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 27 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 623 728 658
Rank change year-on-year +105 -70 +230
Permanent jobs citing SWIFT Messaging Network 38 22 47
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.070% 0.033% 0.093%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.20% 0.097% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 10 14 43
10th Percentile £37,375 £52,500 £48,000
25th Percentile £41,813 £54,375 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £75,468 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +6.93% +1.62%
75th Percentile £99,375 £89,337 £78,750
90th Percentile £118,375 £105,000 £90,297
UK excluding London median annual salary £78,500 £55,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year +42.73% -22.07% +1.62%

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 19,108 22,794 19,555
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.44% 33.94% 38.55%
Number of salaries quoted 10,752 11,165 14,638
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,750 £33,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £45,000
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 £100,000 £110,000 £106,289
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% -1.82% -

SWIFT Messaging Network
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SWIFT Messaging Network relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

SWIFT Messaging Network job vacancy trend 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 27 November 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 27 November 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 +103 31 £57,500 -27.16% 11
London +68 23 £57,500 -29.83% 6
UK excluding London +93 11 £78,500 +42.73% 9
North of England +59 8 - - 1
North West +58 8 - - 1
Work from Home +99 4 £77,500 +2.69% 9
Scotland +12 3 £78,500 +42.73%

SWIFT Messaging Network
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (23.68%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (2.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.63%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 3 (7.89%) AWS
2 2 (5.26%) BlazeMeter
2 2 (5.26%) SaaS
3 1 (2.63%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.89%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (5.26%) Oracle Database
1 2 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.63%) DB2
2 1 (2.63%) Power BI
2 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Bitbucket
1 2 (5.26%) Jenkins
1 2 (5.26%) JIRA
1 2 (5.26%) JMeter
1 2 (5.26%) LoadRunner
1 2 (5.26%) REST Assured
1 2 (5.26%) Selenium
1 2 (5.26%) Subversion
1 2 (5.26%) TestRail
General
1 28 (73.68%) Finance
2 27 (71.05%) Banking
3 17 (44.74%) Financial Institution
4 15 (39.47%) Social Skills
5 11 (28.95%) Billing
6 10 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (18.42%) Marketing
8 4 (10.53%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (5.26%) International Banking
9 2 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (2.63%) Investment Banking
10 1 (2.63%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 12 (31.58%) Architect
2 11 (28.95%) Payments Architect
3 6 (15.79%) Business Analyst
4 4 (10.53%) Payments Business Analyst
4 4 (10.53%) Product Owner
5 3 (7.89%) Product Management Director
6 2 (5.26%) Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) Consultant
6 2 (5.26%) Head of Engineering
6 2 (5.26%) Head of Payments
6 2 (5.26%) Head of Software Engineering
6 2 (5.26%) Software Test Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Test Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Applications Developer
7 1 (2.63%) Applications Support
7 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Architect
7 1 (2.63%) Presales Consultant
7 1 (2.63%) SWIFT Consultant
7 1 (2.63%) Technical Consultant
7 1 (2.63%) VBA Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.89%) REST
2 2 (5.26%) Kafka
2 2 (5.26%) Playwright
2 2 (5.26%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 12 (31.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 7 (18.42%) Product Ownership
2 7 (18.42%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (7.89%) PACS
4 2 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (5.26%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.26%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.26%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.63%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.89%) Linux
2 1 (2.63%) AIX
2 1 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (71.05%) Agile
2 17 (44.74%) Business Analysis
3 15 (39.47%) Roadmaps
4 13 (34.21%) Migration
5 12 (31.58%) Fintech
6 11 (28.95%) GAP Analysis
6 11 (28.95%) Requirements Gathering
6 11 (28.95%) Software Engineering
6 11 (28.95%) Technical Leadership
6 11 (28.95%) Validation
7 9 (23.68%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (21.05%) Cash Management
8 8 (21.05%) Product Backlog
8 8 (21.05%) Product Management
8 8 (21.05%) Product Roadmap
8 8 (21.05%) Product Vision
8 8 (21.05%) Scrum
9 7 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (18.42%) User Stories
10 6 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.79%) SQL
2 4 (10.53%) Java
3 3 (7.89%) C#
3 3 (7.89%) Python
4 2 (5.26%) ActionScript
4 2 (5.26%) ActionScript 2.0
5 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.63%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (10.53%) CSPO
2 2 (5.26%) CBAP
3 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.63%) Degree
3 1 (2.63%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (81.58%) SEPA
2 23 (60.53%) ISO 20022
3 11 (28.95%) TARGET2
4 4 (10.53%) ISO 8583
5 3 (7.89%) Accessibility
5 3 (7.89%) PMO
6 2 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (7.89%) Oracle
2 2 (5.26%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (2.63%) Bloomberg
3 1 (2.63%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.63%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.63%) Reuters