Hybrid/Remote ISO 20022 Contract Job Trends

ISO 20022
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring ISO 20022 skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 288 325 394
Rank change year-on-year +37 +69 +167
Contract jobs citing ISO 20022 16 10 22
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.16% 0.079% 0.11%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.91% 0.60% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 3 22
10th Percentile £313 £490 £401
25th Percentile £395 £531 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £600 £775
Median % change year-on-year -32.50% -22.58% +19.23%
75th Percentile £492 - £1,088
90th Percentile £700 - -
UK median daily rate £474 £558 £765
% change year-on-year -14.98% -27.12% +17.69%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1,761 1,676 2,797
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 17.98% 13.18% 13.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,191 1,106 2,027
10th Percentile £313 £300 £332
25th Percentile £402 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% -2.62% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 38 70
10th Percentile £14.91 £12.75 £16.16
25th Percentile £23.50 £15.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £34.00 £26.25 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.52% -20.45% +9.58%
75th Percentile £65.00 £51.88 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.68 £64.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £35.63
% change year-on-year +9.09% -22.82% +54.91%

ISO 20022
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing ISO 20022 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

ISO 20022 trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

ISO 20022
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing ISO 20022.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing ISO 20022

ISO 20022
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing ISO 20022 over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

ISO 20022 daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

ISO 20022
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (25.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (6.25%) Confluence
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.25%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (6.25%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (37.50%) JIRA
2 4 (25.00%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 16 (100.00%) Banking
2 6 (37.50%) Finance
2 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Analyst
2 8 (50.00%) Payments Analyst
3 5 (31.25%) Banking Analyst
3 5 (31.25%) Business Analyst
4 4 (25.00%) Payments Business Analyst
4 4 (25.00%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (12.50%) Architect
5 2 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Applications Support
6 1 (6.25%) Applications Support Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Banking Business Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Database Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Java Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Java Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Java Solutions Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Kafka Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Payments Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Payments Solutions Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) XML
2 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
2 1 (6.25%) JMS
2 1 (6.25%) JSON
2 1 (6.25%) Kafka
2 1 (6.25%) REST
2 1 (6.25%) Spring
2 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (68.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 4 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (12.50%) PACS
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
4 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (6.25%) PMI
4 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
4 1 (6.25%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Acceptance Criteria
1 5 (31.25%) Agile
1 5 (31.25%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (25.00%) Defect Tracking
2 4 (25.00%) Fintech
2 4 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 4 (25.00%) Project Management
2 4 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (18.75%) Project Delivery
3 3 (18.75%) Regression Testing
3 3 (18.75%) SDLC
4 2 (12.50%) Anti-Money Laundering
4 2 (12.50%) Containerisation
4 2 (12.50%) Product Roadmap
4 2 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
5 1 (6.25%) Budgeting
5 1 (6.25%) Customer Service
5 1 (6.25%) Defect Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) SQL
2 2 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (6.25%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) CBAP
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
1 1 (6.25%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (81.25%) SEPA
2 7 (43.75%) PSD2
3 2 (12.50%) QA
4 1 (6.25%) ISO 15022
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Tivoli
2 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Oracle
2 5 (31.25%) IBM
3 1 (6.25%) HP
3 1 (6.25%) Red Hat
3 1 (6.25%) SunGard