ISO 20022 Contracts

ISO 20022
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring ISO 20022 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ISO 20022 over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 497 579 660
Rank change year-on-year +82 +81 +100
Contract jobs citing ISO 20022 22 21 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.075% 0.048% 0.089%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.48% 0.34% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 38
10th Percentile £375 £425 £496
25th Percentile £498 £500 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £594 £713
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -16.63% +9.62%
75th Percentile £641 £619 £766
90th Percentile £719 £648 £1,030
UK excluding London median daily rate £573 £600 £750
% change year-on-year -4.54% -20.00% +39.53%

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 4,558 6,250 7,982
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.59% 14.34% 13.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,921 3,951 5,482
10th Percentile £265 £295 £275
25th Percentile £400 £402 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 179 383 225
10th Percentile £18.04 £10.95 £13.21
25th Percentile £22.21 £13.18 £18.70
Median hourly rate £34.50 £21.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -44.00% +33.93%
75th Percentile £65.00 £45.00 £62.00
90th Percentile £83.01 £67.38 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.78 £18.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year +126.53% -50.34% +72.21%

ISO 20022
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ISO 20022 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ISO 20022 in the UK

ISO 20022
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ISO 20022.

Daily rate trend for ISO 20022 in the UK

ISO 20022
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISO 20022 over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ISO 20022 in the UK

ISO 20022
Top 8 Contract 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 30 April 2025. 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 +63 18 £569 -1.09% 19
London +34 13 £600 +1.01% 15
UK excluding London +58 8 £573 -4.54% 3
Work from Home +52 8 £630 +5.53% 8
North of England +30 4 £508 +40.07% 3
North West - 4 £508 - 3
Scotland +10 3 £700 +15.46%
South West - 1 £280 -

ISO 20022
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.55%) Confluence
1 1 (4.55%) JBoss
1 1 (4.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (4.55%) Tomcat
1 1 (4.55%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (9.09%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (4.55%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.64%) Collibra
2 1 (4.55%) OCI
2 1 (4.55%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) SWIFTNet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) Metadata
1 3 (13.64%) OLTP
2 1 (4.55%) Big Data
2 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) ER Studio
2 2 (9.09%) JIRA
3 1 (4.55%) Git
3 1 (4.55%) GitLab
General
1 15 (68.18%) Banking
2 14 (63.64%) Finance
3 9 (40.91%) Social Skills
4 3 (13.64%) Financial Institution
5 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (9.09%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (4.55%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Architect
1 6 (27.27%) Payments Architect
2 5 (22.73%) Analyst
3 4 (18.18%) Payments Solutions Architect
3 4 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (13.64%) Data Modeller
4 3 (13.64%) Payments Analyst
4 3 (13.64%) Project Manager
5 2 (9.09%) Business Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Data Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Data Migration Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Migration Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Migration Manager
5 2 (9.09%) Payments Project Manager
5 2 (9.09%) Technical Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Cloud Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) Designer
6 1 (4.55%) Oracle Business Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Technical Delivery Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Technical Implementation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) Middleware
2 2 (9.09%) OAuth
2 2 (9.09%) OAuth2
2 2 (9.09%) XML
3 1 (4.55%) Kafka
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (4.55%) REST
3 1 (4.55%) SOAP
3 1 (4.55%) Web Services
3 1 (4.55%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 12 (54.55%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 3 (13.64%) Reference Data
3 2 (9.09%) Digital Wallet
3 2 (9.09%) EMV
4 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.55%) Online Banking
4 1 (4.55%) PACS
4 1 (4.55%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Unix
1 2 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) Migration
2 5 (22.73%) Project Delivery
2 5 (22.73%) Project Management
3 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (18.18%) Roadmaps
4 3 (13.64%) Analytics
4 3 (13.64%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (13.64%) Cash Management
4 3 (13.64%) Data Modelling
4 3 (13.64%) Decision-Making
4 3 (13.64%) Fintech
4 3 (13.64%) Logical Data Model
4 3 (13.64%) Machine Learning
4 3 (13.64%) PDM
4 3 (13.64%) Physical Data Model
4 3 (13.64%) Risk Management
4 3 (13.64%) SDLC
5 2 (9.09%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 2 (9.09%) Metadata Management
5 2 (9.09%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.09%) Python
2 1 (4.55%) Java
2 1 (4.55%) Shell Script
2 1 (4.55%) SQL
2 1 (4.55%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) Degree
1 2 (9.09%) PMI Certification
2 1 (4.55%) CLAS
2 1 (4.55%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (50.00%) SEPA
2 3 (13.64%) PSD2
3 2 (9.09%) ISO 8583
3 2 (9.09%) PCI DSS
3 2 (9.09%) TARGET2
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) Oracle
2 3 (13.64%) Sparx
3 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.55%) Avaloq
4 1 (4.55%) MuleSoft
4 1 (4.55%) Murex