The first table below looks at the demand for Swing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Essex region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Swing over the 3 months to 18 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 Essex region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Swing (Java)
Rank - 79 68
Permanent jobs citing Swing 0 28 34
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex - 2.196% 2.654%
As % of the Application Development category - 4.452% 5.457%
Number of salaries quoted 0 23 33
Average salary - £50,000 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +38.88%
UK excluding London average salary £37,750 £45,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-16.11% +20.00%
All Application Development
Essex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
375 629 623
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 34.92% 49.33% 48.63%
Number of salaries quoted 344 555 527
Average salary £42,500 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.33% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £25,000 £26,800
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
Swing
East of England

Swing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex Swing Salary Trend

Swing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) Maven
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Ajax
2 1 (50.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) GWT
2 1 (50.00%) GlassFish
2 1 (50.00%) OpenUP
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (50.00%) J2EE
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) Ant
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) WebLogic
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) OOP
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) JBoss
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) JMS

Swing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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 2 (100.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) Ajax
2 1 (50.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (50.00%) GWT
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) J2EE
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) WebLogic
1 1 (50.00%) GlassFish
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (50.00%) Data Mining
1 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Ant
1 1 (50.00%) JUnit
1 1 (50.00%) Maven
General
1 1 (50.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Development Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) OOP
1 1 (50.00%) OO
1 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) OpenUP
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) JBoss