AWT Contract Job Trends

Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring AWT skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 583 551 -
Rank change year-on-year -32 - -
Contract jobs citing AWT 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.011% 0.003% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.048% 0.013% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £775 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

AWT 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,286 7,543 9,692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.52% 21.92% 22.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,488 4,801 6,886
10th Percentile £352 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 101 175
10th Percentile £30.70 £21.25 £31.55
25th Percentile £43.00 £36.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.40% +14.68% -16.15%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.87 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.25 £65.00 £52.20
% change year-on-year -1.15% +24.53% -19.70%

AWT
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWT relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

AWT job vacancy trend in the UK

AWT
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing AWT.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing AWT

AWT
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing AWT.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing AWT

AWT
Top 2 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWT within the UK over the 6 months to 17 December 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 -4 4 - -
England -35 4 - -

AWT
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 4 (100.00%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Middleware Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Messaging Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Unix Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Java Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Unix Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) GWT
1 4 (100.00%) JMS
1 4 (100.00%) Kafka
1 4 (100.00%) Rendezvous
1 4 (100.00%) TIBCO EMS
2 3 (75.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Equities
2 3 (75.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 4 (100.00%) Garbage Collection
1 4 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 4 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 4 (100.00%) OO
1 4 (100.00%) OOD
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Google
1 4 (100.00%) TIBCO