ISO 8583 Contracts

ISO 8583
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring ISO 8583 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ISO 8583 over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 500 594 710
Rank change year-on-year +94 +116 +139
Contract jobs citing ISO 8583 19 6 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.065% 0.014% 0.005%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.42% 0.096% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 4 3
10th Percentile £490 £565 -
25th Percentile £580 £588 £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £606 £750
Median % change year-on-year -1.03% -19.17% +114.29%
75th Percentile - £641 £788
90th Percentile - £646 £795
UK excluding London median daily rate £559 £606 £750
% change year-on-year -7.84% -19.17% +114.29%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

ISO 8583 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 4,558 6,250 7,982
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.59% 14.34% 13.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,921 3,951 5,482
10th Percentile £265 £295 £275
25th Percentile £400 £402 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 179 383 225
10th Percentile £18.04 £10.95 £13.21
25th Percentile £22.21 £13.18 £18.70
Median hourly rate £34.50 £21.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -44.00% +33.93%
75th Percentile £65.00 £45.00 £62.00
90th Percentile £83.01 £67.38 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.78 £18.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year +126.53% -50.34% +72.21%

ISO 8583
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ISO 8583 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ISO 8583 in the UK

ISO 8583
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ISO 8583.

Daily rate trend for ISO 8583 in the UK

ISO 8583
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISO 8583 over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ISO 8583 in the UK

ISO 8583
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ISO 8583.

Hourly rate trend for ISO 8583 in the UK

ISO 8583
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISO 8583 within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +79 18 £600 -2.04% 6
London +46 13 £600 -2.04% 3
UK excluding London +57 5 £559 -7.84% 3
South West - 3 £580 - 1
North West - 2 £508 - 2
North of England - 2 £508 - 2
Work from Home +49 1 - - 2

ISO 8583
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:

Business Applications
1 17 (89.47%) BASE24
2 2 (10.53%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 14 (73.68%) Apple Pay
Communications & Networking
1 16 (84.21%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (84.21%) NonStop SQL
General
1 5 (26.32%) Finance
1 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Banking
3 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (57.89%) Development Engineer
1 11 (57.89%) Software Development Engineer
1 11 (57.89%) Software Engineer
2 2 (10.53%) Architect
2 2 (10.53%) BASE24 Consultant
2 2 (10.53%) Consultant
2 2 (10.53%) Payments Architect
3 1 (5.26%) BASE24 Developer
3 1 (5.26%) BASE24 Expert
3 1 (5.26%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (68.42%) Web Services
2 2 (10.53%) OAuth
2 2 (10.53%) OAuth2
3 1 (5.26%) JSON
3 1 (5.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) EMV
2 2 (10.53%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (10.53%) Digital Wallet
2 2 (10.53%) Mainframe
2 2 (10.53%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 2 (10.53%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) OO
2 10 (52.63%) Software Engineering
3 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (10.53%) Data Protection
4 2 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (10.53%) Event-Driven
4 2 (10.53%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 2 (10.53%) Fintech
4 2 (10.53%) High Availability
4 2 (10.53%) Microservices
4 2 (10.53%) Migration
4 2 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (10.53%) Project Delivery
4 2 (10.53%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (10.53%) SDLC
5 1 (5.26%) OOP
5 1 (5.26%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.79%) C
1 3 (15.79%) C++
1 3 (15.79%) COBOL
2 1 (5.26%) Java
2 1 (5.26%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (73.68%) PSD2
2 4 (21.05%) PCI DSS
3 2 (10.53%) ISO 20022
3 2 (10.53%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) XYGATE
Vendors
1 16 (84.21%) HP
2 3 (15.79%) Apple
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle
3 1 (5.26%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.26%) SAP
3 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow