SWIFT Messaging Network Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term SWIFT Messaging Network in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 320 387 447
Rank change year-on-year +67 +60 +33
Contract jobs citing SWIFT Messaging Network 16 12 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.058% 0.062%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.38% 0.20% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 10 8
10th Percentile £361 £341 £677
25th Percentile £414 £400 £720
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £545 £723
Median % change year-on-year -12.84% -24.57% +31.36%
75th Percentile £591 £619 £775
90th Percentile £686 £625 £783
UK median daily rate £500 £625 £700
% change year-on-year -20.00% -10.71% +16.67%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,241 6,126 7,826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.22% 29.49% 32.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,608 3,665 5,276
10th Percentile £210 £210 £213
25th Percentile £363 £378 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £598 £618
90th Percentile £665 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 301 723 439
10th Percentile £16.67 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.00 £14.06 £10.63
Median hourly rate £31.08 £28.25 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.02% +28.41% +9.64%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.20 £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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SWIFT Messaging Network as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SWIFT Messaging Network in the UK excluding London

SWIFT Messaging Network
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SWIFT Messaging Network in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SWIFT Messaging Network in the UK excluding London

SWIFT Messaging Network
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for SWIFT Messaging Network in the UK excluding London

SWIFT Messaging Network
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SWIFT Messaging Network in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SWIFT Messaging Network in the UK excluding London

SWIFT Messaging Network
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
North West +24 9 £418 +67.20% 7
North of England +24 9 £418 +36.49% 7
Scotland +12 5 £625 +2.04% 2
Midlands - 1 £625 -
South West - 1 £280 - 2
West Midlands - 1 £625 -
SWIFT Messaging Network
UK

SWIFT Messaging Network
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (6.25%) Confluence
1 1 (6.25%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 7 (43.75%) Kondor
2 2 (12.50%) Payment Gateway
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
1 1 (6.25%) GitLab
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 7 (43.75%) Banking
1 7 (43.75%) Finance
2 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Financial Institution
4 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Applications Engineer
1 7 (43.75%) Applications Support
1 7 (43.75%) Applications Support Engineer
1 7 (43.75%) Support Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Systems Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Systems Support
2 5 (31.25%) Systems Support Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Business Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Migration Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Payments Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Payments Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Technical Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Finance Business Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Implementation Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Junior Oracle Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Payments Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) OAuth
1 2 (12.50%) OAuth2
1 2 (12.50%) XML
2 1 (6.25%) Kafka
2 1 (6.25%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Digital Wallet
1 2 (12.50%) EMV
2 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 8 (50.00%) Unix
2 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Cash Management
2 7 (43.75%) Incident Management
2 7 (43.75%) Root Cause Analysis
2 7 (43.75%) Service Delivery
3 4 (25.00%) Migration
4 3 (18.75%) Microservices
4 3 (18.75%) Project Delivery
5 2 (12.50%) Agile
5 2 (12.50%) Event-Driven
5 2 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 2 (12.50%) Fintech
5 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (12.50%) Project Management
5 2 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
5 2 (12.50%) SDLC
5 2 (12.50%) Waterfall
6 1 (6.25%) DevOps
6 1 (6.25%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (6.25%) Requirements Management
6 1 (6.25%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (6.25%) Java
2 1 (6.25%) Python
2 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) ISO 20022
2 2 (12.50%) ISO 8583
2 2 (12.50%) PCI DSS
2 2 (12.50%) PSD2
2 2 (12.50%) SEPA
3 1 (6.25%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Bloomberg
1 7 (43.75%) Refinitiv
1 7 (43.75%) Sybase
2 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle