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 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 595 517 536
Rank change year-on-year -78 +19 +57
Contract jobs citing ISO 20022 94 40 26
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.12% 0.067%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.97% 0.71% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 33 12
10th Percentile £332 £313 £464
25th Percentile £400 £405 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £474 £558
Median % change year-on-year +16.03% -14.98% -27.12%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £605
90th Percentile £825 £751 £647
UK excluding London median daily rate £335 £469 £606
% change year-on-year -28.50% -22.72% +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 9,649 5,645 5,170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.59% 17.13% 13.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,083 3,621 3,067
10th Percentile £325 £300 £281
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £630
90th Percentile £700 £713 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £475 £480
% change year-on-year +2.95% -1.04% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 631 267 259
10th Percentile £13.88 £13.60 £12.42
25th Percentile £16.60 £16.92 £15.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -22.82%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £59.38
90th Percentile £76.00 £81.10 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.00 £27.54 £27.09
% change year-on-year +19.83% +1.66% -29.73%

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 19 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ISO 20022 in the UK

ISO 20022
Top 13 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 19 September 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 -87 76 £563 +18.67% 79
London -44 63 £569 +19.99% 52
Work from Home -59 22 £500 +23.46% 33
UK excluding London -107 18 £335 -28.50% 33
North of England -75 7 £335 -24.72% 16
Scotland - 5 £307 - 2
Yorkshire - 5 £335 - 6
South West -34 2 £280 - 6
Midlands -49 2 £442 -29.36% 2
North West -63 2 - - 8
South East - 2 £720 - 6
East Midlands -15 1 £358 -42.72%
West Midlands - 1 £525 - 2

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 (8.51%) Confluence
2 4 (4.26%) WebSphere
3 3 (3.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (2.13%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.06%) CMS
5 1 (1.06%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.26%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (7.45%) FLEXCUBE
2 4 (4.26%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (4.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (3.19%) Finacle
3 3 (3.19%) Temenos T24
4 2 (2.13%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (2.13%) SAP GRC
5 1 (1.06%) Actimize
5 1 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (1.06%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (1.06%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (1.06%) SAP CO
5 1 (1.06%) SAP FI
5 1 (1.06%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (1.06%) SAP FI-AP
5 1 (1.06%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 26 (27.66%) Azure
2 25 (26.60%) AWS
3 12 (12.77%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (6.38%) GCP
5 4 (4.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (3.19%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.13%) Amazon EventBridge
7 2 (2.13%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (2.13%) Amazon MSK
7 2 (2.13%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.13%) Anthropic Claude
7 2 (2.13%) Apigee
7 2 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.13%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (2.13%) GitHub
7 2 (2.13%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (2.13%) OpenShift
7 2 (2.13%) Serverless
8 1 (1.06%) Lucidchart
8 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.06%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.45%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (4.26%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (4.26%) OLTP
2 4 (4.26%) Oracle Database
3 3 (3.19%) Db2
3 3 (3.19%) Power BI
4 2 (2.13%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (2.13%) Amazon QuickSight
4 2 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.13%) Apache Iceberg
4 2 (2.13%) Data Mining
4 2 (2.13%) Data Vault
4 2 (2.13%) Flink
4 2 (2.13%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.13%) Star Schema
4 2 (2.13%) Tableau
5 1 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.06%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (17.02%) JIRA
2 15 (15.96%) Selenium
3 12 (12.77%) Jenkins
4 11 (11.70%) Git
5 7 (7.45%) Gradle
5 7 (7.45%) Maven
6 6 (6.38%) GitLab
7 4 (4.26%) Cucumber
7 4 (4.26%) JUnit
7 4 (4.26%) REST Assured
7 4 (4.26%) WebDriver
8 3 (3.19%) Gatling
8 3 (3.19%) JMeter
9 2 (2.13%) Claude Code
9 2 (2.13%) Cypress.io
9 2 (2.13%) Flyway
9 2 (2.13%) Liquibase
9 2 (2.13%) Mockito
9 2 (2.13%) Postman
9 2 (2.13%) SoapUI
General
1 71 (75.53%) Banking
2 67 (71.28%) Finance
3 25 (26.60%) Social Skills
4 21 (22.34%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (7.45%) Financial Institution
6 6 (6.38%) Billing
7 5 (5.32%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (3.19%) International Banking
8 3 (3.19%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.13%) Front Office
9 2 (2.13%) General Ledger
10 1 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.06%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (25.53%) Senior
2 23 (24.47%) Analyst
3 21 (22.34%) Architect
4 14 (14.89%) Business Analyst
5 13 (13.83%) Lead
6 10 (10.64%) Payments Architect
6 10 (10.64%) Solutions Architect
7 9 (9.57%) Java Engineer
8 8 (8.51%) Developer
8 8 (8.51%) Payments Analyst
8 8 (8.51%) Senior Java Engineer
9 6 (6.38%) Java Developer
9 6 (6.38%) Project Manager
10 5 (5.32%) Payments Business Analyst
10 5 (5.32%) Payments Solutions Architect
10 5 (5.32%) Product Lead
11 4 (4.26%) Banking Analyst
11 4 (4.26%) Payments Project Manager
11 4 (4.26%) Senior Architect
11 4 (4.26%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (36.17%) Kafka
2 23 (24.47%) Spring Boot
3 20 (21.28%) Spring
3 20 (21.28%) XML
4 19 (20.21%) REST
5 15 (15.96%) JSON
6 8 (8.51%) Middleware
7 7 (7.45%) XSD
8 6 (6.38%) SOAP
9 4 (4.26%) Web Services
9 4 (4.26%) WebSphere MQ
10 3 (3.19%) .NET
10 3 (3.19%) XML Messaging
11 2 (2.13%) Apache Avro
11 2 (2.13%) IBM Integration Bus
11 2 (2.13%) Playwright
11 2 (2.13%) Protocol Buffers
11 2 (2.13%) SAP Fiori
11 2 (2.13%) Terraform
12 1 (1.06%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 62 (65.96%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 15 (15.96%) Product Ownership
3 10 (10.64%) Cloud Native
4 6 (6.38%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (5.32%) PACS
5 5 (5.32%) Public Cloud
5 5 (5.32%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (4.26%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (4.26%) Low-Code
7 3 (3.19%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (3.19%) Mainframe
8 2 (2.13%) Management Information System
8 2 (2.13%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.06%) CBDC
9 1 (1.06%) Derivative
9 1 (1.06%) Digital Wallet
9 1 (1.06%) PDA
9 1 (1.06%) Synthetic Data
9 1 (1.06%) Taxonomies
9 1 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (17.02%) Linux
2 9 (9.57%) Unix
3 4 (4.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.06%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (31.91%) Stakeholder Management
2 28 (29.79%) Agile
3 26 (27.66%) Migration
4 25 (26.60%) CI/CD
4 25 (26.60%) Microservices
5 23 (24.47%) Test Automation
6 22 (23.40%) DevOps
6 22 (23.40%) Validation
7 19 (20.21%) Event-Driven
8 16 (17.02%) User Acceptance Testing
9 15 (15.96%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (13.83%) Business Analysis
10 13 (13.83%) Root Cause Analysis
11 12 (12.77%) End-to-End Testing
11 12 (12.77%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 12 (12.77%) User Stories
12 11 (11.70%) Cash Management
12 11 (11.70%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (11.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 11 (11.70%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 40 (42.55%) Java
2 34 (36.17%) SQL
3 12 (12.77%) Python
4 11 (11.70%) JavaScript
5 6 (6.38%) PL/SQL
6 5 (5.32%) C++
7 4 (4.26%) C#
8 3 (3.19%) C
8 3 (3.19%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.13%) Scala
10 1 (1.06%) Groovy
10 1 (1.06%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (15.96%) SC Cleared
1 15 (15.96%) Security Cleared
2 9 (9.57%) ISTQB
3 5 (5.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 4 (4.26%) PMI Certification
4 4 (4.26%) PMP
5 3 (3.19%) Degree
5 3 (3.19%) ISEB
6 2 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.13%) IIBA
7 1 (1.06%) CISA
7 1 (1.06%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (1.06%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (1.06%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (38.30%) SEPA
2 13 (13.83%) ISO 15022
3 6 (6.38%) QA
4 5 (5.32%) TARGET2
5 4 (4.26%) PMO
5 4 (4.26%) PSD2
6 2 (2.13%) GDPR
6 2 (2.13%) GRC
7 1 (1.06%) Data Quality
7 1 (1.06%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (12.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (14.89%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.19%) Grafana
2 3 (3.19%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.06%) Ansible
3 1 (1.06%) Control-M
Vendors
1 25 (26.60%) Oracle
2 10 (10.64%) IBM
3 6 (6.38%) SAP
3 6 (6.38%) Splunk
4 3 (3.19%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.19%) Temenos
5 2 (2.13%) Avaloq
5 2 (2.13%) Confluent
5 2 (2.13%) FIS
5 2 (2.13%) Fiserv
5 2 (2.13%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.06%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.06%) Ariba
6 1 (1.06%) Calypso
6 1 (1.06%) Databricks
6 1 (1.06%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.06%) Murex
6 1 (1.06%) SmartStream
6 1 (1.06%) Snow