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

The first table below looks at the demand for Swing skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Swing over the 3 months to 23 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.

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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Swing (Java)
Rank 473 455 321
Rank change year-on-year
-18 -134
Contract jobs citing Swing 68 110 300
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.147% 0.188% 0.483%
As % of the Application Development category 0.538% 0.739% 1.755%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 86 181
Average daily rate £440 £543 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.89% -1.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £338 £310 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+19.23% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 31
Average hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 £36.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.50% +9.58%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.00 £40.00 £35.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £48.30 £40.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +14.28%
All Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 12638 14882 17097
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.27% 25.50% 27.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 7921 8711 9986
Average daily rate £375 £350 £393
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -10.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 363 389 578
Average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -9.72%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.33 £15.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%

Swing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

Swing Daily Rate Trend

Swing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Swing within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

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 within the UK.

Swing Hourly Rate Trend

Swing
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Swing within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Swing Hourly Rate Histogram

Swing
Top 19 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 UK over the 3 months to 23 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
England -4 61 £465 -14.28%
London -11 37 £550 -
City of London +11 18 £550 -
South West +41 12 £440 +21.37%
Gloucestershire - 11 £440 -
South East +12 10 £325 -
Gloucester - 10 £440 -
Hampshire -4 7 - -
Canary Wharf -1 3 £550 -
Basingstoke - 3 - -
Berkshire +17 2 £325 +1.56%
East of England +17 2 - -
Hertfordshire +6 2 - -
Glasgow - 2 £338 -
Scotland - 2 £338 -
Surrey +16 1 £325 +8.33%
Reading - 1 £325 -
Guildford - 1 £325 -
Bristol - 1 - -

Swing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1 175 (100.00%) Java
2 74 (42.29%) Multithreading
3 64 (36.57%) SQL
4 55 (31.43%) J2EE
5 53 (30.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 52 (29.71%) JUnit
7 50 (28.57%) Web Services
8 46 (26.29%) OO
9 45 (25.71%) Oracle
10 44 (25.14%) Linux
10 44 (25.14%) UML
11 43 (24.57%) Spring
12 42 (24.00%) XML
12 42 (24.00%) Banking
13 37 (21.14%) Hibernate
14 34 (19.43%) Security Cleared
15 33 (18.86%) Maven
15 33 (18.86%) Front Office
15 33 (18.86%) TDD
16 31 (17.71%) UNIX
16 31 (17.71%) Sybase
17 30 (17.14%) Subversion
17 30 (17.14%) Agile Software Development
18 28 (16.00%) JDBC
19 27 (15.43%) Eclipse
19 27 (15.43%) Investment Banking
20 26 (14.86%) E-Commerce
20 26 (14.86%) J2SE
21 24 (13.71%) JBoss
21 24 (13.71%) Finance

Swing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 55 (31.43%) J2EE
2 50 (28.57%) Web Services
3 43 (24.57%) Spring
4 42 (24.00%) XML
5 37 (21.14%) Hibernate
6 28 (16.00%) JDBC
7 26 (14.86%) J2SE
8 21 (12.00%) JSP
8 21 (12.00%) EJB
9 20 (11.43%) JMS
10 18 (10.29%) JSON
11 16 (9.143%) GWT
12 15 (8.571%) Apache Axis
13 13 (7.429%) JPA
14 12 (6.857%) Java RMI
14 12 (6.857%) EJB 3.0
14 12 (6.857%) jQuery
15 9 (5.143%) CSS
15 9 (5.143%) HTML
15 9 (5.143%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 20 (11.43%) ESB
2 10 (5.714%) MTS
2 10 (5.714%) Tomcat
3 9 (5.143%) WebLogic
4 6 (3.429%) Confluence
5 4 (2.286%) Apache
5 4 (2.286%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (1.714%) GlassFish
6 3 (1.714%) TIBCO EMS
7 1 (0.571%) Rendezvous
Applications
1 1 (0.571%) Doxygen
1 1 (0.571%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 13 (7.429%) ION MarketView
2 10 (5.714%) RMDS
3 2 (1.143%) CODA-Financials
4 1 (0.571%) Oracle Retail
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.143%) Internet
2 2 (1.143%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.571%) RDBMS
2 13 (7.429%) SQL Server
3 8 (4.571%) MySQL
4 6 (3.429%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.857%) Ingres
6 4 (2.286%) Oracle 8/8i
7 2 (1.143%) GIS
7 2 (1.143%) Sybase IQ
7 2 (1.143%) Sybase ASE
8 1 (0.571%) NonStop SQL
8 1 (0.571%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 52 (29.71%) JUnit
2 33 (18.86%) Maven
3 30 (17.14%) Subversion
4 27 (15.43%) Eclipse
5 20 (11.43%) Ant
6 14 (8.000%) CruiseControl
7 13 (7.429%) ClearCase
8 11 (6.286%) TeamCity
9 9 (5.143%) Git (software)
10 8 (4.571%) Mockito
11 7 (4.000%) JIRA
11 7 (4.000%) Jenkins
11 7 (4.000%) NetBeans
12 5 (2.857%) FindBugs
12 5 (2.857%) Hudson
13 4 (2.286%) Eclipse RCP
14 3 (1.714%) Checkstyle
15 2 (1.143%) Bugzilla
15 2 (1.143%) Visual Studio
15 2 (1.143%) JProfiler
General
1 42 (24.00%) Banking
2 33 (18.86%) Front Office
3 27 (15.43%) Investment Banking
4 24 (13.71%) Finance
5 2 (1.143%) Billing
6 1 (0.571%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (0.571%) French Language
6 1 (0.571%) German Language
6 1 (0.571%) Retail
6 1 (0.571%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 148 (84.57%) Developer
2 135 (77.14%) Java Developer
3 57 (32.57%) Java Swing Developer
4 16 (9.143%) Senior Java Developer
4 16 (9.143%) Senior Developer
5 11 (6.286%) Java/J2EE Developer
6 8 (4.571%) Software Engineer
7 5 (2.857%) C# Developer
7 5 (2.857%) Consultant
8 4 (2.286%) J2EE Developer
8 4 (2.286%) Java Engineer
9 3 (1.714%) Android Developer
10 2 (1.143%) Analyst
10 2 (1.143%) Project Manager
10 2 (1.143%) Front Office Developer
10 2 (1.143%) Lead Developer
10 2 (1.143%) Procurement Consultant
10 2 (1.143%) Senior Software Engineer
10 2 (1.143%) Java Consultant
10 2 (1.143%) Lead Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 53 (30.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 19 (10.86%) Fixed Income
3 13 (7.429%) Open Source
4 10 (5.714%) RIA
4 10 (5.714%) Derivative
5 4 (2.286%) N-Tier
5 4 (2.286%) Informatics
5 4 (2.286%) Computer Science
6 2 (1.143%) LIMS
6 2 (1.143%) Device Driver
6 2 (1.143%) SWIFT
6 2 (1.143%) Digital Media
6 2 (1.143%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.143%) Biology
7 1 (0.571%) Credit Derivative
7 1 (0.571%) IPTV
7 1 (0.571%) Web 2.0
7 1 (0.571%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.571%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.571%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 44 (25.14%) Linux
2 31 (17.71%) UNIX
3 22 (12.57%) Windows
4 5 (2.857%) Android
5 3 (1.714%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.571%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (42.29%) Multithreading
2 46 (26.29%) OO
3 44 (25.14%) UML
4 33 (18.86%) TDD
5 30 (17.14%) Agile Software Development
6 26 (14.86%) E-Commerce
7 18 (10.29%) OOD
8 15 (8.571%) Configuration Management
9 13 (7.429%) Refactoring
9 13 (7.429%) Analytics
10 9 (5.143%) Continuous Integration
10 9 (5.143%) Workflow
11 8 (4.571%) Unit Testing
12 7 (4.000%) Customer Engagement
12 7 (4.000%) Software Architecture
12 7 (4.000%) OOA/OOD
12 7 (4.000%) Code Coverage
12 7 (4.000%) MVC
13 6 (3.429%) Scrum
13 6 (3.429%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 175 (100.00%) Java
2 64 (36.57%) SQL
3 19 (10.86%) C++
4 18 (10.29%) C#
5 17 (9.714%) JavaScript
6 16 (9.143%) C
7 9 (5.143%) T-SQL
8 5 (2.857%) Python
9 4 (2.286%) Lisp
9 4 (2.286%) Perl
9 4 (2.286%) Ruby
10 2 (1.143%) VC++
11 1 (0.571%) PHP
11 1 (0.571%) COBOL
11 1 (0.571%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 34 (19.43%) Security Cleared
2 23 (13.14%) DV Cleared
3 12 (6.857%) Degree
4 11 (6.286%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.286%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.143%) QA
System Software
1 4 (2.286%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.571%) NDS
Systems Management
1 2 (1.143%) SCOM
Vendors
1 45 (25.71%) Oracle
2 31 (17.71%) Sybase
3 24 (13.71%) JBoss
4 13 (7.429%) ION Trading
5 11 (6.286%) Reuters
5 11 (6.286%) Bloomberg
6 10 (5.714%) eSpeed
6 10 (5.714%) Tradeweb
6 10 (5.714%) MarketAxess
7 7 (4.000%) Software AG
7 7 (4.000%) webMethods
8 5 (2.857%) Cognizant
9 4 (2.286%) TIBCO
9 4 (2.286%) VMware
10 3 (1.714%) Coverity
11 2 (1.143%) Apple
11 2 (1.143%) CODA
11 2 (1.143%) Microsoft
11 2 (1.143%) Atlassian
12 1 (0.571%) Vertica
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