The first table below looks at the demand for Struts skills in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow 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 Glasgow 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 62 58 59
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +1
Contract jobs citing Struts 14 4 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 1.501% 0.508% 0.720%
As % of the Application Development category 3.241% 2.105% 1.916%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 0
Average daily rate £319 £235 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+35.74% -
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
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
432 190 261
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 46.30% 24.14% 37.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 80 150
Average daily rate £338 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £235 £252
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £400 £428
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
Average hourly rate £45.00 £22.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+100.00% +28.57%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Struts
Scotland

Struts
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow Struts Daily Rate Trend

Struts
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 32 (100.00%) Java
2 31 (96.88%) XML
3 29 (90.63%) J2EE
4 27 (84.38%) Spring
4 27 (84.38%) JSP
5 25 (78.13%) Oracle
6 24 (75.00%) JavaScript
7 17 (53.13%) JSF
8 16 (50.00%) HTML
9 15 (46.88%) Hibernate
9 15 (46.88%) Unit Testing
10 14 (43.75%) Banking
10 14 (43.75%) Maven
10 14 (43.75%) Agile Software Development
10 14 (43.75%) Finance
10 14 (43.75%) RDBMS
10 14 (43.75%) JDeveloper
11 13 (40.63%) JDBC
11 13 (40.63%) Servlets
11 13 (40.63%) MVC
12 12 (37.50%) Ajax
12 12 (37.50%) EJB
12 12 (37.50%) CSS
12 12 (37.50%) PL/SQL
12 12 (37.50%) SQL
12 12 (37.50%) XSLT
12 12 (37.50%) OO
12 12 (37.50%) JMS
12 12 (37.50%) Eclipse
12 12 (37.50%) Selenium

Struts
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 31 (96.88%) XML
2 29 (90.63%) J2EE
3 27 (84.38%) Spring
3 27 (84.38%) JSP
4 17 (53.13%) JSF
5 16 (50.00%) HTML
6 15 (46.88%) Hibernate
7 13 (40.63%) JDBC
7 13 (40.63%) Servlets
8 12 (37.50%) Ajax
8 12 (37.50%) EJB
8 12 (37.50%) CSS
8 12 (37.50%) XSLT
8 12 (37.50%) JMS
9 11 (34.38%) Spring Web Flow
9 11 (34.38%) GWT
9 11 (34.38%) Spring MVC
9 11 (34.38%) WebSphere
9 11 (34.38%) iBATIS
10 10 (31.25%) JSTL
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.125%) Tomcat
1 1 (3.125%) Apache
1 1 (3.125%) Apache Solr
1 1 (3.125%) Adobe CQ
Business Applications
1 1 (3.125%) Tridion
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (43.75%) RDBMS
2 1 (3.125%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (43.75%) Maven
1 14 (43.75%) JDeveloper
2 12 (37.50%) Eclipse
2 12 (37.50%) Selenium
3 11 (34.38%) CruiseControl
4 6 (18.75%) Ant
5 1 (3.125%) JMeter
5 1 (3.125%) Subversion
5 1 (3.125%) JUnit
5 1 (3.125%) PVCS
5 1 (3.125%) Hudson
General
1 14 (43.75%) Banking
1 14 (43.75%) Finance
Job Titles
1 29 (90.63%) Developer
2 28 (87.50%) Java Developer
3 10 (31.25%) Java Analyst Programmer
3 10 (31.25%) Java Programmer
3 10 (31.25%) Analyst
3 10 (31.25%) Analyst Programmer
3 10 (31.25%) Programmer
4 8 (25.00%) Developer Analyst
5 1 (3.125%) J2EE Analyst Programmer
5 1 (3.125%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 1 (3.125%) Consultant
5 1 (3.125%) Designer
5 1 (3.125%) Development Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.125%) Mathematics
1 1 (3.125%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 11 (34.38%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (46.88%) Unit Testing
2 14 (43.75%) Agile Software Development
3 13 (40.63%) MVC
4 12 (37.50%) OO
5 11 (34.38%) Web Application Development
6 4 (12.50%) Test Scripting
7 3 (9.375%) Change Management
8 1 (3.125%) TDD
8 1 (3.125%) Software Engineering
8 1 (3.125%) Scrum
8 1 (3.125%) Content Management
8 1 (3.125%) E-Commerce
8 1 (3.125%) DRM
8 1 (3.125%) Matrix Management
8 1 (3.125%) Analytics
8 1 (3.125%) Enterprise Content Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (100.00%) Java
2 24 (75.00%) JavaScript
3 12 (37.50%) PL/SQL
3 12 (37.50%) SQL
4 11 (34.38%) Shell Script
4 11 (34.38%) Perl
5 1 (3.125%) C#
5 1 (3.125%) C++
Qualifications
1 9 (28.13%) Sun Certification
2 1 (3.125%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.375%) QA
Vendors
1 25 (78.13%) Oracle
2 9 (28.13%) Sun
3 1 (3.125%) Google
3 1 (3.125%) Alterian
3 1 (3.125%) JBoss
3 1 (3.125%) Adobe
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