The first table below looks at the demand for Swing skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. 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.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Swing (Java)
Rank 637 417 394
Rank change year-on-year
-220 -23
Permanent jobs citing Swing 226 616 665
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.209% 0.510% 0.534%
As % of the Application Development category 0.515% 1.225% 1.338%
Number of salaries quoted 200 530 557
Average salary £40,000 £50,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-20.00% -
90% offered a salary of more than £31,750 £32,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,750 £82,500 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £45,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
-16.66% +16.88%
All Application Development
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
43855 50279 49692
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 40.58% 41.66% 39.94%
Number of salaries quoted 38118 44664 43948
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £28,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%

Swing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swing Jobs Demand Trend

Swing
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Swing within the UK.

Swing Salary Trend

Swing
Salary Histogram

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

Swing Salary Histogram

Swing
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England -229 219 £40,000 -20.00%
London -127 101 £45,000 -34.54%
South East -42 51 £45,000 -10.00%
City of London -21 49 £60,000 -14.28%
East of England -71 23 £35,000 -22.22%
Yorkshire +22 22 £34,500 +15.00%
West Yorkshire +16 22 £34,500 +15.00%
Leeds +6 22 £34,500 +25.45%
Hertfordshire +18 19 £35,000 -17.64%
Buckinghamshire -2 17 £35,000 +7.69%
Milton Keynes -10 17 £35,000 +7.69%
Surrey -32 13 £50,000 -
Berkshire -1 11 £45,000 -10.00%
Guildford 0 9 £28,500 -36.66%
Kent -7 9 £50,000 +5.26%
Newbury +16 8 £45,000 +50.00%
East Midlands -1 7 £35,000 +16.66%
South West -49 7 £25,750 -47.17%
North West -6 6 £40,000 +26.98%
Manchester -18 6 £40,000 +3.89%
Gloucester +5 4 £42,500 +6.25%
Cambridgeshire -5 4 £37,750 -5.62%
Sussex -7 4 £50,000 -
Gloucestershire -18 4 £42,500 +6.25%
South Wales +5 3 £30,000 -4.76%
Edinburgh +3 3 £37,500 +25.00%
Wales -1 3 £30,000 +25.00%
Bristol -3 3 £25,000 -58.33%
Scotland -7 3 £37,500 +25.00%
Basingstoke -13 3 £45,000 +12.50%

Swing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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.

1 542 (100.00%) Java
2 284 (52.40%) SQL
3 211 (38.93%) Hibernate
4 209 (38.56%) Spring
5 197 (36.35%) Oracle
6 171 (31.55%) J2EE
7 166 (30.63%) Degree
8 130 (23.99%) Finance
9 126 (23.25%) XML
10 123 (22.69%) OO
11 121 (22.32%) JUnit
12 117 (21.59%) Linux
13 116 (21.40%) UNIX
14 114 (21.03%) Agile Software Development
15 108 (19.93%) Computer Science
16 104 (19.19%) Eclipse
17 98 (18.08%) Multithreading
18 92 (16.97%) HTML
19 91 (16.79%) Web Services
20 89 (16.42%) Banking
21 87 (16.05%) JavaScript
22 81 (14.94%) C++
23 79 (14.58%) CSS
24 78 (14.39%) JSP
25 76 (14.02%) JDBC
26 73 (13.47%) WebSphere
27 71 (13.10%) Tomcat
28 70 (12.92%) Front Office
29 69 (12.73%) TDD
30 68 (12.55%) E-Commerce

Swing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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
1 211 (38.93%) Hibernate
2 209 (38.56%) Spring
3 171 (31.55%) J2EE
4 126 (23.25%) XML
5 92 (16.97%) HTML
6 91 (16.79%) Web Services
7 79 (14.58%) CSS
8 78 (14.39%) JSP
9 76 (14.02%) JDBC
10 73 (13.47%) WebSphere
11 68 (12.55%) JMS
12 61 (11.25%) Struts
13 47 (8.672%) GWT
14 41 (7.565%) Servlets
15 40 (7.380%) EJB
16 37 (6.827%) AWT
16 37 (6.827%) SOAP
16 37 (6.827%) XSLT
17 34 (6.273%) OSGi
17 34 (6.273%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 71 (13.10%) Tomcat
2 39 (7.196%) WebLogic
3 33 (6.089%) Apache
4 16 (2.952%) GlassFish
5 7 (1.292%) RabbitMQ
6 6 (1.107%) WebSphere MQ
6 6 (1.107%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.923%) WebSphere Application Server
7 5 (0.923%) SAS
7 5 (0.923%) ESB
7 5 (0.923%) Jetty
8 3 (0.554%) ActiveMQ
8 3 (0.554%) GemFire
8 3 (0.554%) TIBCO EMS
9 1 (0.185%) Rendezvous
9 1 (0.185%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (1.661%) MS Excel
2 3 (0.554%) MS Office
2 3 (0.554%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.185%) Retail-J
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.321%) HTTP
2 14 (2.583%) RTP
3 8 (1.476%) VoIP
4 7 (1.292%) GSM
5 6 (1.107%) Internet
6 5 (0.923%) SSL
7 3 (0.554%) Intranet
7 3 (0.554%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.369%) UPnP
9 1 (0.185%) SSH
9 1 (0.185%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.185%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (12.36%) SQL Server
2 47 (8.672%) MySQL
3 38 (7.011%) RDBMS
4 14 (2.583%) Oracle 10g
5 13 (2.399%) Oracle 8/8i
6 12 (2.214%) Hadoop
7 10 (1.845%) OLTP
8 9 (1.661%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (1.476%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (0.923%) DB2
10 5 (0.923%) Big Data
11 4 (0.738%) Data Mining
11 4 (0.738%) JasperReports
11 4 (0.738%) NonStop SQL
12 3 (0.554%) KDB
13 2 (0.369%) MS Access
13 2 (0.369%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 1 (0.185%) GIS
14 1 (0.185%) Redis
14 1 (0.185%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 121 (22.32%) JUnit
2 104 (19.19%) Eclipse
3 65 (11.99%) Subversion
4 59 (10.89%) Maven
4 59 (10.89%) Eclipse RCP
5 38 (7.011%) Ant
6 23 (4.244%) JIRA
7 20 (3.690%) JProfiler
8 15 (2.768%) QuickTest Pro
9 14 (2.583%) Log4j
10 10 (1.845%) Git (software)
11 9 (1.661%) Hudson
12 8 (1.476%) NetBeans
13 6 (1.107%) Selenium
13 6 (1.107%) Gradle
14 3 (0.554%) Bugzilla
14 3 (0.554%) FishEye
14 3 (0.554%) Mockito
15 2 (0.369%) MyEclipse
15 2 (0.369%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 130 (23.99%) Finance
2 89 (16.42%) Banking
3 70 (12.92%) Front Office
4 35 (6.458%) Investment Banking
5 30 (5.535%) Retail
6 24 (4.428%) Telecoms
7 15 (2.768%) Games
8 12 (2.214%) Financial Institution
9 9 (1.661%) Legal
10 3 (0.554%) Law
10 3 (0.554%) Interactive Media
10 3 (0.554%) Marketing
11 2 (0.369%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.369%) Music
11 2 (0.369%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.369%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.369%) Advertising
11 2 (0.369%) Automotive
11 2 (0.369%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.185%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 416 (76.75%) Developer
2 377 (69.56%) Java Developer
3 79 (14.58%) Senior Developer
4 78 (14.39%) Senior Java Developer
5 72 (13.28%) Software Engineer
6 68 (12.55%) Java Swing Developer
7 65 (11.99%) Java/J2EE Developer
8 51 (9.410%) Java Software Engineer
9 36 (6.642%) Software Developer
9 36 (6.642%) J2EE Developer
10 32 (5.904%) Java Programmer
10 32 (5.904%) Programmer
11 22 (4.059%) Java Software Developer
11 22 (4.059%) Analyst
12 14 (2.583%) Android Developer
12 14 (2.583%) Junior
12 14 (2.583%) Junior Java Developer
12 14 (2.583%) Junior Developer
13 13 (2.399%) Java Analyst Programmer
13 13 (2.399%) Analyst Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 108 (19.93%) Computer Science
2 66 (12.18%) Mathematics
3 55 (10.15%) Fixed Income
4 38 (7.011%) Derivative
4 38 (7.011%) Open Source
5 37 (6.827%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 23 (4.244%) Equities
7 15 (2.768%) Visualisation
8 13 (2.399%) Physics
9 11 (2.030%) Hedge funds
9 11 (2.030%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (1.845%) Mobile App
10 10 (1.845%) Handset
11 9 (1.661%) Grid Computing
12 6 (1.107%) Informatics
12 6 (1.107%) Chemistry
12 6 (1.107%) iPad
12 6 (1.107%) Management Information System
13 5 (0.923%) Social Media
14 4 (0.738%) SWIFT
Operating Systems
1 117 (21.59%) Linux
2 116 (21.40%) UNIX
3 56 (10.33%) Windows
4 22 (4.059%) Android
5 7 (1.292%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.923%) Solaris
7 2 (0.369%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.185%) AIX
8 1 (0.185%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (22.69%) OO
2 114 (21.03%) Agile Software Development
3 98 (18.08%) Multithreading
4 69 (12.73%) TDD
5 68 (12.55%) E-Commerce
6 48 (8.856%) MVC
7 44 (8.118%) UML
8 35 (6.458%) Scrum
9 34 (6.273%) Asset Management
9 34 (6.273%) Portfolio Management
9 34 (6.273%) Unit Testing
10 31 (5.720%) Investment Management
11 30 (5.535%) Web Development
12 29 (5.351%) Risk Management
13 27 (4.982%) BDD
14 25 (4.613%) Continuous Integration
15 22 (4.059%) OOD
16 19 (3.506%) Software Engineering
17 18 (3.321%) SOA
18 17 (3.137%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 542 (100.00%) Java
2 284 (52.40%) SQL
3 87 (16.05%) JavaScript
4 81 (14.94%) C++
5 51 (9.410%) C#
5 51 (9.410%) Shell Script
6 50 (9.225%) Python
7 46 (8.487%) Perl
8 42 (7.749%) PL/SQL
9 23 (4.244%) C
10 20 (3.690%) PHP
11 10 (1.845%) Ruby
12 6 (1.107%) Groovy
13 5 (0.923%) Objective-C
14 4 (0.738%) Lisp
14 4 (0.738%) COBOL
15 3 (0.554%) VB.NET
15 3 (0.554%) MATLAB
15 3 (0.554%) Scala
15 3 (0.554%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 166 (30.63%) Degree
2 24 (4.428%) Security Cleared
3 20 (3.690%) Sun Certification
4 14 (2.583%) SCJP
5 12 (2.214%) DV Cleared
6 11 (2.030%) HND
7 10 (1.845%) SC Cleared
8 8 (1.476%) PhD
9 6 (1.107%) CFA
10 4 (0.738%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.613%) QA
2 5 (0.923%) ISO 9001
3 4 (0.738%) HL7
4 1 (0.185%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (1.292%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (0.554%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (0.554%) Control-M
1 3 (0.554%) Nagios
Vendors
1 197 (36.35%) Oracle
2 63 (11.62%) JBoss
3 41 (7.565%) Sybase
4 18 (3.321%) Sun
5 16 (2.952%) Microsoft
6 10 (1.845%) Google
7 8 (1.476%) Twitter
8 7 (1.292%) VMware
9 6 (1.107%) IBM
9 6 (1.107%) Reuters
9 6 (1.107%) Bloomberg
9 6 (1.107%) HP
10 5 (0.923%) Teradata
10 5 (0.923%) BEA
10 5 (0.923%) TIBCO
10 5 (0.923%) Aprimo
11 3 (0.554%) Calypso
11 3 (0.554%) Fidessa
11 3 (0.554%) GigaSpaces
12 2 (0.369%) Perforce
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Salary: £45000 - £46000 per annum + negotiable
Posted: 22 May 2013
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greywood
Salary: £38000 per annum + Bens
Posted: 8 May 2013
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You must have: Java 6. Knowledge and experience of Swing. HP Quick Test Professional. Automated quality assurance techniques. GUI toolkits. This role offers up £38K depending on experience...
Greywood Associates Limited
Salary: £38000 per annum + Bens
Posted: 21 May 2013
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A leading soft warehouse providing enterprise level software to various FTSE 100 companies are seeking a Java developer to join their highly experience and growing team of 15...
North Point Recruitment
Salary: £35000 per annum + Competitive Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Derby, East Midlands
Java / Javascript / HTML / CSS / Development / developer / programmer / engineer / Strut / J2EE / Swing / Junit / MVC / Derby / Nottingham / Leicester £25K - £30K A thriving software provider urgently requires a Java Developer to...
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
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Java / Javascript / HTML / CSS / Development / developer / programmer / engineer / Strut / J2EE / Swing / Junit / MVC / Derby / Nottingham / Leicester £25K - £30K... Javascript. HTML and CSS. Degree in computer science or equivalent...
Ascent People Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
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Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum
Posted: 25 May 2013
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Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013
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TRG
Salary: 40000 Per Annum Excellent benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
West Yorkshire
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TRG
Salary: £40000 Per Annum Excellent benefits
Posted: 19 May 2013
City, London
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Hatstand Limited
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Hertfordshire
Junior Java developer | 27k + competitive benefits | Hertfordshire. A leading soft warehouse providing enterprise level software to various FTSE 100 companies are seeking a Junior Java developer to join...
North Point Recruitment
Salary: £27000 per annum + Competitive Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Hertfordshire, South East
The company develops business intelligence software for clients in the pharmaceutical and engineering industries and are well established with a good reputation. We are currently working with them...
DP Connect Ltd
Salary: £20000 - £25000 per annum
Posted: 14 May 2013
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Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + pension, healthcare
Posted: 18 May 2013
City, London
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iKas International
Salary: £45000 - £75000 per annum + bonus + package
Posted: 24 May 2013
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Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + bonus + benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland
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Cathcart Associates
Salary: £33000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 11 May 2013
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IT Connections
Salary: to £35,000
Posted: 24 May 2013
Guildford, South East
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JAM
Salary: negotiable
Posted: 13 May 2013
City, London
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iKas International
Salary: £55000 - £80000 per annum + bonus + package
Posted: 24 May 2013
Bournemouth
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Ageas 50
Salary: Up to £50,000 plus benefits
Posted: 25 May 2013
Bournemouth, Dorset
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Ageas 50
Salary: Up to £30,000 per annum plus benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
Hertford, South East
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Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 1 May 2013
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Salary: Up to £30,000 plus relocation assistance & benefits
Posted: 25 May 2013
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Hatstand Limited
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + BONUS,LIFE INS,PENSION
Posted: 22 May 2013