SWIFT Messaging Network Contracts in England

Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT Messaging Network)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term SWIFT Messaging Network in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SWIFT Messaging Network over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 424 468 493
Rank change year-on-year +44 +25 +133
Contract jobs citing SWIFT Messaging Network 61 74 160
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.25% 0.20% 0.32%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.73% 0.65% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 61 122
10th Percentile £357 £400 £475
25th Percentile £414 £510 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £675
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -7.41% +12.50%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £823
90th Percentile £798 - £835
UK median daily rate £500 £625 £700
% change year-on-year -20.00% -10.71% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £64.25
UK median hourly rate - - £64.25
% change year-on-year - - +413.59%

All Generic Skills
England

SWIFT Messaging Network falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 8,317 11,465 17,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.15% 30.83% 33.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,436 7,505 11,795
10th Percentile £300 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 827 591
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.01 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%
75th Percentile £64.63 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.40 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

SWIFT Messaging Network
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing SWIFT Messaging Network as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SWIFT Messaging Network in England

SWIFT Messaging Network
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SWIFT Messaging Network in England.

Daily rate trend for SWIFT Messaging Network in England

SWIFT Messaging Network
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SWIFT Messaging Network in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SWIFT Messaging Network in England

SWIFT Messaging Network
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SWIFT Messaging Network in England.

Hourly rate trend for SWIFT Messaging Network in England

SWIFT Messaging Network
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SWIFT Messaging Network within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +19 48 £557 -14.38% 35
North West +24 9 £418 +67.20% 7
North of England +24 9 £418 +36.49% 7
South West - 1 £280 - 2
West Midlands - 1 £625 -
Midlands - 1 £625 -
SWIFT Messaging Network
UK

SWIFT Messaging Network
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (3.28%) Confluence
2 1 (1.64%) IIS
2 1 (1.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.64%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (6.56%) MS Visio
2 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (3.28%) Notepad++
3 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (13.11%) Kondor
2 3 (4.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (4.92%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.64%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (1.64%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (1.64%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (1.64%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.64%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (1.64%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (1.64%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (1.64%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 6 (9.84%) Azure
2 3 (4.92%) SaaS
3 2 (3.28%) Azure API Management
4 1 (1.64%) AWS
4 1 (1.64%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.92%) HTTP
2 2 (3.28%) SWIFTNet
3 1 (1.64%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.11%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (6.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (4.92%) Oracle Database
4 2 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.64%) Big Data
5 1 (1.64%) Data Mart
5 1 (1.64%) MySQL
5 1 (1.64%) Oracle Database 10g
5 1 (1.64%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.64%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (14.75%) JMeter
2 8 (13.11%) LoadRunner
3 5 (8.20%) JIRA
4 2 (3.28%) Ant
4 2 (3.28%) MagicDraw
4 2 (3.28%) SoapUI
4 2 (3.28%) Toad
4 2 (3.28%) XMLSpy
5 1 (1.64%) Git
5 1 (1.64%) GitLab
5 1 (1.64%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.64%) JUnit
General
1 42 (68.85%) Finance
2 36 (59.02%) Banking
3 18 (29.51%) Social Skills
4 7 (11.48%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (8.20%) Back Office
5 5 (8.20%) Investment Banking
6 3 (4.92%) Financial Institution
6 3 (4.92%) Front Office
6 3 (4.92%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.64%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.64%) Japanese Language
7 1 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.64%) Private Banking
7 1 (1.64%) Retail
7 1 (1.64%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (55.74%) Analyst
2 16 (26.23%) Applications Support
3 12 (19.67%) Business Analyst
4 9 (14.75%) Financial Analyst
4 9 (14.75%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
4 9 (14.75%) Test Analyst
5 8 (13.11%) Applications Engineer
5 8 (13.11%) Applications Support Engineer
5 8 (13.11%) Non-Functional Test Engineer
5 8 (13.11%) Payments Analyst
5 8 (13.11%) QA Analyst
5 8 (13.11%) QA Engineer
5 8 (13.11%) QA Test Analyst
5 8 (13.11%) QA Test Engineer
5 8 (13.11%) Support Engineer
5 8 (13.11%) Test Engineer
6 7 (11.48%) Applications Support Analyst
6 7 (11.48%) Banking Analyst
6 7 (11.48%) Support Analyst
7 6 (9.84%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (14.75%) FIX Protocol
2 6 (9.84%) XML
3 4 (6.56%) Middleware
4 3 (4.92%) Kafka
4 3 (4.92%) SOAP
5 2 (3.28%) EDI
5 2 (3.28%) FpML
5 2 (3.28%) IBM Integration Bus
5 2 (3.28%) JSON
5 2 (3.28%) OAuth
5 2 (3.28%) OAuth2
6 1 (1.64%) Murex MxML
6 1 (1.64%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (1.64%) REST
6 1 (1.64%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.20%) Derivative
2 4 (6.56%) Equities
3 3 (4.92%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.92%) Digital Wallet
3 3 (4.92%) Fixed Income
3 3 (4.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (4.92%) OTC Derivatives
4 2 (3.28%) EMV
5 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.64%) Online Banking
5 1 (1.64%) PACS
5 1 (1.64%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 21 (34.43%) Windows
2 12 (19.67%) Linux
2 12 (19.67%) Unix
3 5 (8.20%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.28%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (18.03%) Migration
2 10 (16.39%) Cash Management
3 9 (14.75%) Incident Management
3 9 (14.75%) Non-Functional Testing
3 9 (14.75%) Root Cause Analysis
3 9 (14.75%) Stress Testing
4 8 (13.11%) Service Delivery
5 7 (11.48%) Agile
5 7 (11.48%) Requirements Gathering
5 7 (11.48%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (9.84%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (8.20%) Business Analysis
7 5 (8.20%) User Acceptance Testing
8 4 (6.56%) CRM
8 4 (6.56%) System Integration Testing
8 4 (6.56%) Time Management
8 4 (6.56%) Work Breakdown Structure
9 3 (4.92%) Microservices
9 3 (4.92%) Project Delivery
9 3 (4.92%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 24 (39.34%) SQL
2 12 (19.67%) Java
3 9 (14.75%) Python
4 8 (13.11%) Bash
4 8 (13.11%) VB
5 3 (4.92%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.28%) Korn
6 2 (3.28%) Perl
6 2 (3.28%) PL/SQL
6 2 (3.28%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (4.92%) Degree
2 1 (1.64%) CLAS
2 1 (1.64%) ISTQB
2 1 (1.64%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (1.64%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (21.31%) SEPA
2 10 (16.39%) QA
3 8 (13.11%) ISO 20022
4 3 (4.92%) PSD2
5 2 (3.28%) ISO 8583
5 2 (3.28%) PCI DSS
5 2 (3.28%) SLA
6 1 (1.64%) Basel III
6 1 (1.64%) EMIR
6 1 (1.64%) ISO 9001
6 1 (1.64%) MiFID
6 1 (1.64%) PMO
6 1 (1.64%) TARGET2
Vendors
1 9 (14.75%) Bloomberg
1 9 (14.75%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.11%) Refinitiv
2 8 (13.11%) Sybase
3 7 (11.48%) Oracle
4 4 (6.56%) Splunk
5 3 (4.92%) IBM
5 3 (4.92%) Murex
6 2 (3.28%) Interwoven
6 2 (3.28%) Perforce
7 1 (1.64%) Tradeweb