SWIFT Messaging Network Job Trends

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

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term SWIFT Messaging Network in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited SWIFT Messaging Network over the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 644 774 723
Rank change year-on-year +130 -51 +294
Permanent jobs citing SWIFT Messaging Network 32 22 54
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.065% 0.028% 0.090%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.16% 0.088% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 10 16 46
10th Percentile £37,375 - -
25th Percentile £48,875 £65,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £88,750 £78,473 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.10% +42.68% -22.81%
75th Percentile £131,875 £91,125 £76,385
90th Percentile £151,875 £105,000 £91,176
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £63,773 £55,000
% change year-on-year +21.52% +15.95% -8.33%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 20,297 25,121 24,682
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 41.04% 32.16% 40.96%
Number of salaries quoted 10,195 13,124 17,790
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £36,925 £43,116 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £104,800 £108,750 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +4.76%

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
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SWIFT Messaging Network.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SWIFT Messaging Network

SWIFT Messaging Network
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SWIFT Messaging Network over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for SWIFT Messaging Network in the UK

SWIFT Messaging Network
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SWIFT Messaging Network within the UK over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +110 22 £77,500 -5.42% 26
London +64 15 £85,000 +3.73% 12
UK excluding London +121 12 £77,500 +21.52% 17
North of England +25 7 £77,500 - 11
North West +12 7 £77,500 - 11
Scotland +47 5 £78,500 +23.09% 1
Work from Home +75 4 £115,000 +53.33% 12

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:

Applications
1 1 (3.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (18.75%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (3.13%) Infor SunSystems
2 1 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.13%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 5 (15.63%) AWS
2 2 (6.25%) BlazeMeter
2 2 (6.25%) SaaS
3 1 (3.13%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) Internet
1 1 (3.13%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (6.25%) Oracle Database
1 2 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.13%) DB2
2 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) JIRA
2 2 (6.25%) Bitbucket
2 2 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.25%) JMeter
2 2 (6.25%) LoadRunner
2 2 (6.25%) REST Assured
2 2 (6.25%) Selenium
2 2 (6.25%) Subversion
2 2 (6.25%) TestRail
General
1 19 (59.38%) Finance
2 18 (56.25%) Banking
3 14 (43.75%) Social Skills
4 9 (28.13%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (28.13%) Financial Institution
5 6 (18.75%) Billing
6 4 (12.50%) Marketing
6 4 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (6.25%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (31.25%) Business Analyst
2 8 (25.00%) Architect
3 7 (21.88%) Analyst
4 6 (18.75%) Payments Architect
5 4 (12.50%) Product Owner
6 3 (9.38%) Payments Business Analyst
7 2 (6.25%) Consultant
7 2 (6.25%) Head of Engineering
7 2 (6.25%) Head of Payments
7 2 (6.25%) Head of Software Engineering
7 2 (6.25%) Software Test Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Test Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Architect
8 1 (3.13%) Information Manager
8 1 (3.13%) Information Security Manager
8 1 (3.13%) Operations Manager
8 1 (3.13%) Presales Consultant
8 1 (3.13%) Security Manager
8 1 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (3.13%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) REST
2 2 (6.25%) Kafka
2 2 (6.25%) Playwright
2 2 (6.25%) Swagger
3 1 (3.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (15.63%) Product Ownership
3 4 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (6.25%) Cloud Native
4 2 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (6.25%) Virtual Team
5 1 (3.13%) Online Banking
5 1 (3.13%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Linux
2 1 (3.13%) AIX
2 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (75.00%) Agile
2 16 (50.00%) Business Analysis
3 12 (37.50%) Migration
4 11 (34.38%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (31.25%) Roadmaps
6 8 (25.00%) Fintech
7 7 (21.88%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (21.88%) Product Backlog
7 7 (21.88%) Product Roadmap
7 7 (21.88%) Product Vision
7 7 (21.88%) Scrum
8 6 (18.75%) GAP Analysis
8 6 (18.75%) Requirements Gathering
8 6 (18.75%) Software Engineering
8 6 (18.75%) Technical Leadership
8 6 (18.75%) User Stories
8 6 (18.75%) Validation
9 5 (15.63%) Cash Management
9 5 (15.63%) Product Management
9 5 (15.63%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (15.63%) SQL
2 4 (12.50%) Java
3 3 (9.38%) C#
3 3 (9.38%) Python
4 1 (3.13%) ActionScript
4 1 (3.13%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 4 (12.50%) CBAP
1 4 (12.50%) CSPO
2 1 (3.13%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.13%) CEH
2 1 (3.13%) CISSP
2 1 (3.13%) Degree
2 1 (3.13%) OSCP
2 1 (3.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (87.50%) SEPA
2 20 (62.50%) ISO 20022
3 7 (21.88%) TARGET2
4 4 (12.50%) ISO 8583
4 4 (12.50%) QA
5 2 (6.25%) Accessibility
6 1 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (3.13%) NIST
6 1 (3.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (12.50%) Oracle
2 2 (6.25%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (3.13%) Red Hat