The first table below looks at the demand for Struts2 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 Struts2 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Struts 2
Rank 72 66 -
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -
Contract jobs citing Struts2 2 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 0.271% 0.115% -
As % of the Application Development category 0.810% 0.435% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £325 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £375 £369
% change year-on-year
-20.00% +1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
247 230 148
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 33.42% 26.47% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 153 81
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 £219 £232 £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 2 3 5
Average hourly rate £33.00 £17.50 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+88.57% -58.82%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Struts2
West Yorkshire

Struts2
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Struts2 across the Leeds region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Leeds Struts2 Jobs Demand Trend

Struts2
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Struts2 across the Leeds region.

Leeds Struts2 Daily Rate Trend

Struts2
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing Struts2 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 Struts2.

1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 5 (100.00%) J2EE
1 5 (100.00%) Struts
2 3 (60.00%) JSP
2 3 (60.00%) Hibernate
2 3 (60.00%) jQuery
2 3 (60.00%) Subversion
2 3 (60.00%) Spring
2 3 (60.00%) Maven
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle Application Server
2 3 (60.00%) Ajax
2 3 (60.00%) Java EE
2 3 (60.00%) Web Services
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle Forms
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 3 (60.00%) JUnit
2 3 (60.00%) WebLogic
2 3 (60.00%) PL/SQL
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Hudson
3 2 (40.00%) JBoss
4 1 (20.00%) Magento
4 1 (20.00%) HTML
4 1 (20.00%) Finance
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (20.00%) CSS
4 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
4 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management

Struts2
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing Struts2 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 Struts2. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (100.00%) J2EE
1 5 (100.00%) Struts
2 3 (60.00%) JSP
2 3 (60.00%) Hibernate
2 3 (60.00%) jQuery
2 3 (60.00%) Spring
2 3 (60.00%) Ajax
2 3 (60.00%) Java EE
2 3 (60.00%) Web Services
3 1 (20.00%) HTML
3 1 (20.00%) CSS
3 1 (20.00%) XML
Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Application Server
1 3 (60.00%) WebLogic
2 1 (20.00%) Magento
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Subversion
1 3 (60.00%) Maven
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Forms
1 3 (60.00%) JUnit
1 3 (60.00%) Hudson
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) UNIX
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Solaris
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (20.00%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (60.00%) PL/SQL
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) JBoss