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 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 598 521 548
Rank change year-on-year -77 +27 +65
Contract jobs citing ISO 20022 77 34 29
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.10% 0.075%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.83% 0.61% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 29 13
10th Percentile £333 £311 £423
25th Percentile £405 £405 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -35.48%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £600
90th Percentile £738 £756 £644
UK excluding London median daily rate £335 £489 £606
% change year-on-year -31.49% -19.34% +1.89%
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 9,250 5,598 5,208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.27% 17.06% 13.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,919 3,582 3,217
10th Percentile £325 £285 £294
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £625
90th Percentile £700 £715 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £480
% change year-on-year +3.58% -1.04% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 268 310
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.60 £11.07
25th Percentile £18.27 £17.43 £14.43
Median hourly rate £37.50 £27.91 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year +34.36% +8.33% -26.39%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.24 £55.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £86.20 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.72 £25.08 £25.68
% change year-on-year +54.42% -2.37% -26.62%

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 19 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 19 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 -88 64 £563 +12.50% 32
London -43 56 £563 +7.14% 27
Work from Home -63 15 £550 +35.80% 8
UK excluding London -79 14 £335 -31.49% 8
North of England -81 6 £335 -33.00% 4
Scotland - 6 £307 - 1
Yorkshire - 5 £335 - 1
South East - 2 £720 - 2
North West -60 1 - - 3

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 (9.09%) Confluence
2 3 (3.90%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.60%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (5.19%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (5.19%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (3.90%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (2.60%) FLEXCUBE
3 2 (2.60%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (2.60%) SAP GRC
4 1 (1.30%) Actimize
4 1 (1.30%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (1.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (1.30%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 18 (23.38%) AWS
1 18 (23.38%) Azure
2 9 (11.69%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (5.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (2.60%) Amazon EventBridge
4 2 (2.60%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (2.60%) Amazon MSK
4 2 (2.60%) Amazon S3
4 2 (2.60%) Apigee
4 2 (2.60%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (2.60%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (2.60%) GCP
4 2 (2.60%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.60%) Serverless
5 1 (1.30%) Lucidchart
5 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (1.30%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.19%) Amazon Aurora
1 4 (5.19%) OLTP
1 4 (5.19%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.90%) Db2
3 2 (2.60%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (2.60%) Amazon QuickSight
3 2 (2.60%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (2.60%) Apache Iceberg
3 2 (2.60%) Data Mining
3 2 (2.60%) Data Vault
3 2 (2.60%) Flink
3 2 (2.60%) Power BI
3 2 (2.60%) Star Schema
3 2 (2.60%) Tableau
4 1 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.30%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 13 (16.88%) JIRA
2 12 (15.58%) Selenium
3 11 (14.29%) Jenkins
4 9 (11.69%) Git
5 6 (7.79%) GitLab
5 6 (7.79%) Gradle
5 6 (7.79%) Maven
6 4 (5.19%) REST Assured
7 3 (3.90%) Gatling
7 3 (3.90%) JMeter
7 3 (3.90%) WebDriver
8 2 (2.60%) Cucumber
8 2 (2.60%) Cypress.io
8 2 (2.60%) Flyway
8 2 (2.60%) JUnit
8 2 (2.60%) Liquibase
8 2 (2.60%) Postman
8 2 (2.60%) SoapUI
8 2 (2.60%) TestNG
9 1 (1.30%) TestCafe
General
1 57 (74.03%) Banking
2 56 (72.73%) Finance
3 17 (22.08%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (22.08%) Social Skills
4 7 (9.09%) Financial Institution
5 5 (6.49%) Billing
6 4 (5.19%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.60%) Front Office
7 2 (2.60%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.60%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.30%) International Banking
8 1 (1.30%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (25.97%) Analyst
1 20 (25.97%) Senior
2 19 (24.68%) Architect
3 13 (16.88%) Business Analyst
4 11 (14.29%) Lead
4 11 (14.29%) Payments Architect
5 10 (12.99%) Solutions Architect
6 9 (11.69%) Java Engineer
7 8 (10.39%) Payments Analyst
7 8 (10.39%) Senior Java Engineer
8 6 (7.79%) Payments Business Analyst
8 6 (7.79%) Payments Solutions Architect
9 5 (6.49%) Developer
9 5 (6.49%) Product Lead
10 4 (5.19%) Banking Analyst
11 3 (3.90%) Banking Business Analyst
11 3 (3.90%) Development Engineer
11 3 (3.90%) Senior Architect
11 3 (3.90%) Software Development Engineer
11 3 (3.90%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (32.47%) Kafka
2 15 (19.48%) XML
3 14 (18.18%) REST
4 13 (16.88%) Spring Boot
5 10 (12.99%) Spring
6 9 (11.69%) JSON
7 6 (7.79%) Middleware
7 6 (7.79%) XSD
8 4 (5.19%) SOAP
9 3 (3.90%) WebSphere MQ
9 3 (3.90%) XML Messaging
10 2 (2.60%) .NET
10 2 (2.60%) Apache Avro
10 2 (2.60%) Playwright
10 2 (2.60%) Protocol Buffers
10 2 (2.60%) SAP Fiori
10 2 (2.60%) Web Services
11 1 (1.30%) FIX Protocol
11 1 (1.30%) IBM Integration Bus
11 1 (1.30%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 47 (61.04%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 10 (12.99%) Product Ownership
3 8 (10.39%) Cloud Native
4 4 (5.19%) Low-Code
4 4 (5.19%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.90%) Mainframe
5 3 (3.90%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.60%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.60%) PACS
7 1 (1.30%) CBDC
7 1 (1.30%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.30%) Derivative
7 1 (1.30%) Digital Wallet
7 1 (1.30%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.30%) PDA
7 1 (1.30%) Synthetic Data
7 1 (1.30%) Taxonomies
7 1 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (16.88%) Linux
2 7 (9.09%) Unix
3 3 (3.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
2 19 (24.68%) Agile
3 18 (23.38%) Validation
4 17 (22.08%) CI/CD
4 17 (22.08%) Microservices
4 17 (22.08%) Test Automation
5 16 (20.78%) Migration
6 15 (19.48%) User Acceptance Testing
7 14 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (16.88%) DevOps
8 13 (16.88%) Event-Driven
9 12 (15.58%) Business Analysis
10 11 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
10 11 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 10 (12.99%) Integration Testing
12 9 (11.69%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 9 (11.69%) User Stories
13 8 (10.39%) Observability
13 8 (10.39%) Root Cause Analysis
13 8 (10.39%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 27 (35.06%) Java
2 26 (33.77%) SQL
3 11 (14.29%) Python
4 8 (10.39%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.90%) C#
5 3 (3.90%) C++
5 3 (3.90%) PL/SQL
5 3 (3.90%) Scala
6 2 (2.60%) C
7 1 (1.30%) Groovy
7 1 (1.30%) Korn
7 1 (1.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (19.48%) SC Cleared
1 15 (19.48%) Security Cleared
2 9 (11.69%) ISTQB
3 5 (6.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 3 (3.90%) ISEB
5 2 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.60%) Degree
5 2 (2.60%) IIBA
6 1 (1.30%) CISA
6 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.30%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (35.06%) SEPA
2 9 (11.69%) ISO 15022
3 6 (7.79%) PSD2
4 5 (6.49%) QA
5 2 (2.60%) GRC
5 2 (2.60%) PMO
6 1 (1.30%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.30%) ISO 8583
6 1 (1.30%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.60%) Grafana
2 2 (2.60%) Prometheus
2 2 (2.60%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (20.78%) Oracle
2 7 (9.09%) IBM
3 4 (5.19%) SAP
3 4 (5.19%) Splunk
4 3 (3.90%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.60%) Confluent
5 2 (2.60%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.30%) Ariba
6 1 (1.30%) Calypso
6 1 (1.30%) Databricks
6 1 (1.30%) Murex
6 1 (1.30%) SmartStream
6 1 (1.30%) Snow