Swing Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Java Swing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Swing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 390 - 417
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Swing 2 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.012% - 0.024%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.063% - 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £422
25th Percentile - - £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £500
75th Percentile - - £553
90th Percentile - - £559
UK median daily rate £550 £495 £513
% change year-on-year +11.11% -3.41% -28.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,199 2,885 3,740
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 19.13% 17.34% 18.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,119 1,762 2,626
10th Percentile £317 £325 £325
25th Percentile £400 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £678
UK median daily rate £505 £549 £550
% change year-on-year -7.94% -0.26% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 92 145
10th Percentile £30.95 £25.14 £45.11
25th Percentile £43.00 £46.18 £46.18
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +19.13% -16.06%
75th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £73.53 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -16.92% +18.18% -15.38%

Swing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Swing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Swing job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Swing
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Swing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Swing

Swing
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Swing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Swing

Swing
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Swing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 November 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 -
North of England - 2 £550 -
Swing
UK

Swing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

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