Home Counties Struts Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Apache Struts skills within the Home Counties region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Struts over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Apache Struts
Location Altrincham Andover Basildon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brentford Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Conwy County Antrim Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Ipswich Kent Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Llandudno London Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Peterborough Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southwark St Neots Stockport Suffolk Surrey Swansea Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Watford West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£341
% change on same period last year	+7.04 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£37.60	£38.32
% change on same period last year	-1.88 %
Application Development Home Counties
Matching contract IT job ads	20	17
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.026 %	0.018 %
Daily rates quoted	3	6
Average minimum daily rate	£475	£381
Average daily rate	£483	£392
% change on same period last year	+23.01 %
Average maximum daily rate	£490	£403
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£336
% change on same period last year	+4.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£35.00
Average hourly rate	-	£37.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.55	£33.14
% change on same period last year	-1.77 %
Struts South East

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 Home Counties 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 Home Counties region.

Struts
Top 3 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Home Counties 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 3 (100.00 %) Java 1 3 (100.00 %) JSP 1 3 (100.00 %) AJAX

Struts
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Home Counties 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 3 (100.00 %) JSP 1 3 (100.00 %) AJAX	Job Titles 1 3 (100.00 %) Developer 1 3 (100.00 %) Java Developer
Programming Languages 1 3 (100.00 %) Java