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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 584 671 839
Rank change year-on-year +87 +168 -131
Contract jobs citing Swing 1 18 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% 0.032% 0.018%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.011% 0.14% 0.067%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 12 10
10th Percentile - £465 £581
25th Percentile - £497 £621
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £675 £688
Median % change year-on-year - -1.82% +37.50%
75th Percentile - £775 £703
90th Percentile - £809 £732
UK excluding London median daily rate - £525 £420
% change year-on-year - +25.00% -

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 9,007 12,954 23,746
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.03% 23.02% 26.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,267 9,433 17,460
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £666
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 251 146 226
10th Percentile £21.73 £27.88 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £65.64 £75.00 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.50 £80.63 £76.82
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £54.63
% change year-on-year -25.49% +18.99% +21.39%

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 2 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 28 May 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
England +90 1 - - 1
London +71 1 - - 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AWT
1 1 (100.00%) Java RMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) VB
1 1 (100.00%) VC++