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This section looks at the demand for Swing (Java) skills across the UK 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 last 3 months to 9 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkSwing (Java)
Location
3 months to 9 May 2008Same period last year
Rank348256
Rank change on same period last yearDown-92
Matching permanent IT job ads10041599
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.489 %0.715 %
As % of the category below1.524 %2.239 %
Salaries quoted8171294
Average minimum salary£42,265£46,462
Average salary£47,171£51,934
% change on same period last year-9.17 %
Average maximum salary£52,077£57,406
UK excluding London average salary£36,879£37,084
% change on same period last year-0.55 %
Application Development UKApplication Development
UK
Matching permanent IT job ads6588071417
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled32.11 %31.91 %
Salaries quoted5587158773
Average minimum salary£37,334£38,453
Average salary£41,047£42,292
% change on same period last year-2.94 %
Average maximum salary£44,760£46,131
UK excluding London average salary£36,011£36,651
% change on same period last year-1.74 %

Swing
Demand Trend

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

Swing Demand Trend

Swing
Salary Trend

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

Swing Salary Trend

Swing
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Swing across the UK over the past 3 months.

Swing Salary Histogram

Swing
Top 30 Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Swing within the UK over the past 3 months.

RankLocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
1EnglandDown-83973£47,679-9.77 %
2LondonDown-89564£56,532-4.29 %
3City of LondonDown-79158£59,970-0.17 %
4South EastDown-24153£38,653-2.29 %
5South WestUp+1378£38,328+19.55 %
6YorkshireDown-1271£33,506-1.52 %
7BerkshireUp+1962£37,661-4.57 %
8East of EnglandDown-1550£38,967+9.57 %
9HampshireDown-5440£38,064+6.51 %
10SurreyUp+1837£40,214-11.41 %
11North YorkshireUp+634£33,680+11.64 %
12West YorkshireDown-2832£33,030-4.72 %
13DorsetNew entry-30£45,658-
14SloughUp+628£34,241+8.05 %
15LeedsDown-4127£35,037-0.55 %
16GloucestershireDown-126£33,519-16.20 %
16BournemouthNew entry-26£46,167-
17CambridgeshireDown-1425£40,333+2.82 %
18CheltenhamNew entry-23£34,357-
18Canary WharfUp+823£58,409-9.44 %
19CambridgeDown-219£38,472-5.35 %
20EalingNew entry-18£49,861-
20West MidlandsDown-718£40,895+7.26 %
21East MidlandsUp+1117£34,389-42.68 %
21North WestUp+1417£35,556-3.90 %
21HarrogateNew entry-17£38,750-
22SouthamptonDown-716£39,400+12.57 %
22Docklands, LondonDown-816£59,063-10.84 %
23HertfordshireUp+615£38,500+44.19 %
24ScotlandNo change014£25,591-27.24 %

Swing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the UK citing Swing also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Swing.

12298 (100.00 %)Java
2919 (39.99 %)J2EE
3830 (36.12 %)SQL
4784 (34.12 %)Finance
5631 (27.46 %)Banking
6556 (24.19 %)XML
7505 (21.98 %)J2SE
8504 (21.93 %)Oracle
9442 (19.23 %)JSP
10438 (19.06 %)Spring
11428 (18.62 %)OO
12419 (18.23 %)Unix
13415 (18.06 %)Hibernate
14397 (17.28 %)Degree
15392 (17.06 %)Front Office
16373 (16.23 %)Derivative
17364 (15.84 %)JDBC
18353 (15.36 %)UML
19339 (14.75 %)Investment Banking
20338 (14.71 %)Linux
21313 (13.62 %)JUnit
22294 (12.79 %)Sybase
23261 (11.36 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
24254 (11.05 %)Ant
25250 (10.88 %)JMS
26249 (10.84 %)EJB
27247 (10.75 %)C++
28243 (10.57 %)Struts
29221 (9.617 %)Eclipse
30219 (9.530 %)Servlets

Swing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the UK citing Swing also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Swing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1919 (39.99 %)J2EE
2556 (24.19 %)XML
3505 (21.98 %)J2SE
4442 (19.23 %)JSP
5438 (19.06 %)Spring
6415 (18.06 %)Hibernate
7364 (15.84 %)JDBC
8250 (10.88 %)JMS
9249 (10.84 %)EJB
10243 (10.57 %)Struts
11219 (9.530 %)Servlets
12206 (8.964 %)HTML
13143 (6.223 %)AWT
14128 (5.570 %)WebServices
15108 (4.700 %).NET
1698 (4.265 %)WebSphere
1796 (4.178 %)Java RMI
1895 (4.134 %)XSLT
1985 (3.699 %)SOAP
2077 (3.351 %)JavaBeans
Application Platforms
1171 (7.441 %)JBoss
2137 (5.962 %)WebLogic
3109 (4.743 %)Apache
4103 (4.482 %)Tomcat
529 (1.262 %)IIS
622 (0.957 %)WebSphere Application Server
720 (0.870 %)WebSphere MQ
818 (0.783 %)SmartSockets
818 (0.783 %)MQSeries
915 (0.653 %)Oracle Application Server
1014 (0.609 %)SonicMQ
1113 (0.566 %)TIBCO EMS
127 (0.305 %)Rendezvous
135 (0.218 %)WebLogic Portal
135 (0.218 %)CMS
144 (0.174 %)ATG Dynamo
153 (0.131 %)ActiveMQ
162 (0.087 %)JRun
162 (0.087 %)Jetty
171 (0.044 %)Alfresco
Applications
111 (0.479 %)MS Excel
27 (0.305 %)Quicktime
36 (0.261 %)MS Office
45 (0.218 %)MS Visio
54 (0.174 %)SPSS
Business Applications
125 (1.088 %)RMDS
217 (0.740 %)Summit
311 (0.479 %)Fidessa
42 (0.087 %)Retail-J
51 (0.044 %)MarketView
Communications & Networking
1104 (4.526 %)Internet
224 (1.044 %)TCP/IP
319 (0.827 %)Broadband
415 (0.653 %)HTTPS
512 (0.522 %)SSL
69 (0.392 %)HTTP
78 (0.348 %)LDAP
87 (0.305 %)FTP
87 (0.305 %)Intranet
96 (0.261 %)WINS
103 (0.131 %)SMS
103 (0.131 %)DAB
112 (0.087 %)Wireless
112 (0.087 %)3G
112 (0.087 %)SSH
112 (0.087 %)DHCP
112 (0.087 %)DNS
121 (0.044 %)2G
Database & Business Intelligence
1205 (8.921 %)RDBMS
2187 (8.138 %)SQL Server
360 (2.611 %)MySQL
458 (2.524 %)DB2
527 (1.175 %)InterSystems Cache
623 (1.001 %)SQL Server 2000
722 (0.957 %)Oracle 8/8i
821 (0.914 %)Oracle 9i
918 (0.783 %)Informix
1017 (0.740 %)Oracle 10g
116 (0.261 %)SQL Server 7
116 (0.261 %)GIS
116 (0.261 %)Oracle Reports
125 (0.218 %)Datawarehouse
125 (0.218 %)Text Mining
133 (0.131 %)JasperReports
133 (0.131 %)Data Mining
142 (0.087 %)TOAD
151 (0.044 %)SQL Server 2005
151 (0.044 %)Reference Data
Development Applications
1313 (13.62 %)JUnit
2254 (11.05 %)Ant
3221 (9.617 %)Eclipse
467 (2.916 %)Subversion
559 (2.567 %)ClearCase
624 (1.044 %)JDeveloper
723 (1.001 %)Flash
815 (0.653 %)Oracle Forms
815 (0.653 %)NUnit
911 (0.479 %)Log4j
108 (0.348 %)VSS/SourceSafe
116 (0.261 %)JBuilder
116 (0.261 %)Rational Rose
116 (0.261 %)PVCS
125 (0.218 %)XDE
134 (0.174 %)IntelliJ
143 (0.131 %)ClearQuest
143 (0.131 %)JProbe
143 (0.131 %)CruiseControl
152 (0.087 %)JIRA
General
1784 (34.12 %)Finance
2631 (27.46 %)Banking
3392 (17.06 %)Front Office
4339 (14.75 %)Investment Banking
551 (2.219 %)Retail
551 (2.219 %)Education
644 (1.915 %)Financial Institution
742 (1.828 %)Health
742 (1.828 %)Pensions
841 (1.784 %)Marketing
935 (1.523 %)Insurance
1031 (1.349 %)Games
1031 (1.349 %)Government
1127 (1.175 %)Telecoms
1216 (0.696 %)Pharmaceutical
1315 (0.653 %)Construction
1414 (0.609 %)Graphic Design
1511 (0.479 %)Back Office
1610 (0.435 %)Retail Banking
178 (0.348 %)Online Games
Job Titles
11946 (84.68 %)Developer
21751 (76.20 %)Java Developer
3691 (30.07 %)Java Swing Developer
4272 (11.84 %)Senior Developer
5240 (10.44 %)Java/J2EE Developer
6236 (10.27 %)Senior Java Developer
7192 (8.355 %)J2EE Developer
8145 (6.310 %)Analyst
9124 (5.396 %)Software Engineer
10102 (4.439 %)Programmer
1187 (3.786 %)Software Developer
1280 (3.481 %)Java Programmer
1369 (3.003 %)Java Software Engineer
1463 (2.742 %)Analyst Developer
1463 (2.742 %)Team Leader
1463 (2.742 %)Java Software Developer
1560 (2.611 %)Java Team Leader
1648 (2.089 %)Analyst Programmer
1746 (2.002 %)GUI Developer
1845 (1.958 %)Front Office Developer
Miscellaneous
1373 (16.23 %)Derivative
2261 (11.36 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
3183 (7.963 %)Multithreading
4179 (7.789 %)Fixed Income
5177 (7.702 %)Computer Science
6137 (5.962 %)Equities
792 (4.003 %)Credit Derivative
858 (2.524 %)Mathematics
953 (2.306 %)Client/Server
1042 (1.828 %)Interest Rate Derivative
1138 (1.654 %)Hybrid Derivative
1232 (1.393 %)Physics
1232 (1.393 %)Grid Computing
1324 (1.044 %)Equity Derivative
1422 (0.957 %)Spread Betting
1422 (0.957 %)Asset Management
1422 (0.957 %)N-Tier
1519 (0.827 %)MPEG
1616 (0.696 %)Market Risk
1713 (0.566 %)Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1419 (18.23 %)Unix
2338 (14.71 %)Linux
3149 (6.484 %)Windows
450 (2.176 %)Solaris
535 (1.523 %)Windows XP
613 (0.566 %)Windows NT
710 (0.435 %)AIX
86 (0.261 %)HPUX
94 (0.174 %)Mac OS X
101 (0.044 %)Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1428 (18.62 %)OO
2353 (15.36 %)UML
3199 (8.660 %)Agile Software Development
489 (3.873 %)E-Commerce
572 (3.133 %)OOA/OOD
572 (3.133 %)Algorithmic Trading
664 (2.785 %)RUP
761 (2.654 %)Electronic Trading
859 (2.567 %)OOD
957 (2.480 %)Unit Testing
1054 (2.350 %)MVC
1145 (1.958 %)Software Engineering
1240 (1.741 %)Risk Management
1334 (1.480 %)OOP
1334 (1.480 %)Extreme Programming
1431 (1.349 %)Web Development
1528 (1.218 %)Project Management
1627 (1.175 %)Continuous Integration
1726 (1.131 %)Scrum
1824 (1.044 %)EAI
Programming Languages
12298 (100.00 %)Java
2830 (36.12 %)SQL
3247 (10.75 %)C++
4170 (7.398 %)JavaScript
5160 (6.963 %)C#
696 (4.178 %)C
773 (3.177 %)PL/SQL
861 (2.654 %)PHP
952 (2.263 %)Perl
1047 (2.045 %)VB
1125 (1.088 %)Delphi
1220 (0.870 %)Ruby
1319 (0.827 %)MUMPS
1417 (0.740 %)DHTML
1417 (0.740 %)Shell Script
1513 (0.566 %)Transact-SQL
1610 (0.435 %)VBA
177 (0.305 %)VC++
177 (0.305 %)Python
177 (0.305 %)ActionScript
Qualifications
1397 (17.28 %)Degree
226 (1.131 %)Sun Certification
34 (0.174 %)PhD
43 (0.131 %)MCPD
52 (0.087 %)HND
52 (0.087 %)Postgraduate
61 (0.044 %)Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
110 (0.435 %)QA
27 (0.305 %)SLA
32 (0.087 %)TickIT
32 (0.087 %)ISO9001
System Software
111 (0.479 %)AquaLogic
23 (0.131 %)Oracle RAC
31 (0.044 %)Active Directory
31 (0.044 %)Xen
Systems Management
118 (0.783 %)AutoSys
214 (0.609 %)MOM
31 (0.044 %)CONTROL-M
Vendors
1504 (21.93 %)Oracle
2294 (12.79 %)Sybase
356 (2.437 %)TIBCO
445 (1.958 %)Microsoft
543 (1.871 %)BEA
642 (1.828 %)IBM
737 (1.610 %)Sun
830 (1.305 %)Calypso
925 (1.088 %)InterSystems
1022 (0.957 %)Red Hat
1116 (0.696 %)webMethods
1214 (0.609 %)Portware
1214 (0.609 %)Murex
1313 (0.566 %)Tangosol
149 (0.392 %)Mercator
158 (0.348 %)Perforce
158 (0.348 %)Adobe
167 (0.305 %)Reuters
176 (0.261 %)GigaSpaces
184 (0.174 %)ATG
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