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 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 522 510 561
Rank change year-on-year -12 +51 +135
Contract jobs citing ISO 20022 62 19 19
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.060% 0.044%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.95% 0.42% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 11 18
10th Percentile £409 £550 £510
25th Percentile £431 £588 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £623
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -3.61% -4.23%
75th Percentile £628 £682 £746
90th Percentile £681 £738 £913
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £660 £550
% change year-on-year -25.48% +20.05% -26.67%

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 6,516 4,544 6,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.18% 14.34% 14.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,205 2,662 4,157
10th Percentile £315 £253 £306
25th Percentile £410 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.58% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 330 176 297
10th Percentile £15.31 £15.00 £12.47
25th Percentile £17.96 £21.00 £15.39
Median hourly rate £25.94 £29.00 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -10.55% +0.87% +15.00%
75th Percentile £63.48 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £69.69 £75.00 £77.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.75 £28.00 £28.30
% change year-on-year -25.89% -1.06% +20.25%

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 23 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ISO 20022 in the UK

ISO 20022
Top 8 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 23 January 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 -4 60 £500 -16.67% 10
UK excluding London -31 31 £492 -25.48% 8
London -15 28 £525 -12.50% 5
North of England - 24 £487 - 1
North West - 24 £487 - 1
Work from Home +4 16 £487 -18.90% 2
East Midlands -21 7 £625 - 1
Midlands -42 7 £625 - 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 8 (12.90%) Confluence
2 3 (4.84%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.61%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.61%) CICS
3 1 (1.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 5 (8.06%) MS Visio
2 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (11.29%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (6.45%) Oracle Cash Management
2 4 (6.45%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (3.23%) Avolution ABACUS
3 2 (3.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (1.61%) SAP CO
4 1 (1.61%) SAP FI
4 1 (1.61%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (1.61%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (1.61%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 31 (50.00%) AWS
2 22 (35.48%) Azure
3 10 (16.13%) GCP
4 4 (6.45%) Amazon EventBridge
4 4 (6.45%) Amazon Kinesis
4 4 (6.45%) Amazon MSK
4 4 (6.45%) Amazon S3
4 4 (6.45%) Apigee
4 4 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (6.45%) AWS Step Functions
4 4 (6.45%) Serverless
5 2 (3.23%) GitHub
5 2 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (3.23%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.61%) Collibra
6 1 (1.61%) Google Ads
6 1 (1.61%) SaaS
6 1 (1.61%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.06%) Amazon Aurora
1 5 (8.06%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (6.45%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (6.45%) Amazon QuickSight
2 4 (6.45%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (6.45%) Apache Iceberg
2 4 (6.45%) Data Vault
2 4 (6.45%) Flink
2 4 (6.45%) OLTP
2 4 (6.45%) Star Schema
2 4 (6.45%) Tableau
3 2 (3.23%) Hazelcast
3 2 (3.23%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.23%) Redis
4 1 (1.61%) DB2
4 1 (1.61%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 21 (33.87%) JIRA
2 13 (20.97%) Git
3 3 (4.84%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.23%) Gatling
5 1 (1.61%) ERwin
5 1 (1.61%) GitLab
5 1 (1.61%) PowerDesigner
General
1 55 (88.71%) Banking
2 48 (77.42%) Finance
3 25 (40.32%) Social Skills
4 14 (22.58%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.45%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.23%) Corporate Banking
6 2 (3.23%) Law
7 1 (1.61%) Legal
7 1 (1.61%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.61%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (29.03%) Architect
2 16 (25.81%) Analyst
3 15 (24.19%) Developer
4 13 (20.97%) Payments Analyst
4 13 (20.97%) Solutions Architect
5 12 (19.35%) Business Analyst
6 10 (16.13%) Java Developer
6 10 (16.13%) Payments Business Analyst
7 9 (14.52%) Payments Architect
7 9 (14.52%) Payments Solutions Architect
8 5 (8.06%) Banking Analyst
8 5 (8.06%) Banking Business Analyst
9 4 (6.45%) Data Architect
9 4 (6.45%) Lead
10 3 (4.84%) Kafka Architect
10 3 (4.84%) Senior
10 3 (4.84%) Technical Analyst
11 1 (1.61%) Infrastructure Architect
11 1 (1.61%) SAP Consultant
11 1 (1.61%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (38.71%) Spring Boot
2 23 (37.10%) Spring
3 14 (22.58%) REST
4 13 (20.97%) JMS
5 9 (14.52%) Kafka
6 6 (9.68%) Apache Avro
7 4 (6.45%) JSON
7 4 (6.45%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (6.45%) Protocol Buffers
8 3 (4.84%) OAuth
8 3 (4.84%) OAuth2
9 2 (3.23%) Micronaut
9 2 (3.23%) OpenID
9 2 (3.23%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (3.23%) Quarkus
10 1 (1.61%) AngularJS
10 1 (1.61%) JWT
10 1 (1.61%) OpenAPI
10 1 (1.61%) React
10 1 (1.61%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 37 (59.68%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 13 (20.97%) Cloud Native
3 8 (12.90%) Onboarding
4 7 (11.29%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (9.68%) Product Ownership
6 5 (8.06%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (6.45%) PACS
8 2 (3.23%) Digital Wallet
8 2 (3.23%) PMI
9 1 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.61%) Data Structures
9 1 (1.61%) DataPower
9 1 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.61%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (1.61%) Mainframe
9 1 (1.61%) Public Cloud
9 1 (1.61%) Taxonomies
9 1 (1.61%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.61%) Linux
1 1 (1.61%) Unix
1 1 (1.61%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (45.16%) Agile
2 22 (35.48%) User Acceptance Testing
3 21 (33.87%) Containerisation
4 20 (32.26%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (30.65%) Anti-Money Laundering
6 17 (27.42%) CI/CD
6 17 (27.42%) Microservices
7 15 (24.19%) DevOps
7 15 (24.19%) Test Automation
8 14 (22.58%) Data Modelling
8 14 (22.58%) Requirements Gathering
8 14 (22.58%) Stakeholder Management
9 13 (20.97%) SDLC
10 11 (17.74%) Logical Data Model
11 10 (16.13%) Integration Testing
11 10 (16.13%) Unit Testing
12 9 (14.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 8 (12.90%) Event-Driven
13 8 (12.90%) Migration
13 8 (12.90%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 25 (40.32%) Java
2 17 (27.42%) SQL
3 2 (3.23%) Python
4 1 (1.61%) Assembly Language
4 1 (1.61%) C#
4 1 (1.61%) COBOL
4 1 (1.61%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.61%) JCL
4 1 (1.61%) REXX
4 1 (1.61%) Scala
4 1 (1.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (9.68%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (6.45%) CBAP
2 4 (6.45%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.84%) Degree
3 3 (4.84%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.23%) CSPO
4 2 (3.23%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.61%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.61%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.61%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (48.39%) SEPA
2 26 (41.94%) PSD2
3 17 (27.42%) QA
4 6 (9.68%) PCI DSS
5 4 (6.45%) GDPR
6 3 (4.84%) ISO 8583
7 1 (1.61%) IFRS
7 1 (1.61%) IFRS 9
7 1 (1.61%) ISO 15022
7 1 (1.61%) MiFID
System Software
1 20 (32.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (24.19%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.84%) Grafana
2 3 (4.84%) Prometheus
2 3 (4.84%) Terraform
3 2 (3.23%) Ansible
3 2 (3.23%) Argo
Vendors
1 18 (29.03%) Oracle
2 6 (9.68%) Confluent
3 5 (8.06%) Google
3 5 (8.06%) IBM
3 5 (8.06%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.23%) IBM Sterling
5 1 (1.61%) FIS
5 1 (1.61%) SAP
5 1 (1.61%) Sparx
5 1 (1.61%) Splunk
5 1 (1.61%) Temenos