Swing Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Java Swing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 344 473
Rank change year-on-year +43 +129 +150
Contract jobs citing Swing 3 1 4
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.030% 0.007% 0.015%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.12% 0.027% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £504
25th Percentile £613 - £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £545
Median % change year-on-year - - -22.14%
75th Percentile £638 - £636
90th Percentile - - £675
UK median daily rate £625 - £713
% change year-on-year - - +5.56%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options 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 2,564 3,665 6,520
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.89% 23.88% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,870 2,555 4,857
10th Percentile £365 £331 £395
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -0.46%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £825 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 93 80
10th Percentile £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £42.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -32.02% +29.08%
75th Percentile £70.25 £62.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Swing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Swing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Swing trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Swing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Swing.

Swing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Swing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) RDBMS
1 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
General
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
1 3 (100.00%) Front Office
1 3 (100.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Java Swing Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Investment Banking Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Middleware
1 2 (66.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Distributed Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Distributed Architecture
1 2 (66.67%) Fixed Income
1 2 (66.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Design Patterns
1 2 (66.67%) High Availability
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) Perl
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Ruby
2 2 (66.67%) SQL