ISO 20022
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring ISO 20022 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 722 652 876
Rank change year-on-year -70 +224 -9
Permanent jobs citing ISO 20022 26 29 11
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.026% 0.059% 0.011%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.25% 0.39% 0.083%
Number of salaries quoted 19 6 9
10th Percentile £56,500 £40,625 -
25th Percentile £65,000 £73,125 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £110,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +69.23% -35.16%
75th Percentile £85,000 £144,063 £75,000
90th Percentile £120,250 £164,375 £81,470
UK excluding London median annual salary £73,750 £78,500 £63,773
% change year-on-year -6.05% +23.09% -

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 permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 10,608 7,457 13,191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.79% 15.21% 13.01%
Number of salaries quoted 6,792 4,155 8,775
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.87% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,778 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +7.37% -5.15%

ISO 20022
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing ISO 20022 relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

ISO 20022 job vacancy trend in the UK

ISO 20022
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ISO 20022.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ISO 20022

ISO 20022
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing ISO 20022 over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Salary histogram for ISO 20022 in the UK

ISO 20022
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ISO 20022 within the UK over the 6 months to 11 July 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -63 25 £80,000 -11.11% 16
London -20 16 £85,000 -5.56% 10
UK excluding London -61 9 £73,750 -6.05% 7
Work from Home -15 5 £80,000 +14.29% 7
West Midlands - 3 £80,000 -
South East - 3 £67,500 - 3
Midlands - 3 £80,000 -
North West -9 2 £58,000 - 4
North of England -36 2 £58,000 - 4
South West - 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 3 (11.54%) Confluence
2 2 (7.69%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (11.54%) SAP CO
1 3 (11.54%) SAP FI
1 3 (11.54%) SAP FI/CO
1 3 (11.54%) SAP FSCM
1 3 (11.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.85%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (11.54%) AWS
2 2 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (7.69%) Azure
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (19.23%) NonStop SQL
2 3 (11.54%) SAP HANA
3 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Gradle
2 3 (11.54%) JIRA
General
1 17 (65.38%) Finance
2 15 (57.69%) Social Skills
3 13 (50.00%) Banking
4 8 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (15.38%) Financial Institution
6 3 (11.54%) Billing
6 3 (11.54%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (7.69%) Investment Banking
8 1 (3.85%) Advertising
8 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (3.85%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (38.46%) Analyst
2 9 (34.62%) Business Analyst
3 6 (23.08%) Architect
3 6 (23.08%) Payments Analyst
4 5 (19.23%) Developer
4 5 (19.23%) Java Developer
5 4 (15.38%) Senior
6 3 (11.54%) Payments Business Analyst
6 3 (11.54%) SAP CO Support
6 3 (11.54%) SAP Consultant
6 3 (11.54%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
6 3 (11.54%) SAP FI/CO Support
6 3 (11.54%) SAP Support
6 3 (11.54%) SAP Support Consultant
6 3 (11.54%) Senior SAP CO Consultant
6 3 (11.54%) Senior SAP Consultant
6 3 (11.54%) Senior SAP FI Consultant
6 3 (11.54%) Senior SAP FI/CO Consultant
6 3 (11.54%) Senior SAP Support Consultant
6 3 (11.54%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (26.92%) Spring
1 7 (26.92%) Spring Boot
2 5 (19.23%) RESTful
2 5 (19.23%) Vaadin
2 5 (19.23%) Web Services
3 4 (15.38%) XML
4 3 (11.54%) JSON
4 3 (11.54%) Kafka
5 2 (7.69%) FpML
5 2 (7.69%) gRPC
5 2 (7.69%) OpenAPI
5 2 (7.69%) React
5 2 (7.69%) REST
5 2 (7.69%) Swagger
6 1 (3.85%) EDI
6 1 (3.85%) EDIFACT
6 1 (3.85%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (3.85%) IDoc
6 1 (3.85%) Middleware
6 1 (3.85%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 14 (53.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 9 (34.62%) Onboarding
3 5 (19.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (11.54%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (11.54%) Cloud Native
4 3 (11.54%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (11.54%) Private Cloud
4 3 (11.54%) Product Ownership
4 3 (11.54%) Public Cloud
5 2 (7.69%) Derivative
6 1 (3.85%) Data Fabric
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (34.62%) Agile
2 8 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (26.92%) Migration
3 7 (26.92%) Validation
4 5 (19.23%) AI
4 5 (19.23%) Business Analysis
4 5 (19.23%) CI/CD
4 5 (19.23%) Client Onboarding
4 5 (19.23%) Design Patterns
4 5 (19.23%) Fintech
4 5 (19.23%) OO
4 5 (19.23%) Roadmaps
4 5 (19.23%) Scrum
4 5 (19.23%) User Stories
4 5 (19.23%) Web Application Development
5 4 (15.38%) Cash Management
5 4 (15.38%) Integration Patterns
5 4 (15.38%) Requirements Gathering
5 4 (15.38%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 3 (11.54%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 7 (26.92%) Java
2 5 (19.23%) C++
2 5 (19.23%) SQL
3 2 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) Degree
2 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 3 (11.54%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (15.38%) SEPA
2 3 (11.54%) ISO 8583
2 3 (11.54%) QA
2 3 (11.54%) SLA
3 2 (7.69%) Data Quality
3 2 (7.69%) TARGET2
4 1 (3.85%) GRC
4 1 (3.85%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) SAP
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.85%) Databricks