The first table below looks at the demand for Struts skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Struts over the 3 months to 21 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 Leeds 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Struts
Rank 67 64 -
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -
Contract jobs citing Struts 5 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 0.661% 0.225% -
As % of the Application Development category 1.887% 0.833% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £300 £325 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £334 £350
% change year-on-year
-4.41% -4.64%
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
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
265 240 137
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 35.01% 26.97% 22.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 158 78
Average daily rate £290 £325 £285
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.76% +14.03%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £380 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 2
Average hourly rate £33.00 £18.00 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+83.33% -57.64%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Struts
West Yorkshire

Struts
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds Struts Hourly Rate Trend

Struts
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 16 (100.00%) J2EE
1 16 (100.00%) Java
2 14 (87.50%) Hibernate
3 11 (68.75%) Spring
4 7 (43.75%) Agile Software Development
4 7 (43.75%) TDD
5 5 (31.25%) Struts2
5 5 (31.25%) JavaScript
6 4 (25.00%) SQL
6 4 (25.00%) JSP
7 3 (18.75%) Adobe
7 3 (18.75%) JBoss
7 3 (18.75%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (18.75%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (18.75%) PL/SQL
7 3 (18.75%) Web Services
7 3 (18.75%) Oracle
7 3 (18.75%) JUnit
7 3 (18.75%) WebLogic
7 3 (18.75%) jQuery
7 3 (18.75%) Hudson
7 3 (18.75%) Adobe CQ
7 3 (18.75%) Subversion
7 3 (18.75%) Content Management
7 3 (18.75%) Maven
7 3 (18.75%) Oracle Application Server
7 3 (18.75%) Ajax
7 3 (18.75%) Java EE
8 2 (12.50%) XML
8 2 (12.50%) HTML

Struts
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 16 (100.00%) J2EE
2 14 (87.50%) Hibernate
3 11 (68.75%) Spring
4 5 (31.25%) Struts2
5 4 (25.00%) JSP
6 3 (18.75%) Web Services
6 3 (18.75%) jQuery
6 3 (18.75%) Ajax
6 3 (18.75%) Java EE
7 2 (12.50%) XML
7 2 (12.50%) HTML
8 1 (6.250%) Servlets
8 1 (6.250%) SOAP
8 1 (6.250%) JavaBeans
8 1 (6.250%) XSLT
8 1 (6.250%) EJB
8 1 (6.250%) CSS
8 1 (6.250%) JDBC
8 1 (6.250%) Apache FOP
Application Platforms
1 3 (18.75%) WebLogic
1 3 (18.75%) Adobe CQ
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (6.250%) Apache
2 1 (6.250%) Tomcat
2 1 (6.250%) Magento
Business Applications
1 1 (6.250%) SAP Oil and Gas
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (6.250%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle Forms
1 3 (18.75%) JUnit
1 3 (18.75%) Hudson
1 3 (18.75%) Subversion
1 3 (18.75%) Maven
General
1 2 (12.50%) Telecoms
1 2 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (6.250%) Manufacturing
2 1 (6.250%) Electronics
2 1 (6.250%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 16 (100.00%) Developer
2 14 (87.50%) Java Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Web Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Java Web Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Designer
4 1 (6.250%) Web Content Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.250%) DTV
1 1 (6.250%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.250%) UNIX
1 1 (6.250%) Windows
1 1 (6.250%) Solaris
1 1 (6.250%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Agile Software Development
1 7 (43.75%) TDD
2 3 (18.75%) Content Management
3 1 (6.250%) Configuration Management
3 1 (6.250%) E-Commerce
3 1 (6.250%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (6.250%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (6.250%) Web Design
3 1 (6.250%) Programme Management
3 1 (6.250%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (31.25%) JavaScript
3 4 (25.00%) SQL
4 3 (18.75%) PL/SQL
System Software
1 1 (6.250%) OpenSSO
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Adobe
1 3 (18.75%) JBoss
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle
2 1 (6.250%) SAP