The first table below looks at the demand for Swing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Swing over the 3 months to 24 May 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 Kent region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Swing (Java)
Rank 78 71 100
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +29
Permanent jobs citing Swing 9 1 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 0.778% 0.139% 0.188%
As % of the Application Development category 1.991% 0.319% 0.366%
Number of salaries quoted 9 1 2
Average salary £50,000 £47,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% +11.76%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £45,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
-16.66% +16.88%
All Application Development
Kent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
452 313 547
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 39.07% 43.65% 51.46%
Number of salaries quoted 386 282 513
Average salary £38,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.66% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £45,000 £45,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Swing
South East

Swing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent Swing Salary Trend

Swing
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Swing across the Kent region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Kent Swing Salary Histogram

Swing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 17 (100.00%) Java
2 14 (82.35%) J2EE
3 12 (70.59%) SQL
3 12 (70.59%) Banking
3 12 (70.59%) Investment Banking
4 10 (58.82%) Scrum
5 9 (52.94%) Regular Expression
5 9 (52.94%) SCJP
5 9 (52.94%) Degree
5 9 (52.94%) HTML
5 9 (52.94%) JUnit
5 9 (52.94%) CSS
5 9 (52.94%) JDBC
5 9 (52.94%) UNIX
5 9 (52.94%) Log4j
5 9 (52.94%) AWT
5 9 (52.94%) Sun
5 9 (52.94%) Sun Certification
5 9 (52.94%) JMX
6 8 (47.06%) Hibernate
6 8 (47.06%) Spring
7 7 (41.18%) Finance
7 7 (41.18%) Web Services
7 7 (41.18%) SOAP
7 7 (41.18%) Oracle
7 7 (41.18%) PL/SQL
8 4 (23.53%) WebLogic
8 4 (23.53%) Struts
8 4 (23.53%) Servlets
8 4 (23.53%) UML

Swing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 14 (82.35%) J2EE
2 9 (52.94%) Regular Expression
2 9 (52.94%) HTML
2 9 (52.94%) CSS
2 9 (52.94%) JDBC
2 9 (52.94%) AWT
2 9 (52.94%) JMX
3 8 (47.06%) Hibernate
3 8 (47.06%) Spring
4 7 (41.18%) Web Services
4 7 (41.18%) SOAP
5 4 (23.53%) Struts
5 4 (23.53%) Servlets
5 4 (23.53%) XML
5 4 (23.53%) JSF
5 4 (23.53%) OC4J
5 4 (23.53%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (17.65%) REST
6 3 (17.65%) Apache Axis
6 3 (17.65%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 4 (23.53%) WebLogic
1 4 (23.53%) Tomcat
1 4 (23.53%) Jetty
2 3 (17.65%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 9 (52.94%) JUnit
1 9 (52.94%) Log4j
2 3 (17.65%) Eclipse
General
1 12 (70.59%) Banking
1 12 (70.59%) Investment Banking
2 7 (41.18%) Finance
3 3 (17.65%) Legal
Job Titles
1 17 (100.00%) Developer
1 17 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 9 (52.94%) Senior Java Developer
2 9 (52.94%) ScrumMaster
2 9 (52.94%) Senior Developer
3 4 (23.53%) J2EE Developer
3 4 (23.53%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 3 (17.65%) Front-End Developer
Operating Systems
1 9 (52.94%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Scrum
2 4 (23.53%) UML
2 4 (23.53%) Waterfall
3 3 (17.65%) System Testing
3 3 (17.65%) Unit Testing
3 3 (17.65%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (17.65%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) Java
2 12 (70.59%) SQL
3 7 (41.18%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (52.94%) SCJP
1 9 (52.94%) Degree
1 9 (52.94%) Sun Certification
Vendors
1 9 (52.94%) Sun
2 7 (41.18%) Oracle
3 4 (23.53%) JBoss