The first table below looks at the demand for SWT skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SWT over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT)
Rank 533 565 579
Rank change year-on-year
+32 +14
Contract jobs citing SWT 8 5 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.017% 0.009% 0.035%
As % of the Application Development category 0.060% 0.033% 0.128%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 16
Average daily rate £390 £275 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+41.81% -50.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £360 £275 £425
10% offered a daily rate of more than £440 £400 £585
UK excluding London average daily rate - - £413
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Average hourly rate £37.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 - -
All Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
13369 14943 17245
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.79% 25.75% 27.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 8406 8920 10221
Average daily rate £375 £353 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.38% -11.87%
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 342 381 538
Average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £17.50 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%

SWT
Jobs Demand Trend

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

SWT Jobs Demand Trend

SWT
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SWT within the UK.

SWT Daily Rate Trend

SWT
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SWT within the UK.

SWT Hourly Rate Trend

SWT
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SWT within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +16 8 £390 +41.81% 1
London +26 5 £390 +41.81%
City of London - 2 £383 -
South West - - - -
Gloucestershire - - - -
Gloucester - - - -

SWT
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing SWT 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 SWT.

1 19 (100.00%) Java
2 17 (89.47%) Eclipse
3 10 (52.63%) Eclipse RCP
4 8 (42.11%) C
4 8 (42.11%) J2EE
5 7 (36.84%) EJB
5 7 (36.84%) JIRA
6 6 (31.58%) Maven
6 6 (31.58%) Sybase
6 6 (31.58%) Swing
7 5 (26.32%) JBoss
7 5 (26.32%) Oracle
7 5 (26.32%) Perforce
7 5 (26.32%) Scrum
7 5 (26.32%) DV Cleared
7 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
8 4 (21.05%) JFace
8 4 (21.05%) Subversion
8 4 (21.05%) Spring
8 4 (21.05%) UNIX
8 4 (21.05%) Web Services
8 4 (21.05%) Ant
8 4 (21.05%) JUnit
8 4 (21.05%) SQL
9 3 (15.79%) T-SQL
9 3 (15.79%) C++
9 3 (15.79%) WebLogic
9 3 (15.79%) AWT
9 3 (15.79%) JMS
9 3 (15.79%) Tomcat

SWT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing SWT 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 SWT. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (42.11%) J2EE
2 7 (36.84%) EJB
3 6 (31.58%) Swing
4 4 (21.05%) JFace
4 4 (21.05%) Spring
4 4 (21.05%) Web Services
5 3 (15.79%) AWT
5 3 (15.79%) JMS
5 3 (15.79%) Hibernate
5 3 (15.79%) WebSphere
5 3 (15.79%) JNI
5 3 (15.79%) JPA
6 2 (10.53%) EJB 3.0
6 2 (10.53%) RESTful
6 2 (10.53%) iBATIS
6 2 (10.53%) GWT
6 2 (10.53%) jQuery
6 2 (10.53%) HTML5
6 2 (10.53%) Ajax
6 2 (10.53%) JSF
Application Platforms
1 3 (15.79%) WebLogic
1 3 (15.79%) Tomcat
1 3 (15.79%) GlassFish
2 2 (10.53%) Confluence
3 1 (5.263%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.263%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 17 (89.47%) Eclipse
2 10 (52.63%) Eclipse RCP
3 7 (36.84%) JIRA
4 6 (31.58%) Maven
5 4 (21.05%) Subversion
5 4 (21.05%) Ant
5 4 (21.05%) JUnit
6 2 (10.53%) Git (software)
6 2 (10.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (5.263%) jMock
7 1 (5.263%) TestNG
General
1 1 (5.263%) Investment Banking
1 1 (5.263%) Banking
1 1 (5.263%) Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (84.21%) Developer
2 15 (78.95%) Java Developer
3 4 (21.05%) Java Swing Developer
3 4 (21.05%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 3 (15.79%) Senior Java Developer
4 3 (15.79%) Software Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.263%) NHS
1 1 (5.263%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (5.263%) SWIFT
1 1 (5.263%) Open Source
1 1 (5.263%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) UNIX
2 2 (10.53%) Android
2 2 (10.53%) Apple iOS
3 1 (5.263%) Windows
3 1 (5.263%) Solaris
3 1 (5.263%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (26.32%) Scrum
2 3 (15.79%) Migration
3 2 (10.53%) Unit Testing
3 2 (10.53%) Integration Testing
3 2 (10.53%) Database Tuning
3 2 (10.53%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (10.53%) TDD
3 2 (10.53%) Requirements Analysis
3 2 (10.53%) Data Modelling
3 2 (10.53%) OOA/OOD
3 2 (10.53%) OO
4 1 (5.263%) Workflow Management
4 1 (5.263%) Workflow
4 1 (5.263%) Software Architecture
4 1 (5.263%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) Java
2 8 (42.11%) C
3 4 (21.05%) SQL
4 3 (15.79%) T-SQL
4 3 (15.79%) C++
5 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) DV Cleared
1 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Sybase
2 5 (26.32%) JBoss
2 5 (26.32%) Oracle
2 5 (26.32%) Perforce
3 2 (10.53%) Atlassian
3 2 (10.53%) Apple
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