The first table below looks at the demand for Swing skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Swing over the 3 months to 20 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the City of London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Swing (Java)
Rank 200 184 140
Rank change year-on-year
-16 -44
Contract jobs citing Swing 15 30 101
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.218% 0.394% 1.008%
As % of the Application Development category 0.750% 1.468% 3.565%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 25 83
Average daily rate £525 £575 £575
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £399 £450 £380
10% offered a daily rate of more than £610 £628 £675
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £325 £313
% change year-on-year
+19.23% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +14.28%
All Application Development
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
2001 2043 2833
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 29.04% 26.85% 28.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1580 1564 2227
Average daily rate £413 £425 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.94% -15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £295 £290 £313
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 25 23
Average hourly rate £41.50 £32.50 £41.63
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+27.69% -21.92%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £19.00 £16.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £52.50 £50.50 £107.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
Swing
London

Swing
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Swing across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

City of London Swing Jobs Demand Trend

Swing
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Swing across the City of London region.

City of London Swing Daily Rate Trend

Swing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Swing across the City of London region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

City of London Swing Daily Rate Histogram

Swing
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Swing across the City of London region.

City of London Swing Hourly Rate Trend

Swing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Swing also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Swing.

1 45 (100.00%) Java
2 25 (55.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 24 (53.33%) Multithreading
4 18 (40.00%) Banking
4 18 (40.00%) E-Commerce
5 15 (33.33%) Investment Banking
6 14 (31.11%) Front Office
7 12 (26.67%) SQL
8 11 (24.44%) Fixed Income
9 10 (22.22%) ION Trading
9 10 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
9 10 (22.22%) ION MarketView
9 10 (22.22%) J2EE
10 9 (20.00%) Sybase
10 9 (20.00%) JUnit
10 9 (20.00%) UNIX
11 8 (17.78%) JDBC
11 8 (17.78%) OO
11 8 (17.78%) Eclipse
11 8 (17.78%) TDD
11 8 (17.78%) Maven
12 7 (15.56%) Refactoring
12 7 (15.56%) Subversion
12 7 (15.56%) RMDS
12 7 (15.56%) Tradeweb
12 7 (15.56%) MarketAxess
12 7 (15.56%) Reuters
12 7 (15.56%) Bloomberg
12 7 (15.56%) eSpeed
12 7 (15.56%) MTS

Swing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Swing also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Swing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (22.22%) J2EE
2 8 (17.78%) JDBC
3 6 (13.33%) EJB
4 5 (11.11%) Spring
5 4 (8.889%) CSS
5 4 (8.889%) Hibernate
5 4 (8.889%) JMS
5 4 (8.889%) HTML5
5 4 (8.889%) JPA
5 4 (8.889%) EJB 3.0
5 4 (8.889%) jQuery
5 4 (8.889%) Ajax
5 4 (8.889%) Java EE
5 4 (8.889%) JDO
6 3 (6.667%) CSS3
6 3 (6.667%) .NET
7 2 (4.444%) Web Services
7 2 (4.444%) XHTML
7 2 (4.444%) Middleware
7 2 (4.444%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 7 (15.56%) MTS
2 5 (11.11%) Confluence
2 5 (11.11%) WebLogic
3 1 (2.222%) GlassFish
Applications
1 1 (2.222%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (22.22%) ION MarketView
2 7 (15.56%) RMDS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.444%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.889%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.667%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.222%) NonStop SQL
3 1 (2.222%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (20.00%) JUnit
2 8 (17.78%) Eclipse
2 8 (17.78%) Maven
3 7 (15.56%) Subversion
4 6 (13.33%) Ant
5 5 (11.11%) JIRA
5 5 (11.11%) CruiseControl
5 5 (11.11%) TeamCity
6 2 (4.444%) Jenkins
6 2 (4.444%) JProfiler
7 1 (2.222%) Eclipse RCP
7 1 (2.222%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (2.222%) Git (software)
General
1 18 (40.00%) Banking
2 15 (33.33%) Investment Banking
3 14 (31.11%) Front Office
4 4 (8.889%) Finance
5 1 (2.222%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (77.78%) Developer
2 30 (66.67%) Java Developer
3 14 (31.11%) Java Swing Developer
4 6 (13.33%) Senior Developer
4 6 (13.33%) Senior Java Developer
5 4 (8.889%) C# Developer
6 2 (4.444%) Project Manager
6 2 (4.444%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (4.444%) Software Engineer
6 2 (4.444%) Analyst
6 2 (4.444%) FX Project Manager
7 1 (2.222%) GUI Developer
7 1 (2.222%) Java/J2EE Developer
7 1 (2.222%) E-Commerce Manager
7 1 (2.222%) Senior Analyst
7 1 (2.222%) Senior Programmer
7 1 (2.222%) COBOL Developer
7 1 (2.222%) Senior Java Analyst Programmer
7 1 (2.222%) Senior Java Programmer
7 1 (2.222%) Mobile Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 25 (55.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 11 (24.44%) Fixed Income
3 5 (11.11%) Derivative
4 3 (6.667%) RIA
4 3 (6.667%) Open Source
5 2 (4.444%) N-Tier
6 1 (2.222%) IPTV
6 1 (2.222%) SWIFT
6 1 (2.222%) Mobile App
6 1 (2.222%) Video on Demand
6 1 (2.222%) Streaming Video
6 1 (2.222%) NHS
6 1 (2.222%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 9 (20.00%) UNIX
2 6 (13.33%) Linux
3 1 (2.222%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.222%) Android
3 1 (2.222%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (53.33%) Multithreading
2 18 (40.00%) E-Commerce
3 10 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
4 8 (17.78%) OO
4 8 (17.78%) TDD
5 7 (15.56%) Refactoring
6 4 (8.889%) UML
6 4 (8.889%) Analytics
6 4 (8.889%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (4.444%) Code Coverage
7 2 (4.444%) Scrum
7 2 (4.444%) Asset Management
7 2 (4.444%) Fund Management
8 1 (2.222%) Web Development
8 1 (2.222%) BDD
8 1 (2.222%) Straight-Through Processing
8 1 (2.222%) User Acceptance Testing
8 1 (2.222%) Performance Testing
8 1 (2.222%) Unit Testing
8 1 (2.222%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 45 (100.00%) Java
2 12 (26.67%) SQL
3 7 (15.56%) C#
3 7 (15.56%) C++
4 5 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 4 (8.889%) T-SQL
6 2 (4.444%) C
7 1 (2.222%) Python
7 1 (2.222%) PHP
7 1 (2.222%) COBOL
System Software
1 1 (2.222%) NDS
Vendors
1 10 (22.22%) ION Trading
2 9 (20.00%) Sybase
3 7 (15.56%) Tradeweb
3 7 (15.56%) MarketAxess
3 7 (15.56%) Reuters
3 7 (15.56%) Bloomberg
3 7 (15.56%) eSpeed
4 5 (11.11%) JBoss
5 2 (4.444%) Oracle
5 2 (4.444%) Cognizant
6 1 (2.222%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.222%) Apple