Swing Contracts in the North of England

Java Swing
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Swing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Swing over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 171 - 201
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Swing 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.054% - 0.018%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.28% - 0.095%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £525
75th Percentile - - £563
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £540 - £575
% change year-on-year - - -18.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 722 890 1,056
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 19.52% 18.49% 19.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 527 585 818
10th Percentile £349 £350 £363
25th Percentile £388 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.65% -3.43% +1.94%
75th Percentile £545 £600 £600
90th Percentile £625 £720 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 28 8
10th Percentile £46.00 £18.70 £37.78
25th Percentile - £37.63 £44.08
Median hourly rate £70.00 £46.18 £48.09
Median % change year-on-year +51.58% -3.97% -28.76%
75th Percentile £88.75 £71.59 £63.75
90th Percentile £94.63 £73.10 -
England median hourly rate £57.63 £58.15 £65.00
% change year-on-year -0.90% -10.54% +22.64%

Swing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Swing in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Swing in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Swing in the North of England

Swing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Swing in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Swing in the North of England

Swing
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 4 July 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
North West - 2 £550 -
Swing
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 (50.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Ant
2 1 (50.00%) Artifactory
2 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (50.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Gradle
2 1 (50.00%) IntelliJ
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Maven
2 1 (50.00%) NUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (50.00%) Rational Rhapsody
2 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (50.00%) ADO.NET
2 1 (50.00%) Ajax
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) EJB
2 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) J2EE
2 1 (50.00%) JavaBeans
2 1 (50.00%) JavaFX
2 1 (50.00%) JDBC
2 1 (50.00%) JMS
2 1 (50.00%) JSP
2 1 (50.00%) JSTL
2 1 (50.00%) Struts
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) WinForms
2 1 (50.00%) XML
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Dependency Management
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) OOD
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Refactoring
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Management
2 1 (50.00%) Software Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Test Management
2 1 (50.00%) UML
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Atlassian