East Midlands Swing Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Swing (Java) skills within the East Midlands region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT job ads that have cited Swing over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Swing (Java)
Location Abingdon Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Borehamwood Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Colchester Coventry Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dover Dundee Ealing East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Folkestone Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Herefordshire Hertfordshire Huntingdon Kent Kingston Upon Thames Leatherhead Leeds Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newport North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Romsey Rugby Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Stockport Surrey Thames Valley Thatcham UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Witney Woking Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	161	179
Rank change on same period last year	+18
Matching permanent IT job ads	17	3
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	1.063 %	0.157 %
Salaries quoted	17	3
Average minimum salary	£29,889	£30,667
Average salary	£34,000	£35,167
% change on same period last year	-3.31 %
Average maximum salary	£38,111	£39,667
UK excluding London average salary	£35,783	£36,418
% change on same period last year	-1.74 %
Application Development East Midlands
Matching permanent IT job ads	1599	1907
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.835 %	0.787 %
Salaries quoted	1382	1644
Average minimum salary	£31,062	£29,756
Average salary	£33,676	£31,851
% change on same period last year	+5.73 %
Average maximum salary	£36,290	£33,945
UK excluding London average salary	£35,903	£36,836
% change on same period last year	-2.53 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Swing across the East Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Swing across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT job ads citing Swing within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Nottinghamshire	+19	9	£30,444	+21.77 %
Derbyshire	-	1	£40,000	-
Northamptonshire	-	1	£39,000	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT jobs across the East Midlands 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 33 (100.00 %) Java 2 26 (78.79 %) UML 3 24 (72.73 %) JDBC 4 22 (66.67 %) J2SE 5 21 (63.64 %) OOA/OOD 5 21 (63.64 %) XML 6 20 (60.61 %) Linux 6 20 (60.61 %) SQL 7 18 (54.55 %) HTML 7 18 (54.55 %) JSP 8 17 (51.52 %) SOAP 8 17 (51.52 %) JavaScript 8 17 (51.52 %) JBoss 8 17 (51.52 %) Tomcat 8 17 (51.52 %) UNIX

8 17 (51.52 %) E-Commerce 8 17 (51.52 %) Security Management 8 17 (51.52 %) E-Procurement 8 17 (51.52 %) JSF 8 17 (51.52 %) Marketing 8 17 (51.52 %) Apache Axis 9 13 (39.39 %) Oracle 10 9 (27.27 %) J2EE 11 7 (21.21 %) SQL Server 11 7 (21.21 %) Retail 11 7 (21.21 %) Java RMI 12 6 (18.18 %) Client/Server 12 6 (18.18 %) Back Office 13 5 (15.15 %) Windows 14 4 (12.12 %) Ant

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT jobs across the East Midlands 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 24 (72.73 %) JDBC 2 22 (66.67 %) J2SE 3 21 (63.64 %) XML 4 18 (54.55 %) JSP 4 18 (54.55 %) HTML 5 17 (51.52 %) SOAP 5 17 (51.52 %) JSF 5 17 (51.52 %) Apache Axis 6 9 (27.27 %) J2EE 7 7 (21.21 %) Java RMI 8 4 (12.12 %) AWT 9 3 (9.091 %) SAX 9 3 (9.091 %) DOM 9 3 (9.091 %) XSLT 9 3 (9.091 %) J2ME 9 3 (9.091 %) .NET 9 3 (9.091 %) Apache FOP 10 1 (3.030 %) WebSphere 10 1 (3.030 %) CSS 10 1 (3.030 %) Struts	Application Platforms 1 17 (51.52 %) JBoss 1 17 (51.52 %) Tomcat 2 1 (3.030 %) MQSeries 2 1 (3.030 %) WebSphere MQ 2 1 (3.030 %) Apache
Applications 1 1 (3.030 %) MS Excel	Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (21.21 %) SQL Server 2 3 (9.091 %) Oracle 10g 3 2 (6.061 %) GIS 4 1 (3.030 %) Oracle 9i
Development Applications 1 4 (12.12 %) Ant 1 4 (12.12 %) JUnit 1 4 (12.12 %) Subversion 2 1 (3.030 %) Rational Rose	General 1 17 (51.52 %) Marketing 2 7 (21.21 %) Retail 3 6 (18.18 %) Back Office 4 3 (9.091 %) Electronics 5 2 (6.061 %) 3D Graphics
Job Titles 1 30 (90.91 %) Developer 2 22 (66.67 %) Java Developer 3 4 (12.12 %) Senior Developer 4 2 (6.061 %) Senior Java Developer 4 2 (6.061 %) Java Software Developer 4 2 (6.061 %) Software Developer	Miscellaneous 1 6 (18.18 %) Client/Server 2 3 (9.091 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 2 3 (9.091 %) Multithreading 3 2 (6.061 %) Mathematics 4 1 (3.030 %) Management Information System
Operating Systems 1 20 (60.61 %) Linux 2 17 (51.52 %) UNIX 3 5 (15.15 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 26 (78.79 %) UML 2 21 (63.64 %) OOA/OOD 3 17 (51.52 %) E-Commerce 3 17 (51.52 %) Security Management 3 17 (51.52 %) E-Procurement 4 4 (12.12 %) Agile Software Development 5 3 (9.091 %) OOD 6 1 (3.030 %) OO 6 1 (3.030 %) OOP
Programming Languages 1 33 (100.00 %) Java 2 20 (60.61 %) SQL 3 17 (51.52 %) JavaScript 4 3 (9.091 %) C 4 3 (9.091 %) C++ 4 3 (9.091 %) VC++ 4 3 (9.091 %) Embedded C 4 3 (9.091 %) Embedded C++ 4 3 (9.091 %) Shell Script	Qualifications 1 1 (3.030 %) SAP Certification 1 1 (3.030 %) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (3.030 %) QA	Vendors 1 13 (39.39 %) Oracle 2 4 (12.12 %) Microsoft 3 1 (3.030 %) Sun 3 1 (3.030 %) SAP