SWIFT Messaging Network Contracts

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

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term SWIFT Messaging Network in contract job vacancies. 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 452 500 553
Rank change year-on-year +48 +53 +120
Contract jobs citing SWIFT Messaging Network 68 82 165
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.19% 0.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.68% 0.62% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 69 125
10th Percentile £360 £410 £475
25th Percentile £415 £525 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £700
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -10.71% +16.67%
75th Percentile £669 £688 £823
90th Percentile £798 £700 £835
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £545 £723
% change year-on-year -12.84% -24.57% +31.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £64.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 9,944 13,250 19,897
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.97% 30.42% 33.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,345 8,502 13,668
10th Percentile £300 £263 £308
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £650 £660 £680
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 394 912 640
10th Percentile £16.46 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.00 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.99 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.08 £28.25 £22.00
% change year-on-year +10.02% +28.41% +9.64%

SWIFT Messaging Network
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SWIFT Messaging Network in the UK

SWIFT Messaging Network
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SWIFT Messaging Network in the UK

SWIFT Messaging Network
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for SWIFT Messaging Network in the UK

SWIFT Messaging Network
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SWIFT Messaging Network in the UK

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Top 10 Contract Locations

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 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
England +44 61 £500 -20.00% 44
London +19 48 £557 -14.38% 35
Work from Home +29 21 £513 -16.29% 12
UK excluding London +67 16 £475 -12.84% 17
North of England +24 9 £418 +36.49% 7
North West +24 9 £418 +67.20% 7
Scotland +12 5 £625 +2.04% 2
Midlands - 1 £625 -
South West - 1 £280 - 2
West Midlands - 1 £625 -

SWIFT Messaging Network
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (2.94%) Confluence
2 1 (1.47%) IIS
2 1 (1.47%) JBoss
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.47%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.47%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (5.88%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.94%) Notepad++
3 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.47%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (11.76%) Kondor
2 4 (5.88%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (4.41%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.47%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (1.47%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (1.47%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (1.47%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (1.47%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (1.47%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (1.47%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (1.47%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 7 (10.29%) Azure
2 3 (4.41%) SaaS
3 2 (2.94%) AWS
3 2 (2.94%) Azure API Management
4 1 (1.47%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.41%) HTTP
2 2 (2.94%) SWIFTNet
3 1 (1.47%) ATM
3 1 (1.47%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.76%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (5.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (4.41%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.47%) Big Data
5 1 (1.47%) Data Mart
5 1 (1.47%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.47%) MySQL
5 1 (1.47%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.47%) Oracle Database 10g
5 1 (1.47%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (1.47%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.47%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (13.24%) JMeter
2 8 (11.76%) LoadRunner
3 6 (8.82%) JIRA
4 2 (2.94%) Ant
4 2 (2.94%) MagicDraw
4 2 (2.94%) SoapUI
4 2 (2.94%) Toad
4 2 (2.94%) XMLSpy
5 1 (1.47%) Git
5 1 (1.47%) GitLab
5 1 (1.47%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.47%) JUnit
General
1 46 (67.65%) Finance
2 42 (61.76%) Banking
3 21 (30.88%) Social Skills
4 8 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.35%) Back Office
5 5 (7.35%) Financial Institution
5 5 (7.35%) Investment Banking
6 3 (4.41%) Front Office
6 3 (4.41%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.94%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.47%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.47%) Japanese Language
8 1 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.47%) Private Banking
8 1 (1.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (52.94%) Analyst
2 16 (23.53%) Applications Support
3 13 (19.12%) Business Analyst
4 10 (14.71%) Payments Analyst
5 9 (13.24%) Financial Analyst
5 9 (13.24%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
5 9 (13.24%) Test Analyst
6 8 (11.76%) Applications Engineer
6 8 (11.76%) Applications Support Engineer
6 8 (11.76%) Non-Functional Test Engineer
6 8 (11.76%) QA Analyst
6 8 (11.76%) QA Engineer
6 8 (11.76%) QA Test Analyst
6 8 (11.76%) QA Test Engineer
6 8 (11.76%) Support Engineer
6 8 (11.76%) Test Engineer
7 7 (10.29%) Applications Support Analyst
7 7 (10.29%) Banking Analyst
7 7 (10.29%) Support Analyst
8 6 (8.82%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (13.24%) FIX Protocol
2 8 (11.76%) XML
3 6 (8.82%) Middleware
4 3 (4.41%) Kafka
4 3 (4.41%) SOAP
5 2 (2.94%) EDI
5 2 (2.94%) FpML
5 2 (2.94%) IBM Integration Bus
5 2 (2.94%) JSON
5 2 (2.94%) OAuth
5 2 (2.94%) OAuth2
6 1 (1.47%) Murex MxML
6 1 (1.47%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (1.47%) REST
6 1 (1.47%) WebSockets
6 1 (1.47%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.35%) Derivative
2 4 (5.88%) Equities
3 3 (4.41%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.41%) Digital Wallet
3 3 (4.41%) Fixed Income
3 3 (4.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (4.41%) OTC Derivatives
4 2 (2.94%) EMV
5 1 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.47%) Online Banking
5 1 (1.47%) PACS
5 1 (1.47%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 21 (30.88%) Windows
2 12 (17.65%) Linux
2 12 (17.65%) Unix
3 5 (7.35%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.94%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (19.12%) Migration
2 11 (16.18%) Cash Management
3 9 (13.24%) Incident Management
3 9 (13.24%) Non-Functional Testing
3 9 (13.24%) Root Cause Analysis
3 9 (13.24%) Stress Testing
4 8 (11.76%) Agile
4 8 (11.76%) Requirements Gathering
4 8 (11.76%) Service Delivery
5 7 (10.29%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (10.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (8.82%) Project Delivery
7 5 (7.35%) Business Analysis
7 5 (7.35%) Project Management
7 5 (7.35%) Time Management
7 5 (7.35%) User Acceptance Testing
8 4 (5.88%) Microservices
8 4 (5.88%) System Integration Testing
8 4 (5.88%) Waterfall
8 4 (5.88%) Work Breakdown Structure
Programming Languages
1 25 (36.76%) SQL
2 13 (19.12%) Java
3 10 (14.71%) Python
4 8 (11.76%) Bash
4 8 (11.76%) VB
5 3 (4.41%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.94%) Korn
6 2 (2.94%) Perl
6 2 (2.94%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.94%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.47%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (5.88%) Degree
2 1 (1.47%) CLAS
2 1 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.47%) ISTQB
2 1 (1.47%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (1.47%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (19.12%) SEPA
2 11 (16.18%) ISO 20022
3 10 (14.71%) QA
4 3 (4.41%) PCI DSS
4 3 (4.41%) PSD2
5 2 (2.94%) ISO 8583
5 2 (2.94%) SLA
6 1 (1.47%) Basel III
6 1 (1.47%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (1.47%) EMIR
6 1 (1.47%) ISO 9001
6 1 (1.47%) MiFID
6 1 (1.47%) PMO
6 1 (1.47%) TARGET2
Vendors
1 9 (13.24%) Bloomberg
1 9 (13.24%) Microsoft
2 8 (11.76%) Oracle
2 8 (11.76%) Refinitiv
2 8 (11.76%) Sybase
3 4 (5.88%) Splunk
4 3 (4.41%) IBM
4 3 (4.41%) Murex
5 2 (2.94%) Interwoven
5 2 (2.94%) Perforce
6 1 (1.47%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.47%) Tradeweb