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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 545 549 579
Rank change year-on-year +4 +30 +150
Contract jobs citing ISO 20022 49 17 37
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.046% 0.081%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.77% 0.34% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 9 34
10th Percentile £395 £535 £525
25th Percentile £420 £575 £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £600 £758
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% -20.79% +16.54%
75th Percentile £600 £645 £838
90th Percentile £688 £738 £1,088
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £608 £550
% change year-on-year -19.08% +10.55% -26.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £86.25 - -
Median hourly rate £87.50 - -
75th Percentile £88.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 6,351 5,008 6,543
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.59% 13.68% 14.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,073 2,923 4,355
10th Percentile £310 £269 £313
25th Percentile £404 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £603 £625 £647
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 314 226 241
10th Percentile £13.60 £13.52 £15.32
25th Percentile £17.58 £17.22 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.31 £27.18 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% -27.53% +56.25%
75th Percentile £61.09 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.96 £70.00 £83.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.82 £26.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -13.89% -40.45% +111.90%

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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 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
England +12 49 £492 -18.00% 5
UK excluding London -12 26 £492 -19.08% 3
London +19 23 £525 -12.50% 1
North of England - 20 £479 - 1
North West - 20 £479 - 1
Work from Home +20 12 £474 -21.00% 3
East Midlands -6 6 £625 - 2
Midlands -18 6 £625 - 2

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 (14.29%) Confluence
2 1 (2.04%) CICS
2 1 (2.04%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.04%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (6.12%) MS Visio
2 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (14.29%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (8.16%) Oracle Cash Management
2 4 (8.16%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (4.08%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (2.04%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (2.04%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 20 (40.82%) AWS
2 18 (36.73%) Azure
3 7 (14.29%) GCP
4 1 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (2.04%) Collibra
4 1 (2.04%) Google Ads
4 1 (2.04%) SaaS
4 1 (2.04%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.04%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (2.04%) DB2
1 1 (2.04%) Metadata
1 1 (2.04%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.04%) Oracle Database
1 1 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (38.78%) JIRA
2 11 (22.45%) Git
3 1 (2.04%) ERwin
3 1 (2.04%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (2.04%) PowerDesigner
General
1 43 (87.76%) Banking
2 36 (73.47%) Finance
3 23 (46.94%) Social Skills
4 11 (22.45%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.12%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (4.08%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (2.04%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.04%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.04%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.04%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (36.73%) Analyst
2 16 (32.65%) Business Analyst
3 14 (28.57%) Payments Analyst
4 13 (26.53%) Payments Business Analyst
5 11 (22.45%) Developer
6 9 (18.37%) Architect
7 7 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (12.24%) Banking Analyst
8 6 (12.24%) Java Developer
9 5 (10.20%) Banking Business Analyst
9 5 (10.20%) Payments Architect
10 4 (8.16%) Lead
10 4 (8.16%) Payments Solutions Architect
10 4 (8.16%) Technical Analyst
11 2 (4.08%) Technical Business Analyst
12 1 (2.04%) Onboarding Analyst
12 1 (2.04%) Product Business Analyst
12 1 (2.04%) Product Owner
12 1 (2.04%) Senior
12 1 (2.04%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (40.82%) Spring
1 20 (40.82%) Spring Boot
2 13 (26.53%) REST
3 11 (22.45%) JMS
4 4 (8.16%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (6.12%) XML
6 2 (4.08%) Kafka
7 1 (2.04%) JSON
7 1 (2.04%) JWT
7 1 (2.04%) OAuth
7 1 (2.04%) OAuth2
7 1 (2.04%) OpenAPI
7 1 (2.04%) Quarkus
7 1 (2.04%) SOAP
7 1 (2.04%) Swagger
7 1 (2.04%) Web Services
7 1 (2.04%) XSD
7 1 (2.04%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 27 (55.10%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 11 (22.45%) Cloud Native
3 8 (16.33%) Onboarding
4 7 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (10.20%) Product Ownership
6 3 (6.12%) PACS
6 3 (6.12%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (4.08%) PMI
8 1 (2.04%) Blockchain
8 1 (2.04%) Data Structures
8 1 (2.04%) DataPower
8 1 (2.04%) Derivative
8 1 (2.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (2.04%) Mainframe
8 1 (2.04%) Taxonomies
8 1 (2.04%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.04%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (44.90%) Agile
2 17 (34.69%) User Acceptance Testing
3 16 (32.65%) Containerisation
3 16 (32.65%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (28.57%) Anti-Money Laundering
5 13 (26.53%) DevOps
5 13 (26.53%) SDLC
6 11 (22.45%) CI/CD
6 11 (22.45%) Microservices
6 11 (22.45%) Requirements Gathering
7 9 (18.37%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (18.37%) Test Automation
7 9 (18.37%) Unit Testing
8 8 (16.33%) Data Modelling
8 8 (16.33%) Integration Testing
9 7 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
9 7 (14.29%) Fintech
9 7 (14.29%) Logical Data Model
9 7 (14.29%) OOA/OOD
9 7 (14.29%) UML
Programming Languages
1 20 (40.82%) Java
2 15 (30.61%) SQL
3 1 (2.04%) Assembly Language
3 1 (2.04%) COBOL
3 1 (2.04%) JCL
3 1 (2.04%) REXX
Qualifications
1 4 (8.16%) BPSS Clearance
1 4 (8.16%) CBAP
2 2 (4.08%) CSPO
2 2 (4.08%) Degree
2 2 (4.08%) PMI Certification
2 2 (4.08%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.04%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (53.06%) SEPA
2 19 (38.78%) PSD2
3 13 (26.53%) QA
4 6 (12.24%) PCI DSS
5 3 (6.12%) GDPR
6 1 (2.04%) IFRS
6 1 (2.04%) IFRS 9
6 1 (2.04%) MiFID
System Software
1 14 (28.57%) Docker
2 1 (2.04%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 9 (18.37%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.04%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 16 (32.65%) Oracle
2 5 (10.20%) Google
2 5 (10.20%) IBM
3 3 (6.12%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.08%) IBM Sterling
5 1 (2.04%) FIS
5 1 (2.04%) Sparx
5 1 (2.04%) Temenos