Swing Contracts

Java Swing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 517 - 685
Rank change year-on-year - - +144
Contract jobs citing Swing 6 0 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.020% - 0.034%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.090% - 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 13
10th Percentile £538 - £470
25th Percentile £551 - £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £578 - £725
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.41%
75th Percentile £611 - £775
90th Percentile £627 - £805
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,672 8,930 13,505
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.69% 20.74% 23.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,580 6,199 9,844
10th Percentile £363 £343 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.69% -2.91% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £776 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 242 154
10th Percentile £29.55 £21.25 £30.23
25th Percentile £50.27 £43.00 £50.01
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.65%
75th Percentile £68.56 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.70 £74.95 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.50
% change year-on-year +36.84% -26.36% +31.63%

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 10 May 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 - 5 £578 - 3
England - 5 £578 - 4
Work from Home - 4 £578 - 4

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) MQSeries
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) RDBMS
1 4 (66.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
1 1 (16.67%) Eclipse
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) IntelliJ
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) Maven
General
1 6 (100.00%) Front Office
2 3 (50.00%) Banking
2 3 (50.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Finance
4 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 5 (83.33%) Java Developer
2 5 (83.33%) Java Swing Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Investment Banking Java Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (16.67%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Middleware
1 4 (66.67%) XML
2 2 (33.33%) Rendezvous
3 1 (16.67%) AWT
3 1 (16.67%) JavaFX
3 1 (16.67%) JPA
3 1 (16.67%) RESTful
3 1 (16.67%) Spring
3 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Distributed Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Distributed Architecture
1 4 (66.67%) Fixed Income
1 4 (66.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (50.00%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Design Patterns
1 4 (66.67%) High Availability
1 4 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
1 4 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (33.33%) Low Latency
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) BDD
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Software Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (66.67%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) Perl
3 2 (33.33%) Python
3 2 (33.33%) Ruby
3 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) IBM
1 2 (33.33%) Sybase
1 2 (33.33%) TIBCO