East of England SWT Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) skills within the East of England region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SWT over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT)
Location Berkshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire City of London Colchester East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Harrogate Kent Leeds Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Reading Scotland South East UK West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	279	288
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching permanent IT job ads	4	5
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	0.081 %	0.110 %
Salaries quoted	4	3
Average minimum salary	£31,000	£31,667
Average salary	£34,125	£38,333
% change on same period last year	-10.97 %
Average maximum salary	£37,250	£45,000
UK excluding London average salary	£34,638	£41,548
% change on same period last year	-16.63 %
Application Development East of England
Matching permanent IT job ads	4963	4560
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	2.620 %	1.867 %
Salaries quoted	4211	3942
Average minimum salary	£34,348	£34,176
Average salary	£37,463	£37,144
% change on same period last year	+0.85 %
Average maximum salary	£40,578	£40,112
UK excluding London average salary	£35,873	£36,830
% change on same period last year	-2.59 %
SWT England

SWT
Demand Trend

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

SWT
Salary Trend

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

SWT
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SWT across the East of England region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

SWT
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SWT within the East of England region over the 3 months to 25 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
Essex	-	3	£30,500	-
Cambridgeshire	-6	1	£45,000	+17.39 %

SWT England

SWT
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the East of England 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 8 (100.00 %) Java 2 6 (75.00 %) Oracle 3 5 (62.50 %) Eclipse 4 4 (50.00 %) Swing 5 3 (37.50 %) JMS 5 3 (37.50 %) Games 5 3 (37.50 %) JMX 5 3 (37.50 %) Agile Software Development 5 3 (37.50 %) Software Engineering 5 3 (37.50 %) DB2 5 3 (37.50 %) JSP 5 3 (37.50 %) PL/SQL 5 3 (37.50 %) SQL 5 3 (37.50 %) J2EE 5 3 (37.50 %) MySQL

6 1 (12.50 %) Perl 6 1 (12.50 %) Python 6 1 (12.50 %) J2SE

SWT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the East of England 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 (50.00 %) Swing 2 3 (37.50 %) J2EE 2 3 (37.50 %) JSP 2 3 (37.50 %) JMS 2 3 (37.50 %) JMX 3 1 (12.50 %) J2SE	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (37.50 %) MySQL 1 3 (37.50 %) DB2
Development Applications 1 5 (62.50 %) Eclipse	General 1 3 (37.50 %) Games
Job Titles 1 7 (87.50 %) Developer 1 7 (87.50 %) Java Developer 2 4 (50.00 %) Java Swing Developer 3 3 (37.50 %) Java/J2EE Developer 4 1 (12.50 %) Software Engineer	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (37.50 %) Agile Software Development 1 3 (37.50 %) Software Engineering
Programming Languages 1 8 (100.00 %) Java 2 3 (37.50 %) PL/SQL 2 3 (37.50 %) SQL 3 1 (12.50 %) Python 3 1 (12.50 %) Perl	Vendors 1 6 (75.00 %) Oracle