The first table below looks at the demand for Struts skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire 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 Cheshire 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 61 60 49
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -11
Contract jobs citing Struts 2 3 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.276% 0.375% 2.374%
As % of the Application Development category 1.235% 1.304% 8.712%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 15
Average daily rate - £390 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.58%
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
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
162 230 264
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 22.38% 28.79% 27.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 123 176
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £270 £315
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £488 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 3
Average hourly rate £30.00 £16.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+81.81% -13.15%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Struts
North West

Struts
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire Struts Daily Rate Trend

Struts
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Struts across the Cheshire region.

Cheshire Struts Hourly Rate Trend

Struts
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
1 5 (100.00%) J2EE
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle
1 5 (100.00%) DB2
1 5 (100.00%) WebLogic
1 5 (100.00%) EJB
1 5 (100.00%) JSP
1 5 (100.00%) Servlets
1 5 (100.00%) Web Services
1 5 (100.00%) XML
1 5 (100.00%) XSD
1 5 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 5 (100.00%) JBoss
1 5 (100.00%) RUP
1 5 (100.00%) ClearCase
1 5 (100.00%) JMS
1 5 (100.00%) Chordiant
1 5 (100.00%) WSDL
1 5 (100.00%) PMI
1 5 (100.00%) PMI Certification
1 5 (100.00%) PRINCE
1 5 (100.00%) Project Management
1 5 (100.00%) CMMI
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
1 5 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 5 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 5 (100.00%) Banking
1 5 (100.00%) Subversion

Struts
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 5 (100.00%) J2EE
1 5 (100.00%) EJB
1 5 (100.00%) JSP
1 5 (100.00%) Servlets
1 5 (100.00%) Web Services
1 5 (100.00%) XML
1 5 (100.00%) XSD
1 5 (100.00%) JMS
1 5 (100.00%) WSDL
1 5 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 5 (100.00%) Ajax
1 5 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 5 (100.00%) jQuery
1 5 (100.00%) Struts2
Application Platforms
1 5 (100.00%) WebLogic
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) ClearCase
1 5 (100.00%) Subversion
2 3 (60.00%) Gradle
2 3 (60.00%) Git (software)
General
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
1 5 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Senior Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 5 (100.00%) RUP
1 5 (100.00%) PRINCE
1 5 (100.00%) Project Management
1 5 (100.00%) CMMI
1 5 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 5 (100.00%) Waterfall
1 5 (100.00%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) PMI Certification
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle
1 5 (100.00%) JBoss
1 5 (100.00%) Chordiant