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

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 636 715 696
Rank change year-on-year +79 -19 +259
Permanent jobs citing SWIFT Messaging Network 34 20 43
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.068% 0.029% 0.080%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.18% 0.091% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 8 12 41
10th Percentile £32,125 £65,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £42,625 £66,875 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £83,473 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.12% +28.42% -7.14%
75th Percentile £103,750 £93,750 £76,385
90th Percentile £125,125 £105,000 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £78,500 £63,773 £63,580
% change year-on-year +23.09% +0.30% -2.19%

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 19,032 22,053 20,983
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.93% 32.45% 38.88%
Number of salaries quoted 10,402 10,713 15,769
10th Percentile £28,000 £33,125 £34,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,750 £45,653
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £101,250 £110,000 £106,289
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% -1.82% +0.75%

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 2 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 2 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 +95 26 £57,500 -32.35% 30
London +87 18 £57,500 -32.35% 22
UK excluding London +79 11 £78,500 +23.09% 17
North of England +25 8 - - 1
North West +11 8 - - 1
Work from Home +61 4 £77,500 +3.33% 16
Scotland +7 3 £78,500 +23.09% 1

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 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (20.59%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (2.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.94%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 3 (8.82%) AWS
2 2 (5.88%) BlazeMeter
2 2 (5.88%) SaaS
3 1 (2.94%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (5.88%) Oracle Database
1 2 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.94%) DB2
2 1 (2.94%) Power BI
2 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Bitbucket
1 2 (5.88%) Jenkins
1 2 (5.88%) JIRA
1 2 (5.88%) JMeter
1 2 (5.88%) LoadRunner
1 2 (5.88%) REST Assured
1 2 (5.88%) Selenium
1 2 (5.88%) Subversion
1 2 (5.88%) TestRail
General
1 25 (73.53%) Finance
2 22 (64.71%) Banking
3 13 (38.24%) Financial Institution
4 12 (35.29%) Social Skills
5 11 (32.35%) Billing
6 7 (20.59%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (14.71%) Marketing
8 4 (11.76%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (2.94%) International Banking
10 1 (2.94%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (35.29%) Architect
2 11 (32.35%) Payments Architect
3 6 (17.65%) Business Analyst
4 5 (14.71%) Product Owner
5 4 (11.76%) Payments Business Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Consultant
6 2 (5.88%) Head of Engineering
6 2 (5.88%) Head of Payments
6 2 (5.88%) Head of Software Engineering
6 2 (5.88%) Software Test Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Test Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) 2nd Line Support
7 1 (2.94%) Applications Developer
7 1 (2.94%) Applications Support
7 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Architect
7 1 (2.94%) Operations Manager
7 1 (2.94%) Presales Consultant
7 1 (2.94%) Technical Consultant
7 1 (2.94%) VBA Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.82%) REST
2 2 (5.88%) Kafka
2 2 (5.88%) Playwright
2 2 (5.88%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 12 (35.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (14.71%) Product Ownership
3 3 (8.82%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (5.88%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.88%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.94%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.82%) Linux
2 1 (2.94%) AIX
2 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (73.53%) Agile
2 17 (50.00%) Business Analysis
3 13 (38.24%) Migration
3 13 (38.24%) Roadmaps
4 12 (35.29%) Fintech
5 11 (32.35%) GAP Analysis
5 11 (32.35%) Requirements Gathering
5 11 (32.35%) Technical Leadership
5 11 (32.35%) Validation
6 9 (26.47%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (26.47%) Product Backlog
6 9 (26.47%) Product Roadmap
6 9 (26.47%) Product Vision
6 9 (26.47%) Scrum
7 8 (23.53%) Software Engineering
8 7 (20.59%) Cash Management
9 6 (17.65%) AI
9 6 (17.65%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
9 6 (17.65%) Customer Service
9 6 (17.65%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (14.71%) SQL
2 4 (11.76%) Java
3 3 (8.82%) C#
3 3 (8.82%) Python
4 1 (2.94%) ActionScript
4 1 (2.94%) ActionScript 2.0
4 1 (2.94%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.94%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (14.71%) CSPO
2 2 (5.88%) CBAP
3 1 (2.94%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (91.18%) SEPA
2 21 (61.76%) ISO 20022
3 11 (32.35%) TARGET2
4 5 (14.71%) ISO 8583
5 3 (8.82%) Accessibility
6 2 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (8.82%) Oracle
2 2 (5.88%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (2.94%) Bloomberg
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.94%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.94%) Reuters