Swing Job Trends in Scotland

Java Swing
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Swing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Swing 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.037% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.31% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 - -
75th Percentile £31,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £30,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -45.45% -15.38% -36.59%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

Swing falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 322 592 979
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.84% 22.81% 31.24%
Number of salaries quoted 122 339 538
10th Percentile - £33,750 £38,925
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £73,438 £70,000 £73,438
90th Percentile £83,625 £85,000 £91,934
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

Swing
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Swing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Swing job vacancy trend in Scotland

Swing
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Swing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Swing

Swing
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Swing within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 11 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh - 1 £30,000 - 1
Swing
UK

Swing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 (100.00%) WildFly
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (100.00%) jMock
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Junior
1 1 (100.00%) Junior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Junior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Java EE
1 1 (100.00%) Java SE
1 1 (100.00%) Quarkus
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOD
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker