Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Swing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Hereford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Swing over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Hereford region.

 Swing (Java)
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank5--
Rank change year-on-year
New entry-No change0
Matching permanent IT job ads500
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hereford17.24 %--
As % of the Application Development category71.43 %--
Salaries quoted500
Average salary£32,500--
UK excluding London average salary£32,500£35,000£37,500
% change year-on-year
-7.140 %-6.660 %
Hereford IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
Hereford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
73731
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hereford24.14 %56.92 %59.62 %
Salaries quoted73529
Average salary£32,500£30,000£27,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.330 %+11.11 %
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£34,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.940 %-2.850 %
Swing HerefordshireSwing
Herefordshire

Swing
Demand Trend

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

Hereford Swing Demand Trend

Swing
Salary Trend

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

Hereford Swing Salary Trend

Swing
Top 4 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Hereford 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.

110 (100.00 %)Java
110 (100.00 %)SQL
110 (100.00 %)Oracle
110 (100.00 %)J2SE

Swing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Hereford 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.

Hereford IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
110 (100.00 %)J2SE
Hereford IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
110 (100.00 %)Developer
110 (100.00 %)Senior Developer
110 (100.00 %)Java Developer
110 (100.00 %)Senior Java Developer
110 (100.00 %)Java Swing Developer
Hereford IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
110 (100.00 %)Java
110 (100.00 %)SQL
Hereford IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
110 (100.00 %)Oracle