The first table below looks at the demand for Swing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Belfast region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Swing 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 for the Belfast region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Swing (Java)
Rank 37 33 29
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -4
Permanent jobs citing Swing 1 3 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Belfast 0.481% 1.796% 2.128%
As % of the Application Development category 1.176% 4.167% 5.479%
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 2
Average salary - £40,000 £46,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -13.51%
UK excluding London average salary £38,250 £45,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-15.00% +20.00%
All Application Development
Belfast
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
85 72 73
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Belfast 40.87% 43.11% 38.83%
Number of salaries quoted 67 37 49
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
Swing
County Antrim

Swing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Belfast Swing Jobs Demand Trend

Swing
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Swing across the Belfast region.

Belfast Swing Salary Trend

Swing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Belfast 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Swing.

1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) Spring
2 3 (75.00%) Hibernate
2 3 (75.00%) Web Services
3 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (50.00%) HTML
3 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (50.00%) CSS
3 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (50.00%) GWT
3 2 (50.00%) HTML5
4 1 (25.00%) Memcached
4 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (25.00%) REST
4 1 (25.00%) CSS3
4 1 (25.00%) WebSockets
4 1 (25.00%) Backbone.js
4 1 (25.00%) Redis
4 1 (25.00%) Build Automation
4 1 (25.00%) JAX-RS
4 1 (25.00%) Spine.js
4 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (25.00%) Multithreading
4 1 (25.00%) Ext JS
4 1 (25.00%) RESTful
4 1 (25.00%) CouchDB
4 1 (25.00%) JSP
4 1 (25.00%) MVC

Swing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Belfast 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Swing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) Spring
2 3 (75.00%) Hibernate
2 3 (75.00%) Web Services
3 2 (50.00%) HTML
3 2 (50.00%) CSS
3 2 (50.00%) GWT
3 2 (50.00%) HTML5
4 1 (25.00%) Memcached
4 1 (25.00%) REST
4 1 (25.00%) CSS3
4 1 (25.00%) WebSockets
4 1 (25.00%) Backbone.js
4 1 (25.00%) JAX-RS
4 1 (25.00%) Spine.js
4 1 (25.00%) Ext JS
4 1 (25.00%) RESTful
4 1 (25.00%) JSP
4 1 (25.00%) Ajax
4 1 (25.00%) WebSphere
4 1 (25.00%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) WebLogic
1 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Intranet
1 1 (25.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Redis
1 1 (25.00%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JUnit
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Web Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (25.00%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) UNIX
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (25.00%) Build Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (25.00%) MVC
2 1 (25.00%) Automated Testing
2 1 (25.00%) OOA/OOD
2 1 (25.00%) OO
2 1 (25.00%) SOA
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
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