.84% 0.50% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 21 13
10th Percentile £327 £395 £423
25th Percentile £424 £405 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +5.00% -35.48%
75th Percentile £700 £706 £600
90th Percentile £746 £756 £644
UK excluding London median daily rate £358 £489 £606
% change year-on-year -26.79% -19.34% +42.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £87.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 9,043 5,573 5,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.11% 16.94% 13.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,802 3,591 3,291
10th Percentile £331 £282 £291
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £505
Median % change year-on-year - -0.99% -3.81%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +4.21% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 557 250 326
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.59 £11.26
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.38 £14.49
Median hourly rate £40.00 £26.93 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year +48.56% +4.50% -34.64%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.04 £83.59 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £24.66 £25.30
% change year-on-year +62.21% -2.53% -29.23%

ISO 20022
Job Vacancy Trend

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

ISO 20022 job vacancy trend in the UK

ISO 20022
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ISO 20022

ISO 20022
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISO 20022 over the 6 months to 4 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ISO 20022 in the UK

ISO 20022
Top 9 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 4 August 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
England -71 63 £575 +9.52% 27
London -27 54 £575 -8.00% 24
UK excluding London -88 17 £358 -26.79% 7
Work from Home -50 13 £563 +38.89% 13
Scotland - 8 £336 - 1
North of England -57 6 £335 -33.00% 1
Yorkshire - 5 £335 -
South East - 3 £720 - 4
North West -55 1 - - 1

ISO 20022
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 7 (9.21%) Confluence
2 3 (3.95%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.63%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (5.26%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (6.58%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (3.95%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (3.95%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (2.63%) FLEXCUBE
3 2 (2.63%) IntelliMatch
3 2 (2.63%) SAP GRC
4 1 (1.32%) Actimize
4 1 (1.32%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (1.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (1.32%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 18 (23.68%) AWS
2 13 (17.11%) Azure
3 4 (5.26%) GCP
4 3 (3.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (3.95%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.63%) Amazon EventBridge
5 2 (2.63%) Amazon Kinesis
5 2 (2.63%) Amazon MSK
5 2 (2.63%) Amazon S3
5 2 (2.63%) Apigee
5 2 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (2.63%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.63%) Serverless
6 1 (1.32%) Lucidchart
6 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.26%) Tableau
2 3 (3.95%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (3.95%) OLTP
2 3 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.95%) Power BI
3 2 (2.63%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (2.63%) Amazon QuickSight
3 2 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (2.63%) Apache Iceberg
3 2 (2.63%) Data Mining
3 2 (2.63%) Data Vault
3 2 (2.63%) Db2
3 2 (2.63%) Flink
3 2 (2.63%) Star Schema
4 1 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.32%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 10 (13.16%) JIRA
2 5 (6.58%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.26%) GitLab
3 4 (5.26%) Selenium
4 3 (3.95%) Git
4 3 (3.95%) Gradle
4 3 (3.95%) Maven
5 2 (2.63%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.63%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.63%) Gatling
5 2 (2.63%) JMeter
5 2 (2.63%) Postman
5 2 (2.63%) REST Assured
5 2 (2.63%) SoapUI
6 1 (1.32%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (1.32%) JUnit
6 1 (1.32%) Newman
6 1 (1.32%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.32%) TestCafe
6 1 (1.32%) TestNG
General
1 57 (75.00%) Finance
2 55 (72.37%) Banking
3 22 (28.95%) Social Skills
4 17 (22.37%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (10.53%) Financial Institution
6 5 (6.58%) Billing
6 5 (6.58%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.63%) Front Office
8 2 (2.63%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.63%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.32%) International Banking
9 1 (1.32%) Private Banking
9 1 (1.32%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 23 (30.26%) Analyst
1 23 (30.26%) Architect
2 16 (21.05%) Business Analyst
3 15 (19.74%) Solutions Architect
4 14 (18.42%) Payments Architect
4 14 (18.42%) Senior
5 10 (13.16%) Payments Solutions Architect
6 9 (11.84%) Java Engineer
6 9 (11.84%) Lead
7 8 (10.53%) Payments Analyst
7 8 (10.53%) Senior Java Engineer
8 6 (7.89%) Payments Business Analyst
9 5 (6.58%) Product Lead
10 4 (5.26%) Applications Architect
10 4 (5.26%) Banking Analyst
10 4 (5.26%) Developer
11 3 (3.95%) Banking Business Analyst
11 3 (3.95%) Data Architect
11 3 (3.95%) Senior Architect
12 2 (2.63%) SAP Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (25.00%) Kafka
2 12 (15.79%) Spring Boot
3 9 (11.84%) REST
3 9 (11.84%) Spring
3 9 (11.84%) XML
4 8 (10.53%) JSON
5 7 (9.21%) Middleware
6 5 (6.58%) SOAP
7 4 (5.26%) .NET
8 3 (3.95%) XML Messaging
9 2 (2.63%) Apache Avro
9 2 (2.63%) Protocol Buffers
9 2 (2.63%) SAP Fiori
9 2 (2.63%) Web Services
9 2 (2.63%) WebSphere MQ
10 1 (1.32%) EDIFACT
10 1 (1.32%) OAuth2
10 1 (1.32%) React
10 1 (1.32%) XBRL
10 1 (1.32%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 47 (61.84%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 9 (11.84%) Product Ownership
3 7 (9.21%) Cloud Native
4 4 (5.26%) Low-Code
4 4 (5.26%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.95%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.95%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.63%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (2.63%) Mainframe
6 2 (2.63%) PACS
7 1 (1.32%) CBDC
7 1 (1.32%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.32%) Derivative
7 1 (1.32%) Digital Wallet
7 1 (1.32%) Equities
7 1 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.32%) PDA
7 1 (1.32%) Replication
7 1 (1.32%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.84%) Linux
2 6 (7.89%) Unix
3 2 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (27.63%) Microservices
1 21 (27.63%) Stakeholder Management
2 19 (25.00%) Migration
2 19 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 17 (22.37%) Agile
4 15 (19.74%) Business Analysis
4 15 (19.74%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (19.74%) Validation
5 14 (18.42%) Event-Driven
6 12 (15.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 11 (14.47%) CI/CD
8 10 (13.16%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 10 (13.16%) Regulatory Change
9 9 (11.84%) Acceptance Criteria
9 9 (11.84%) Data Analysis
9 9 (11.84%) Test Automation
9 9 (11.84%) TOGAF
9 9 (11.84%) User Stories
10 8 (10.53%) Integration Testing
10 8 (10.53%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (26.32%) Java
1 20 (26.32%) SQL
2 10 (13.16%) Python
3 6 (7.89%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.95%) Scala
5 2 (2.63%) C
5 2 (2.63%) C#
5 2 (2.63%) C++
5 2 (2.63%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.32%) Groovy
6 1 (1.32%) Korn
6 1 (1.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (11.84%) Security Cleared
2 8 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.95%) Degree
3 3 (3.95%) ISTQB
3 3 (3.95%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.63%) IIBA
4 2 (2.63%) ISEB
5 1 (1.32%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.32%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.32%) CISA
5 1 (1.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (40.79%) SEPA
2 10 (13.16%) PSD2
3 7 (9.21%) ISO 15022
4 4 (5.26%) ISO 8583
4 4 (5.26%) QA
5 3 (3.95%) SLA
6 2 (2.63%) GDPR
6 2 (2.63%) GRC
6 2 (2.63%) PMO
7 1 (1.32%) Data Quality
7 1 (1.32%) TARGET2
System Software
1 8 (10.53%) Docker
2 1 (1.32%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 8 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.63%) Grafana
2 2 (2.63%) Prometheus
2 2 (2.63%) Terraform
3 1 (1.32%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 15 (19.74%) Oracle
2 7 (9.21%) IBM
3 4 (5.26%) SAP
3 4 (5.26%) Splunk
4 3 (3.95%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.95%) SmartStream
5 2 (2.63%) Alteryx
5 2 (2.63%) Confluent
5 2 (2.63%) FIS
5 2 (2.63%) Fiserv
5 2 (2.63%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.32%) Ariba
6 1 (1.32%) Calypso
6 1 (1.32%) Databricks
6 1 (1.32%) Murex
6 1 (1.32%) Snow