The first table below looks at the demand for Swing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Swing over the 3 months to 21 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 Merseyside region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Swing (Java)
Rank - 78 65
Permanent jobs citing Swing 0 1 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside - 0.149% 0.220%
As % of the Application Development category - 0.295% 0.478%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 1
Average salary - £25,000 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -35.06%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £45,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-16.66% +18.42%
All Application Development
Merseyside
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
235 339 209
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 51.09% 50.60% 45.93%
Number of salaries quoted 204 305 168
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Swing
North West

Swing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside Swing Salary Trend

Swing
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 19 (100.00%) Java
1 19 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 19 (100.00%) TDD
1 19 (100.00%) Spring
2 10 (52.63%) HTML
2 10 (52.63%) SQL
2 10 (52.63%) CSS
3 9 (47.37%) HND
3 9 (47.37%) UNIX
3 9 (47.37%) J2EE
3 9 (47.37%) Oracle
3 9 (47.37%) Oracle 10g
3 9 (47.37%) EJB
3 9 (47.37%) Hibernate
3 9 (47.37%) Scrum
3 9 (47.37%) Use Case
3 9 (47.37%) jQuery
3 9 (47.37%) EJB 3.0
3 9 (47.37%) BDD
3 9 (47.37%) Retail
3 9 (47.37%) Degree
3 9 (47.37%) JIRA
4 8 (42.11%) Twitter
5 4 (21.05%) E-Commerce

Swing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 19 (100.00%) Spring
2 10 (52.63%) HTML
2 10 (52.63%) CSS
3 9 (47.37%) J2EE
3 9 (47.37%) EJB
3 9 (47.37%) Hibernate
3 9 (47.37%) jQuery
3 9 (47.37%) EJB 3.0
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 9 (47.37%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 9 (47.37%) JIRA
General
1 9 (47.37%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (100.00%) Software Developer
1 19 (100.00%) Developer
2 9 (47.37%) Java Developer
2 9 (47.37%) Java Software Developer
2 9 (47.37%) Java/J2EE Developer
3 5 (26.32%) Senior Java Software Developer
3 5 (26.32%) Senior Developer
3 5 (26.32%) Senior Software Developer
3 5 (26.32%) Senior Java Developer
4 4 (21.05%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
5 3 (15.79%) Java Swing Developer
Operating Systems
1 9 (47.37%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) TDD
2 9 (47.37%) Scrum
2 9 (47.37%) Use Case
2 9 (47.37%) BDD
3 4 (21.05%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) Java
2 10 (52.63%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (47.37%) HND
1 9 (47.37%) Degree
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) Oracle
2 8 (42.11%) Twitter