The first table below looks at the demand for Swing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Swing (Java)
Rank 82 72 53
Rank change year-on-year
-10 -19
Permanent jobs citing Swing 5 6 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Guildford 0.557% 0.870% 0.786%
As % of the Application Development category 1.104% 1.554% 1.633%
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 4
Average salary £57,500 £45,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+27.77% +5.88%
UK excluding London average salary £37,750 £45,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-16.11% +20.00%
All Application Development
Guildford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
453 386 245
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Guildford 50.45% 55.94% 48.13%
Number of salaries quoted 406 365 232
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £36,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +9.58%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,750 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
Swing
Surrey

Swing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford Swing Salary Trend

Swing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Guildford 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 16 (100.00%) Java
2 14 (87.50%) Security Cleared
3 12 (75.00%) Hadoop
4 10 (62.50%) Degree
4 10 (62.50%) SQL
5 9 (56.25%) JUnit
5 9 (56.25%) Cyber Security
6 8 (50.00%) Build Automation
6 8 (50.00%) Web Services
6 8 (50.00%) XML
6 8 (50.00%) JMS
6 8 (50.00%) Mathematics
7 7 (43.75%) Big Data
7 7 (43.75%) DV Cleared
8 6 (37.50%) SC Cleared
8 6 (37.50%) Spring
9 5 (31.25%) Test Scripting
9 5 (31.25%) MVC
9 5 (31.25%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (31.25%) WSDL
9 5 (31.25%) JAXB
9 5 (31.25%) JDBC
9 5 (31.25%) SOAP
9 5 (31.25%) REST
10 4 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (25.00%) Load Testing
10 4 (25.00%) Oracle
10 4 (25.00%) .NET
10 4 (25.00%) C#
10 4 (25.00%) C++

Swing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Guildford 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 8 (50.00%) Web Services
1 8 (50.00%) XML
1 8 (50.00%) JMS
2 6 (37.50%) Spring
3 5 (31.25%) JDBC
3 5 (31.25%) SOAP
3 5 (31.25%) WSDL
3 5 (31.25%) JAXB
3 5 (31.25%) REST
4 4 (25.00%) .NET
5 3 (18.75%) HTML
5 3 (18.75%) CSS
5 3 (18.75%) Hibernate
5 3 (18.75%) Lucene
5 3 (18.75%) .NET Framework
5 3 (18.75%) JAX-RS
5 3 (18.75%) GWT
5 3 (18.75%) jQuery
5 3 (18.75%) Apache Wicket
5 3 (18.75%) JPA
Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) WebLogic
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (75.00%) Hadoop
2 7 (43.75%) Big Data
3 5 (31.25%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (18.75%) MySQL
5 1 (6.250%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (56.25%) JUnit
2 3 (18.75%) Maven
2 3 (18.75%) JIRA
2 3 (18.75%) Ant
3 1 (6.250%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (6.250%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (18.75%) Law
2 1 (6.250%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (68.75%) Developer
1 11 (68.75%) Java Developer
2 4 (25.00%) QA Leader
3 2 (12.50%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Tester
4 1 (6.250%) Software Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Systems Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Senior Systems Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Senior Java Software Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Senior Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Software Tester
Miscellaneous
1 8 (50.00%) Mathematics
2 4 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (18.75%) Visualisation
4 1 (6.250%) Physics
4 1 (6.250%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) UNIX
2 1 (6.250%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Cyber Security
2 8 (50.00%) Build Automation
3 5 (31.25%) Test Scripting
3 5 (31.25%) MVC
4 4 (25.00%) Load Testing
4 4 (25.00%) Automated Testing
5 3 (18.75%) Project Planning
5 3 (18.75%) Analytics
5 3 (18.75%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (18.75%) Data Analysis
5 3 (18.75%) UML
5 3 (18.75%) OO
5 3 (18.75%) SOA
6 1 (6.250%) Project Management
6 1 (6.250%) Change Management
6 1 (6.250%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) Java
2 10 (62.50%) SQL
3 4 (25.00%) C#
3 4 (25.00%) C++
4 3 (18.75%) Python
5 1 (6.250%) C
5 1 (6.250%) VB.NET
5 1 (6.250%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 10 (62.50%) Degree
3 7 (43.75%) DV Cleared
4 6 (37.50%) SC Cleared
5 1 (6.250%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Oracle
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