England Swing Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Swing (Java) skills within the England region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Swing over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Swing (Java)
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Bracknell Brighton Camberley Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Crewe Docklands, London Dover East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Hampshire Horsham Kent London Midlands Newbury North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Scotland South East South West Surrey Sussex Thames Valley UK West Midlands West Sussex	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	366	223
Rank change on same period last year	-143
Matching contract IT job ads	210	620
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.277 %	0.658 %
As % of the category below	1.244 %	2.983 %
Daily rates quoted	59	243
Average minimum daily rate	£430	£415
Average daily rate	£446	£441
% change on same period last year	+1.02 %
Average maximum daily rate	£461	£467
UK excluding London average daily rate	£394	£342
% change on same period last year	+15.14 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	63
Average minimum hourly rate	£41.83	£38.80
Average hourly rate	£43.50	£39.63
% change on same period last year	+9.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£45.17	£40.47
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£43.50	£39.30
% change on same period last year	+10.69 %
Application Development England
Matching contract IT job ads	16881	20782
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	22.26 %	22.04 %
Daily rates quoted	5696	6414
Average minimum daily rate	£354	£376
Average daily rate	£381	£402
% change on same period last year	-5.16 %
Average maximum daily rate	£408	£428
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£336
% change on same period last year	+3.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	971	1342
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.31	£31.05
Average hourly rate	£32.67	£33.42
% change on same period last year	-2.26 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.03	£35.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.44	£33.08
% change on same period last year	-1.93 %
Swing UK

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Swing across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Swing across the England region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Swing across the England region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Swing across the England region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Swing across the England region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Swing within the England region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
London	-83	108	£479	-0.05 %
South East	-75	60	£423	+23.63 %
East Midlands	+2	16	£355	-
Midlands	+3	13	-	-
North West	-4	9	£345	-
West Midlands	-8	2	£400	+21.21 %
East of England	-11	2	-	-
South West	+12	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

1 552 (100.00 %) Java 2 212 (38.41 %) J2EE 3 185 (33.51 %) Oracle 4 179 (32.43 %) XML 5 150 (27.17 %) Banking 6 147 (26.63 %) Linux 7 139 (25.18 %) SQL 8 129 (23.37 %) Spring 9 112 (20.29 %) Investment Banking 10 111 (20.11 %) OO 11 107 (19.38 %) Eclipse 12 105 (19.02 %) Front Office 13 104 (18.84 %) Sybase 14 102 (18.48 %) C++ 14 102 (18.48 %) Hibernate

15 96 (17.39 %) JSP 16 90 (16.30 %) Unix 17 87 (15.76 %) UML 17 87 (15.76 %) JDBC 18 84 (15.22 %) EJB 19 82 (14.86 %) Ant 20 79 (14.31 %) JUnit 21 78 (14.13 %) Finance 22 73 (13.22 %) Windows 23 71 (12.86 %) JMS 24 69 (12.50 %) J2SE 25 60 (10.87 %) Degree 26 59 (10.69 %) Struts 27 56 (10.14 %) Tomcat 28 53 (9.601 %) HTML

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 1 212 (38.41 %) J2EE 2 179 (32.43 %) XML 3 129 (23.37 %) Spring 4 102 (18.48 %) Hibernate 5 96 (17.39 %) JSP 6 87 (15.76 %) JDBC 7 84 (15.22 %) EJB 8 71 (12.86 %) JMS 9 69 (12.50 %) J2SE 10 59 (10.69 %) Struts 11 53 (9.601 %) HTML 12 50 (9.058 %) WebSphere 13 45 (8.152 %) Servlets 14 42 (7.609 %) WebServices 15 30 (5.435 %) CSS 16 29 (5.254 %) Middleware 17 24 (4.348 %) SOAP 18 22 (3.986 %) Java RMI 19 21 (3.804 %) AWT 20 18 (3.261 %) XSLT	Application Platforms 1 56 (10.14 %) Tomcat 2 39 (7.065 %) JBoss 3 26 (4.710 %) Apache 4 24 (4.348 %) WebLogic 5 19 (3.442 %) WebSphere Application Server 6 16 (2.899 %) WebSphere MQ 7 15 (2.717 %) Rendezvous 8 14 (2.536 %) IIS 9 11 (1.993 %) TIBCO EMS 10 10 (1.812 %) Exchange Server 2000 11 6 (1.087 %) WPS 11 6 (1.087 %) MQSeries 12 4 (0.725 %) Oracle Application Server 12 4 (0.725 %) Oracle 10gAS 13 2 (0.362 %) ESB 13 2 (0.362 %) Tuxedo 14 1 (0.181 %) MS Exchange 14 1 (0.181 %) WebLogic Portal
Applications 1 16 (2.899 %) MS Office 2 15 (2.717 %) Quicktime 3 12 (2.174 %) MS Visio 4 8 (1.449 %) MS Excel 5 6 (1.087 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 5 (0.906 %) RMDS 2 3 (0.543 %) MarketView
Communications & Networking 1 18 (3.261 %) TCP/IP 2 13 (2.355 %) LDAP 3 7 (1.268 %) HTTP 3 7 (1.268 %) IIOP 4 3 (0.543 %) SAN 4 3 (0.543 %) Internet 5 1 (0.181 %) SMS 5 1 (0.181 %) VoIP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 39 (7.065 %) SQL Server 2 32 (5.797 %) Oracle 10g 3 30 (5.435 %) DB2 4 28 (5.072 %) RDBMS 5 18 (3.261 %) MySQL 6 15 (2.717 %) Oracle 9i 7 11 (1.993 %) MS Access 8 8 (1.449 %) Oracle 8/8i 8 8 (1.449 %) GIS 9 7 (1.268 %) TOAD 10 3 (0.543 %) Oracle Reports 10 3 (0.543 %) OLAP 10 3 (0.543 %) SQL Server 2005 11 2 (0.362 %) Reference Data 11 2 (0.362 %) Informix 12 1 (0.181 %) DB2 UDB 12 1 (0.181 %) PostgreSQL
Development Applications 1 107 (19.38 %) Eclipse 2 82 (14.86 %) Ant 3 79 (14.31 %) JUnit 4 38 (6.884 %) Subversion 5 24 (4.348 %) Visual Studio 6 15 (2.717 %) JBuilder 7 13 (2.355 %) ClearCase 8 8 (1.449 %) CruiseControl 9 7 (1.268 %) PowerBuilder 10 6 (1.087 %) Rational Rose 10 6 (1.087 %) Oracle Forms 11 4 (0.725 %) JIRA 12 3 (0.543 %) JDeveloper 12 3 (0.543 %) QuickTest Pro 12 3 (0.543 %) LoadRunner 13 2 (0.362 %) IntelliJ 14 1 (0.181 %) Flash 14 1 (0.181 %) RequisitePro 14 1 (0.181 %) XDE 14 1 (0.181 %) Log4j	General 1 150 (27.17 %) Banking 2 112 (20.29 %) Investment Banking 3 105 (19.02 %) Front Office 4 78 (14.13 %) Finance 5 27 (4.891 %) Retail 6 15 (2.717 %) Government 7 14 (2.536 %) Education 8 9 (1.630 %) Telecoms 9 7 (1.268 %) Back Office 10 6 (1.087 %) Multimedia 11 4 (0.725 %) 3D Graphics 12 3 (0.543 %) Construction 12 3 (0.543 %) Video Editing 13 2 (0.362 %) Insurance 14 1 (0.181 %) Retail Banking 14 1 (0.181 %) International Banking 14 1 (0.181 %) Games 14 1 (0.181 %) Manufacturing 14 1 (0.181 %) Advertising 14 1 (0.181 %) Automotive
Job Titles 1 473 (85.69 %) Developer 2 394 (71.38 %) Java Developer 3 134 (24.28 %) Java Swing Developer 4 75 (13.59 %) Java/J2EE Developer 5 68 (12.32 %) J2EE Developer 6 53 (9.601 %) Senior Developer 7 41 (7.428 %) Senior Java Developer 8 38 (6.884 %) C++ Developer 9 25 (4.529 %) Analyst 10 19 (3.442 %) Architect 11 13 (2.355 %) Front Office Developer 11 13 (2.355 %) C++/CSharp Developer 12 12 (2.174 %) Java Architect 13 11 (1.993 %) Software Engineer 14 10 (1.812 %) Project Manager 14 10 (1.812 %) Business Analyst 14 10 (1.812 %) Calypso Developer 15 9 (1.630 %) Senior J2EE Developer 16 7 (1.268 %) Tester 16 7 (1.268 %) Support Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 52 (9.420 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 2 37 (6.703 %) Derivative 3 35 (6.341 %) Equities 4 27 (4.891 %) Multithreading 5 26 (4.710 %) Fixed Income 6 25 (4.529 %) Credit Risk 7 22 (3.986 %) Computer Science 8 19 (3.442 %) Mathematics 9 12 (2.174 %) Chip and PIN 10 11 (1.993 %) Streaming Video 11 10 (1.812 %) W3C 11 10 (1.812 %) N-Tier 12 8 (1.449 %) Thin Client 12 8 (1.449 %) Asset Management 12 8 (1.449 %) Fat Client 13 7 (1.268 %) Credit Derivative 13 7 (1.268 %) Device Driver 14 6 (1.087 %) Handset 14 6 (1.087 %) MPEG 15 3 (0.543 %) RIA
Operating Systems 1 147 (26.63 %) Linux 2 90 (16.30 %) Unix 3 73 (13.22 %) Windows 4 29 (5.254 %) Solaris 5 13 (2.355 %) Windows 2000 6 12 (2.174 %) Mac OS X 7 4 (0.725 %) MVS 7 4 (0.725 %) Windows NT 8 1 (0.181 %) zOS	Processes & Methodologies 1 111 (20.11 %) OO 2 87 (15.76 %) UML 3 39 (7.065 %) E-Commerce 4 31 (5.616 %) OOD 5 30 (5.435 %) Agile Software Development 6 24 (4.348 %) OOA/OOD 7 20 (3.623 %) Unit Testing 8 19 (3.442 %) SOA 9 18 (3.261 %) MVC 10 14 (2.536 %) OOP 11 13 (2.355 %) EAI 12 11 (1.993 %) TDD 12 11 (1.993 %) Workflow 12 11 (1.993 %) Software Testing 12 11 (1.993 %) Security Cleared 13 10 (1.812 %) Continuous Integration 13 10 (1.812 %) SC Cleared 13 10 (1.812 %) Configuration Management 14 9 (1.630 %) RUP 15 8 (1.449 %) Project Management
Programming Languages 1 552 (100.00 %) Java 2 139 (25.18 %) SQL 3 102 (18.48 %) C++ 4 46 (8.333 %) C# 5 43 (7.790 %) JavaScript 6 36 (6.522 %) PL/SQL 7 26 (4.710 %) Perl 8 20 (3.623 %) C 9 18 (3.261 %) VB 10 12 (2.174 %) Delphi 11 11 (1.993 %) VBA 12 10 (1.812 %) VC++ 12 10 (1.812 %) Python 12 10 (1.812 %) VB6 13 4 (0.725 %) Ruby 13 4 (0.725 %) Groovy 13 4 (0.725 %) Assembly Language 13 4 (0.725 %) Shell Script 13 4 (0.725 %) PHP 14 3 (0.543 %) Transact-SQL	Qualifications 1 60 (10.87 %) Degree 2 2 (0.362 %) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 10 (1.812 %) ISO9001 2 9 (1.630 %) QA 3 1 (0.181 %) Basel II	Systems Management 1 11 (1.993 %) MOM
Vendors 1 185 (33.51 %) Oracle 2 104 (18.84 %) Sybase 3 37 (6.703 %) TIBCO 4 26 (4.710 %) Microsoft 5 17 (3.080 %) IBM 6 15 (2.717 %) webMethods 7 14 (2.536 %) Sun 8 10 (1.812 %) Calypso 8 10 (1.812 %) Altova 9 8 (1.449 %) Apple 9 8 (1.449 %) Sony 10 7 (1.268 %) Cognizant 10 7 (1.268 %) Macromedia 11 6 (1.087 %) DataSynapse 12 5 (0.906 %) Tangosol 12 5 (0.906 %) SeeBeyond 12 5 (0.906 %) Adobe 13 2 (0.362 %) BEA 13 2 (0.362 %) Symbian 13 2 (0.362 %) Reuters