The first table below looks at the demand for Swing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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 - 111 -
Contract jobs citing Swing 0 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire - 0.044% -
As % of the Application Development category - 0.182% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £331 £300
% change year-on-year
+16.98% +10.41%
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
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
569 548 448
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 29.98% 23.91% 24.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 326 231
Average daily rate £300 £310 £285
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.22% +8.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £228 £213 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £408 £380 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 6 18
Average hourly rate £33.00 £13.75 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+140.00% -67.64%
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 Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire Swing Hourly Rate Trend

Swing
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Maven
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Android
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) J2EE
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) JDBC
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) XSLT
2 1 (50.00%) RAD
2 1 (50.00%) Apache
2 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (50.00%) OOD
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (50.00%) XQuery
2 1 (50.00%) Middleware

Swing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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%) J2EE
1 1 (50.00%) JDBC
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) XML
1 1 (50.00%) XSLT
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (50.00%) Maven
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Android Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) RAD
1 1 (50.00%) OOD
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
1 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) XQuery
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle