Essex Struts Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Apache Struts skills within the Essex region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Struts over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Apache Struts
Location Andover Basildon Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Cornwall Devon Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnham Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans St Ives Surrey Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	55	36
Rank change on same period last year	-19
Matching contract IT job ads	5	26
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.026 %
As % of the category below	2.976 %	11.61 %
Daily rates quoted	2	8
Average minimum daily rate	£370	£384
Average daily rate	£395	£420
% change on same period last year	-5.95 %
Average maximum daily rate	£420	£456
UK excluding London average daily rate	£359	£340
% change on same period last year	+5.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	£30.30
Average hourly rate	£28.50	£30.48
% change on same period last year	-6.49 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.00	£30.66
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£44.67	£36.84
% change on same period last year	+21.25 %
Application Development Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	168	224
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.224 %	0.223 %
Daily rates quoted	58	71
Average minimum daily rate	£376	£368
Average daily rate	£398	£393
% change on same period last year	+1.24 %
Average maximum daily rate	£420	£419
UK excluding London average daily rate	£338	£337
% change on same period last year	+0.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	19	58
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.62	£31.11
Average hourly rate	£32.72	£31.52
% change on same period last year	+3.78 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.82	£31.94
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.55	£33.03
% change on same period last year	-1.44 %
Struts East of England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Struts
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Struts across the Essex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Struts
Daily Rate Trend

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

Struts
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Struts
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Struts within the Essex region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Basildon	+3	2	-	-

Struts East of England

Struts
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 36 (100.00 %) J2EE 2 29 (80.56 %) SQL 3 26 (72.22 %) Java 4 22 (61.11 %) UNIX 4 22 (61.11 %) OO 4 22 (61.11 %) N-Tier 4 22 (61.11 %) WebSphere 5 21 (58.33 %) Oracle 6 15 (41.67 %) ILOG 6 15 (41.67 %) JRules 7 14 (38.89 %) XML 7 14 (38.89 %) UML 8 11 (30.56 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 8 11 (30.56 %) WebServices 9 10 (27.78 %) Ant

9 10 (27.78 %) Unit Testing 10 8 (22.22 %) SOAP 10 8 (22.22 %) PL/SQL 10 8 (22.22 %) Oracle Reports 11 7 (19.44 %) Linux 11 7 (19.44 %) HTTP 11 7 (19.44 %) XSLT 11 7 (19.44 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 11 7 (19.44 %) Automotive 12 6 (16.67 %) FatWire 12 6 (16.67 %) Zachman Framework 12 6 (16.67 %) Unified Process 12 6 (16.67 %) CSS 12 6 (16.67 %) JSP 12 6 (16.67 %) HTML

Struts
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 36 (100.00 %) J2EE 2 22 (61.11 %) WebSphere 3 15 (41.67 %) JRules 4 14 (38.89 %) XML 5 11 (30.56 %) WebServices 6 8 (22.22 %) SOAP 7 7 (19.44 %) XSLT 8 6 (16.67 %) HTML 8 6 (16.67 %) CSS 8 6 (16.67 %) JSP 9 1 (2.778 %) WSDL 9 1 (2.778 %) Hibernate 9 1 (2.778 %) Spring	Application Platforms 1 3 (8.333 %) CMS
Communications & Networking 1 7 (19.44 %) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (22.22 %) Oracle Reports 2 3 (8.333 %) Oracle Discoverer 2 3 (8.333 %) BusinessObjects 2 3 (8.333 %) Crystal Reports
Development Applications 1 11 (30.56 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 2 10 (27.78 %) Ant 3 4 (11.11 %) PVCS 4 3 (8.333 %) Oracle Forms	General 1 7 (19.44 %) Automotive 2 4 (11.11 %) Marketing 3 3 (8.333 %) Finance 4 2 (5.556 %) Construction 5 1 (2.778 %) Manufacturing 5 1 (2.778 %) Insurance
Job Titles 1 20 (55.56 %) Developer 2 6 (16.67 %) Architect 3 5 (13.89 %) J2EE Developer 4 4 (11.11 %) Trainer 4 4 (11.11 %) Analyst 5 3 (8.333 %) Environment Manager 5 3 (8.333 %) Java Architect 6 2 (5.556 %) Senior J2EE Developer 6 2 (5.556 %) Java Developer 6 2 (5.556 %) Solutions Architect 6 2 (5.556 %) Senior Developer 6 2 (5.556 %) Support Analyst 7 1 (2.778 %) Applications Support 7 1 (2.778 %) Consultant 7 1 (2.778 %) Applications Support Analyst 7 1 (2.778 %) Technical Analyst 7 1 (2.778 %) Developer Analyst 7 1 (2.778 %) Java/J2EE Developer	Miscellaneous 1 22 (61.11 %) N-Tier 2 2 (5.556 %) Management Information System 3 1 (2.778 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 22 (61.11 %) UNIX 2 7 (19.44 %) Linux 3 5 (13.89 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 22 (61.11 %) OO 2 14 (38.89 %) UML 3 10 (27.78 %) Unit Testing 4 6 (16.67 %) RUP 4 6 (16.67 %) Unified Process 4 6 (16.67 %) Zachman Framework 5 4 (11.11 %) Content Management 5 4 (11.11 %) SOA 5 4 (11.11 %) Configuration Management 6 3 (8.333 %) OOD 6 3 (8.333 %) Incident Management 7 1 (2.778 %) BPEL
Programming Languages 1 29 (80.56 %) SQL 2 26 (72.22 %) Java 3 8 (22.22 %) PL/SQL 4 6 (16.67 %) JavaScript 4 6 (16.67 %) Perl 5 3 (8.333 %) VB 6 1 (2.778 %) VB6	Qualifications 1 1 (2.778 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 7 (19.44 %) Sarbanes-Oxley	Vendors 1 21 (58.33 %) Oracle 2 15 (41.67 %) ILOG 3 6 (16.67 %) FatWire 4 3 (8.333 %) Business Objects 5 1 (2.778 %) Sybase