ISO 20022 Contracts

ISO 20022
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring ISO 20022 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ISO 20022 over the 6 months leading up to 21 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 506 567 651
Rank change year-on-year +61 +84 +113
Contract jobs citing ISO 20022 28 26 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.093% 0.059% 0.083%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.57% 0.43% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 14 33
10th Percentile £356 £386 £413
25th Percentile £402 £466 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £518 £700
Median % change year-on-year -1.88% -26.07% +7.69%
75th Percentile £723 £614 £938
90th Percentile £766 £650 £1,098
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £600 £425
% change year-on-year -10.42% +41.18% -20.93%
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 4,873 6,000 7,543
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.26% 13.66% 13.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,109 3,729 5,161
10th Percentile £275 £280 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +0.96%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £644
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £488
% change year-on-year - -2.56% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 437 252
10th Percentile £15.12 £11.00 £13.73
25th Percentile £19.46 £13.18 £18.89
Median hourly rate £31.76 £23.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.09% -38.67% +35.23%
75th Percentile £67.50 £48.75 £62.68
90th Percentile £83.41 £70.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.70 £18.97 £37.50
% change year-on-year +67.11% -49.41% +66.67%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ISO 20022.

Daily rate trend for ISO 20022 in the UK

ISO 20022
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISO 20022 over the 6 months to 21 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ISO 20022 in the UK

ISO 20022
Top 8 Contract 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 21 June 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 +53 25 £464 -7.20% 71
London +51 20 £450 -10.00% 61
Work from Home +53 12 £405 -24.65% 33
UK excluding London +41 7 £538 -10.42% 22
North of England +16 4 £508 +40.07% 2
North West - 4 £508 - 2
Scotland +5 2 £706 +16.49% 5
South West - 1 £280 - 3

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 5 (17.86%) WebSphere
2 2 (7.14%) Confluence
2 2 (7.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (3.57%) JBoss
3 1 (3.57%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (3.57%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.14%) OpenShift
2 1 (3.57%) Azure
2 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (3.57%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) SWIFTNet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) Oracle Database
2 2 (7.14%) NonStop SQL
2 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.57%) Big Data
3 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 7 (25.00%) JIRA
2 4 (14.29%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (3.57%) Git
3 1 (3.57%) GitLab
General
1 20 (71.43%) Banking
2 14 (50.00%) Finance
3 12 (42.86%) Social Skills
4 5 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (10.71%) Financial Institution
6 2 (7.14%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (3.57%) Back Office
7 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (3.57%) Investment Banking
7 1 (3.57%) Legal
7 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (39.29%) Analyst
2 9 (32.14%) Architect
3 8 (28.57%) Payments Analyst
4 7 (25.00%) Payments Architect
5 5 (17.86%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (17.86%) Technical Analyst
6 4 (14.29%) Banking Analyst
6 4 (14.29%) Business Analyst
7 3 (10.71%) Payments Business Analyst
7 3 (10.71%) Payments Solutions Architect
7 3 (10.71%) Project Manager
8 2 (7.14%) Data Analyst
8 2 (7.14%) Data Architect
8 2 (7.14%) Data Migration Analyst
8 2 (7.14%) Migration Analyst
8 2 (7.14%) Migration Manager
8 2 (7.14%) Payments Project Manager
8 2 (7.14%) Technical Manager
9 1 (3.57%) Implementation Manager
9 1 (3.57%) Oracle Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.86%) Kafka
2 3 (10.71%) Middleware
2 3 (10.71%) XML
3 2 (7.14%) OAuth
3 2 (7.14%) OAuth2
4 1 (3.57%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.57%) JSON
4 1 (3.57%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (3.57%) REST
4 1 (3.57%) SOAP
4 1 (3.57%) WebSphere MQ
4 1 (3.57%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 17 (60.71%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 2 (7.14%) Digital Wallet
2 2 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (7.14%) EMV
2 2 (7.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (7.14%) PACS
3 1 (3.57%) Derivative
3 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.57%) Online Banking
3 1 (3.57%) PMI
3 1 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.57%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Linux
1 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (3.57%) Unix
1 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (35.71%) Migration
2 6 (21.43%) Project Management
3 5 (17.86%) Agile
3 5 (17.86%) Project Delivery
3 5 (17.86%) Roadmaps
4 4 (14.29%) Defect Tracking
4 4 (14.29%) Fintech
4 4 (14.29%) Microservices
4 4 (14.29%) Performance Monitoring
4 4 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (10.71%) Business Analysis
5 3 (10.71%) Decision-Making
5 3 (10.71%) ETL
5 3 (10.71%) Event-Driven
5 3 (10.71%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 3 (10.71%) Risk Management
5 3 (10.71%) SDLC
6 2 (7.14%) OOD
6 2 (7.14%) PRINCE2
6 2 (7.14%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.71%) Java
1 3 (10.71%) SQL
2 2 (7.14%) COBOL
2 2 (7.14%) Python
3 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
3 1 (3.57%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (7.14%) Degree
1 2 (7.14%) PMI Certification
2 1 (3.57%) CLAS
2 1 (3.57%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (53.57%) SEPA
2 2 (7.14%) ISO 15022
2 2 (7.14%) ISO 8583
2 2 (7.14%) PCI DSS
2 2 (7.14%) PSD2
3 1 (3.57%) TARGET2
System Software
1 4 (14.29%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 10 (35.71%) Oracle
2 6 (21.43%) IBM
3 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.57%) Avaloq
4 1 (3.57%) HP
4 1 (3.57%) MuleSoft
4 1 (3.57%) Murex
4 1 (3.57%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.57%) SunGard
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