The first part of the 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 22 May 2012 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.

Swing (Java)
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank397386299
Rank change year-on-year
Down-11Down-87
Matching permanent IT job ads630642637
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK0.522 %0.524 %0.667 %
As % of the Application Development category1.250 %1.307 %1.749 %
Number of salaries quoted547534546
Average salary£50,000£50,000£62,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
--20.00 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£32,500£30,000£31,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£82,500£80,000£78,950
UK excluding London average salary£45,000£38,000£32,500
% change year-on-year
+18.42 %+16.92 %
IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
504084911936413
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK41.80 %40.06 %38.14 %
Number of salaries quoted447934339731363
Average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£28,000£27,500£27,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£62,500£67,500£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14 %-

Swing
Demand Trend

The 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 Demand Trend

Swing
Salary Trend

The 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

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Swing over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 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 22 May 2012. 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
EnglandDown-15608£50,000-
LondonDown-70313£65,000+8.33 %
East of EnglandUp+54101£45,000+21.62 %
South EastDown-5100£50,000-
City of LondonDown-4575£70,000+16.66 %
EssexUp+2665£50,000+42.85 %
South WestUp+456£47,500+46.15 %
SurreyUp+854£50,000+14.28 %
HarlowNew entry-42£57,500-
GloucestershireUp+230£40,000+23.07 %
CambridgeshireUp+320£39,750+7.43 %
North WestDown-720£33,000+12.82 %
WiltshireUp+1119£50,000-13.79 %
HampshireDown-1418£62,500-
WarminsterNew entry-18£50,000-
BerkshireDown-3015£50,000-
HertfordshireUp+2513£42,500+25.92 %
ScotlandUp+1513£30,000-13.04 %
ReadingDown-1413£50,000-
SussexNew entry-13£50,000-
CambridgeUp+812£37,500+25.00 %
West MidlandsDown-1512£45,000+12.50 %
CheltenhamNew entry-11£42,500-
CheshireDown-1410£36,750+33.63 %
Milton KeynesNew entry-10£32,500-
BuckinghamshireNew entry-10£32,500-
RedhillNo change09£50,000+5.26 %
HertfordDown-49£22,500-35.71 %
SouthamptonDown-309£62,500-
EdinburghUp+177£30,000-1.63 %

Swing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, 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.

11387 (100.00 %)Java
2630 (45.42 %)J2EE
3568 (40.95 %)Oracle
4560 (40.37 %)Spring
5495 (35.69 %)Hibernate
6475 (34.25 %)SQL
7472 (34.03 %)Degree
8425 (30.64 %)OO
9381 (27.47 %)Multithreading
10340 (24.51 %)JBoss
11335 (24.15 %)XML
12328 (23.65 %)JUnit
13327 (23.58 %)Finance
14323 (23.29 %)UNIX
15273 (19.68 %)Web Services
16265 (19.11 %)UML
17258 (18.60 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
18242 (17.45 %)SQL Server
19231 (16.65 %)Banking
20230 (16.58 %)JavaScript
21229 (16.51 %)Maven
22225 (16.22 %)TDD
23209 (15.07 %)JDBC
24204 (14.71 %)Ant
25198 (14.28 %)Eclipse
26193 (13.91 %)J2SE
27185 (13.34 %)JSP
28181 (13.05 %)Struts
29179 (12.91 %)PL/SQL
30173 (12.47 %)REST

Swing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1630 (45.42 %)J2EE
2560 (40.37 %)Spring
3495 (35.69 %)Hibernate
4335 (24.15 %)XML
5273 (19.68 %)Web Services
6209 (15.07 %)JDBC
7193 (13.91 %)J2SE
8185 (13.34 %)JSP
9181 (13.05 %)Struts
10173 (12.47 %)REST
11170 (12.26 %)HTML
12151 (10.89 %)SOAP
13150 (10.81 %)GWT
14142 (10.24 %)CSS
15119 (8.580 %)WebSphere
16115 (8.291 %)Servlets
17106 (7.642 %)JMS
17106 (7.642 %)Ajax
1898 (7.066 %)EJB
1966 (4.758 %)Flash
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1118 (8.508 %)ESB
2106 (7.642 %)Tomcat
383 (5.984 %)WebLogic
462 (4.470 %)Jetty
552 (3.749 %)Apache
649 (3.533 %)GlassFish
733 (2.379 %)WebSphere Application Server
827 (1.947 %)JRun
827 (1.947 %)SharePoint
827 (1.947 %)Documentum
827 (1.947 %)Mule
925 (1.802 %)MediaWiki
1013 (0.937 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
1013 (0.937 %)WebSphere MQ
1112 (0.865 %)TIBCO EMS
1211 (0.793 %)MQSeries
139 (0.649 %)CMS
139 (0.649 %)Liferay
146 (0.433 %)Oracle Workflow
155 (0.360 %)SonicMQ
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
127 (1.947 %)MS Office
225 (1.802 %)Google Apps
315 (1.081 %)MS Excel
49 (0.649 %)MS Visio
49 (0.649 %)MATLAB
55 (0.360 %)MS Project
63 (0.216 %)Doxygen
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
117 (1.226 %)ION MarketView
27 (0.505 %)Oracle BPM
31 (0.072 %)RMDS
31 (0.072 %)Advent Geneva
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
126 (1.875 %)HTTP
220 (1.442 %)TCP/IP
314 (1.009 %)Internet
411 (0.793 %)SSL
57 (0.505 %)SSH
66 (0.433 %)Wireless
72 (0.144 %)3GPP
72 (0.144 %)LTE
72 (0.144 %)AMQP
72 (0.144 %)4G
81 (0.072 %)GPRS
81 (0.072 %)GSM
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1242 (17.45 %)SQL Server
299 (7.138 %)MySQL
373 (5.263 %)Oracle 10g
447 (3.389 %)RDBMS
528 (2.019 %)Hadoop
625 (1.802 %)HSQLDB
625 (1.802 %)Data Mining
625 (1.802 %)Text Mining
716 (1.154 %)GIS
813 (0.937 %)Oracle 8/8i
912 (0.865 %)OLTP
109 (0.649 %)DB2
118 (0.577 %)SQL Server 2008
126 (0.433 %)SQL Server Integration Services
126 (0.433 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
134 (0.288 %)Oracle 11g
142 (0.144 %)SQL Server 2005
142 (0.144 %)OLAP
142 (0.144 %)Crystal Reports
142 (0.144 %)Oracle Reports
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1328 (23.65 %)JUnit
2229 (16.51 %)Maven
3204 (14.71 %)Ant
4198 (14.28 %)Eclipse
598 (7.066 %)Subversion
681 (5.840 %)ClearCase
757 (4.110 %)JIRA
839 (2.812 %)Bugzilla
934 (2.451 %)Selenium
1033 (2.379 %)Eclipse RCP
1129 (2.091 %)Mercurial
1228 (2.019 %)Visual Studio
1327 (1.947 %)Mockito
1327 (1.947 %)GCC
1327 (1.947 %)TeamCity
1426 (1.875 %)ProC
1525 (1.802 %)VSS/SourceSafe
1525 (1.802 %)JProfiler
1525 (1.802 %)SCons
1525 (1.802 %)GoogleTest
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1327 (23.58 %)Finance
2231 (16.65 %)Banking
3144 (10.38 %)Front Office
461 (4.398 %)Investment Banking
548 (3.461 %)Retail
645 (3.244 %)Telecoms
732 (2.307 %)Advertising
826 (1.875 %)Financial Institution
922 (1.586 %)Manufacturing
1012 (0.865 %)Pharmaceutical
1110 (0.721 %)Automotive
129 (0.649 %)Games
134 (0.288 %)Marketing
143 (0.216 %)Military
143 (0.216 %)Legal
143 (0.216 %)Back Office
152 (0.144 %)Electronics
161 (0.072 %)Aerospace
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
11105 (79.67 %)Developer
21006 (72.53 %)Java Developer
3350 (25.23 %)Java Swing Developer
4255 (18.39 %)Senior Developer
5229 (16.51 %)Senior Java Developer
6221 (15.93 %)Java/J2EE Developer
7170 (12.26 %)Software Engineer
891 (6.561 %)Software Developer
975 (5.407 %)J2EE Developer
1066 (4.758 %)Java Software Engineer
1147 (3.389 %)Java Software Developer
1238 (2.740 %)Junior Developer
1238 (2.740 %)Junior
1337 (2.668 %)Architect
1431 (2.235 %)Junior Java Developer
1529 (2.091 %)Systems Developer
1625 (1.802 %)Software Development Engineer
1625 (1.802 %)Development Engineer
1724 (1.730 %)Senior Software Engineer
1724 (1.730 %)Programmer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1258 (18.60 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
2137 (9.877 %)Computer Science
385 (6.128 %)Fixed Income
468 (4.903 %)Visualisation
554 (3.893 %)Mathematics
651 (3.677 %)Equities
746 (3.317 %)Open Source
842 (3.028 %)Derivative
930 (2.163 %)Grid Computing
1029 (2.091 %)Hedge funds
1125 (1.802 %)Semantic Web
1224 (1.730 %)Digital Media
1323 (1.658 %)N-Tier
1323 (1.658 %)Blackberry
1413 (0.937 %)Spread Betting
1511 (0.793 %)Client/Server
169 (0.649 %)Data Protection Act
169 (0.649 %)Clustering
169 (0.649 %)Credit Derivative
169 (0.649 %)New Media
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1323 (23.29 %)UNIX
2158 (11.39 %)Linux
3122 (8.796 %)Windows
420 (1.442 %)Android
519 (1.370 %)Windows Mobile
618 (1.298 %)Solaris
713 (0.937 %)AIX
812 (0.865 %)BlackBerry OS
99 (0.649 %)Apple iOS
108 (0.577 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1425 (30.64 %)OO
2381 (27.47 %)Multithreading
3265 (19.11 %)UML
4225 (16.22 %)TDD
5149 (10.74 %)Agile Software Development
6137 (9.877 %)SOA
7130 (9.373 %)Scrum
8119 (8.580 %)Electronic Trading
9105 (7.570 %)E-Commerce
1099 (7.138 %)Software Architecture
1194 (6.777 %)MVC
1281 (5.840 %)Project Management
1375 (5.407 %)OOP
1465 (4.686 %)Waterfall
1563 (4.542 %)OOD
1659 (4.254 %)Automated Testing
1755 (3.965 %)Unit Testing
1848 (3.461 %)Web Development
1945 (3.244 %)Software Engineering
2043 (3.100 %)OOA/OOD
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11387 (100.00 %)Java
2475 (34.25 %)SQL
3230 (16.58 %)JavaScript
4179 (12.91 %)PL/SQL
5153 (11.03 %)C++
6139 (10.02 %)C
7113 (8.147 %)C#
881 (5.840 %)Perl
943 (3.100 %)Python
1031 (2.235 %)Shell Script
1130 (2.163 %)T-SQL
1228 (2.019 %)PHP
1325 (1.802 %)SPARQL
1424 (1.730 %)ActionScript
1522 (1.586 %)ActionScript 3.0
1620 (1.442 %)Ruby
1717 (1.226 %)XPath
188 (0.577 %)Objective-C
195 (0.360 %)Groovy
204 (0.288 %)Scala
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1472 (34.03 %)Degree
2130 (9.373 %)Security Cleared
371 (5.119 %)SC Cleared
423 (1.658 %)Postgraduate
521 (1.514 %)Sun Certification
68 (0.577 %)SCJP
68 (0.577 %)HNC
68 (0.577 %)HND
77 (0.505 %)PhD
86 (0.433 %)DV Cleared
93 (0.216 %)BC Cleared
93 (0.216 %)SCJA
102 (0.144 %)Six Sigma Green Belt
102 (0.144 %)Oracle Certification
111 (0.072 %)PMI Certification
111 (0.072 %)OCP
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
156 (4.037 %)QA
27 (0.505 %)ISO 9001
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
12 (0.144 %)Oracle RAC
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1568 (40.95 %)Oracle
2340 (24.51 %)JBoss
3137 (9.877 %)Sybase
452 (3.749 %)Microsoft
544 (3.172 %)Google
641 (2.956 %)ATG
722 (1.586 %)HP
820 (1.442 %)Sun
917 (1.226 %)IBM
917 (1.226 %)ION Trading
1015 (1.081 %)TIBCO
119 (0.649 %)Reuters
119 (0.649 %)Bloomberg
126 (0.433 %)Red Hat
134 (0.288 %)Perforce
143 (0.216 %)Adobe
143 (0.216 %)SAP
152 (0.144 %)BEA
152 (0.144 %)Terracotta
152 (0.144 %)Atlassian