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 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 517 532 595
Rank change year-on-year +15 +63 +148
Contract jobs citing ISO 20022 48 21 36
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.058% 0.077%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.79% 0.44% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 13 32
10th Percentile £395 £475 £458
25th Percentile £415 £535 £615
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £770
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -22.08% +18.46%
75th Percentile £638 £645 £900
90th Percentile £731 £720 £1,088
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 - £550
% change year-on-year - - -24.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £86.25 - -
Median hourly rate £87.50 - -
75th Percentile £88.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 6,105 4,807 6,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.68% 13.24% 14.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,916 2,817 4,451
10th Percentile £303 £275 £310
25th Percentile £401 £390 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £731 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +1.28% -5.95% +4.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 299 211 253
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.26 £14.63
25th Percentile £16.50 £15.50 £20.07
Median hourly rate £27.54 £26.68 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year +3.22% -32.63% +52.31%
75th Percentile £60.00 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £26.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -13.21% -37.65% +87.35%

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 4 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ISO 20022 in the UK

ISO 20022
Top 8 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 4 November 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 -3 48 £500 -16.67% 27
London +7 29 £525 -12.50% 19
UK excluding London -2 19 £500 - 15
Work from Home +14 15 £474 -21.00% 10
North of England - 15 £492 - 2
North West - 15 £492 - 2
East Midlands -10 4 £625 - 2
Midlands -22 4 £625 - 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 6 (12.50%) Confluence
2 4 (8.33%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (2.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (6.25%) MS Visio
2 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (8.33%) Oracle Cash Management
1 4 (8.33%) Oracle Payables
1 4 (8.33%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (4.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (2.08%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (2.08%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 14 (29.17%) AWS
2 13 (27.08%) Azure
3 5 (10.42%) GCP
4 2 (4.17%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (2.08%) Collibra
5 1 (2.08%) Google Ads
5 1 (2.08%) SaaS
5 1 (2.08%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.33%) Oracle Database
2 2 (4.17%) NonStop SQL
2 2 (4.17%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.08%) Metadata
3 1 (2.08%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (37.50%) JIRA
2 8 (16.67%) Git
3 4 (8.33%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (2.08%) ERwin
4 1 (2.08%) PowerDesigner
General
1 39 (81.25%) Banking
2 30 (62.50%) Finance
3 20 (41.67%) Social Skills
4 9 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.08%) Back Office
7 1 (2.08%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.08%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.08%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (37.50%) Analyst
2 15 (31.25%) Payments Analyst
3 14 (29.17%) Business Analyst
4 11 (22.92%) Architect
4 11 (22.92%) Payments Business Analyst
5 8 (16.67%) Developer
6 7 (14.58%) Banking Analyst
6 7 (14.58%) Solutions Architect
7 6 (12.50%) Payments Architect
7 6 (12.50%) Technical Analyst
8 5 (10.42%) Java Developer
9 4 (8.33%) Lead
10 3 (6.25%) Banking Business Analyst
10 3 (6.25%) Payments Solutions Architect
11 2 (4.17%) Data Architect
11 2 (4.17%) Technical Business Analyst
12 1 (2.08%) Database Architect
12 1 (2.08%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
12 1 (2.08%) Java Architect
12 1 (2.08%) Java Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (29.17%) Spring
1 14 (29.17%) Spring Boot
2 9 (18.75%) REST
3 8 (16.67%) JMS
4 6 (12.50%) Kafka
5 4 (8.33%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (6.25%) XML
7 1 (2.08%) AngularJS
7 1 (2.08%) JSON
7 1 (2.08%) Quarkus
7 1 (2.08%) SOAP
7 1 (2.08%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 27 (56.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 8 (16.67%) Cloud Native
3 7 (14.58%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (12.50%) Onboarding
5 5 (10.42%) Product Ownership
6 4 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (6.25%) PACS
8 2 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (4.17%) PMI
9 1 (2.08%) Blockchain
9 1 (2.08%) Derivative
9 1 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (2.08%) Tandem
9 1 (2.08%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.08%) Linux
1 1 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (39.58%) Agile
2 14 (29.17%) User Acceptance Testing
3 13 (27.08%) Containerisation
4 11 (22.92%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (20.83%) Anti-Money Laundering
5 10 (20.83%) DevOps
5 10 (20.83%) Microservices
5 10 (20.83%) SDLC
6 8 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 8 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
7 7 (14.58%) Migration
7 7 (14.58%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (12.50%) Business Analysis
8 6 (12.50%) Data Modelling
8 6 (12.50%) Fintech
8 6 (12.50%) Logical Data Model
8 6 (12.50%) OO
8 6 (12.50%) Project Management
8 6 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
8 6 (12.50%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (33.33%) Java
2 13 (27.08%) SQL
3 2 (4.17%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 4 (8.33%) CBAP
2 3 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (4.17%) CSPO
3 2 (4.17%) Degree
3 2 (4.17%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.08%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (56.25%) SEPA
2 15 (31.25%) PSD2
3 10 (20.83%) QA
4 6 (12.50%) PCI DSS
5 3 (6.25%) GDPR
6 2 (4.17%) ISO 15022
7 1 (2.08%) IFRS
7 1 (2.08%) IFRS 9
7 1 (2.08%) MiFID
System Software
1 10 (20.83%) Docker
2 4 (8.33%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 6 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.33%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 18 (37.50%) Oracle
2 9 (18.75%) IBM
3 4 (8.33%) Google
4 3 (6.25%) Microsoft
5 2 (4.17%) IBM Sterling
6 1 (2.08%) FIS
6 1 (2.08%) HP
6 1 (2.08%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.08%) Sparx
6 1 (2.08%) Temenos