Swing Contract Job Trends in England

Java Swing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Swing skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 503 524 584
Rank change year-on-year +21 +60 +184
Contract jobs citing Swing 6 2 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.022% 0.006% 0.019%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.098% 0.027% 0.085%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 7
10th Percentile - - £434
25th Percentile £530 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £495 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.71% -25.00%
75th Percentile £640 - £588
90th Percentile £803 - £625
UK median daily rate £540 £495 £525
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.71% -25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Swing falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,097 7,292 9,385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.28% 22.37% 21.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,129 4,834 6,898
10th Percentile £350 £357 £375
25th Percentile £410 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £676
90th Percentile £750 £813 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 176 166
10th Percentile £31.25 £27.38 £36.40
25th Percentile £42.88 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.35 £62.93 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year -13.63% +2.74% -2.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £73.70
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.47 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -14.77% +2.67% -

Swing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Swing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Swing in England

Swing
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Swing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Swing

Swing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Swing in England over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Swing in England

Swing
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Swing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Swing

Swing
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Swing within the England region over the 6 months to 15 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +21 4 £530 +7.07% 4
North West - 2 £550 -
North of England - 2 £550 -
Swing
UK

Swing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Kerberos
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Eclipse
1 3 (50.00%) Git
1 3 (50.00%) IntelliJ
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (50.00%) Maven
2 2 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 2 (33.33%) JUnit
3 1 (16.67%) Ant
3 1 (16.67%) Artifactory
3 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
3 1 (16.67%) Gradle
3 1 (16.67%) JIRA
3 1 (16.67%) NUnit
3 1 (16.67%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (16.67%) Rational Rhapsody
3 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Front Office
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 3 (50.00%) UI Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Java Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) JavaFX
1 4 (66.67%) Spring
2 3 (50.00%) Web Services
3 2 (33.33%) AWT
3 2 (33.33%) JPA
3 2 (33.33%) RESTful
3 2 (33.33%) Spring Boot
4 1 (16.67%) .NET Core
4 1 (16.67%) ADO.NET
4 1 (16.67%) Ajax
4 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
4 1 (16.67%) EJB
4 1 (16.67%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
4 1 (16.67%) JavaBeans
4 1 (16.67%) JDBC
4 1 (16.67%) JMS
4 1 (16.67%) JSTL
4 1 (16.67%) WinForms
4 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Client/Server
1 2 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Software Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) BDD
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Electronic Trading
4 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Kanban
4 1 (16.67%) Mathematics
4 1 (16.67%) Multithreading
4 1 (16.67%) Refactoring
4 1 (16.67%) Requirements Management
4 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
4 1 (16.67%) Scrum
4 1 (16.67%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (16.67%) Postgraduate
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Atlassian