Hampshire Swing Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Swing (Java) skills within the Hampshire region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Swing over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Swing (Java)
Location Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Crewe Docklands, London East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Farnborough Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Leeds London Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Midlands Newcastle North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Reading Scotland Somerset South East South Wales South West Southampton St Albans Surrey Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	70	82
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching contract IT job ads	33	43
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.044 %	0.043 %
As % of the category below	6.055 %	5.534 %
Daily rates quoted	6	6
Average minimum daily rate	£358	£352
Average daily rate	£369	£352
% change on same period last year	+4.65 %
Average maximum daily rate	£379	£352
UK excluding London average daily rate	£351	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.51 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	23
Average minimum hourly rate	£39.00	£38.08
Average hourly rate	£39.00	£38.94
% change on same period last year	+0.16 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£39.00	£39.79
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£40.75	£38.07
% change on same period last year	+7.02 %
Application Development Hampshire
Matching contract IT job ads	545	777
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.719 %	0.774 %
Daily rates quoted	134	180
Average minimum daily rate	£343	£297
Average daily rate	£367	£316
% change on same period last year	+16.13 %
Average maximum daily rate	£391	£335
UK excluding London average daily rate	£338	£337
% change on same period last year	+0.48 %
Hourly rates quoted	108	148
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.32	£33.33
Average hourly rate	£37.51	£35.80
% change on same period last year	+4.78 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£39.71	£38.27
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.73	£33.29
% change on same period last year	-1.67 %
Swing South East

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.

Swing
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Swing across the Hampshire 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 Hampshire 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 Hampshire region over the 3 months to 21 August 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 Hampshire 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 Hampshire region over the 3 months to 21 August 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 jobs citing Swing within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 21 August 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
Basingstoke	+10	22	£263	-
Farnborough	-	3	£400	-
Southampton	+2	1	£375	+8.25 %

Swing South East

Swing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 39 (100.00 %) Java 2 18 (46.15 %) JUnit 3 16 (41.03 %) OO 4 14 (35.90 %) Windows 4 14 (35.90 %) Linux 4 14 (35.90 %) Ant 5 12 (30.77 %) Eclipse 5 12 (30.77 %) Mac OS X 6 10 (25.64 %) J2EE 7 9 (23.08 %) Automated Testing 7 9 (23.08 %) Test-First Development 7 9 (23.08 %) Hibernate 8 8 (20.51 %) Agile Software Development 8 8 (20.51 %) Multimedia 8 8 (20.51 %) CruiseControl

8 8 (20.51 %) Subversion 8 8 (20.51 %) Unit Testing 8 8 (20.51 %) Configuration Management 9 7 (17.95 %) XML 9 7 (17.95 %) Quicktime 10 6 (15.38 %) Video Editing 10 6 (15.38 %) J2SE 11 5 (12.82 %) UNIX 11 5 (12.82 %) MPEG 11 5 (12.82 %) Continuous Integration 11 5 (12.82 %) Degree 12 4 (10.26 %) Finance 12 4 (10.26 %) Struts 12 4 (10.26 %) HTML 13 3 (7.692 %) C

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 (25.64 %) J2EE 2 9 (23.08 %) Hibernate 3 7 (17.95 %) XML 4 6 (15.38 %) J2SE 5 4 (10.26 %) Struts 5 4 (10.26 %) HTML 6 3 (7.692 %) WebSphere 6 3 (7.692 %) Spring 6 3 (7.692 %) JSF 7 2 (5.128 %) XHTML 7 2 (5.128 %) SOAP 7 2 (5.128 %) XSD 8 1 (2.564 %) EJB	Applications 1 7 (17.95 %) Quicktime
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (7.692 %) TOAD 1 3 (7.692 %) OLTP 1 3 (7.692 %) RDBMS 2 2 (5.128 %) DB2 2 2 (5.128 %) MySQL	Development Applications 1 18 (46.15 %) JUnit 2 14 (35.90 %) Ant 3 12 (30.77 %) Eclipse 4 8 (20.51 %) CruiseControl 4 8 (20.51 %) Subversion
General 1 8 (20.51 %) Multimedia 2 6 (15.38 %) Video Editing 3 4 (10.26 %) Finance 4 3 (7.692 %) Telecoms 5 1 (2.564 %) Insurance	Job Titles 1 33 (84.62 %) Developer 2 31 (79.49 %) Java Developer 3 19 (48.72 %) Java Swing Developer 4 7 (17.95 %) Tester 5 4 (10.26 %) Java/J2EE Developer 5 4 (10.26 %) J2EE Developer 6 3 (7.692 %) Java Analyst Programmer 6 3 (7.692 %) Java Programmer 6 3 (7.692 %) Analyst 6 3 (7.692 %) Analyst Programmer 6 3 (7.692 %) Programmer 7 1 (2.564 %) Software Developer
Miscellaneous 1 5 (12.82 %) MPEG 2 3 (7.692 %) Computer Science	Operating Systems 1 14 (35.90 %) Windows 1 14 (35.90 %) Linux 2 12 (30.77 %) Mac OS X 3 5 (12.82 %) UNIX 4 2 (5.128 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 16 (41.03 %) OO 2 9 (23.08 %) Automated Testing 2 9 (23.08 %) Test-First Development 3 8 (20.51 %) Agile Software Development 3 8 (20.51 %) Unit Testing 3 8 (20.51 %) Configuration Management 4 5 (12.82 %) Continuous Integration 5 3 (7.692 %) TDD 6 2 (5.128 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 2 (5.128 %) Workflow 6 2 (5.128 %) Extreme Programming 7 1 (2.564 %) EAI 7 1 (2.564 %) SOA 7 1 (2.564 %) Pair Programming 7 1 (2.564 %) Software Testing	Programming Languages 1 39 (100.00 %) Java 2 3 (7.692 %) C 2 3 (7.692 %) SQL 2 3 (7.692 %) Python 3 2 (5.128 %) JavaScript
Qualifications 1 5 (12.82 %) Degree	Vendors 1 3 (7.692 %) Oracle 2 1 (2.564 %) webMethods