The first table below looks at the demand for AWT skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited AWT over the 3 months to 24 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT)
Rank 374 412 441
Rank change year-on-year
+38 +29
Contract jobs citing AWT 3 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.014% 0.011% 0.003%
As % of the Application Development category 0.047% 0.040% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 1
Average daily rate £425 £275 £405
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+54.54% -32.09%
UK excluding London average daily rate - - £285
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £36.50
All Application Development
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
6329 7546 9494
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 29.22% 28.01% 30.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 4552 4974 6394
Average daily rate £401 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.12% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £280 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 107 136
Average hourly rate £40.00 £34.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+17.64% -2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £15.95 £17.65
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £47.50 £57.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
AWT
England

AWT
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London AWT Jobs Demand Trend

AWT
Daily Rate Trend

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

London AWT Daily Rate Trend

AWT
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing AWT across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London AWT Daily Rate Histogram

AWT
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London AWT Hourly Rate Trend

AWT
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWT within the London region over the 3 months to 24 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
City of London - 1 £390 -
AWT
England

AWT
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing AWT 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 AWT.

1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) J2EE
1 3 (100.00%) Swing
1 3 (100.00%) SWT
2 2 (66.67%) Maven
2 2 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Subversion
2 2 (66.67%) Apple
2 2 (66.67%) XHTML
2 2 (66.67%) Eclipse
2 2 (66.67%) Web Services
2 2 (66.67%) Ant
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) EJB
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) Atlassian
2 2 (66.67%) GWT
2 2 (66.67%) jQuery
2 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 2 (66.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 2 (66.67%) Android
2 2 (66.67%) Git (software)
2 2 (66.67%) RESTful
2 2 (66.67%) Confluence
2 2 (66.67%) HTML5
2 2 (66.67%) Apple iOS
2 2 (66.67%) Ajax
3 1 (33.33%) JFace
3 1 (33.33%) SWIFT

AWT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing AWT 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 AWT. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) J2EE
1 3 (100.00%) Swing
1 3 (100.00%) SWT
2 2 (66.67%) XHTML
2 2 (66.67%) Web Services
2 2 (66.67%) EJB
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) GWT
2 2 (66.67%) jQuery
2 2 (66.67%) RESTful
2 2 (66.67%) HTML5
2 2 (66.67%) Ajax
3 1 (33.33%) JFace
3 1 (33.33%) Guice
3 1 (33.33%) JPA
3 1 (33.33%) JDBC
3 1 (33.33%) JSP
3 1 (33.33%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) XSL
3 1 (33.33%) JAXB
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Maven
1 2 (66.67%) Subversion
1 2 (66.67%) Eclipse
1 2 (66.67%) Ant
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 2 (66.67%) Git (software)
2 1 (33.33%) TestNG
2 1 (33.33%) jMock
2 1 (33.33%) JUnit
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Java/J2EE Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Swing Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) SWIFT
1 1 (33.33%) Inversion of Control
1 1 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (33.33%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Android
1 2 (66.67%) Apple iOS
2 1 (33.33%) UNIX
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Solaris
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (66.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Apple
1 2 (66.67%) Atlassian