The first table below looks at the demand for Swing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Swing over the 3 months to 20 May 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 Gloucestershire 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 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Swing (Java)
Rank 27 - 49
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Swing 11 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 4.059% - 0.235%
As % of the Application Development category 15.07% - 0.943%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 1
Average daily rate £440 - £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £331 £300
% change year-on-year
+20.75% +10.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £54.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +14.28%
All Application Development
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
73 173 106
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 26.94% 25.33% 24.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 98 55
Average daily rate £394 £425 £293
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.35% +45.29%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £275 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £713 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 6
Average hourly rate £24.50 £21.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% +20.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £21.00 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.50 £37.00 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Swing
South West

Swing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire Swing Daily Rate Trend

Swing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Gloucestershire Swing Hourly Rate Trend

Swing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Swing within the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Gloucester - 10 £440 -
Swing
South West

Swing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 22 (100.00%) UML
1 22 (100.00%) Java
1 22 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 21 (95.45%) DV Cleared
3 15 (68.18%) J2SE
3 15 (68.18%) SQL
3 15 (68.18%) J2EE
3 15 (68.18%) JSP
3 15 (68.18%) Web Services
3 15 (68.18%) XML
4 7 (31.82%) Linux
4 7 (31.82%) Oracle
4 7 (31.82%) EJB
4 7 (31.82%) JMS
4 7 (31.82%) RDBMS
4 7 (31.82%) Internet
4 7 (31.82%) Configuration Management
4 7 (31.82%) OOA/OOD
4 7 (31.82%) OO
4 7 (31.82%) JBoss
4 7 (31.82%) Agile Software Development
4 7 (31.82%) Maven
4 7 (31.82%) RIA
4 7 (31.82%) GWT
4 7 (31.82%) jQuery
4 7 (31.82%) JPA
4 7 (31.82%) EJB 3.0
4 7 (31.82%) Customer Engagement
4 7 (31.82%) JavaScript
4 7 (31.82%) C

Swing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 15 (68.18%) JSP
1 15 (68.18%) Web Services
1 15 (68.18%) XML
1 15 (68.18%) J2SE
1 15 (68.18%) J2EE
2 7 (31.82%) EJB
2 7 (31.82%) JMS
2 7 (31.82%) GWT
2 7 (31.82%) jQuery
2 7 (31.82%) JPA
2 7 (31.82%) EJB 3.0
Communications & Networking
1 7 (31.82%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (31.82%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (31.82%) Maven
Job Titles
1 18 (81.82%) Developer
1 18 (81.82%) Java Developer
2 4 (18.18%) Software Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 1 (4.545%) Java Swing Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 7 (31.82%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) UML
2 7 (31.82%) OOA/OOD
2 7 (31.82%) OO
2 7 (31.82%) Configuration Management
2 7 (31.82%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (31.82%) Customer Engagement
Programming Languages
1 22 (100.00%) Java
2 15 (68.18%) SQL
3 7 (31.82%) C
3 7 (31.82%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 22 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 21 (95.45%) DV Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (9.091%) SCOM
Vendors
1 7 (31.82%) Oracle
1 7 (31.82%) JBoss
Gloucester, Gloucestershire
They are going through extensive growth and are looking for a java developer (DV Cleared) to join their team. The Java developer (DV Cleared) will take ownership of...
ANSON MCCADE
Rate: Up to £440 per day
Posted: 14 May 2013
Gloucester, Gloucestershire
IT Systems are increasingly being exploited as a tool to threaten the nation’s interests, either as a means of attack, or to support criminal or terrorist activities.....
ANSON MCCADE
Rate: Up to £440 per day
Posted: 14 May 2013