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 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 542 500 574
Rank change year-on-year -42 +74 +119
Contract jobs citing ISO 20022 69 18 18
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.059% 0.041%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.93% 0.40% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 10 14
10th Percentile £374 £555 £431
25th Percentile £442 £600 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £619 £563
Median % change year-on-year -15.08% +10.04% -22.41%
75th Percentile £641 £723 £628
90th Percentile £700 £738 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £700 £550
% change year-on-year -31.25% +27.27% -26.67%

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 7,389 4,529 6,374
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.36% 14.96% 14.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,756 2,799 4,114
10th Percentile £325 £260 £300
25th Percentile £413 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £476
% change year-on-year +5.26% -0.21% +0.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 391 175 370
10th Percentile £15.31 £15.73 £11.95
25th Percentile £18.32 £21.75 £14.49
Median hourly rate £27.50 £31.76 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.41% +27.04% -28.57%
75th Percentile £64.00 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.67 £78.44 £71.91
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.50 £31.76 £25.00
% change year-on-year -3.98% +27.04% -21.59%

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 5 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ISO 20022 in the UK

ISO 20022
Top 11 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 5 March 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 -36 65 £526 -12.40% 9
London -29 36 £625 +4.17% 5
UK excluding London -63 29 £481 -31.25% 7
North of England - 17 £487 - 1
North West - 17 £487 - 1
Work from Home -15 14 £496 -19.35% 3
East Midlands - 6 £625 -
Midlands - 6 £625 - 1
South East - 3 £525 - 2
Scotland +12 2 £358 -48.86% 2
South West - 1 £325 - 1

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 4 (5.80%) Confluence
2 3 (4.35%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.45%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (1.45%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.45%) CICS
4 1 (1.45%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (4.35%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (14.49%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (5.80%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (4.35%) Avolution ABACUS
3 3 (4.35%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (2.90%) IntelliMatch
4 2 (2.90%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (2.90%) SAP CO
4 2 (2.90%) SAP FI
4 2 (2.90%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (1.45%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 31 (44.93%) AWS
2 24 (34.78%) Azure
3 16 (23.19%) GCP
4 5 (7.25%) Apigee
5 4 (5.80%) Amazon EventBridge
5 4 (5.80%) Amazon Kinesis
5 4 (5.80%) Amazon MSK
5 4 (5.80%) Amazon S3
5 4 (5.80%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (5.80%) AWS Step Functions
5 4 (5.80%) Serverless
6 2 (2.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (2.90%) GitHub
6 2 (2.90%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.90%) OpenShift
6 2 (2.90%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.45%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.45%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.45%) Google Ads
7 1 (1.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.45%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.70%) Tableau
2 5 (7.25%) Amazon Aurora
2 5 (7.25%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (5.80%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (5.80%) Amazon QuickSight
3 4 (5.80%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (5.80%) Apache Iceberg
3 4 (5.80%) Data Vault
3 4 (5.80%) Flink
3 4 (5.80%) OLTP
3 4 (5.80%) Star Schema
4 2 (2.90%) Hazelcast
4 2 (2.90%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.90%) Power BI
4 2 (2.90%) Redis
5 1 (1.45%) DB2
5 1 (1.45%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 13 (18.84%) JIRA
2 8 (11.59%) Git
3 3 (4.35%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.90%) Gatling
5 1 (1.45%) GitLab
5 1 (1.45%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 61 (88.41%) Banking
2 58 (84.06%) Finance
3 31 (44.93%) Social Skills
4 17 (24.64%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (10.14%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (5.80%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (4.35%) Law
8 2 (2.90%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (2.90%) Legal
8 2 (2.90%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.45%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.45%) Private Banking
9 1 (1.45%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (39.13%) Architect
2 22 (31.88%) Solutions Architect
3 20 (28.99%) Analyst
4 16 (23.19%) Payments Architect
4 16 (23.19%) Payments Solutions Architect
5 15 (21.74%) Payments Analyst
6 14 (20.29%) Business Analyst
7 11 (15.94%) Developer
8 10 (14.49%) Payments Business Analyst
9 7 (10.14%) Java Developer
10 5 (7.25%) Applications Architect
10 5 (7.25%) Banking Analyst
10 5 (7.25%) Banking Business Analyst
11 4 (5.80%) Data Architect
11 4 (5.80%) Technical Analyst
12 3 (4.35%) Kafka Architect
12 3 (4.35%) Lead
12 3 (4.35%) Senior
13 2 (2.90%) Java Engineer
13 2 (2.90%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (28.99%) Spring Boot
2 18 (26.09%) Spring
3 11 (15.94%) REST
4 9 (13.04%) Kafka
5 8 (11.59%) JMS
6 6 (8.70%) Apache Avro
7 5 (7.25%) .NET
7 5 (7.25%) JSON
8 4 (5.80%) OAuth
8 4 (5.80%) OAuth2
8 4 (5.80%) Protocol Buffers
9 3 (4.35%) Middleware
9 3 (4.35%) OpenTelemetry
9 3 (4.35%) Oracle Fusion
10 2 (2.90%) AngularJS
10 2 (2.90%) Micronaut
10 2 (2.90%) OpenID
10 2 (2.90%) Quarkus
10 2 (2.90%) React
10 2 (2.90%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 36 (52.17%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 8 (11.59%) Cloud Native
2 8 (11.59%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (11.59%) Onboarding
3 4 (5.80%) PACS
3 4 (5.80%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (4.35%) Digital Wallet
5 2 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.90%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.90%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.90%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.45%) Chip and PIN
6 1 (1.45%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.45%) DataPower
6 1 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.45%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.45%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.90%) Linux
1 2 (2.90%) Unix
2 1 (1.45%) Windows
2 1 (1.45%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (42.03%) Agile
2 28 (40.58%) Microservices
3 20 (28.99%) Containerisation
4 18 (26.09%) Anti-Money Laundering
4 18 (26.09%) Migration
4 18 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (26.09%) User Acceptance Testing
5 17 (24.64%) CI/CD
6 15 (21.74%) Data Modelling
6 15 (21.74%) DevOps
6 15 (21.74%) Stakeholder Management
7 11 (15.94%) Event-Driven
7 11 (15.94%) SDLC
7 11 (15.94%) Test Automation
7 11 (15.94%) Translating Business Requirements
8 10 (14.49%) Logical Data Model
8 10 (14.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 9 (13.04%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 9 (13.04%) Validation
10 8 (11.59%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 25 (36.23%) Java
2 13 (18.84%) SQL
3 8 (11.59%) Python
4 4 (5.80%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.35%) C#
6 2 (2.90%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.45%) Assembly Language
7 1 (1.45%) Bicep
7 1 (1.45%) COBOL
7 1 (1.45%) JCL
7 1 (1.45%) Korn
7 1 (1.45%) REXX
7 1 (1.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (10.14%) BPSS Clearance
2 6 (8.70%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (5.80%) Degree
3 4 (5.80%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.35%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.90%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.90%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.45%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.45%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (43.48%) SEPA
2 26 (37.68%) PSD2
3 11 (15.94%) QA
4 7 (10.14%) ISO 8583
5 5 (7.25%) PCI DSS
6 3 (4.35%) GDPR
6 3 (4.35%) TARGET2
7 2 (2.90%) ISO 15022
7 2 (2.90%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (28.99%) Docker
2 1 (1.45%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 16 (23.19%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.80%) Grafana
2 4 (5.80%) Prometheus
2 4 (5.80%) Terraform
3 2 (2.90%) Ansible
3 2 (2.90%) Argo
4 1 (1.45%) Istio
4 1 (1.45%) linkerd
4 1 (1.45%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 16 (23.19%) Oracle
2 6 (8.70%) Confluent
3 5 (7.25%) Google
4 4 (5.80%) IBM
5 3 (4.35%) Microsoft
5 3 (4.35%) Splunk
6 2 (2.90%) Alteryx
6 2 (2.90%) FIS
6 2 (2.90%) Fiserv
6 2 (2.90%) SAP
6 2 (2.90%) SmartStream
7 1 (1.45%) Temenos