The first table below looks at the demand for Struts skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Struts over the 3 months to 18 June 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 City of London 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Struts
Rank 192 212 202
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -10
Contract jobs citing Struts 23 10 46
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.334% 0.130% 0.459%
As % of the Application Development category 1.151% 0.488% 1.625%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 39
Average daily rate £375 £438 £440
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% -0.56%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £351 £335 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £576 £549 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £330
% change year-on-year
- +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
Average hourly rate £40.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £36.25 £42.50
% change year-on-year
- -14.70%
All Application Development
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1998 2049 2831
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 28.98% 26.57% 28.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1583 1564 2224
Average daily rate £413 £425 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.94% -15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £288 £315
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 25 22
Average hourly rate £41.50 £32.50 £42.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+27.69% -22.61%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £19.00 £16.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £52.50 £50.50 £113.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+12.90% -13.16%
Struts
London

Struts
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London Struts Daily Rate Trend

Struts
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Struts across the City of London region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

City of London Struts Daily Rate Histogram

Struts
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Struts Hourly Rate Trend

Struts
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 39 (100.00%) Java
2 29 (74.36%) Spring
3 23 (58.97%) J2EE
4 19 (48.72%) JUnit
4 19 (48.72%) Oracle
4 19 (48.72%) Apache
5 18 (46.15%) SQL Server
6 17 (43.59%) JSP
6 17 (43.59%) JMS
6 17 (43.59%) JBoss
7 16 (41.03%) HTML
8 15 (38.46%) .NET
8 15 (38.46%) CSS
9 14 (35.90%) Servlets
9 14 (35.90%) WebLogic
9 14 (35.90%) MVC
9 14 (35.90%) jQuery
10 13 (33.33%) Spring MVC
10 13 (33.33%) Tomcat
11 12 (30.77%) TDD
12 11 (28.21%) MySQL
12 11 (28.21%) EJB
13 10 (25.64%) Web Services
13 10 (25.64%) JavaScript
13 10 (25.64%) Linux
14 9 (23.08%) SQL
14 9 (23.08%) Finance
14 9 (23.08%) Hibernate
14 9 (23.08%) RESTful
15 8 (20.51%) Publishing

Struts
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 29 (74.36%) Spring
2 23 (58.97%) J2EE
3 17 (43.59%) JSP
3 17 (43.59%) JMS
4 16 (41.03%) HTML
5 15 (38.46%) .NET
5 15 (38.46%) CSS
6 14 (35.90%) Servlets
6 14 (35.90%) jQuery
7 13 (33.33%) Spring MVC
8 11 (28.21%) EJB
9 10 (25.64%) Web Services
10 9 (23.08%) Hibernate
10 9 (23.08%) RESTful
11 8 (20.51%) JDBC
12 6 (15.38%) XSLT
12 6 (15.38%) JSTL
13 5 (12.82%) ASP.NET
14 4 (10.26%) XML
14 4 (10.26%) Apache CXF
Application Platforms
1 19 (48.72%) Apache
2 14 (35.90%) WebLogic
3 13 (33.33%) Tomcat
4 6 (15.38%) IIS
5 2 (5.128%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (5.128%) WebLogic Portal
5 2 (5.128%) CMS
6 1 (2.564%) AquaLogic
Applications
1 2 (5.128%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (5.128%) RMDS
1 2 (5.128%) 3000 Xtra
2 1 (2.564%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.564%) LDAP
1 1 (2.564%) Broadband
1 1 (2.564%) Intranet
1 1 (2.564%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (46.15%) SQL Server
2 11 (28.21%) MySQL
3 6 (15.38%) MarkLogic
4 2 (5.128%) Crystal Reports
4 2 (5.128%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.564%) Sybase ASE
5 1 (2.564%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 19 (48.72%) JUnit
2 8 (20.51%) Eclipse
3 6 (15.38%) Maven
4 5 (12.82%) Subversion
5 3 (7.692%) Selenium
5 3 (7.692%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (7.692%) Hudson
6 2 (5.128%) Ant
6 2 (5.128%) JIRA
7 1 (2.564%) CruiseControl
7 1 (2.564%) Visual Studio
7 1 (2.564%) Mockito
7 1 (2.564%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 9 (23.08%) Finance
2 8 (20.51%) Publishing
3 6 (15.38%) Banking
4 2 (5.128%) Front Office
4 2 (5.128%) Telecoms
4 2 (5.128%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.564%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (2.564%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (71.79%) Developer
2 22 (56.41%) Java Developer
3 8 (20.51%) Solutions Designer
3 8 (20.51%) Designer
4 7 (17.95%) Senior Developer
5 5 (12.82%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (5.128%) Applications Developer
7 1 (2.564%) Lead Web Developer
7 1 (2.564%) Senior Java Consultant
7 1 (2.564%) Java Architect
7 1 (2.564%) Lead Developer
7 1 (2.564%) Oracle Developer
7 1 (2.564%) Senior Software Developer
7 1 (2.564%) Java Consultant
7 1 (2.564%) Business Support Analyst
7 1 (2.564%) Support Analyst
7 1 (2.564%) Support Specialist
7 1 (2.564%) Software Developer
7 1 (2.564%) Architect
7 1 (2.564%) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) Semantic Web
2 5 (12.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (7.692%) N-Tier
4 2 (5.128%) Credit Risk
5 1 (2.564%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.564%) Open Source
5 1 (2.564%) Heroku
5 1 (2.564%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.564%) Fixed Income
5 1 (2.564%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 10 (25.64%) Linux
2 6 (15.38%) Windows
3 4 (10.26%) UNIX
4 1 (2.564%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (35.90%) MVC
2 12 (30.77%) TDD
3 6 (15.38%) OO
4 4 (10.26%) Migration
4 4 (10.26%) Multithreading
4 4 (10.26%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (7.692%) UML
6 2 (5.128%) Scrum
6 2 (5.128%) OOD
6 2 (5.128%) Asset Management
6 2 (5.128%) Content Management
6 2 (5.128%) Web Development
6 2 (5.128%) Unit Testing
6 2 (5.128%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (5.128%) Reverse Engineering
7 1 (2.564%) Network Architecture
7 1 (2.564%) Change Control
7 1 (2.564%) Web Application Development
7 1 (2.564%) BPMN
7 1 (2.564%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 39 (100.00%) Java
2 10 (25.64%) JavaScript
3 9 (23.08%) SQL
4 7 (17.95%) C#
5 6 (15.38%) XQuery
6 4 (10.26%) VBScript
6 4 (10.26%) VB
6 4 (10.26%) VBA
6 4 (10.26%) VB6
7 3 (7.692%) PL/SQL
8 2 (5.128%) Bash shell
8 2 (5.128%) Shell Script
9 1 (2.564%) Clojure
9 1 (2.564%) T-SQL
9 1 (2.564%) Perl
9 1 (2.564%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (15.38%) CIPD
2 1 (2.564%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.692%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (2.564%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.564%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (15.38%) Squid
2 1 (2.564%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 19 (48.72%) Oracle
2 17 (43.59%) JBoss
3 3 (7.692%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.128%) SunGard
4 2 (5.128%) Citrix
4 2 (5.128%) Sybase
4 2 (5.128%) Business Objects
4 2 (5.128%) FatWire
4 2 (5.128%) Reuters
4 2 (5.128%) Cadis
5 1 (2.564%) Metastorm
5 1 (2.564%) Open Text
5 1 (2.564%) VMware
5 1 (2.564%) Google
5 1 (2.564%) Lombardi
5 1 (2.564%) Pega
5 1 (2.564%) Cordys
5 1 (2.564%) IBM
5 1 (2.564%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.564%) Salesforce.com