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 Northern Ireland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Swing over the 3 months to 12 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 Northern Ireland region.

 Swing (Java)
Location
3 months to
12 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank3235-
Rank change year-on-year
Up+3New entry-
Matching permanent IT job ads230
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northern Ireland0.873 %1.515 %-
As % of the Application Development category3.846 %5.660 %-
Salaries quoted220
Average salary£38,500£37,500-
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.660 %-
UK excluding London average salary£32,500£32,500£37,500
% change year-on-year
--13.33 %
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
Northern Ireland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
525358
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northern Ireland22.71 %26.77 %19.93 %
Salaries quoted322724
Average salary£37,500£32,500£35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.38 %-7.140 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,800£25,000£24,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£45,000£42,500£50,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£34,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.940 %-2.850 %
Swing UKSwing
UK

Swing
Demand Trend

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

Northern Ireland 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 Northern Ireland region.

Northern Ireland Swing Salary Trend

Swing
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Swing within the Northern Ireland region over the 3 months to 12 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
County AntrimNew entry-2£38,500-
Swing UKSwing
UK

Swing
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 12 March 2010, IT jobs across the Northern Ireland 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.

12 (100.00 %)Java
12 (100.00 %)WebLogic
12 (100.00 %)JSP
12 (100.00 %)MVC
12 (100.00 %)Spring
12 (100.00 %)AJAX
12 (100.00 %)Derivative
12 (100.00 %)Continuous Integration
21 (50.00 %)Perforce
21 (50.00 %)Hibernate
21 (50.00 %)Banking
21 (50.00 %)UNIX
21 (50.00 %)JavaScript
21 (50.00 %)Ant

Swing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 12 March 2010, IT jobs across the Northern Ireland 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.

Northern Ireland IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
12 (100.00 %)JSP
12 (100.00 %)MVC
12 (100.00 %)Spring
12 (100.00 %)AJAX
21 (50.00 %)Hibernate
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
12 (100.00 %)WebLogic
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
11 (50.00 %)Ant
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11 (50.00 %)Banking
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
12 (100.00 %)Developer
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
12 (100.00 %)Derivative
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11 (50.00 %)UNIX
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
12 (100.00 %)Continuous Integration
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
12 (100.00 %)Java
21 (50.00 %)JavaScript
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11 (50.00 %)Perforce