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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 595 509 542
Rank change year-on-year -86 +33 +74
Contract jobs citing ISO 20022 88 39 28
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.12% 0.074%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.94% 0.71% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 33 13
10th Percentile £337 £313 £465
25th Percentile £400 £405 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £478 £540
Median % change year-on-year +12.45% -11.48% -30.32%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £600
90th Percentile £773 £751 £644
UK excluding London median daily rate £368 £478 £606
% change year-on-year -23.12% -21.15% +1.89%
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 9,408 5,500 5,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.54% 17.02% 13.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,979 3,522 3,123
10th Percentile £325 £290 £286
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £600 £610 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £485
% change year-on-year +3.16% -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 586 257 271
10th Percentile £13.86 £13.60 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.03 £16.92 £14.73
Median hourly rate £34.49 £30.00 £26.56
Median % change year-on-year +14.97% +12.95% -23.57%
75th Percentile £68.56 £62.25 £59.38
90th Percentile £77.75 £82.98 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.07 £27.59 £25.00
% change year-on-year +30.74% +10.36% -27.54%

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 September 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 4 September 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 -82 70 £563 +17.68% 84
London -56 60 £563 +12.61% 56
Work from Home -54 21 £490 +20.99% 41
UK excluding London -92 16 £368 -23.12% 36
North of England -79 7 £335 -29.92% 17
Scotland - 6 £307 - 3
Yorkshire - 5 £335 - 4
North West -55 2 - - 10
South East - 2 £720 - 5
Midlands -48 1 £525 -16.00% 3
West Midlands - 1 £525 - 3

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 (7.95%) Confluence
2 4 (4.55%) WebSphere
3 3 (3.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (2.27%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.14%) CMS
5 1 (1.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.55%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (7.95%) FLEXCUBE
2 4 (4.55%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (4.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (3.41%) Finacle
3 3 (3.41%) Temenos T24
4 2 (2.27%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (2.27%) SAP GRC
5 1 (1.14%) Actimize
5 1 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (1.14%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (1.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (1.14%) SAP CO
5 1 (1.14%) SAP FI
5 1 (1.14%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (1.14%) SAP FI-AP
5 1 (1.14%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 23 (26.14%) AWS
2 22 (25.00%) Azure
3 10 (11.36%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (5.68%) GCP
5 4 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (2.27%) Amazon EventBridge
6 2 (2.27%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (2.27%) Amazon MSK
6 2 (2.27%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.27%) Apigee
6 2 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.27%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (2.27%) OpenShift
6 2 (2.27%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.27%) Serverless
7 1 (1.14%) Lucidchart
7 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.14%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.95%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (4.55%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (4.55%) OLTP
2 4 (4.55%) Oracle Database
3 3 (3.41%) Db2
4 2 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (2.27%) Amazon QuickSight
4 2 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.27%) Apache Iceberg
4 2 (2.27%) Data Mining
4 2 (2.27%) Data Vault
4 2 (2.27%) Flink
4 2 (2.27%) Power BI
4 2 (2.27%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.27%) Star Schema
4 2 (2.27%) Tableau
5 1 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (15.91%) JIRA
2 13 (14.77%) Selenium
3 12 (13.64%) Jenkins
4 11 (12.50%) Git
5 7 (7.95%) Gradle
5 7 (7.95%) Maven
6 6 (6.82%) GitLab
7 4 (4.55%) JUnit
7 4 (4.55%) REST Assured
7 4 (4.55%) WebDriver
8 3 (3.41%) Gatling
8 3 (3.41%) JMeter
9 2 (2.27%) Cucumber
9 2 (2.27%) Cypress.io
9 2 (2.27%) Flyway
9 2 (2.27%) Liquibase
9 2 (2.27%) Mockito
9 2 (2.27%) Postman
9 2 (2.27%) SoapUI
9 2 (2.27%) TestNG
General
1 66 (75.00%) Banking
2 62 (70.45%) Finance
3 22 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 19 (21.59%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (7.95%) Financial Institution
6 6 (6.82%) Billing
7 5 (5.68%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (3.41%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.27%) Front Office
9 2 (2.27%) General Ledger
9 2 (2.27%) International Banking
9 2 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.27%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (23.86%) Senior
2 20 (22.73%) Architect
3 19 (21.59%) Analyst
4 13 (14.77%) Lead
5 11 (12.50%) Business Analyst
6 10 (11.36%) Payments Architect
6 10 (11.36%) Solutions Architect
7 9 (10.23%) Developer
7 9 (10.23%) Java Engineer
8 8 (9.09%) Senior Java Engineer
9 7 (7.95%) Payments Analyst
10 6 (6.82%) Java Developer
11 5 (5.68%) Payments Business Analyst
11 5 (5.68%) Payments Solutions Architect
11 5 (5.68%) Product Lead
11 5 (5.68%) Project Manager
12 4 (4.55%) Banking Analyst
13 3 (3.41%) Banking Business Analyst
13 3 (3.41%) Lead Architect
13 3 (3.41%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (36.36%) Kafka
2 20 (22.73%) XML
3 19 (21.59%) Spring Boot
4 18 (20.45%) REST
5 16 (18.18%) Spring
6 15 (17.05%) JSON
7 8 (9.09%) Middleware
8 7 (7.95%) XSD
9 6 (6.82%) SOAP
10 4 (4.55%) Web Services
10 4 (4.55%) WebSphere MQ
11 3 (3.41%) .NET
11 3 (3.41%) XML Messaging
12 2 (2.27%) Apache Avro
12 2 (2.27%) IBM Integration Bus
12 2 (2.27%) Playwright
12 2 (2.27%) Protocol Buffers
12 2 (2.27%) SAP Fiori
12 2 (2.27%) Terraform
13 1 (1.14%) IDoc
Miscellaneous
1 58 (65.91%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 13 (14.77%) Product Ownership
3 8 (9.09%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.68%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (5.68%) Public Cloud
4 5 (5.68%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (4.55%) Low-Code
5 4 (4.55%) PACS
6 3 (3.41%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (3.41%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.14%) CBDC
7 1 (1.14%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.14%) Digital Wallet
7 1 (1.14%) Fedwire
7 1 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.14%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.14%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.14%) Synthetic Data
7 1 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (18.18%) Linux
2 9 (10.23%) Unix
3 4 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (28.41%) Migration
2 24 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
3 23 (26.14%) Agile
3 23 (26.14%) Microservices
4 22 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 21 (23.86%) Test Automation
6 20 (22.73%) Validation
7 17 (19.32%) Event-Driven
8 16 (18.18%) DevOps
9 15 (17.05%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (14.77%) Root Cause Analysis
10 13 (14.77%) User Acceptance Testing
11 11 (12.50%) Business Analysis
11 11 (12.50%) End-to-End Testing
11 11 (12.50%) Integration Testing
11 11 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 10 (11.36%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 10 (11.36%) Observability
13 9 (10.23%) Performance Tuning
13 9 (10.23%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 37 (42.05%) Java
2 34 (38.64%) SQL
3 13 (14.77%) Python
4 9 (10.23%) JavaScript
5 6 (6.82%) PL/SQL
6 4 (4.55%) C#
6 4 (4.55%) C++
7 3 (3.41%) C
7 3 (3.41%) Scala
7 3 (3.41%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.14%) Groovy
8 1 (1.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (17.05%) SC Cleared
1 15 (17.05%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.23%) ISTQB
3 5 (5.68%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 3 (3.41%) ISEB
4 3 (3.41%) PMI Certification
4 3 (3.41%) PMP
5 2 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.27%) Degree
5 2 (2.27%) IIBA
6 1 (1.14%) CISA
6 1 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.14%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (1.14%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (37.50%) SEPA
2 11 (12.50%) ISO 15022
3 6 (6.82%) PSD2
4 5 (5.68%) QA
5 4 (4.55%) PMO
6 3 (3.41%) TARGET2
7 2 (2.27%) GDPR
7 2 (2.27%) GRC
8 1 (1.14%) Data Quality
8 1 (1.14%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (13.64%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.41%) Grafana
2 3 (3.41%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.14%) Ansible
3 1 (1.14%) Control-M
Vendors
1 25 (28.41%) Oracle
2 10 (11.36%) IBM
3 6 (6.82%) SAP
3 6 (6.82%) Splunk
4 3 (3.41%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.41%) Temenos
5 2 (2.27%) Avaloq
5 2 (2.27%) Confluent
5 2 (2.27%) FIS
5 2 (2.27%) Fiserv
5 2 (2.27%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.14%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.14%) Ariba
6 1 (1.14%) Calypso
6 1 (1.14%) Databricks
6 1 (1.14%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.14%) Murex
6 1 (1.14%) SmartStream
6 1 (1.14%) Snow