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 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 580 521 561
Rank change year-on-year -59 +40 +75
Contract jobs citing ISO 20022 81 29 28
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.088% 0.067%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.91% 0.53% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 19 15
10th Percentile £328 £379 £390
25th Percentile £421 £405 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.81% +7.50% -33.33%
75th Percentile £688 £716 £609
90th Percentile £744 £763 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £354 £508 £600
% change year-on-year -30.28% -15.38% +41.18%
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 8,945 5,466 5,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.95% 16.67% 13.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,708 3,522 3,568
10th Percentile £338 £280 £283
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £622
90th Percentile £700 £715 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £475
% change year-on-year +6.38% -1.05% -4.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 545 241 386
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.60 £11.26
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.55 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £29.00 £24.92
Median % change year-on-year +29.31% +16.37% -36.93%
75th Percentile £69.44 £62.24 £51.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £85.25 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.72 £25.83 £24.18
% change year-on-year +49.93% +6.80% -30.91%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 -65 67 £575 +8.24% 14
London -37 53 £575 -8.00% 12
UK excluding London -99 21 £354 -30.28% 4
Work from Home -42 16 £563 +38.89% 5
Scotland -9 8 £336 -52.07% 1
North of England -73 7 £335 -34.02% 1
Yorkshire - 5 £335 -
South East - 5 £710 - 2
North West -51 2 - - 1
South West -36 1 £325 +16.07%

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 (8.64%) Confluence
2 3 (3.70%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.47%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.23%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (1.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.94%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (7.41%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (3.70%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (2.47%) FLEXCUBE
3 2 (2.47%) IntelliMatch
3 2 (2.47%) SAP GRC
4 1 (1.23%) Actimize
4 1 (1.23%) Avolution ABACUS
4 1 (1.23%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (1.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (1.23%) SAP CO
4 1 (1.23%) SAP FI
4 1 (1.23%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (1.23%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 21 (25.93%) AWS
2 15 (18.52%) Azure
3 7 (8.64%) GCP
4 3 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (3.70%) Apigee
4 3 (3.70%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.47%) Amazon EventBridge
5 2 (2.47%) Amazon Kinesis
5 2 (2.47%) Amazon MSK
5 2 (2.47%) Amazon S3
5 2 (2.47%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (2.47%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (2.47%) Serverless
6 1 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.23%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.23%) Azure API Management
6 1 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.23%) Lucidchart
6 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.23%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.94%) Tableau
2 3 (3.70%) Power BI
3 2 (2.47%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (2.47%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (2.47%) Amazon QuickSight
3 2 (2.47%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (2.47%) Apache Iceberg
3 2 (2.47%) Data Mining
3 2 (2.47%) Data Vault
3 2 (2.47%) Flink
3 2 (2.47%) OLTP
3 2 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.47%) Star Schema
4 1 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.23%) Db2
4 1 (1.23%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 10 (12.35%) JIRA
2 4 (4.94%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.70%) Git
3 3 (3.70%) GitLab
3 3 (3.70%) Selenium
4 2 (2.47%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.47%) Cypress.io
4 2 (2.47%) Gatling
4 2 (2.47%) Gradle
4 2 (2.47%) JMeter
4 2 (2.47%) Maven
4 2 (2.47%) Postman
4 2 (2.47%) REST Assured
4 2 (2.47%) SoapUI
5 1 (1.23%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.23%) IBM UrbanCode
5 1 (1.23%) Newman
5 1 (1.23%) TestCafe
5 1 (1.23%) TestNG
5 1 (1.23%) Zephyr
General
1 62 (76.54%) Finance
2 61 (75.31%) Banking
3 24 (29.63%) Social Skills
4 19 (23.46%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (9.88%) Financial Institution
6 5 (6.17%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (6.17%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (4.94%) Billing
8 2 (2.47%) Front Office
8 2 (2.47%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.47%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.23%) International Banking
9 1 (1.23%) Law
9 1 (1.23%) Legal
9 1 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.23%) Private Banking
9 1 (1.23%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 25 (30.86%) Analyst
1 25 (30.86%) Architect
2 18 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
3 17 (20.99%) Business Analyst
4 15 (18.52%) Payments Architect
5 12 (14.81%) Payments Solutions Architect
6 11 (13.58%) Senior
7 10 (12.35%) Payments Analyst
8 9 (11.11%) Lead
9 8 (9.88%) Java Engineer
10 7 (8.64%) Payments Business Analyst
10 7 (8.64%) Senior Java Engineer
11 5 (6.17%) Applications Architect
11 5 (6.17%) Developer
11 5 (6.17%) Product Lead
12 4 (4.94%) Banking Analyst
13 3 (3.70%) Banking Business Analyst
13 3 (3.70%) Consultant
13 3 (3.70%) Data Architect
13 3 (3.70%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (20.99%) Kafka
2 11 (13.58%) Spring Boot
3 9 (11.11%) REST
3 9 (11.11%) Spring
4 8 (9.88%) Middleware
4 8 (9.88%) XML
5 6 (7.41%) JSON
6 5 (6.17%) .NET
6 5 (6.17%) SOAP
7 3 (3.70%) XML Messaging
8 2 (2.47%) Apache Avro
8 2 (2.47%) EDIFACT
8 2 (2.47%) IDoc
8 2 (2.47%) OAuth
8 2 (2.47%) OAuth2
8 2 (2.47%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (2.47%) Protocol Buffers
8 2 (2.47%) SAP Fiori
8 2 (2.47%) Web Services
8 2 (2.47%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 52 (64.20%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 9 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 8 (9.88%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.94%) Low-Code
5 3 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.70%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.47%) Digital Wallet
6 2 (2.47%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (2.47%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.47%) PACS
7 1 (1.23%) Chip and PIN
7 1 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.23%) Derivative
7 1 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.23%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.23%) PDA
7 1 (1.23%) Synthetic Data
7 1 (1.23%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.64%) Linux
2 5 (6.17%) Unix
3 2 (2.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (29.63%) Microservices
2 22 (27.16%) Migration
3 21 (25.93%) User Acceptance Testing
4 20 (24.69%) Stakeholder Management
5 19 (23.46%) Agile
6 17 (20.99%) Validation
7 16 (19.75%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (18.52%) Business Analysis
9 13 (16.05%) CI/CD
9 13 (16.05%) Event-Driven
9 13 (16.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 12 (14.81%) Regulatory Change
11 10 (12.35%) Anti-Money Laundering
11 10 (12.35%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 10 (12.35%) User Stories
12 9 (11.11%) Acceptance Criteria
12 9 (11.11%) Data Analysis
12 9 (11.11%) DevOps
12 9 (11.11%) Test Automation
12 9 (11.11%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 19 (23.46%) Java
1 19 (23.46%) SQL
2 10 (12.35%) Python
3 5 (6.17%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.70%) Scala
5 2 (2.47%) C
5 2 (2.47%) C#
5 2 (2.47%) C++
5 2 (2.47%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.23%) Bicep
6 1 (1.23%) Groovy
6 1 (1.23%) Korn
6 1 (1.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (9.88%) Security Cleared
2 7 (8.64%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.17%) Degree
4 4 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.47%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.47%) IIBA
6 2 (2.47%) ISEB
6 2 (2.47%) ISTQB
6 2 (2.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.23%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.23%) CISA
7 1 (1.23%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.23%) PMP
7 1 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (43.21%) SEPA
2 14 (17.28%) PSD2
3 6 (7.41%) ISO 15022
4 5 (6.17%) QA
5 4 (4.94%) ISO 8583
6 3 (3.70%) SLA
6 3 (3.70%) TARGET2
7 2 (2.47%) GDPR
7 2 (2.47%) GRC
7 2 (2.47%) PMO
8 1 (1.23%) Data Quality
8 1 (1.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (1.23%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 10 (12.35%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.70%) Grafana
2 3 (3.70%) Prometheus
2 3 (3.70%) Terraform
3 1 (1.23%) Istio
3 1 (1.23%) linkerd
3 1 (1.23%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 14 (17.28%) Oracle
2 6 (7.41%) IBM
3 5 (6.17%) SAP
4 4 (4.94%) Splunk
5 3 (3.70%) Microsoft
5 3 (3.70%) SmartStream
6 2 (2.47%) Alteryx
6 2 (2.47%) Confluent
6 2 (2.47%) FIS
6 2 (2.47%) Fiserv
6 2 (2.47%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.23%) Ariba
7 1 (1.23%) Calypso
7 1 (1.23%) Databricks
7 1 (1.23%) Murex
7 1 (1.23%) Snow