Somerset Swing Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Swing (Java) skills within the Somerset region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Swing over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Swing (Java)
Location Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Denbighshire Devon Docklands, London Dover Dundee East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fife Folkestone Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Huntingdon Kent Leeds London Manchester Middlesex Midlands Newbury Newport North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Romsey Rugby Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stockport Surrey Thatcham UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Witney Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	71
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching permanent IT job ads	0	8
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	2.073 %
Salaries quoted	0	8
Average minimum salary	-	£35,000
Average salary	-	£36,625
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	-	£38,250
UK excluding London average salary	£36,187	£36,428
% change on same period last year	-0.66 %
Application Development Somerset
Matching permanent IT job ads	540	386
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.291 %	0.161 %
Salaries quoted	492	354
Average minimum salary	£30,784	£29,371
Average salary	£34,452	£32,747
% change on same period last year	+5.20 %
Average maximum salary	£38,121	£36,123
UK excluding London average salary	£35,926	£36,840
% change on same period last year	-2.48 %
Swing South West

Swing
Demand Trend

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

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Salary Trend

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

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Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Somerset 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 8 (100.00 %) SQL Server 1 8 (100.00 %) Java 2 3 (37.50 %) Performance Management 3 1 (12.50 %) WebSphere 3 1 (12.50 %) GigaSpaces 3 1 (12.50 %) Unit Testing 3 1 (12.50 %) Subversion 3 1 (12.50 %) Spring 3 1 (12.50 %) JavaSpaces 3 1 (12.50 %) Scrum 3 1 (12.50 %) SQL 3 1 (12.50 %) Oracle 3 1 (12.50 %) Sybase 3 1 (12.50 %) Ant 3 1 (12.50 %) WebLogic

3 1 (12.50 %) OO 3 1 (12.50 %) JBoss 3 1 (12.50 %) RUP 3 1 (12.50 %) Data Modelling 3 1 (12.50 %) Eclipse 3 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2000

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Somerset 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 1 (12.50 %) Spring 1 1 (12.50 %) JavaSpaces 1 1 (12.50 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 1 (12.50 %) WebLogic 1 1 (12.50 %) JBoss
Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2000	Development Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) Ant 1 1 (12.50 %) Eclipse 1 1 (12.50 %) Subversion
Job Titles 1 8 (100.00 %) Developer 2 7 (87.50 %) Java Developer 3 2 (25.00 %) Java Software Developer 3 2 (25.00 %) Software Developer 4 1 (12.50 %) GUI Developer	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (37.50 %) Performance Management 2 1 (12.50 %) OO 2 1 (12.50 %) RUP 2 1 (12.50 %) Data Modelling 2 1 (12.50 %) Scrum 2 1 (12.50 %) Unit Testing
Programming Languages 1 8 (100.00 %) Java 2 1 (12.50 %) SQL	Vendors 1 1 (12.50 %) Oracle 1 1 (12.50 %) Sybase 1 1 (12.50 %) GigaSpaces