Hybrid/Remote SWIFT Messaging Network Contract Job Trends

Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT Messaging Network)
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term SWIFT Messaging Network in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SWIFT Messaging Network over the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 302 295 347
Rank change year-on-year -7 +52 +156
Contract jobs citing SWIFT Messaging Network 16 21 44
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.16% 0.17% 0.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.45% 0.56% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 18 42
10th Percentile £330 £342 £416
25th Percentile £416 £400 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £594 £740
Median % change year-on-year -20.17% -19.76% +13.85%
75th Percentile £511 £619 £838
90th Percentile £666 £625 £1,088
UK median daily rate £500 £613 £606
% change year-on-year -18.37% +1.03% -6.73%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,570 3,750 5,369
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 35.05% 30.91% 30.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,237 2,401 3,720
10th Percentile £329 £325 £325
25th Percentile £420 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £672
90th Percentile £750 £808 £750
UK median daily rate £503 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.51% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 68 124
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.37 £19.99
25th Percentile £21.25 £22.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £45.46 £40.00 £45.63
Median % change year-on-year +13.65% -12.34% -17.93%
75th Percentile £65.75 £66.50 £69.06
90th Percentile £70.16 £75.00 £77.28
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £34.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -22.06% -20.00% +21.43%

SWIFT Messaging Network
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SWIFT Messaging Network and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

SWIFT Messaging Network job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

SWIFT Messaging Network
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SWIFT Messaging Network.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SWIFT Messaging Network

SWIFT Messaging Network
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SWIFT Messaging Network over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

SWIFT Messaging Network daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

SWIFT Messaging Network
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Actimize
1 1 (6.25%) SAP FSCM
1 1 (6.25%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) AWS
2 4 (25.00%) Azure
3 2 (12.50%) Azure API Management
4 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) HTTP
2 1 (6.25%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle Database
2 1 (6.25%) Power BI
2 1 (6.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) JIRA
2 2 (12.50%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) JUnit
2 2 (12.50%) Postman
2 2 (12.50%) SoapUI
General
1 13 (81.25%) Banking
2 9 (56.25%) Finance
3 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
4 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (12.50%) Investment Banking
6 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Analyst
2 4 (25.00%) Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Payments Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) Business Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Business Test Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Middleware Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Payments Business Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Test Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Banking Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Banking Business Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Data Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Java Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Monitoring Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) SAP Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.25%) T24 Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) XML
2 5 (31.25%) REST
3 4 (25.00%) SOAP
4 2 (12.50%) EDI
4 2 (12.50%) IBM Integration Bus
4 2 (12.50%) JMS
4 2 (12.50%) JSON
4 2 (12.50%) Kafka
4 2 (12.50%) Middleware
4 2 (12.50%) Spring
4 2 (12.50%) Spring Boot
5 1 (6.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) PACS
1 3 (18.75%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 2 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.25%) Algorithms
3 1 (6.25%) Market Risk
3 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.25%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) AIX
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
1 2 (12.50%) Unix
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 6 (37.50%) Agile
3 4 (25.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
3 4 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 4 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
3 4 (25.00%) SDLC
3 4 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (18.75%) Acceptance Criteria
4 3 (18.75%) Business Strategy
4 3 (18.75%) Computer Science
4 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (18.75%) Regression Testing
5 2 (12.50%) Change Control
5 2 (12.50%) Data Protection
5 2 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 2 (12.50%) Integration Testing
5 2 (12.50%) Project Management
5 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (12.50%) Test Strategy
5 2 (12.50%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) SQL
2 4 (25.00%) Java
3 2 (12.50%) Korn
3 2 (12.50%) Perl
3 2 (12.50%) PL/SQL
4 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
2 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (12.50%) ISEB
2 2 (12.50%) ISTQB
2 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) CBAP
3 1 (6.25%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (75.00%) SEPA
2 8 (50.00%) ISO 20022
3 6 (37.50%) PSD2
4 3 (18.75%) QA
5 1 (6.25%) ISO 8583
5 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Oracle
2 2 (12.50%) IBM
3 1 (6.25%) SAP
3 1 (6.25%) Temenos