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 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 565 488 565
Rank change year-on-year -77 +77 +70
Contract jobs citing ISO 20022 76 29 25
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.099% 0.058%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.92% 0.62% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 18 14
10th Percentile £358 £356 £386
25th Percentile £439 £402 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £508 £518
Median % change year-on-year +18.17% -1.88% -23.33%
75th Percentile £700 £723 £614
90th Percentile £736 £766 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £538 £600
% change year-on-year -6.98% -10.42% +20.00%
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 8,257 4,697 6,011
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.68% 16.07% 13.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,293 2,992 3,769
10th Percentile £342 £268 £280
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £600 £614 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -2.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 490 189 419
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.00 £13.22
Median hourly rate £36.00 £32.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.77% +38.30% -37.75%
75th Percentile £67.50 £67.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £82.79 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £32.81 £19.18
% change year-on-year +21.91% +71.06% -48.85%

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 7 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ISO 20022 in the UK

ISO 20022
Top 12 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 7 June 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 -70 67 £600 +29.31% 27
London -46 49 £575 +27.78% 23
UK excluding London -83 20 £500 -6.98% 6
Work from Home -50 16 £650 +60.49% 13
North of England -69 9 £500 -1.53% 3
North West -42 6 £491 -3.37% 3
South East - 5 £710 - 3
Scotland -4 4 £358 -49.31%
Yorkshire - 3 £750 -
South West -26 1 £325 +16.07%
East Midlands - 1 £700 -
Midlands - 1 £700 -

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 3 (3.95%) Apache Spark
1 3 (3.95%) Confluence
2 2 (2.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (2.63%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.63%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.32%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.63%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (5.26%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (3.95%) Avolution ABACUS
2 3 (3.95%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (2.63%) IntelliMatch
3 2 (2.63%) SAP CO
3 2 (2.63%) SAP FI
3 2 (2.63%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (2.63%) SAP GRC
3 2 (2.63%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (1.32%) Actimize
4 1 (1.32%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (1.32%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (1.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 28 (36.84%) AWS
2 16 (21.05%) Azure
3 10 (13.16%) GCP
4 7 (9.21%) Apigee
5 6 (7.89%) Amazon EventBridge
5 6 (7.89%) Amazon Kinesis
5 6 (7.89%) Amazon MSK
5 6 (7.89%) Amazon S3
5 6 (7.89%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (7.89%) AWS Step Functions
5 6 (7.89%) Serverless
6 4 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (3.95%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.63%) GitHub
8 2 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.63%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.32%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.32%) Azure API Management
9 1 (1.32%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.32%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.53%) Tableau
2 6 (7.89%) Amazon Athena
2 6 (7.89%) Amazon Aurora
2 6 (7.89%) Amazon QuickSight
2 6 (7.89%) Amazon Redshift
2 6 (7.89%) Apache Iceberg
2 6 (7.89%) Data Vault
2 6 (7.89%) Flink
2 6 (7.89%) OLTP
2 6 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (7.89%) Star Schema
3 3 (3.95%) Power BI
4 2 (2.63%) Data Mining
4 2 (2.63%) Hazelcast
4 2 (2.63%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.63%) Redis
5 1 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.32%) Db2
5 1 (1.32%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 7 (9.21%) JIRA
2 6 (7.89%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.26%) Git
3 4 (5.26%) GitLab
4 3 (3.95%) Gatling
5 2 (2.63%) Gradle
5 2 (2.63%) Maven
6 1 (1.32%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.32%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (1.32%) JMeter
6 1 (1.32%) JUnit
6 1 (1.32%) Newman
6 1 (1.32%) Postman
6 1 (1.32%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.32%) Selenium
6 1 (1.32%) SoapUI
6 1 (1.32%) TestNG
General
1 60 (78.95%) Finance
2 58 (76.32%) Banking
3 25 (32.89%) Social Skills
4 20 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (7.89%) Financial Institution
5 6 (7.89%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (6.58%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.95%) Law
8 2 (2.63%) Legal
9 1 (1.32%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.32%) Private Banking
9 1 (1.32%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.32%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (39.47%) Architect
2 19 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 18 (23.68%) Analyst
4 15 (19.74%) Payments Architect
5 12 (15.79%) Payments Solutions Architect
6 11 (14.47%) Business Analyst
7 10 (13.16%) Senior
8 9 (11.84%) Payments Analyst
9 8 (10.53%) Developer
9 8 (10.53%) Java Engineer
10 7 (9.21%) Data Architect
10 7 (9.21%) Senior Java Engineer
11 6 (7.89%) Applications Architect
11 6 (7.89%) Java Developer
12 5 (6.58%) Lead
13 4 (5.26%) Payments Business Analyst
13 4 (5.26%) Technical Analyst
14 3 (3.95%) Consultant
14 3 (3.95%) Kafka Architect
14 3 (3.95%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (25.00%) Kafka
2 14 (18.42%) Spring Boot
3 12 (15.79%) Spring
4 8 (10.53%) Apache Avro
4 8 (10.53%) REST
5 6 (7.89%) .NET
5 6 (7.89%) JSON
5 6 (7.89%) Middleware
5 6 (7.89%) Protocol Buffers
6 5 (6.58%) XML
7 4 (5.26%) OAuth
7 4 (5.26%) OAuth2
7 4 (5.26%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (5.26%) SOAP
8 3 (3.95%) JMS
8 3 (3.95%) OpenID
8 3 (3.95%) Quarkus
9 2 (2.63%) AngularJS
9 2 (2.63%) EDIFACT
9 2 (2.63%) React
Miscellaneous
1 47 (61.84%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 10 (13.16%) Cloud Native
3 6 (7.89%) PACS
4 5 (6.58%) Product Ownership
5 4 (5.26%) Low-Code
5 4 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (3.95%) Digital Wallet
6 3 (3.95%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.95%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.63%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (2.63%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.32%) Chip and PIN
8 1 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.32%) Mainframe
8 1 (1.32%) PDA
8 1 (1.32%) Synthetic Data
8 1 (1.32%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.58%) Linux
2 4 (5.26%) Unix
3 1 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (31.58%) Microservices
2 22 (28.95%) Agile
3 20 (26.32%) Migration
4 18 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (22.37%) CI/CD
5 17 (22.37%) User Acceptance Testing
6 16 (21.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 15 (19.74%) Event-Driven
8 14 (18.42%) Anti-Money Laundering
8 14 (18.42%) Validation
9 13 (17.11%) Data Modelling
9 13 (17.11%) Stakeholder Management
10 12 (15.79%) Containerisation
10 12 (15.79%) DevOps
10 12 (15.79%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 12 (15.79%) Observability
11 11 (14.47%) Analytics
11 11 (14.47%) Test Automation
12 10 (13.16%) Business Analysis
13 9 (11.84%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 22 (28.95%) Java
2 15 (19.74%) SQL
3 12 (15.79%) Python
4 5 (6.58%) JavaScript
5 4 (5.26%) Scala
6 3 (3.95%) C#
7 2 (2.63%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.32%) Bicep
8 1 (1.32%) C
8 1 (1.32%) C++
8 1 (1.32%) Groovy
8 1 (1.32%) Korn
8 1 (1.32%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (9.21%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.89%) Degree
2 6 (7.89%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.58%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (6.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.95%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.63%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.63%) IIBA
5 2 (2.63%) ISEB
5 2 (2.63%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.63%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (2.63%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.32%) CISA
6 1 (1.32%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.32%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (44.74%) SEPA
2 21 (27.63%) PSD2
3 7 (9.21%) ISO 8583
3 7 (9.21%) QA
4 5 (6.58%) ISO 15022
5 3 (3.95%) GDPR
5 3 (3.95%) SLA
5 3 (3.95%) TARGET2
6 2 (2.63%) GRC
7 1 (1.32%) PCI DSS
7 1 (1.32%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (18.42%) Docker
2 1 (1.32%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 15 (19.74%) Kubernetes
2 6 (7.89%) Grafana
2 6 (7.89%) Prometheus
2 6 (7.89%) Terraform
3 2 (2.63%) Ansible
3 2 (2.63%) Argo
4 1 (1.32%) Istio
4 1 (1.32%) linkerd
4 1 (1.32%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 14 (18.42%) Oracle
2 8 (10.53%) Confluent
3 5 (6.58%) IBM
3 5 (6.58%) SAP
4 4 (5.26%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.26%) Splunk
5 3 (3.95%) SmartStream
6 2 (2.63%) Alteryx
6 2 (2.63%) FIS
6 2 (2.63%) Fiserv
7 1 (1.32%) Databricks
7 1 (1.32%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.32%) Snow