The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term SWIFT in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SWIFT over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our Miscellaneous category for the City of London region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT)
Rank 280 232 198
Rank change year-on-year
-48 -34
Permanent jobs citing SWIFT 38 92 142
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.323% 0.700% 0.937%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.782% 1.783% 2.135%
Number of salaries quoted 33 89 138
Average salary £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-8.69% +9.52%
90% offered a salary of more than £40,500 £47,000 £42,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £72,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-31.03% +61.11%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
4861 5160 6650
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 41.32% 39.28% 43.88%
Number of salaries quoted 4195 4719 6025
Average salary £57,500 £57,500 £65,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -11.53%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £85,000 £90,000 £82,500
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
SWIFT
London

SWIFT
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing SWIFT across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

City of London SWIFT Jobs Demand Trend

SWIFT
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing SWIFT across the City of London region.

City of London SWIFT Salary Trend

SWIFT
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SWIFT across the City of London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

City of London SWIFT Salary Histogram

SWIFT
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing SWIFT also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited SWIFT.

1 65 (68.42%) Banking
2 53 (55.79%) Finance
3 34 (35.79%) Business Analysis
4 24 (25.26%) SQL
5 21 (22.11%) FATCA
6 20 (21.05%) Fundtech
6 20 (21.05%) XML
7 17 (17.89%) Windows
7 17 (17.89%) Use Case
8 16 (16.84%) Data Analysis
8 16 (16.84%) UML
9 15 (15.79%) Java
9 15 (15.79%) Oracle
9 15 (15.79%) ISEB
10 12 (12.63%) UNIX
10 12 (12.63%) Fixed Income
11 11 (11.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 10 (10.53%) FpML
12 10 (10.53%) Linux
12 10 (10.53%) Degree
13 9 (9.474%) Derivative
13 9 (9.474%) Test Scripting
13 9 (9.474%) Asset Management
14 8 (8.421%) User Acceptance Testing
14 8 (8.421%) Integration Testing
14 8 (8.421%) HP Quality Center
14 8 (8.421%) MS Excel
14 8 (8.421%) SOA
14 8 (8.421%) Legal
15 7 (7.368%) Change Management

SWIFT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing SWIFT also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited SWIFT. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 20 (21.05%) XML
2 10 (10.53%) FpML
3 7 (7.368%) Middleware
4 5 (5.263%) JMS
4 5 (5.263%) J2EE
4 5 (5.263%) WebSphere
4 5 (5.263%) FIX Protocol
5 4 (4.211%) Spring Integration
5 4 (4.211%) Spring
5 4 (4.211%) .NET
5 4 (4.211%) JDBC
6 3 (3.158%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (2.105%) XML Messaging
8 1 (1.053%) Swing
8 1 (1.053%) EDI
8 1 (1.053%) SOAP
8 1 (1.053%) WCF
8 1 (1.053%) WPF
8 1 (1.053%) REST
Application Platforms
1 7 (7.368%) WebLogic
1 7 (7.368%) Oracle Service Bus
1 7 (7.368%) ESB
2 6 (6.316%) MQSeries
3 5 (5.263%) WebSphere MQ
4 4 (4.211%) AquaLogic Service Bus
4 4 (4.211%) AquaLogic
5 2 (2.105%) Exchange Server 2007
5 2 (2.105%) MS Exchange
6 1 (1.053%) CICS
6 1 (1.053%) TIBCO EMS
Applications
1 8 (8.421%) MS Excel
2 7 (7.368%) MS Office
3 5 (5.263%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (7.368%) Temenos T24
2 4 (4.211%) SimCorp Dimension
3 3 (3.158%) SAP GTS
4 1 (1.053%) Oracle CRM
4 1 (1.053%) BusinessWorks
4 1 (1.053%) FLEXCUBE
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.211%) TCP/IP
1 4 (4.211%) DNS
2 3 (3.158%) SWIFTNet
3 2 (2.105%) SSH
3 2 (2.105%) SAN
3 2 (2.105%) VPN
3 2 (2.105%) DHCP
3 2 (2.105%) FTP
3 2 (2.105%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.316%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.105%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (2.105%) Ingres
2 2 (2.105%) Oracle 8/8i
2 2 (2.105%) MS Access
3 1 (1.053%) DB2
3 1 (1.053%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 4 (4.211%) MSI
2 1 (1.053%) Oracle Forms
General
1 65 (68.42%) Banking
2 53 (55.79%) Finance
3 8 (8.421%) Legal
4 7 (7.368%) Investment Banking
5 5 (5.263%) Retail Banking
5 5 (5.263%) Retail
6 4 (4.211%) Financial Institution
6 4 (4.211%) Advertising
7 3 (3.158%) Back Office
8 2 (2.105%) Front Office
9 1 (1.053%) Billing
9 1 (1.053%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 58 (61.05%) Analyst
2 37 (38.95%) Business Analyst
3 33 (34.74%) Payments Business Analyst
4 17 (17.89%) Banking Business Analyst
5 10 (10.53%) Test Analyst
5 10 (10.53%) Support Analyst
5 10 (10.53%) Developer
5 10 (10.53%) Lead Business Analyst
6 8 (8.421%) Senior Analyst
7 6 (6.316%) Applications Support
7 6 (6.316%) Team Leader
8 4 (4.211%) Senior Test Analyst
8 4 (4.211%) Systems Developer
8 4 (4.211%) Systems Integrator
8 4 (4.211%) Senior Business Analyst
8 4 (4.211%) Consultant
8 4 (4.211%) Applications Support Analyst
9 3 (3.158%) Administrator
9 3 (3.158%) Middleware Team Leader
10 2 (2.105%) Operations Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.63%) Fixed Income
2 11 (11.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 9 (9.474%) Derivative
4 6 (6.316%) Management Information System
5 4 (4.211%) iPad
5 4 (4.211%) APACS
5 4 (4.211%) Clustering
6 3 (3.158%) Equities
6 3 (3.158%) Computer Science
7 2 (2.105%) Informatics
7 2 (2.105%) Economics
7 2 (2.105%) CLARiiON
8 1 (1.053%) Mainframe
8 1 (1.053%) N-Tier
8 1 (1.053%) Tandem
8 1 (1.053%) Mathematics
8 1 (1.053%) Physics
8 1 (1.053%) Chemistry
Operating Systems
1 17 (17.89%) Windows
2 12 (12.63%) UNIX
3 10 (10.53%) Linux
4 7 (7.368%) Solaris
5 6 (6.316%) Windows XP
6 3 (3.158%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (2.105%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (2.105%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (35.79%) Business Analysis
2 17 (17.89%) Use Case
3 16 (16.84%) Data Analysis
3 16 (16.84%) UML
4 9 (9.474%) Test Scripting
4 9 (9.474%) Asset Management
5 8 (8.421%) User Acceptance Testing
5 8 (8.421%) Integration Testing
5 8 (8.421%) SOA
6 7 (7.368%) Change Management
6 7 (7.368%) Investment Management
7 6 (6.316%) Performance Management
7 6 (6.316%) Unit Testing
8 5 (5.263%) Product Management
9 4 (4.211%) Release Management
9 4 (4.211%) EAI
9 4 (4.211%) Validation
10 3 (3.158%) Project Management
10 3 (3.158%) System Testing
11 2 (2.105%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 24 (25.26%) SQL
2 15 (15.79%) Java
3 5 (5.263%) C#
4 4 (4.211%) VBA
4 4 (4.211%) C
5 2 (2.105%) Korn
5 2 (2.105%) VB6
5 2 (2.105%) VB
5 2 (2.105%) C++
5 2 (2.105%) Perl
5 2 (2.105%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.053%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 15 (15.79%) ISEB
2 10 (10.53%) Degree
3 2 (2.105%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (2.105%) MCP
3 2 (2.105%) MCSE
3 2 (2.105%) MCSA
4 1 (1.053%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.053%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (22.11%) FATCA
2 2 (2.105%) Basel II
3 1 (1.053%) RosettaNet
3 1 (1.053%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.053%) QA
System Software
1 6 (6.316%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (8.421%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 20 (21.05%) Fundtech
2 15 (15.79%) Oracle
3 6 (6.316%) SAP
4 5 (5.263%) Mercator
4 5 (5.263%) OpenLink
4 5 (5.263%) IBM
5 4 (4.211%) T-Plan
5 4 (4.211%) SimCorp
5 4 (4.211%) Charles River
6 3 (3.158%) Misys
6 3 (3.158%) Pega
7 2 (2.105%) Axway
7 2 (2.105%) Brocade
7 2 (2.105%) jBASE
7 2 (2.105%) GoldenSource
7 2 (2.105%) Temenos
7 2 (2.105%) BEA
7 2 (2.105%) CA
7 2 (2.105%) Microsoft
7 2 (2.105%) Sun
City, London
The successful SWIFT Application Support engineer will have the following skills : * Minimum of two years' experience in a role such as Technical Support Engineer/Application Support Engineer/Application...
JWResource
Salary: From £40,000 to £60,000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
City of London
My client is currently up skilling their Testing and QA team alongside their developers to begin building a multi-asset class global payments programme headed in London. The...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Salary: £45000.00 - £55000.00 per annum + benefits
Posted: 11 May 2013
City of London
Flexibility, initiative good problem solving skills and attention to detail are all important as is an interest in learning as there are on-going opportunities to learn new...
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 25 April 2013
City of London
Terrific career opportunity for a mid-level (3yrs+) Business Analyst, with in-depth Payments Processing - BACS, CHAPS, SWIFT - (in Banking / Finance / similar) experience at this expanding international payments...
Dupen Recruitment Services
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + share options + range of benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
City, London
Terrific career opportunity for a mid-level (3yrs+) Business Analyst, with in-depth Payments Processing - BACS, CHAPS, SWIFT - (in Banking / Finance / similar) experience at this expanding international payments...
Dupen Recruitment Services
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + share options + range of benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
City of London
Being in a cross-asset environment, you will be expanding your business knowledge to cover FX, Commodities, Fixed Income and many more! Alongside of the business knowledge, you...
Huxley Associates
Salary: £45000 - £56000 per annum + Excellent Bonus and Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
City of London
Support Analyst, Business Analysis, Treasury IT, SQL Support and Business Analyst, Hybrid role, Treasury IT A City based Investment Bank is looking to hire senior support and business...
Real Staffing
Salary: £60000 - £70000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
City, London
A good knowledge of fixed income, equities, cash and stock lending products... Understanding of Asset Management. ISEB/ISTQB qualified. Strong stakeholder management and communication skills... An asset management...
Randstad Technologies
Salary: £55000 - £60000 per annum + Bonus & Package
Posted: 14 May 2013
City of London
You main duties will be to work on the post trade processing software arm of the business focusing on the asset management industry... You will need to have...
Huxley Associates
Salary: £80000 - £90000 per annum + bonus + car
Posted: 15 May 2013
City, London
Key skills: proven experience of managing software development initiatives, Equities, environment: C++, Sybase, Unix, Swift... You will have strong understanding of SWIFT message formats for Equities and also...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Salary: £90000 - £95000 per annum + + good bonus + good bens
Posted: 17 May 2013
City of London
Equities Development Manager - London - Investment Banking - to c.£95k base + good bonus + good bensKey skills: proven experience of managing software development initiatives, Equities, environment: C++, Sybase, Unix, Swift...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Salary: £90000 - £95000 per annum + + good bonus + good bens
Posted: 18 May 2013
City of London
Equities Development Manager - London - Investment Banking - to c.£95k base + good bonus + good bensKey skills: proven experience of managing software development initiatives, Equities, Sybase, Unix, Swift.Our client'...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Salary: £90000 - £95000 per annum + + good bonus + good bens
Posted: 18 May 2013
City, London
Key skills: proven experience of managing software development initiatives, Equities, Sybase, Unix, Swift... You will have strong understanding of SWIFT message formats for Equities and also a strong...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Salary: £90000 - £95000 per annum + + good bonus + good bens
Posted: 17 May 2013