Swing Contracts in London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Swing 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 Swing over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Swing (Java)
Rank 349 328 226
Rank change year-on-year
-21 -102
Contract jobs citing Swing 36 78 228
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.167% 0.291% 0.730%
As % of the Application Development category 0.574% 1.045% 2.386%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 65 154
Average daily rate £550 £550 £550
90% offered a daily rate of more than £377 £400 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £673 £603 £658
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £331 £300
% change year-on-year
+16.98% +10.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £38.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +14.28%
All Application Development
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 6267 7466 9557
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 29.02% 27.88% 30.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 4542 4907 6404
Average daily rate £405 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.25% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £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 89 103 140
Average hourly rate £41.50 £34.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.05% -2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £15.20 £17.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £47.50 £55.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Swing
England

Swing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 London region.

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 London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

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 London region.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 17 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 +4 19 £556 -1.11%
Canary Wharf -9 2 £550 -
Swing
England

Swing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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.

1 105 (100.00%) Java
2 61 (58.10%) Multithreading
3 53 (50.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 36 (34.29%) Banking
5 32 (30.48%) Front Office
6 31 (29.52%) Sybase
7 30 (28.57%) SQL
8 26 (24.76%) Investment Banking
9 25 (23.81%) E-Commerce
10 22 (20.95%) J2EE
11 21 (20.00%) JUnit
11 21 (20.00%) JDBC
12 20 (19.05%) UNIX
12 20 (19.05%) Spring
12 20 (19.05%) Finance
13 18 (17.14%) Fixed Income
14 17 (16.19%) Linux
14 17 (16.19%) OO
15 16 (15.24%) Maven
15 16 (15.24%) Subversion
16 15 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
17 14 (13.33%) Hibernate
17 14 (13.33%) Oracle
17 14 (13.33%) C#
17 14 (13.33%) C++
18 13 (12.38%) ION Trading
18 13 (12.38%) TDD
18 13 (12.38%) ION MarketView
19 12 (11.43%) TeamCity
19 12 (11.43%) JMS

Swing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 22 (20.95%) J2EE
2 21 (20.00%) JDBC
3 20 (19.05%) Spring
4 14 (13.33%) Hibernate
5 12 (11.43%) JMS
6 11 (10.48%) Web Services
6 11 (10.48%) EJB
7 9 (8.571%) Middleware
8 8 (7.619%) XML
9 7 (6.667%) CSS
9 7 (6.667%) .NET
9 7 (6.667%) HTML5
10 6 (5.714%) Java EE
10 6 (5.714%) SWT
10 6 (5.714%) Ajax
10 6 (5.714%) JPA
11 5 (4.762%) EJB 3.0
11 5 (4.762%) JDO
11 5 (4.762%) jQuery
11 5 (4.762%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 10 (9.524%) MTS
2 9 (8.571%) WebLogic
3 6 (5.714%) Confluence
4 4 (3.810%) Tomcat
5 3 (2.857%) GlassFish
6 2 (1.905%) TIBCO EMS
7 1 (0.952%) ESB
7 1 (0.952%) Rendezvous
Applications
1 1 (0.952%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 13 (12.38%) ION MarketView
2 10 (9.524%) RMDS
3 2 (1.905%) CODA-Financials
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.905%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.524%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.810%) MySQL
3 3 (2.857%) Sybase ASE
3 3 (2.857%) RDBMS
3 3 (2.857%) Sybase IQ
4 1 (0.952%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (0.952%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 21 (20.00%) JUnit
2 16 (15.24%) Subversion
2 16 (15.24%) Maven
3 12 (11.43%) Eclipse
3 12 (11.43%) TeamCity
4 11 (10.48%) Ant
5 9 (8.571%) CruiseControl
6 7 (6.667%) JIRA
7 5 (4.762%) Git (software)
8 3 (2.857%) Eclipse RCP
8 3 (2.857%) ClearCase
9 2 (1.905%) Jenkins
9 2 (1.905%) JProfiler
9 2 (1.905%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.952%) TestNG
10 1 (0.952%) jMock
General
1 36 (34.29%) Banking
2 32 (30.48%) Front Office
3 26 (24.76%) Investment Banking
4 20 (19.05%) Finance
5 2 (1.905%) Billing
6 1 (0.952%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (0.952%) French Language
6 1 (0.952%) German Language
6 1 (0.952%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 91 (86.67%) Developer
2 79 (75.24%) Java Developer
3 43 (40.95%) Java Swing Developer
4 12 (11.43%) Senior Java Developer
4 12 (11.43%) Senior Developer
5 5 (4.762%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 5 (4.762%) C# Developer
6 3 (2.857%) Consultant
6 3 (2.857%) Android Developer
7 2 (1.905%) Procurement Consultant
7 2 (1.905%) Software Engineer
7 2 (1.905%) Front Office Developer
7 2 (1.905%) Analyst
7 2 (1.905%) Project Manager
7 2 (1.905%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (1.905%) Lead Java Developer
7 2 (1.905%) Lead Developer
8 1 (0.952%) Senior Analyst
8 1 (0.952%) Analyst Programmer
8 1 (0.952%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 53 (50.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 18 (17.14%) Fixed Income
3 11 (10.48%) Open Source
4 10 (9.524%) Derivative
5 4 (3.810%) N-Tier
6 3 (2.857%) RIA
7 2 (1.905%) SWIFT
7 2 (1.905%) Digital Media
7 2 (1.905%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.952%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.952%) Inversion of Control
8 1 (0.952%) Video on Demand
8 1 (0.952%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.952%) Credit Derivative
8 1 (0.952%) IPTV
8 1 (0.952%) Web 2.0
8 1 (0.952%) NHS
8 1 (0.952%) Blackberry
8 1 (0.952%) Streaming Video
Operating Systems
1 20 (19.05%) UNIX
2 17 (16.19%) Linux
3 6 (5.714%) Windows
4 5 (4.762%) Android
5 3 (2.857%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.952%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (58.10%) Multithreading
2 25 (23.81%) E-Commerce
3 17 (16.19%) OO
4 15 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
5 13 (12.38%) TDD
6 10 (9.524%) Refactoring
7 8 (7.619%) Analytics
8 7 (6.667%) UML
9 5 (4.762%) Risk Management
9 5 (4.762%) Scrum
10 4 (3.810%) Fund Management
10 4 (3.810%) Asset Management
10 4 (3.810%) Continuous Integration
11 3 (2.857%) Performance Testing
11 3 (2.857%) Data Architecture
11 3 (2.857%) Web Development
11 3 (2.857%) OOD
12 2 (1.905%) SOA
12 2 (1.905%) Code Coverage
12 2 (1.905%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 105 (100.00%) Java
2 30 (28.57%) SQL
3 14 (13.33%) C#
3 14 (13.33%) C++
4 9 (8.571%) T-SQL
5 8 (7.619%) JavaScript
6 7 (6.667%) C
7 1 (0.952%) Python
7 1 (0.952%) PHP
7 1 (0.952%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 2 (1.905%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.952%) Degree
2 1 (0.952%) SC Cleared
2 1 (0.952%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.857%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.952%) NDS
Vendors
1 31 (29.52%) Sybase
2 14 (13.33%) Oracle
3 13 (12.38%) ION Trading
4 11 (10.48%) Reuters
4 11 (10.48%) Bloomberg
5 10 (9.524%) eSpeed
5 10 (9.524%) JBoss
5 10 (9.524%) Tradeweb
5 10 (9.524%) MarketAxess
6 3 (2.857%) TIBCO
7 2 (1.905%) Cognizant
7 2 (1.905%) Apple
7 2 (1.905%) CODA
7 2 (1.905%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.952%) Vertica
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