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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 605 520 529
Rank change year-on-year -85 +9 +69
Contract jobs citing ISO 20022 80 40 28
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.12% 0.073%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.85% 0.71% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 34 13
10th Percentile £333 £313 £465
25th Percentile £400 £405 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £540
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -10.19% -30.32%
75th Percentile £634 £638 £600
90th Percentile £738 £749 £644
UK excluding London median daily rate £335 £485 £606
% change year-on-year -30.93% -20.00% +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 9,381 5,595 5,165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.40% 16.98% 13.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,959 3,596 3,155
10th Percentile £325 £289 £289
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 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £484
% change year-on-year +3.58% -1.81% -3.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 585 258 281
10th Percentile £13.86 £13.60 £11.80
25th Percentile £17.21 £17.03 £14.44
Median hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +20.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £68.75 £60.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £79.60 £83.68 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.07 £26.50 £24.18
% change year-on-year +36.11% +9.59% -29.91%

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 29 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 29 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 -90 64 £556 +14.69% 71
London -46 56 £550 +10.11% 52
Work from Home -55 18 £500 +23.46% 37
UK excluding London -94 14 £335 -30.93% 25
North of England -74 6 £335 -30.93% 12
Scotland - 6 £307 - 1
Yorkshire - 5 £335 - 2
South East - 2 £720 - 4
North West -69 1 - - 7

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 (8.75%) Confluence
2 4 (5.00%) WebSphere
3 3 (3.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (2.50%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (5.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (6.25%) FLEXCUBE
2 4 (5.00%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (3.75%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (2.50%) Finacle
4 2 (2.50%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (2.50%) SAP GRC
4 2 (2.50%) Temenos T24
5 1 (1.25%) Actimize
5 1 (1.25%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (1.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (1.25%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 20 (25.00%) AWS
1 20 (25.00%) Azure
2 10 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (5.00%) GCP
4 2 (2.50%) Amazon EventBridge
4 2 (2.50%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (2.50%) Amazon MSK
4 2 (2.50%) Amazon S3
4 2 (2.50%) Apigee
4 2 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (2.50%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (2.50%) OpenShift
4 2 (2.50%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.50%) Serverless
5 1 (1.25%) Lucidchart
5 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.25%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (5.00%) OLTP
3 3 (3.75%) Db2
3 3 (3.75%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (2.50%) Amazon QuickSight
4 2 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.50%) Apache Iceberg
4 2 (2.50%) Data Mining
4 2 (2.50%) Data Vault
4 2 (2.50%) Flink
4 2 (2.50%) Power BI
4 2 (2.50%) Star Schema
4 2 (2.50%) Tableau
5 1 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.25%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (17.50%) JIRA
2 13 (16.25%) Selenium
3 12 (15.00%) Jenkins
4 11 (13.75%) Git
5 7 (8.75%) Gradle
5 7 (8.75%) Maven
6 6 (7.50%) GitLab
7 4 (5.00%) REST Assured
7 4 (5.00%) WebDriver
8 3 (3.75%) Gatling
8 3 (3.75%) JMeter
8 3 (3.75%) JUnit
9 2 (2.50%) Cucumber
9 2 (2.50%) Cypress.io
9 2 (2.50%) Flyway
9 2 (2.50%) Liquibase
9 2 (2.50%) Postman
9 2 (2.50%) SoapUI
9 2 (2.50%) TestNG
10 1 (1.25%) TestCafe
General
1 59 (73.75%) Banking
2 57 (71.25%) Finance
3 19 (23.75%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (22.50%) Social Skills
5 7 (8.75%) Financial Institution
6 5 (6.25%) Billing
7 4 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.50%) Front Office
8 2 (2.50%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.50%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.25%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.25%) International Banking
9 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (25.00%) Senior
2 19 (23.75%) Analyst
2 19 (23.75%) Architect
3 13 (16.25%) Lead
4 11 (13.75%) Business Analyst
5 10 (12.50%) Payments Architect
6 9 (11.25%) Java Engineer
6 9 (11.25%) Solutions Architect
7 8 (10.00%) Developer
7 8 (10.00%) Senior Java Engineer
8 7 (8.75%) Payments Analyst
9 5 (6.25%) Java Developer
9 5 (6.25%) Payments Business Analyst
9 5 (6.25%) Payments Solutions Architect
9 5 (6.25%) Product Lead
10 4 (5.00%) Banking Analyst
11 3 (3.75%) Banking Business Analyst
11 3 (3.75%) Lead Architect
11 3 (3.75%) Software Development Engineer
11 3 (3.75%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (37.50%) Kafka
2 19 (23.75%) XML
3 17 (21.25%) Spring Boot
4 16 (20.00%) REST
5 14 (17.50%) JSON
5 14 (17.50%) Spring
6 8 (10.00%) Middleware
7 7 (8.75%) XSD
8 5 (6.25%) SOAP
9 4 (5.00%) WebSphere MQ
10 3 (3.75%) .NET
10 3 (3.75%) Web Services
10 3 (3.75%) XML Messaging
11 2 (2.50%) Apache Avro
11 2 (2.50%) IBM Integration Bus
11 2 (2.50%) Playwright
11 2 (2.50%) Protocol Buffers
11 2 (2.50%) SAP Fiori
11 2 (2.50%) Terraform
12 1 (1.25%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 52 (65.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 12 (15.00%) Product Ownership
3 8 (10.00%) Cloud Native
4 5 (6.25%) Public Cloud
4 5 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (5.00%) Low-Code
6 3 (3.75%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (3.75%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.75%) Mainframe
7 2 (2.50%) PACS
8 1 (1.25%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.25%) Derivative
8 1 (1.25%) Equities
8 1 (1.25%) Fedwire
8 1 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.25%) PDA
8 1 (1.25%) Replication
8 1 (1.25%) Taxonomies
8 1 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (20.00%) Linux
2 9 (11.25%) Unix
3 4 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (26.25%) CI/CD
2 20 (25.00%) Agile
2 20 (25.00%) Microservices
2 20 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 20 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 19 (23.75%) Migration
3 19 (23.75%) Validation
4 16 (20.00%) DevOps
5 15 (18.75%) Event-Driven
5 15 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (16.25%) User Acceptance Testing
7 11 (13.75%) Business Analysis
7 11 (13.75%) End-to-End Testing
7 11 (13.75%) Integration Testing
7 11 (13.75%) Root Cause Analysis
8 10 (12.50%) Observability
8 10 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 9 (11.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 9 (11.25%) Performance Tuning
9 9 (11.25%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 34 (42.50%) Java
2 32 (40.00%) SQL
3 13 (16.25%) Python
4 9 (11.25%) JavaScript
5 5 (6.25%) PL/SQL
6 4 (5.00%) C#
6 4 (5.00%) C++
7 3 (3.75%) C
7 3 (3.75%) Scala
7 3 (3.75%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.25%) Groovy
8 1 (1.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (18.75%) SC Cleared
1 15 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 9 (11.25%) ISTQB
3 5 (6.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 3 (3.75%) ISEB
5 2 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.50%) Degree
5 2 (2.50%) IIBA
6 1 (1.25%) CISA
6 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.25%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (33.75%) SEPA
2 11 (13.75%) ISO 15022
3 5 (6.25%) PSD2
3 5 (6.25%) QA
4 2 (2.50%) GRC
4 2 (2.50%) PMO
5 1 (1.25%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.25%) GDPR
5 1 (1.25%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (13.75%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.75%) Grafana
2 3 (3.75%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.25%) Ansible
3 1 (1.25%) Control-M
Vendors
1 23 (28.75%) Oracle
2 10 (12.50%) IBM
3 6 (7.50%) Splunk
4 4 (5.00%) SAP
5 3 (3.75%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.50%) Confluent
6 2 (2.50%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.50%) Temenos
7 1 (1.25%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.25%) Ariba
7 1 (1.25%) Avaloq
7 1 (1.25%) Calypso
7 1 (1.25%) Databricks
7 1 (1.25%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.25%) FIS
7 1 (1.25%) Fiserv
7 1 (1.25%) Murex
7 1 (1.25%) SmartStream
7 1 (1.25%) Snow