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 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 545 498 584
Rank change year-on-year -47 +86 +94
Contract jobs citing ISO 20022 67 20 18
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.068% 0.040%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.91% 0.45% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 11 13
10th Percentile £369 £519 £425
25th Percentile £436 £588 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £608 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.65% +10.55% -24.14%
75th Percentile £644 £722 £600
90th Percentile £700 £738 £648
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £654 £550
% change year-on-year -27.66% +18.91% -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 7,337 4,454 6,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.29% 15.07% 14.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,735 2,804 4,146
10th Percentile £331 £258 £300
25th Percentile £413 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £517
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% -1.48%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £485
% change year-on-year +5.26% -1.96% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 387 169 395
10th Percentile £15.49 £16.20 £11.06
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.50 £14.13
Median hourly rate £28.55 £31.76 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.11% +27.04% -28.57%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £47.75
90th Percentile £79.34 £79.41 £69.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.79 £31.76 £24.47
% change year-on-year -3.05% +29.82% -23.27%

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 10 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ISO 20022 in the UK

ISO 20022
Top 11 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 10 March 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 -41 63 £525 -12.50% 10
London -16 35 £625 +4.17% 3
UK excluding London -63 28 £473 -27.66% 6
North West -18 17 £487 -9.47% 2
North of England -45 17 £487 -9.47% 2
Work from Home -22 12 £496 -19.35% 2
East Midlands - 5 £625 -
Midlands - 5 £625 - 1
South East - 3 £525 - 2
Scotland +6 2 £358 -48.86%
South West - 1 £325 - 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 4 (5.97%) Confluence
2 3 (4.48%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.99%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.49%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (1.49%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.49%) CICS
4 1 (1.49%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (4.48%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (14.93%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (4.48%) Avolution ABACUS
2 3 (4.48%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (2.99%) IntelliMatch
3 2 (2.99%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (2.99%) SAP CO
3 2 (2.99%) SAP FI
3 2 (2.99%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (1.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (1.49%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 31 (46.27%) AWS
2 24 (35.82%) Azure
3 16 (23.88%) GCP
4 5 (7.46%) Apigee
5 4 (5.97%) Amazon EventBridge
5 4 (5.97%) Amazon Kinesis
5 4 (5.97%) Amazon MSK
5 4 (5.97%) Amazon S3
5 4 (5.97%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (5.97%) AWS Step Functions
5 4 (5.97%) Serverless
6 2 (2.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (2.99%) GitHub
6 2 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.99%) OpenShift
6 2 (2.99%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.49%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.49%) AWS KMS
7 1 (1.49%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.49%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.96%) Tableau
2 5 (7.46%) Amazon Aurora
2 5 (7.46%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (5.97%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (5.97%) Amazon QuickSight
3 4 (5.97%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (5.97%) Apache Iceberg
3 4 (5.97%) Data Vault
3 4 (5.97%) Flink
3 4 (5.97%) OLTP
3 4 (5.97%) Star Schema
4 2 (2.99%) Hazelcast
4 2 (2.99%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.99%) Power BI
4 2 (2.99%) Redis
5 1 (1.49%) DB2
5 1 (1.49%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 13 (19.40%) JIRA
2 8 (11.94%) Git
3 3 (4.48%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.99%) Gatling
5 1 (1.49%) GitLab
5 1 (1.49%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 59 (88.06%) Banking
2 56 (83.58%) Finance
3 30 (44.78%) Social Skills
4 17 (25.37%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (8.96%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (5.97%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (4.48%) Law
8 2 (2.99%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (2.99%) Legal
8 2 (2.99%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.99%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.49%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.49%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (41.79%) Architect
2 22 (32.84%) Solutions Architect
3 18 (26.87%) Analyst
4 17 (25.37%) Payments Architect
5 16 (23.88%) Payments Solutions Architect
6 13 (19.40%) Payments Analyst
7 12 (17.91%) Business Analyst
8 11 (16.42%) Developer
9 8 (11.94%) Payments Business Analyst
10 7 (10.45%) Java Developer
11 5 (7.46%) Applications Architect
11 5 (7.46%) Banking Analyst
11 5 (7.46%) Banking Business Analyst
12 4 (5.97%) Data Architect
12 4 (5.97%) Senior
12 4 (5.97%) Technical Analyst
13 3 (4.48%) Kafka Architect
14 2 (2.99%) Java Engineer
14 2 (2.99%) Lead
14 2 (2.99%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (29.85%) Spring Boot
2 18 (26.87%) Spring
3 11 (16.42%) REST
4 9 (13.43%) Kafka
5 8 (11.94%) JMS
6 6 (8.96%) Apache Avro
7 5 (7.46%) .NET
7 5 (7.46%) JSON
8 4 (5.97%) OAuth
8 4 (5.97%) OAuth2
8 4 (5.97%) Protocol Buffers
9 3 (4.48%) Middleware
9 3 (4.48%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (2.99%) AngularJS
10 2 (2.99%) Micronaut
10 2 (2.99%) OpenID
10 2 (2.99%) Oracle Fusion
10 2 (2.99%) Quarkus
10 2 (2.99%) React
10 2 (2.99%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 36 (53.73%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 8 (11.94%) Cloud Native
2 8 (11.94%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (10.45%) Onboarding
4 4 (5.97%) PACS
4 4 (5.97%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (4.48%) Digital Wallet
6 2 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.99%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.99%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.99%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.49%) Chip and PIN
7 1 (1.49%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.49%) DataPower
7 1 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.49%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.49%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.99%) Linux
1 2 (2.99%) Unix
2 1 (1.49%) Windows
2 1 (1.49%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (41.79%) Microservices
2 27 (40.30%) Agile
3 20 (29.85%) Containerisation
4 18 (26.87%) Anti-Money Laundering
4 18 (26.87%) Migration
4 18 (26.87%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (26.87%) User Acceptance Testing
5 17 (25.37%) CI/CD
6 15 (22.39%) Data Modelling
6 15 (22.39%) DevOps
6 15 (22.39%) Stakeholder Management
7 11 (16.42%) Event-Driven
7 11 (16.42%) SDLC
7 11 (16.42%) Test Automation
8 10 (14.93%) Logical Data Model
8 10 (14.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 9 (13.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 9 (13.43%) Translating Business Requirements
9 9 (13.43%) Validation
10 8 (11.94%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 25 (37.31%) Java
2 13 (19.40%) SQL
3 8 (11.94%) Python
4 4 (5.97%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.48%) C#
6 2 (2.99%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.49%) Assembly Language
7 1 (1.49%) Bicep
7 1 (1.49%) COBOL
7 1 (1.49%) JCL
7 1 (1.49%) Korn
7 1 (1.49%) REXX
7 1 (1.49%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (10.45%) BPSS Clearance
2 6 (8.96%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.97%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (5.97%) Degree
3 4 (5.97%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.48%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.99%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.99%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.49%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.49%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (44.78%) SEPA
2 24 (35.82%) PSD2
3 11 (16.42%) QA
4 7 (10.45%) ISO 8583
5 5 (7.46%) PCI DSS
6 3 (4.48%) GDPR
6 3 (4.48%) TARGET2
7 2 (2.99%) ISO 15022
7 2 (2.99%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (29.85%) Docker
2 1 (1.49%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 16 (23.88%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.97%) Grafana
2 4 (5.97%) Prometheus
2 4 (5.97%) Terraform
3 2 (2.99%) Ansible
3 2 (2.99%) Argo
4 1 (1.49%) Istio
4 1 (1.49%) linkerd
4 1 (1.49%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 15 (22.39%) Oracle
2 6 (8.96%) Confluent
3 5 (7.46%) Google
4 4 (5.97%) IBM
5 3 (4.48%) Microsoft
5 3 (4.48%) Splunk
6 2 (2.99%) Alteryx
6 2 (2.99%) FIS
6 2 (2.99%) Fiserv
6 2 (2.99%) SAP
6 2 (2.99%) SmartStream
7 1 (1.49%) Temenos