ISO 20022 Contract Job Trends in Scotland

ISO 20022
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring ISO 20022 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 115 122
Rank change year-on-year -1 +7 +33
Contract jobs citing ISO 20022 4 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.21% 0.12% 0.094%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.10% 0.71% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile - £678 £556
25th Percentile - £683 £564
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £706 £606
Median % change year-on-year -49.31% +16.49% -19.17%
75th Percentile - £723 £642
90th Percentile - £724 £647
UK median daily rate £600 £508 £518
% change year-on-year +18.17% -1.88% -23.33%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Scotland

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 in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 362 283 388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 18.55% 17.51% 18.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 180 247
10th Percentile £263 £237 £183
25th Percentile £350 £375 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £460 £438
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +5.02% -7.79%
75th Percentile £575 £532 £507
90th Percentile £675 £600 £600
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 6 21
10th Percentile £12.87 £16.80 £13.52
25th Percentile £14.07 £18.52 £14.73
Median hourly rate £50.00 £23.36 £16.71
Median % change year-on-year +114.06% +39.78% -7.81%
75th Percentile £59.50 £59.60 £21.64
90th Percentile £70.20 £76.60 £60.75
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £33.50 £22.34
% change year-on-year +7.48% +49.93% -40.43%

ISO 20022
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

ISO 20022 job vacancy trend in Scotland

ISO 20022
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing ISO 20022.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing ISO 20022

ISO 20022
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Glasgow - 3 £358 -
Edinburgh -3 1 - -
ISO 20022
UK

ISO 20022
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) IntelliMatch
1 2 (50.00%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (25.00%) SAP GRC
2 1 (25.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI
1 2 (50.00%) Tableau
2 1 (25.00%) Data Mining
General
1 3 (75.00%) Banking
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (25.00%) SAP Architect
2 1 (25.00%) SAP Financial Architect
2 1 (25.00%) SAP Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Scala Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Transformation Programme Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) EDIFACT
1 1 (25.00%) IDoc
1 1 (25.00%) PySpark
1 1 (25.00%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Business Analysis
1 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 2 (50.00%) Data Mapping
1 2 (50.00%) Data Matching
1 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (50.00%) Data Transformation
1 2 (50.00%) Defect Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kanban
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Regulatory Change
1 2 (50.00%) Scrum
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (25.00%) Accounts Payable
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Compliance Audit
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) ISO 8583
1 2 (50.00%) SLA
2 1 (25.00%) GRC
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) Alteryx
2 2 (50.00%) FIS
2 2 (50.00%) Fiserv
2 2 (50.00%) SmartStream
3 1 (25.00%) SAP