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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 528 532 614
Rank change year-on-year +4 +82 +148
Contract jobs citing ISO 20022 40 27 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.070% 0.075%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.71% 0.52% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 13 33
10th Percentile £313 £465 £403
25th Percentile £405 £476 £610
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £540 £765
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% -29.41% +17.69%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £838
90th Percentile £751 £644 £1,088
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £606 £595
% change year-on-year -22.72% +1.89% -15.00%
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 5,637 5,165 6,978
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.11% 13.41% 14.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,615 3,071 4,726
10th Percentile £300 £280 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £609 £628 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 261 251
10th Percentile £13.60 £12.36 £14.03
25th Percentile £16.92 £15.00 £18.60
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -22.82% +54.91%
75th Percentile £60.00 £58.75 £64.13
90th Percentile £80.83 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.86 £26.59 £36.75
% change year-on-year +4.78% -27.65% +75.00%

ISO 20022
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ISO 20022 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ISO 20022 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 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ISO 20022 in the UK

ISO 20022
Top 9 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 18 September 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 +33 40 £474 -11.40% 15
London +27 27 £474 -11.40% 9
Work from Home +36 16 £405 -32.50% 4
UK excluding London +3 13 £469 -22.72% 9
North of England - 10 £445 - 4
North West - 10 £445 - 4
East Midlands -1 2 £625 - 1
Midlands -15 2 £625 - 1
South West - 1 £280 -

ISO 20022
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (15.00%) Confluence
2 4 (10.00%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (2.50%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (5.00%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (2.50%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (2.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 9 (22.50%) AWS
2 8 (20.00%) Azure
3 2 (5.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (2.50%) Collibra
4 1 (2.50%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.50%) Oracle Database
2 2 (5.00%) NonStop SQL
2 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.50%) Metadata
3 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (42.50%) JIRA
2 8 (20.00%) Git
3 4 (10.00%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (2.50%) ERwin
4 1 (2.50%) GitLab
4 1 (2.50%) PowerDesigner
General
1 31 (77.50%) Banking
2 26 (65.00%) Finance
3 14 (35.00%) Social Skills
4 8 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Back Office
6 1 (2.50%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (2.50%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.50%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (45.00%) Analyst
2 13 (32.50%) Business Analyst
2 13 (32.50%) Payments Analyst
3 9 (22.50%) Payments Business Analyst
4 7 (17.50%) Developer
5 6 (15.00%) Architect
5 6 (15.00%) Banking Analyst
5 6 (15.00%) Technical Analyst
6 5 (12.50%) Java Developer
7 4 (10.00%) Payments Architect
8 3 (7.50%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (5.00%) Banking Business Analyst
9 2 (5.00%) Data Architect
9 2 (5.00%) Lead
9 2 (5.00%) Technical Business Analyst
10 1 (2.50%) Kafka Architect
10 1 (2.50%) Oracle Business Analyst
10 1 (2.50%) Payments Solutions Architect
10 1 (2.50%) Product Business Analyst
10 1 (2.50%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (20.00%) REST
1 8 (20.00%) Spring
1 8 (20.00%) Spring Boot
2 7 (17.50%) JMS
2 7 (17.50%) Kafka
3 3 (7.50%) XML
4 2 (5.00%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (2.50%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.50%) JSON
5 1 (2.50%) Quarkus
5 1 (2.50%) SOAP
5 1 (2.50%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 26 (65.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 8 (20.00%) Cloud Native
3 4 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 4 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (7.50%) Onboarding
4 3 (7.50%) PACS
5 2 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (5.00%) PMI
6 1 (2.50%) Blockchain
6 1 (2.50%) Derivative
6 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (2.50%) Tandem
6 1 (2.50%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.50%) Linux
1 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (2.50%) Unix
1 1 (2.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (47.50%) Agile
2 13 (32.50%) User Acceptance Testing
3 11 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (25.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
4 10 (25.00%) DevOps
5 9 (22.50%) Containerisation
5 9 (22.50%) SDLC
6 8 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 8 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
7 6 (15.00%) Project Management
7 6 (15.00%) Roadmaps
7 6 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (15.00%) Test Automation
8 5 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
8 5 (12.50%) Business Analysis
8 5 (12.50%) Fintech
8 5 (12.50%) Integration Testing
8 5 (12.50%) Microservices
8 5 (12.50%) Migration
8 5 (12.50%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (32.50%) SQL
2 11 (27.50%) Java
3 2 (5.00%) COBOL
4 1 (2.50%) Python
4 1 (2.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (10.00%) CBAP
2 3 (7.50%) Degree
3 2 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (5.00%) CSPO
3 2 (5.00%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.50%) CLAS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (62.50%) SEPA
2 14 (35.00%) PSD2
3 9 (22.50%) QA
4 3 (7.50%) GDPR
5 2 (5.00%) ISO 15022
5 2 (5.00%) PCI DSS
6 1 (2.50%) IFRS
6 1 (2.50%) IFRS 9
6 1 (2.50%) MiFID
System Software
1 6 (15.00%) Docker
2 4 (10.00%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 6 (15.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 17 (42.50%) Oracle
2 9 (22.50%) IBM
3 2 (5.00%) IBM Sterling
3 2 (5.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.50%) FIS
4 1 (2.50%) HP
4 1 (2.50%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.50%) Sparx
4 1 (2.50%) SunGard