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 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 534 505 567
Rank change year-on-year -29 +62 +132
Contract jobs citing ISO 20022 67 22 18
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.071% 0.040%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.99% 0.49% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 12 16
10th Percentile £370 £553 £416
25th Percentile £423 £594 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £604 £597
Median % change year-on-year -17.22% +1.17% -14.71%
75th Percentile £628 £720 £643
90th Percentile £681 £736 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £700 £550
% change year-on-year -29.71% +27.27% -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 6,767 4,529 6,442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.28% 14.53% 14.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,342 2,667 4,271
10th Percentile £323 £260 £300
25th Percentile £412 £376 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £634
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +3.58% -3.06% +3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 348 172 333
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.00 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.08 £21.00 £14.50
Median hourly rate £26.11 £29.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.49% +18.00% -7.85%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £69.76 £75.00 £73.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.10 £29.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.91% +16.00% -1.59%

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 6 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ISO 20022 in the UK

ISO 20022
Top 10 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 6 February 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 -17 65 £496 -17.33% 11
UK excluding London -45 33 £492 -29.71% 7
London -20 30 £525 -12.50% 7
North West - 23 £487 -
North of England - 23 £487 -
Work from Home -19 19 £481 -19.79% 4
East Midlands -20 7 £625 -
Midlands -48 7 £625 - 1
South East - 2 £350 - 4
South West - 1 £325 -

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 (11.94%) Confluence
2 3 (4.48%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.49%) Apache Pulsar
3 1 (1.49%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.49%) CICS
3 1 (1.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 5 (7.46%) MS Visio
2 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (11.94%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (5.97%) Oracle Cash Management
2 4 (5.97%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (4.48%) Avolution ABACUS
4 2 (2.99%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (2.99%) SAP CO
4 2 (2.99%) SAP FI
4 2 (2.99%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (1.49%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 34 (50.75%) AWS
2 23 (34.33%) Azure
3 13 (19.40%) 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
7 1 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.49%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.49%) Azure API Management
7 1 (1.49%) Google Ads
7 1 (1.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.49%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.46%) Amazon Aurora
1 5 (7.46%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.97%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (5.97%) Amazon QuickSight
2 4 (5.97%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (5.97%) Apache Iceberg
2 4 (5.97%) Data Vault
2 4 (5.97%) Flink
2 4 (5.97%) OLTP
2 4 (5.97%) Star Schema
2 4 (5.97%) Tableau
3 2 (2.99%) Hazelcast
3 2 (2.99%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.99%) Redis
4 1 (1.49%) DB2
Development Applications
1 20 (29.85%) JIRA
2 12 (17.91%) Git
3 3 (4.48%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.99%) Gatling
5 1 (1.49%) GitLab
General
1 60 (89.55%) Banking
2 53 (79.10%) Finance
3 26 (38.81%) Social Skills
4 17 (25.37%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.46%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (4.48%) Law
7 2 (2.99%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (2.99%) Legal
8 1 (1.49%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.49%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (31.34%) Architect
2 18 (26.87%) Analyst
3 16 (23.88%) Solutions Architect
4 15 (22.39%) Payments Analyst
5 14 (20.90%) Developer
6 13 (19.40%) Business Analyst
7 11 (16.42%) Payments Architect
7 11 (16.42%) Payments Business Analyst
7 11 (16.42%) Payments Solutions Architect
8 9 (13.43%) Java Developer
9 5 (7.46%) Banking Analyst
9 5 (7.46%) Banking Business Analyst
10 4 (5.97%) Data Architect
10 4 (5.97%) Lead
10 4 (5.97%) Technical Analyst
11 3 (4.48%) Kafka Architect
11 3 (4.48%) Senior
12 2 (2.99%) SAP CO Consultant
12 2 (2.99%) SAP FI Consultant
12 2 (2.99%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (34.33%) Spring Boot
2 22 (32.84%) Spring
3 13 (19.40%) REST
4 12 (17.91%) JMS
5 10 (14.93%) Kafka
6 6 (8.96%) Apache Avro
7 4 (5.97%) JSON
7 4 (5.97%) OAuth
7 4 (5.97%) OAuth2
7 4 (5.97%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (5.97%) Protocol Buffers
8 3 (4.48%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (2.99%) .NET
9 2 (2.99%) Micronaut
9 2 (2.99%) Middleware
9 2 (2.99%) OpenID
9 2 (2.99%) Quarkus
10 1 (1.49%) Web Services
10 1 (1.49%) XML
10 1 (1.49%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 41 (61.19%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 13 (19.40%) Cloud Native
3 9 (13.43%) Onboarding
4 8 (11.94%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (8.96%) Product Ownership
5 6 (8.96%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (5.97%) PACS
7 3 (4.48%) Digital Wallet
8 2 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (2.99%) PMI
9 1 (1.49%) Chip and PIN
9 1 (1.49%) Data Structures
9 1 (1.49%) DataPower
9 1 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (1.49%) Mainframe
9 1 (1.49%) Public Cloud
9 1 (1.49%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.49%) Linux
1 1 (1.49%) Unix
1 1 (1.49%) Windows
1 1 (1.49%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (44.78%) Agile
2 23 (34.33%) Containerisation
3 22 (32.84%) User Acceptance Testing
4 21 (31.34%) Microservices
4 21 (31.34%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (28.36%) Anti-Money Laundering
5 19 (28.36%) CI/CD
6 16 (23.88%) DevOps
7 15 (22.39%) Stakeholder Management
8 14 (20.90%) Data Modelling
8 14 (20.90%) Requirements Gathering
8 14 (20.90%) SDLC
8 14 (20.90%) Test Automation
9 12 (17.91%) Migration
10 10 (14.93%) Integration Testing
10 10 (14.93%) Logical Data Model
10 10 (14.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 10 (14.93%) Unit Testing
11 8 (11.94%) Project Delivery
11 8 (11.94%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 25 (37.31%) Java
2 15 (22.39%) SQL
3 3 (4.48%) Python
4 1 (1.49%) Assembly Language
4 1 (1.49%) Bicep
4 1 (1.49%) C#
4 1 (1.49%) COBOL
4 1 (1.49%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.49%) JCL
4 1 (1.49%) REXX
4 1 (1.49%) Scala
4 1 (1.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (10.45%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (7.46%) Degree
3 4 (5.97%) CBAP
3 4 (5.97%) Security Cleared
4 3 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.48%) PMI Certification
4 3 (4.48%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.99%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.99%) CSPO
6 1 (1.49%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.49%) PMP
6 1 (1.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (47.76%) SEPA
2 28 (41.79%) PSD2
3 16 (23.88%) QA
4 7 (10.45%) PCI DSS
5 3 (4.48%) GDPR
5 3 (4.48%) ISO 8583
6 2 (2.99%) TARGET2
7 1 (1.49%) ISO 15022
System Software
1 20 (29.85%) Docker
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
Vendors
1 17 (25.37%) Oracle
2 6 (8.96%) Confluent
3 5 (7.46%) Google
3 5 (7.46%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.97%) IBM
5 2 (2.99%) IBM Sterling
5 2 (2.99%) SAP
5 2 (2.99%) Splunk
6 1 (1.49%) FIS
6 1 (1.49%) Temenos