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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT)
Rank 318 317 323
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +6
Permanent jobs citing SWT 3 6 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.026% 0.046% 0.052%
As % of the Application Development category 0.067% 0.123% 0.142%
Number of salaries quoted 2 6 7
Average salary £45,000 £34,000 £67,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+32.35% -49.62%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,000 £34,000 £56,500
10% offered a salary of more than £53,000 £37,000 £93,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+6.25% -
All Application Development
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
4488 4889 5623
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 38.47% 37.42% 36.45%
Number of salaries quoted 3945 4578 5183
Average salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.00% -4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £80,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
SWT
London

SWT
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London SWT Jobs Demand Trend

SWT
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing SWT across the City of London region.

City of London SWT Salary Trend

SWT
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SWT across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London SWT Salary Histogram

SWT
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region 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 IT job ads sampled that cited SWT.

1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 5 (100.00%) Eclipse RCP
2 4 (80.00%) J2EE
2 4 (80.00%) Oracle
2 4 (80.00%) Sybase
2 4 (80.00%) Swing
3 3 (60.00%) Finance
3 3 (60.00%) Degree
3 3 (60.00%) Mathematics
4 2 (40.00%) GlassFish
4 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (40.00%) WebSphere
4 2 (40.00%) UNIX
4 2 (40.00%) JBoss
4 2 (40.00%) WebLogic
4 2 (40.00%) EJB
5 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
5 1 (20.00%) PhD
5 1 (20.00%) Scala
5 1 (20.00%) Computer Science

SWT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region 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 IT job ads sampled that cited SWT. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (80.00%) J2EE
1 4 (80.00%) Swing
2 2 (40.00%) WebSphere
2 2 (40.00%) EJB
Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) GlassFish
1 2 (40.00%) WebLogic
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 5 (100.00%) Eclipse RCP
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (80.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Junior
4 1 (20.00%) Graduate Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Junior Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Graduate
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
2 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) PhD
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle
1 4 (80.00%) Sybase
2 2 (40.00%) JBoss