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 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 534 535 562
Rank change year-on-year +1 +27 +154
Contract jobs citing ISO 20022 52 18 28
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.053% 0.065%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.81% 0.37% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 9 25
10th Percentile £406 £535 £525
25th Percentile £423 £575 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £638 £645 £838
90th Percentile £699 £738 £1,088
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £608 £550
% change year-on-year -19.08% +10.55% -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 6,386 4,808 6,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.26% 14.16% 14.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,127 2,828 4,173
10th Percentile £313 £262 £313
25th Percentile £406 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £645
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 317 184 230
10th Percentile £14.15 £15.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.88 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £27.68 £33.75
Median % change year-on-year -9.12% -18.00% +48.78%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.31 £63.81
90th Percentile £73.75 £72.80 £83.12
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.50 £27.18 £33.75
% change year-on-year -24.56% -19.48% +60.71%

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 24 December 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 24 December 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 +10 52 £500 -16.67% 28
UK excluding London -15 27 £492 -19.08% 15
London -1 25 £588 -2.08% 20
North of England - 21 £479 - 2
North West - 21 £479 - 2
Work from Home +10 11 £474 -21.00% 5
East Midlands -11 6 £625 - 1
Midlands -38 6 £625 - 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 7 (13.46%) Confluence
2 2 (3.85%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.92%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.92%) CICS
3 1 (1.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (7.69%) MS Visio
2 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (13.46%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (7.69%) Oracle Cash Management
2 4 (7.69%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (3.85%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (1.92%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (1.92%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 23 (44.23%) AWS
2 18 (34.62%) Azure
3 8 (15.38%) GCP
4 2 (3.85%) Amazon EventBridge
4 2 (3.85%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (3.85%) Amazon MSK
4 2 (3.85%) Amazon S3
4 2 (3.85%) Apigee
4 2 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (3.85%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (3.85%) Serverless
5 1 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (1.92%) Collibra
5 1 (1.92%) Google Ads
5 1 (1.92%) SaaS
5 1 (1.92%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.77%) Amazon Aurora
1 3 (5.77%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.85%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (3.85%) Amazon QuickSight
2 2 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (3.85%) Apache Iceberg
2 2 (3.85%) Data Vault
2 2 (3.85%) Flink
2 2 (3.85%) OLTP
2 2 (3.85%) Star Schema
2 2 (3.85%) Tableau
3 1 (1.92%) DB2
3 1 (1.92%) Metadata
3 1 (1.92%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (34.62%) JIRA
2 11 (21.15%) Git
3 1 (1.92%) ERwin
3 1 (1.92%) GitLab
3 1 (1.92%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.92%) PowerDesigner
General
1 45 (86.54%) Banking
2 38 (73.08%) Finance
3 24 (46.15%) Social Skills
4 11 (21.15%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.77%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.85%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.92%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.92%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.92%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (32.69%) Analyst
2 15 (28.85%) Business Analyst
3 13 (25.00%) Payments Analyst
4 12 (23.08%) Architect
4 12 (23.08%) Payments Business Analyst
5 11 (21.15%) Developer
6 8 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
7 6 (11.54%) Banking Analyst
7 6 (11.54%) Banking Business Analyst
7 6 (11.54%) Java Developer
8 5 (9.62%) Payments Architect
9 4 (7.69%) Lead
9 4 (7.69%) Payments Solutions Architect
10 3 (5.77%) Senior
11 2 (3.85%) Data Architect
11 2 (3.85%) Technical Analyst
12 1 (1.92%) Senior Analyst
12 1 (1.92%) Senior Architect
12 1 (1.92%) Senior Business Analyst
12 1 (1.92%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (40.38%) Spring Boot
2 20 (38.46%) Spring
3 13 (25.00%) REST
4 11 (21.15%) JMS
5 5 (9.62%) Kafka
6 4 (7.69%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (5.77%) XML
8 2 (3.85%) Apache Avro
8 2 (3.85%) JSON
8 2 (3.85%) Protocol Buffers
9 1 (1.92%) AngularJS
9 1 (1.92%) JWT
9 1 (1.92%) Middleware
9 1 (1.92%) OAuth
9 1 (1.92%) OAuth2
9 1 (1.92%) OpenAPI
9 1 (1.92%) Quarkus
9 1 (1.92%) React
9 1 (1.92%) Swagger
9 1 (1.92%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 29 (55.77%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 11 (21.15%) Cloud Native
3 9 (17.31%) Onboarding
4 7 (13.46%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (11.54%) Product Ownership
6 4 (7.69%) PACS
6 4 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (3.85%) PMI
8 1 (1.92%) Blockchain
8 1 (1.92%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.92%) DataPower
8 1 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.92%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.92%) Mainframe
8 1 (1.92%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.92%) Taxonomies
8 1 (1.92%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.92%) Linux
1 1 (1.92%) Unix
1 1 (1.92%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (46.15%) Agile
2 18 (34.62%) Containerisation
2 18 (34.62%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (34.62%) User Acceptance Testing
3 15 (28.85%) Anti-Money Laundering
4 14 (26.92%) DevOps
5 13 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 13 (25.00%) Microservices
5 13 (25.00%) SDLC
6 12 (23.08%) Requirements Gathering
7 11 (21.15%) Stakeholder Management
7 11 (21.15%) Test Automation
8 10 (19.23%) Data Modelling
9 9 (17.31%) Logical Data Model
9 9 (17.31%) Unit Testing
10 8 (15.38%) Integration Testing
10 8 (15.38%) Migration
11 7 (13.46%) Fintech
11 7 (13.46%) OOA/OOD
11 7 (13.46%) UML
Programming Languages
1 22 (42.31%) Java
2 15 (28.85%) SQL
3 2 (3.85%) Python
4 1 (1.92%) Assembly Language
4 1 (1.92%) C#
4 1 (1.92%) COBOL
4 1 (1.92%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.92%) JCL
4 1 (1.92%) REXX
4 1 (1.92%) Scala
4 1 (1.92%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
1 4 (7.69%) CBAP
2 3 (5.77%) Degree
2 3 (5.77%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.85%) CSPO
3 2 (3.85%) PMI Certification
3 2 (3.85%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.92%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.92%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.92%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (46.15%) SEPA
2 20 (38.46%) PSD2
3 13 (25.00%) QA
4 6 (11.54%) PCI DSS
5 4 (7.69%) GDPR
6 1 (1.92%) IFRS
6 1 (1.92%) IFRS 9
6 1 (1.92%) ISO 15022
6 1 (1.92%) MiFID
System Software
1 16 (30.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (21.15%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.92%) Grafana
2 1 (1.92%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (30.77%) Oracle
2 5 (9.62%) Google
2 5 (9.62%) IBM
3 4 (7.69%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.85%) Confluent
4 2 (3.85%) IBM Sterling
5 1 (1.92%) FIS
5 1 (1.92%) Sparx
5 1 (1.92%) Splunk
5 1 (1.92%) Temenos