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 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 453 491 498
Rank change year-on-year +38 +7 +164
Contract jobs citing SWIFT Messaging Network 86 89 194
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.20% 0.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.83% 0.68% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 66 162
10th Percentile £398 £406 £400
25th Percentile £414 £510 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £715
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -9.09% +19.17%
75th Percentile £709 £700 £825
90th Percentile £798 £725 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £545 £720
% change year-on-year -22.02% -24.31% +30.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £86.25 - -
Median hourly rate £87.50 - -
75th Percentile £88.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 10,390 13,045 18,315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.61% 29.90% 33.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,464 8,271 12,601
10th Percentile £300 £280 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £539 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.51% -2.09% -
75th Percentile £650 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 465 944 598
10th Percentile £15.50 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £19.00 £15.35 £10.63
Median hourly rate £31.76 £35.65 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% +58.55% -16.66%
75th Percentile £58.75 £61.63 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.79 £35.25 £22.00
% change year-on-year -12.65% +60.23% +2.33%

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 23 June 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

SWIFT Messaging Network
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 23 June 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 +65 75 £500 -23.08% 182
London +43 62 £575 -14.81% 161
Work from Home +24 28 £500 -20.00% 75
UK excluding London +46 20 £425 -22.02% 42
North of England +22 10 £422 +37.80% 8
North West +10 9 £418 +67.20% 7
Wales - 5 £413 - 2
Scotland +1 4 £600 -2.04% 12
Yorkshire +2 1 £483 +33.10% 1
South West - 1 £280 - 4

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 5 (5.81%) WebSphere
2 4 (4.65%) Confluence
3 1 (1.16%) IBM Transformation Extender
3 1 (1.16%) IIS
3 1 (1.16%) JBoss
3 1 (1.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.16%) SAS
3 1 (1.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (3.49%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (3.49%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (9.30%) Kondor
2 4 (4.65%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (3.49%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (2.33%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (1.16%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (1.16%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (1.16%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (1.16%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (1.16%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (1.16%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (1.16%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 11 (12.79%) Azure
2 3 (3.49%) Azure API Management
2 3 (3.49%) SaaS
3 2 (2.33%) OCI
4 1 (1.16%) AWS
4 1 (1.16%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.65%) HTTP
2 1 (1.16%) Multicast
2 1 (1.16%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.30%) Oracle Database
2 6 (6.98%) SQL Server
3 4 (4.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (4.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (2.33%) Oracle Database 10g
4 2 (2.33%) Tableau
5 1 (1.16%) Data Mart
5 1 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.16%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.16%) MySQL
5 1 (1.16%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.16%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (1.16%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.16%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (15.12%) JIRA
2 9 (10.47%) JMeter
3 8 (9.30%) LoadRunner
4 5 (5.81%) Postman
5 4 (4.65%) IBM UrbanCode
6 3 (3.49%) Ant
6 3 (3.49%) SoapUI
6 3 (3.49%) Toad
7 2 (2.33%) JUnit
8 1 (1.16%) Git
8 1 (1.16%) GitLab
8 1 (1.16%) Jenkins
8 1 (1.16%) Zephyr
General
1 59 (68.60%) Finance
2 57 (66.28%) Banking
3 27 (31.40%) Social Skills
4 8 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (8.14%) Financial Institution
6 6 (6.98%) Back Office
6 6 (6.98%) Investment Banking
7 3 (3.49%) Front Office
7 3 (3.49%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.33%) Retail
8 2 (2.33%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.16%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.16%) Japanese Language
9 1 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.16%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 50 (58.14%) Analyst
2 24 (27.91%) Payments Analyst
3 18 (20.93%) Business Analyst
4 16 (18.60%) Applications Support
5 14 (16.28%) Test Analyst
6 13 (15.12%) Banking Analyst
7 11 (12.79%) Payments Business Analyst
8 9 (10.47%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
9 8 (9.30%) Applications Engineer
9 8 (9.30%) Applications Support Engineer
9 8 (9.30%) Architect
9 8 (9.30%) Financial Analyst
9 8 (9.30%) Non-Functional Test Engineer
9 8 (9.30%) QA Analyst
9 8 (9.30%) QA Engineer
9 8 (9.30%) QA Test Analyst
9 8 (9.30%) QA Test Engineer
9 8 (9.30%) Support Engineer
9 8 (9.30%) Test Engineer
10 7 (8.14%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (15.12%) XML
2 10 (11.63%) FIX Protocol
3 9 (10.47%) SOAP
4 7 (8.14%) JSON
5 6 (6.98%) REST
6 5 (5.81%) Middleware
7 4 (4.65%) Kafka
8 3 (3.49%) EDI
8 3 (3.49%) IBM Integration Bus
9 2 (2.33%) OAuth
9 2 (2.33%) OAuth2
9 2 (2.33%) Oracle Fusion
10 1 (1.16%) Murex MxML
10 1 (1.16%) WebSockets
10 1 (1.16%) WebSphere MQ
10 1 (1.16%) XML Messaging
10 1 (1.16%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.98%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (4.65%) Equities
2 4 (4.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (3.49%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.49%) Derivative
3 3 (3.49%) Digital Wallet
3 3 (3.49%) Fixed Income
4 2 (2.33%) EMV
4 2 (2.33%) PACS
4 2 (2.33%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.16%) DTCC
5 1 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.16%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.16%) Online Banking
5 1 (1.16%) OTC Derivatives
5 1 (1.16%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 22 (25.58%) Windows
2 13 (15.12%) Linux
2 13 (15.12%) Unix
3 5 (5.81%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.49%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (15.12%) Migration
2 10 (11.63%) Agile
2 10 (11.63%) Cash Management
2 10 (11.63%) Root Cause Analysis
3 9 (10.47%) Incident Management
3 9 (10.47%) Non-Functional Testing
3 9 (10.47%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (10.47%) Stress Testing
4 8 (9.30%) Computer Science
4 8 (9.30%) Service Delivery
4 8 (9.30%) User Acceptance Testing
5 7 (8.14%) Business Analysis
5 7 (8.14%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (8.14%) Scenario Testing
6 6 (6.98%) Data Protection
6 6 (6.98%) Project Management
6 6 (6.98%) Test Strategy
7 5 (5.81%) Change Management
7 5 (5.81%) Test Automation
7 5 (5.81%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 27 (31.40%) SQL
2 14 (16.28%) Java
3 12 (13.95%) Python
4 8 (9.30%) Bash
4 8 (9.30%) VB
5 3 (3.49%) Korn
5 3 (3.49%) Perl
5 3 (3.49%) PL/SQL
5 3 (3.49%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.33%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.16%) C#
Qualifications
1 11 (12.79%) Degree
2 6 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (6.98%) ISTQB
3 5 (5.81%) ISEB
4 2 (2.33%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.16%) CBAP
5 1 (1.16%) CLAS
5 1 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.16%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.16%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (34.88%) SEPA
2 17 (19.77%) ISO 20022
3 9 (10.47%) QA
4 3 (3.49%) PCI DSS
4 3 (3.49%) PSD2
5 2 (2.33%) ISO 8583
5 2 (2.33%) SLA
6 1 (1.16%) Basel III
6 1 (1.16%) EMIR
6 1 (1.16%) FINRA
6 1 (1.16%) MiFID
6 1 (1.16%) PMO
6 1 (1.16%) TARGET2
System Software
1 4 (4.65%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 4 (4.65%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 14 (16.28%) Oracle
2 9 (10.47%) Bloomberg
2 9 (10.47%) Microsoft
3 8 (9.30%) IBM
3 8 (9.30%) Refinitiv
3 8 (9.30%) Sybase
4 4 (4.65%) Murex
4 4 (4.65%) Splunk
5 3 (3.49%) Perforce
6 2 (2.33%) Interwoven
7 1 (1.16%) Calypso
7 1 (1.16%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.16%) SAP
7 1 (1.16%) Tradeweb