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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 574 508 560
Rank change year-on-year -66 +52 +80
Contract jobs citing ISO 20022 81 28 27
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.090% 0.062%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.94% 0.55% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 18 15
10th Percentile £329 £356 £390
25th Percentile £425 £402 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.24% +1.55% -31.03%
75th Percentile £700 £723 £609
90th Percentile £736 £766 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £358 £538 £600
% change year-on-year -33.40% -10.42% +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 8,659 5,068 5,942
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.83% 16.37% 13.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,537 3,252 3,690
10th Percentile £340 £279 £282
25th Percentile £413 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £473 £475
% change year-on-year +5.70% -0.42% -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 533 211 433
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.78 £11.07
25th Percentile £19.33 £18.50 £13.50
Median hourly rate £36.07 £30.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +20.23% +26.05% -38.52%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.52 £83.41 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.07 £28.18 £21.64
% change year-on-year +28.00% +30.22% -42.29%

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 2 July 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 2 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 -74 67 £600 +29.31% 31
London -43 48 £588 +30.56% 22
UK excluding London -100 25 £358 -33.40% 13
Work from Home -47 19 £563 +38.89% 16
North of England -68 10 £481 -5.22% 6
Scotland -2 8 £336 -52.50% 3
North West -49 5 £491 -3.37% 6
South East - 5 £710 - 2
Yorkshire - 5 £335 -
South West -33 1 £325 +16.07% 1
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 5 (6.17%) Confluence
2 3 (3.70%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.47%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (2.47%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.23%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 5 (6.17%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (7.41%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (3.70%) Avolution ABACUS
2 3 (3.70%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (2.47%) IntelliMatch
3 2 (2.47%) SAP CO
3 2 (2.47%) SAP FI
3 2 (2.47%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (2.47%) SAP GRC
4 1 (1.23%) Actimize
4 1 (1.23%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (1.23%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (1.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (1.23%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 24 (29.63%) AWS
2 15 (18.52%) Azure
3 7 (8.64%) GCP
4 4 (4.94%) Apigee
5 3 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (3.70%) Amazon EventBridge
5 3 (3.70%) Amazon Kinesis
5 3 (3.70%) Amazon MSK
5 3 (3.70%) Amazon S3
5 3 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (3.70%) AWS Step Functions
5 3 (3.70%) Power Platform
5 3 (3.70%) Serverless
6 1 (1.23%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.23%) AWS KMS
6 1 (1.23%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.23%) Azure API Management
6 1 (1.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (1.23%) Lucidchart
6 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.23%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.17%) Tableau
2 3 (3.70%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (3.70%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (3.70%) Amazon QuickSight
2 3 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (3.70%) Apache Iceberg
2 3 (3.70%) Data Vault
2 3 (3.70%) Flink
2 3 (3.70%) OLTP
2 3 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.70%) Power BI
2 3 (3.70%) Star Schema
3 2 (2.47%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.23%) Db2
4 1 (1.23%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 9 (11.11%) JIRA
2 5 (6.17%) Git
3 4 (4.94%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.70%) GitLab
4 3 (3.70%) Selenium
5 2 (2.47%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.47%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.47%) Gatling
5 2 (2.47%) Gradle
5 2 (2.47%) JMeter
5 2 (2.47%) Maven
5 2 (2.47%) Postman
5 2 (2.47%) REST Assured
5 2 (2.47%) SoapUI
6 1 (1.23%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.23%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (1.23%) Newman
6 1 (1.23%) TestCafe
6 1 (1.23%) TestNG
6 1 (1.23%) Zephyr
General
1 65 (80.25%) Finance
2 62 (76.54%) Banking
3 25 (30.86%) Social Skills
4 21 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (8.64%) Financial Institution
6 6 (7.41%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (6.17%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.47%) Billing
8 2 (2.47%) Front Office
8 2 (2.47%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.47%) Law
8 2 (2.47%) Legal
8 2 (2.47%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.23%) International Banking
9 1 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.23%) Private Banking
9 1 (1.23%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 28 (34.57%) Architect
2 22 (27.16%) Analyst
3 20 (24.69%) Solutions Architect
4 17 (20.99%) Payments Architect
5 14 (17.28%) Business Analyst
5 14 (17.28%) Payments Solutions Architect
6 10 (12.35%) Senior
7 9 (11.11%) Payments Analyst
8 8 (9.88%) Java Engineer
8 8 (9.88%) Lead
9 7 (8.64%) Senior Java Engineer
10 6 (7.41%) Developer
11 5 (6.17%) Applications Architect
11 5 (6.17%) Payments Business Analyst
12 4 (4.94%) Data Architect
12 4 (4.94%) Java Developer
12 4 (4.94%) Product Lead
13 3 (3.70%) Consultant
13 3 (3.70%) Technical Analyst
14 2 (2.47%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (19.75%) Kafka
2 12 (14.81%) Spring Boot
3 10 (12.35%) Spring
4 9 (11.11%) REST
5 8 (9.88%) Middleware
6 7 (8.64%) XML
7 6 (7.41%) JSON
8 5 (6.17%) .NET
9 4 (4.94%) SOAP
10 3 (3.70%) Apache Avro
10 3 (3.70%) JMS
10 3 (3.70%) Protocol Buffers
11 2 (2.47%) EDIFACT
11 2 (2.47%) IDoc
11 2 (2.47%) OAuth
11 2 (2.47%) OAuth2
11 2 (2.47%) OpenTelemetry
11 2 (2.47%) SAP Fiori
11 2 (2.47%) WebSphere MQ
11 2 (2.47%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 52 (64.20%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 10 (12.35%) Cloud Native
3 6 (7.41%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.94%) Low-Code
4 4 (4.94%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.70%) PACS
5 3 (3.70%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.47%) Digital Wallet
6 2 (2.47%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (2.47%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.23%) Chip and PIN
7 1 (1.23%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.23%) Derivative
7 1 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.23%) PDA
7 1 (1.23%) Synthetic Data
7 1 (1.23%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.41%) Linux
2 4 (4.94%) Unix
3 2 (2.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (28.40%) Microservices
2 21 (25.93%) User Acceptance Testing
3 20 (24.69%) Agile
4 19 (23.46%) Migration
5 18 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (20.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 17 (20.99%) Stakeholder Management
7 16 (19.75%) Validation
8 15 (18.52%) Business Analysis
8 15 (18.52%) CI/CD
9 12 (14.81%) Anti-Money Laundering
9 12 (14.81%) Event-Driven
9 12 (14.81%) Test Automation
10 11 (13.58%) DevOps
11 10 (12.35%) Data Modelling
11 10 (12.35%) TOGAF
12 9 (11.11%) Containerisation
12 9 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 9 (11.11%) Integration Testing
12 9 (11.11%) Regulatory Change
Programming Languages
1 20 (24.69%) Java
2 19 (23.46%) SQL
3 10 (12.35%) Python
4 5 (6.17%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.70%) Scala
6 2 (2.47%) C
6 2 (2.47%) C#
6 2 (2.47%) C++
6 2 (2.47%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.23%) Bicep
7 1 (1.23%) Groovy
7 1 (1.23%) Korn
7 1 (1.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (9.88%) Security Cleared
2 7 (8.64%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.17%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (6.17%) Degree
4 4 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.47%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.47%) IIBA
5 2 (2.47%) ISEB
5 2 (2.47%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.23%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.23%) CISA
6 1 (1.23%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.23%) PMP
6 1 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (43.21%) SEPA
2 17 (20.99%) PSD2
3 7 (8.64%) QA
4 6 (7.41%) ISO 15022
5 5 (6.17%) ISO 8583
6 3 (3.70%) SLA
6 3 (3.70%) TARGET2
7 2 (2.47%) GDPR
7 2 (2.47%) GRC
8 1 (1.23%) Data Quality
8 1 (1.23%) PCI DSS
8 1 (1.23%) PMO
System Software
1 11 (13.58%) Docker
2 1 (1.23%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 12 (14.81%) 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 15 (18.52%) Oracle
2 6 (7.41%) IBM
2 6 (7.41%) SAP
3 4 (4.94%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.94%) Splunk
4 3 (3.70%) Confluent
4 3 (3.70%) SmartStream
5 2 (2.47%) Alteryx
5 2 (2.47%) FIS
5 2 (2.47%) Fiserv
5 2 (2.47%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.23%) Ariba
6 1 (1.23%) Calypso
6 1 (1.23%) Databricks
6 1 (1.23%) Murex
6 1 (1.23%) Snow