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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 605 521 536
Rank change year-on-year -84 +15 +83
Contract jobs citing ISO 20022 78 37 30
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.11% 0.077%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.84% 0.66% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 31 13
10th Percentile £334 £313 £423
25th Percentile £410 £405 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £492 £535
Median % change year-on-year +11.79% -8.04% -30.97%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £600
90th Percentile £735 £756 £644
UK excluding London median daily rate £335 £492 £606
% change year-on-year -31.91% -18.85% +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 9,311 5,597 5,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.30% 17.06% 13.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,952 3,601 3,211
10th Percentile £325 £285 £290
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% -2.48%
75th Percentile £600 £610 £625
90th Percentile £700 £716 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £483
% change year-on-year +3.58% -1.71% -3.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 262 307
10th Percentile £13.96 £13.60 £11.07
25th Percentile £17.50 £17.03 £14.41
Median hourly rate £36.07 £28.18 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% +12.72% -28.57%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.94 £55.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £85.70 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.07 £25.08 £24.59
% change year-on-year +43.85% +1.97% -29.74%

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 22 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 22 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 -85 65 £563 +14.33% 16
London -47 57 £556 +11.36% 6
Work from Home -52 15 £550 +35.80% 15
UK excluding London -101 14 £335 -31.91% 13
North of England -70 6 £335 -32.46% 6
Scotland - 6 £307 - 1
Yorkshire - 5 £335 - 1
South East - 2 £720 - 1
North West -57 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 (8.97%) Confluence
2 3 (3.85%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.56%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (5.13%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (5.13%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (3.85%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (2.56%) FLEXCUBE
3 2 (2.56%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (2.56%) SAP GRC
4 1 (1.28%) Actimize
4 1 (1.28%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (1.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (1.28%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 19 (24.36%) AWS
1 19 (24.36%) Azure
2 10 (12.82%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (5.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (3.85%) GCP
5 2 (2.56%) Amazon EventBridge
5 2 (2.56%) Amazon Kinesis
5 2 (2.56%) Amazon MSK
5 2 (2.56%) Amazon S3
5 2 (2.56%) Apigee
5 2 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (2.56%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (2.56%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.56%) Serverless
6 1 (1.28%) Lucidchart
6 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.28%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.28%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.41%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.13%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (5.13%) OLTP
3 3 (3.85%) Db2
4 2 (2.56%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (2.56%) Amazon QuickSight
4 2 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.56%) Apache Iceberg
4 2 (2.56%) Data Mining
4 2 (2.56%) Data Vault
4 2 (2.56%) Flink
4 2 (2.56%) Power BI
4 2 (2.56%) Star Schema
4 2 (2.56%) Tableau
5 1 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.28%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.28%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (17.95%) JIRA
2 13 (16.67%) Selenium
3 12 (15.38%) Jenkins
4 10 (12.82%) Git
5 6 (7.69%) GitLab
5 6 (7.69%) Gradle
5 6 (7.69%) Maven
6 4 (5.13%) REST Assured
6 4 (5.13%) WebDriver
7 3 (3.85%) Gatling
7 3 (3.85%) JMeter
8 2 (2.56%) Cucumber
8 2 (2.56%) Cypress.io
8 2 (2.56%) Flyway
8 2 (2.56%) JUnit
8 2 (2.56%) Liquibase
8 2 (2.56%) Postman
8 2 (2.56%) SoapUI
8 2 (2.56%) TestNG
9 1 (1.28%) Bitbucket
General
1 58 (74.36%) Banking
2 56 (71.79%) Finance
3 17 (21.79%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (21.79%) Social Skills
4 7 (8.97%) Financial Institution
5 5 (6.41%) Billing
6 4 (5.13%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.56%) Front Office
7 2 (2.56%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.56%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.28%) International Banking
8 1 (1.28%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (25.64%) Analyst
1 20 (25.64%) Architect
2 19 (24.36%) Senior
3 13 (16.67%) Business Analyst
4 12 (15.38%) Lead
5 11 (14.10%) Payments Architect
6 10 (12.82%) Solutions Architect
7 8 (10.26%) Java Engineer
7 8 (10.26%) Payments Analyst
8 7 (8.97%) Senior Java Engineer
9 6 (7.69%) Payments Business Analyst
9 6 (7.69%) Payments Solutions Architect
10 5 (6.41%) Developer
10 5 (6.41%) Product Lead
11 4 (5.13%) Banking Analyst
12 3 (3.85%) Banking Business Analyst
12 3 (3.85%) Data Architect
12 3 (3.85%) Senior Software Engineer
12 3 (3.85%) Software Development Engineer
12 3 (3.85%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (33.33%) Kafka
2 16 (20.51%) XML
3 14 (17.95%) REST
4 12 (15.38%) Spring Boot
5 10 (12.82%) Spring
6 9 (11.54%) JSON
7 7 (8.97%) Middleware
7 7 (8.97%) XSD
8 4 (5.13%) SOAP
9 3 (3.85%) WebSphere MQ
9 3 (3.85%) XML Messaging
10 2 (2.56%) .NET
10 2 (2.56%) Apache Avro
10 2 (2.56%) Playwright
10 2 (2.56%) Protocol Buffers
10 2 (2.56%) SAP Fiori
10 2 (2.56%) Terraform
10 2 (2.56%) Web Services
11 1 (1.28%) JWT
11 1 (1.28%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 49 (62.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 11 (14.10%) Product Ownership
3 8 (10.26%) Cloud Native
4 4 (5.13%) Low-Code
5 3 (3.85%) Mainframe
5 3 (3.85%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.56%) PACS
7 1 (1.28%) CBDC
7 1 (1.28%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.28%) Derivative
7 1 (1.28%) Digital Wallet
7 1 (1.28%) Fedwire
7 1 (1.28%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.28%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.28%) PDA
7 1 (1.28%) Taxonomies
7 1 (1.28%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (16.67%) Linux
2 7 (8.97%) Unix
3 3 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (26.92%) Stakeholder Management
2 20 (25.64%) Validation
3 19 (24.36%) Agile
3 19 (24.36%) CI/CD
4 18 (23.08%) Test Automation
5 17 (21.79%) Microservices
6 16 (20.51%) Migration
7 15 (19.23%) User Acceptance Testing
8 14 (17.95%) DevOps
8 14 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (15.38%) Business Analysis
9 12 (15.38%) Event-Driven
10 11 (14.10%) End-to-End Testing
10 11 (14.10%) Integration Testing
10 11 (14.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 10 (12.82%) Observability
12 9 (11.54%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 9 (11.54%) Root Cause Analysis
12 9 (11.54%) User Stories
13 8 (10.26%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 28 (35.90%) Java
1 28 (35.90%) SQL
2 13 (16.67%) Python
3 9 (11.54%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.85%) C#
4 3 (3.85%) C++
4 3 (3.85%) PL/SQL
4 3 (3.85%) Scala
5 2 (2.56%) C
5 2 (2.56%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.28%) Groovy
6 1 (1.28%) Korn
6 1 (1.28%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (20.51%) SC Cleared
1 16 (20.51%) Security Cleared
2 9 (11.54%) ISTQB
3 5 (6.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 3 (3.85%) ISEB
5 2 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.56%) Degree
5 2 (2.56%) IIBA
6 1 (1.28%) CISA
6 1 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.28%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (35.90%) SEPA
2 8 (10.26%) ISO 15022
3 6 (7.69%) PSD2
4 5 (6.41%) QA
5 2 (2.56%) GRC
5 2 (2.56%) PMO
6 1 (1.28%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.28%) ISO 8583
6 1 (1.28%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (8.97%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (8.97%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.85%) Grafana
2 3 (3.85%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.28%) Ansible
3 1 (1.28%) Control-M
Vendors
1 17 (21.79%) Oracle
2 7 (8.97%) IBM
3 4 (5.13%) SAP
3 4 (5.13%) Splunk
4 3 (3.85%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.56%) Confluent
5 2 (2.56%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.28%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.28%) Ariba
6 1 (1.28%) Calypso
6 1 (1.28%) Databricks
6 1 (1.28%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.28%) Murex
6 1 (1.28%) SmartStream
6 1 (1.28%) Snow