The first table below looks at the demand for Struts skills in IT contracts advertised for the Canary Wharf region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Struts over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Canary Wharf region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Struts
Rank 49 44 60
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +16
Contract jobs citing Struts 2 6 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 0.518% 1.587% 0.194%
As % of the Application Development category 1.667% 4.839% 0.610%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
Average daily rate £378 £525 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-28.09% +10.52%
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £356 £344
% change year-on-year
-10.17% +3.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £36.25 £42.50
% change year-on-year
- -14.70%
All Application Development
Canary Wharf
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
120 124 164
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 31.09% 32.80% 31.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 78 135
Average daily rate £600 £525 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -4.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £405 £400 £418
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £650 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Struts
London

Struts
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Struts across the Canary Wharf region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Canary Wharf Struts Jobs Demand Trend

Struts
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Struts across the Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf Struts Daily Rate Trend

Struts
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf region citing Struts also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Struts.

1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) Web Services
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) JUnit
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (50.00%) Spring
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) Open Source
3 1 (25.00%) Dependency Injection
3 1 (25.00%) Inversion of Control
3 1 (25.00%) Software Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) MVVM
3 1 (25.00%) Hudson
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (25.00%) VB6
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (25.00%) JSF
3 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Ajax
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (25.00%) Java EE

Struts
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf region citing Struts also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Struts. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (50.00%) Web Services
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (50.00%) Spring
1 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) JSF
2 1 (25.00%) Ajax
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (25.00%) Java EE
2 1 (25.00%) WCF
2 1 (25.00%) WPF
2 1 (25.00%) Silverlight
2 1 (25.00%) EJB 3.0
2 1 (25.00%) EJB
2 1 (25.00%) JSP
2 1 (25.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) XSLT
2 1 (25.00%) XHTML
2 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) IIS
1 1 (25.00%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle 10g
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (25.00%) DB2
1 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JUnit
1 2 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (25.00%) Hudson
2 1 (25.00%) Ant
2 1 (25.00%) Eclipse
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Front Office
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Web Applications Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Java Web Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Java Applications Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Web Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Software Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Applications Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Lead Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Open Source
1 1 (25.00%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Dependency Injection
2 1 (25.00%) Software Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) MVVM
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) Use Case
2 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Reverse Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) OO
2 1 (25.00%) RAD
2 1 (25.00%) RUP
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) MVC
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) VB6
3 1 (25.00%) VBScript
3 1 (25.00%) VB
3 1 (25.00%) VBA
3 1 (25.00%) C++
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Sybase
2 1 (25.00%) JBoss