SWIFT Messaging Network Contracts in the North West

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

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term SWIFT Messaging Network in contract job vacancies in the North West. 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 111 135 156
Rank change year-on-year +24 +21 +14
Contract jobs citing SWIFT Messaging Network 9 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.46% 0.073% 0.031%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.61% 0.27% 0.093%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 1
10th Percentile £361 - -
25th Percentile £401 £200 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £250 £600
Median % change year-on-year +67.20% -58.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £438 £300 £625
90th Percentile £501 - -
England median daily rate £500 £625 £675
% change year-on-year -20.00% -7.41% +12.50%

All Generic Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 560 742 1,080
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 28.46% 26.93% 33.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 493 722
10th Percentile £203 £289 £296
25th Percentile £360 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £584 £625
90th Percentile £653 £672 £675
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 77 47
10th Percentile £22.05 £13.00 £16.85
25th Percentile £24.25 £15.00 £20.74
Median hourly rate £29.52 £25.25 £27.98
Median % change year-on-year +16.89% -9.76% +51.24%
75th Percentile £33.75 £37.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.75 £57.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

SWIFT Messaging Network
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for SWIFT Messaging Network in the North West

SWIFT Messaging Network
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SWIFT Messaging Network in the North West.

Daily rate trend for SWIFT Messaging Network in the North West

SWIFT Messaging Network
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for SWIFT Messaging Network in the North West

SWIFT Messaging Network
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West 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
Manchester - 9 £418 - 1
SWIFT Messaging Network
England

SWIFT Messaging Network
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Business Applications
1 7 (77.78%) Kondor
2 2 (22.22%) Payment Gateway
General
1 2 (22.22%) Banking
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Applications Engineer
1 7 (77.78%) Applications Support
1 7 (77.78%) Applications Support Engineer
1 7 (77.78%) Support Engineer
2 5 (55.56%) Systems Engineer
2 5 (55.56%) Systems Support
2 5 (55.56%) Systems Support Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Payments Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) OAuth
1 2 (22.22%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Digital Wallet
1 2 (22.22%) EMV
Operating Systems
1 7 (77.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Cash Management
1 7 (77.78%) Incident Management
1 7 (77.78%) Root Cause Analysis
1 7 (77.78%) Service Delivery
2 2 (22.22%) Event-Driven
2 2 (22.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (22.22%) Fintech
2 2 (22.22%) Microservices
2 2 (22.22%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) ISO 20022
1 2 (22.22%) ISO 8583
1 2 (22.22%) PCI DSS
1 2 (22.22%) PSD2
1 2 (22.22%) SEPA
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Bloomberg
1 7 (77.78%) Refinitiv
1 7 (77.78%) Sybase
2 4 (44.44%) Microsoft