The first table below looks at the demand for Swing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Swing 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 Surrey 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
Swing (Java)
Rank 79 92 91
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -1
Contract jobs citing Swing 1 3 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 0.087% 0.186% 0.653%
As % of the Application Development category 0.294% 0.655% 2.222%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 10
Average daily rate £325 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+23.07% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +14.28%
All Application Development
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
340 458 540
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 29.49% 28.43% 29.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 263 296
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £459 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 14 16
Average hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+23.07% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £19.00 £20.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £41.50 £35.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Swing
South East

Swing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey 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 Surrey 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
Guildford - 1 £325 -
Swing
South East

Swing
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 2 (100.00%) JUnit
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) Jini
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) WiX
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Bugzilla
2 1 (50.00%) Device Driver
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) NetBeans
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) C
2 1 (50.00%) C++
2 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (50.00%) JDBC
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) UNIX
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) VC++
2 1 (50.00%) JMS
2 1 (50.00%) Java RMI
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft

Swing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 1 (50.00%) Jini
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) JDBC
1 1 (50.00%) XML
1 1 (50.00%) JMS
1 1 (50.00%) Java RMI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
2 1 (50.00%) WiX
2 1 (50.00%) Bugzilla
2 1 (50.00%) NetBeans
2 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Open Source
1 1 (50.00%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) UNIX
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (50.00%) Multithreading
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) C
2 1 (50.00%) C++
2 1 (50.00%) VC++
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
Guildford, South East
The role will be a part of a larger development team working on the next generation of our client's market leading advanced targeted attack monitoring solution. This...
JAM
Rate: negotiable
Posted: 8 May 2013