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 1 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 736 652 792
Rank change year-on-year -84 +140 -50
Permanent jobs citing SWIFT Messaging Network 32 26 34
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.031% 0.053% 0.040%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.12% 0.13% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 13 13 32
10th Percentile £56,500 £40,700 £40,322
25th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £64,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £83,473
Median % change year-on-year - -4.16% +39.12%
75th Percentile £85,000 £115,000 £94,500
90th Percentile £87,000 £146,500 £96,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £77,500 £43,500
% change year-on-year +3.23% +78.16% -20.91%

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 26,894 20,513 28,737
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.06% 41.43% 33.45%
Number of salaries quoted 17,036 10,317 17,335
10th Percentile £31,125 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £56,500 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.65% +0.89% -12.50%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £48,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.25% -3.00% -9.09%

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 1 August 2026.

Salary histogram for SWIFT Messaging Network in the UK

SWIFT Messaging Network
Top 8 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 1 August 2026. 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 -59 31 £80,000 - 27
London -22 24 £85,000 +6.25% 21
Work from Home -9 15 £80,000 - 8
UK excluding London -84 7 £80,000 +3.23% 9
North West -2 4 £58,000 -25.16% 4
North of England -40 4 £58,000 -25.16% 4
West Midlands -27 3 £80,000 -
Midlands -29 3 £80,000 -

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.25%) Apache Pulsar
1 2 (6.25%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 6 (18.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (9.38%) SAP CO
2 3 (9.38%) SAP FI
2 3 (9.38%) SAP FI/CO
2 3 (9.38%) SAP FSCM
3 1 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (15.63%) AWS
2 4 (12.50%) Azure
3 3 (9.38%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.13%) GCP
5 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) SAP HANA
2 1 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.13%) JIRA
1 1 (3.13%) TeamCity
General
1 31 (96.88%) Finance
2 15 (46.88%) Banking
3 11 (34.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (31.25%) Social Skills
5 9 (28.13%) Marketing
6 7 (21.88%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (9.38%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (9.38%) Financial Institution
8 2 (6.25%) Billing
8 2 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (6.25%) Law
8 2 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (3.13%) Investment Banking
9 1 (3.13%) Japanese Language
9 1 (3.13%) Legal
9 1 (3.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (28.13%) Transformation Manager
2 7 (21.88%) Architect
2 7 (21.88%) Senior
3 5 (15.63%) Consultant
4 4 (12.50%) SAP Consultant
4 4 (12.50%) Senior Consultant
5 3 (9.38%) Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) Payments Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) SAP CO Consultant
5 3 (9.38%) SAP FI Consultant
5 3 (9.38%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
5 3 (9.38%) SAP FI/CO Support
5 3 (9.38%) SAP Support
5 3 (9.38%) SAP Support Consultant
5 3 (9.38%) Senior SAP Consultant
5 3 (9.38%) Senior SAP FI/CO Consultant
5 3 (9.38%) Senior SAP Support Consultant
5 3 (9.38%) Senior Support Consultant
5 3 (9.38%) Service Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.50%) XML
2 3 (9.38%) Kafka
2 3 (9.38%) REST
3 2 (6.25%) Drools
3 2 (6.25%) gRPC
3 2 (6.25%) OpenAPI
3 2 (6.25%) React
3 2 (6.25%) Spring
3 2 (6.25%) Spring Boot
3 2 (6.25%) Swagger
4 1 (3.13%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (3.13%) Middleware
4 1 (3.13%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 19 (59.38%) Onboarding
2 6 (18.75%) Cloud Native
3 5 (15.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (9.38%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (9.38%) Private Cloud
4 3 (9.38%) Public Cloud
5 2 (6.25%) Management Information System
5 2 (6.25%) Product Ownership
6 1 (3.13%) Blog
6 1 (3.13%) Data Fabric
6 1 (3.13%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (59.38%) Cash Management
1 19 (59.38%) Stakeholder Management
2 14 (43.75%) User Acceptance Testing
3 12 (37.50%) Risk Management
4 11 (34.38%) Coaching
5 9 (28.13%) Line Management
5 9 (28.13%) Technology Transformation
5 9 (28.13%) Workshop Facilitation
6 6 (18.75%) AI
6 6 (18.75%) Fintech
6 6 (18.75%) Integration Patterns
6 6 (18.75%) Roadmaps
7 5 (15.63%) Agile
7 5 (15.63%) Client Onboarding
7 5 (15.63%) Data Modelling
7 5 (15.63%) Microservices
8 4 (12.50%) Collaborative Culture
8 4 (12.50%) Migration
8 4 (12.50%) Project Delivery
8 4 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (15.63%) Java
2 2 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (15.63%) Degree
2 4 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 3 (9.38%) CTC Cleared
4 2 (6.25%) Azure Certification
4 2 (6.25%) CISSP
4 2 (6.25%) CSPO
4 2 (6.25%) Master's Degree
5 1 (3.13%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.13%) CEH
5 1 (3.13%) CISM
5 1 (3.13%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 1 (3.13%) OSCP
5 1 (3.13%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (40.63%) ISO 20022
2 9 (28.13%) PMO
3 3 (9.38%) SLA
4 2 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (6.25%) SEPA
5 1 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (3.13%) GRC
5 1 (3.13%) NIST
5 1 (3.13%) SOC 2
5 1 (3.13%) TARGET2
Systems Management
1 3 (9.38%) Terraform
2 1 (3.13%) Grafana
2 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (31.25%) FIS
2 9 (28.13%) ION Trading
3 7 (21.88%) SAP
4 3 (9.38%) Microsoft
5 2 (6.25%) Calypso
5 2 (6.25%) Murex
6 1 (3.13%) Darktrace
6 1 (3.13%) Databricks
6 1 (3.13%) Google
6 1 (3.13%) Monzo
6 1 (3.13%) Qualys