Swing Contracts

Java Swing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Swing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Swing over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 585 694 834
Rank change year-on-year +109 +140 -177
Contract jobs citing Swing 1 22 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% 0.036% 0.023%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.011% 0.16% 0.086%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 15 11
10th Percentile - £463 £600
25th Percentile - £481 £635
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £700 £680
Median % change year-on-year - +2.94% +36.00%
75th Percentile - £775 £695
90th Percentile - £798 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £420

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Swing is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,931 14,159 24,504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.46% 23.34% 27.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,208 10,343 18,013
10th Percentile £337 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £653
90th Percentile £768 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +16.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 150 252
10th Percentile £20.77 £29.58 £21.10
25th Percentile £37.35 £45.31 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year -24.00% +27.55% +8.89%

Swing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Swing in the UK

Swing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Swing.

Daily rate trend for Swing in the UK

Swing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Swing.

Hourly rate trend for Swing in the UK

Swing
Top 3 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. 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
Work from Home +122 1 - -
England +95 1 - -
London +88 1 - -

Swing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSD
1 1 (100.00%) XSLT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript