SWT Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring SWT skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 624 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing SWT 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.001% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.016% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median annual salary - - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

SWT 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,122 5,151 13,432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.58% 15.26% 18.32%
Number of salaries quoted 4,936 3,266 9,873
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -9.60%

SWT
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SWT relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

SWT job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

SWT
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SWT.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SWT

SWT
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SWT within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 July 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
South East - 1 - -
SWT
UK

SWT
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) GIS
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse RCP
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) JFace
1 1 (100.00%) JPA
1 1 (100.00%) JWT
1 1 (100.00%) Lambda Expressions
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) OSGi
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Security
1 1 (100.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Life Science
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (100.00%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Refinement
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Concurrent Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Garbage Collection
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Memory Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) SOLID
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes