The first table below looks at the demand for Struts skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Struts over the 3 months to 22 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 London 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Struts
Rank 310 321 244
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -77
Contract jobs citing Struts 77 97 198
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.350% 0.355% 0.646%
As % of the Application Development category 1.206% 1.266% 2.112%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 62 144
Average daily rate £400 £488 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.94% +2.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £320 £335 £333
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £600 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-8.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 0
Average hourly rate £40.52 £35.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.75% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £36.25 £42.50
% change year-on-year
- -14.70%
All Application Development
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
6387 7659 9377
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 29.04% 28.01% 30.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4619 5048 6312
Average daily rate £405 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.25% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £280 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 106 136
Average hourly rate £41.50 £34.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.05% -2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £15.90 £17.55
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £47.50 £57.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Struts
England

Struts
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London Struts Daily Rate Trend

Struts
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Struts across the London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

London Struts Daily Rate Histogram

Struts
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Struts Hourly Rate Trend

Struts
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Struts within the London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of London +22 20 £335 -10.66%
Canary Wharf -6 2 £378 -28.09%
Bromley - 1 - -
Struts
England

Struts
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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.

1 133 (97.79%) Java
2 97 (71.32%) Spring
3 93 (68.38%) J2EE
4 55 (40.44%) Oracle
5 54 (39.71%) JSP
5 54 (39.71%) Hibernate
6 53 (38.97%) MVC
7 51 (37.50%) JUnit
8 45 (33.09%) TDD
9 44 (32.35%) JavaScript
9 44 (32.35%) HTML
9 44 (32.35%) Apache
10 43 (31.62%) Web Services
11 42 (30.88%) CSS
12 41 (30.15%) SQL Server
12 41 (30.15%) JMS
13 37 (27.21%) Spring MVC
14 35 (25.74%) XML
14 35 (25.74%) SQL
15 33 (24.26%) EJB
16 32 (23.53%) Finance
17 30 (22.06%) JBoss
18 28 (20.59%) Linux
18 28 (20.59%) Banking
19 27 (19.85%) Agile Software Development
19 27 (19.85%) .NET
20 25 (18.38%) jQuery
21 24 (17.65%) RESTful
21 24 (17.65%) XSLT
22 23 (16.91%) MySQL

Struts
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 97 (71.32%) Spring
2 93 (68.38%) J2EE
3 54 (39.71%) JSP
3 54 (39.71%) Hibernate
4 44 (32.35%) HTML
5 43 (31.62%) Web Services
6 42 (30.88%) CSS
7 41 (30.15%) JMS
8 37 (27.21%) Spring MVC
9 35 (25.74%) XML
10 33 (24.26%) EJB
11 27 (19.85%) .NET
12 25 (18.38%) jQuery
13 24 (17.65%) RESTful
13 24 (17.65%) XSLT
14 22 (16.18%) Ajax
14 22 (16.18%) Servlets
14 22 (16.18%) REST
15 21 (15.44%) JSON
16 19 (13.97%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 44 (32.35%) Apache
2 22 (16.18%) Tomcat
3 21 (15.44%) WebLogic
4 14 (10.29%) IIS
5 9 (6.618%) WebSphere MQ
6 7 (5.147%) CMS
7 6 (4.412%) BizTalk Server
8 4 (2.941%) TIBCO EMS
9 3 (2.206%) WebLogic Portal
9 3 (2.206%) WebSphere Application Server
9 3 (2.206%) Adobe CQ
10 2 (1.471%) Commerce Server
10 2 (1.471%) ESB
10 2 (1.471%) WebSphere Portal
11 1 (0.735%) Jetty
11 1 (0.735%) Drupal
11 1 (0.735%) Joomla!
11 1 (0.735%) Amazon AWS
11 1 (0.735%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (2.941%) MS Excel
2 3 (2.206%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 10 (7.353%) RMDS
2 6 (4.412%) 3000 Xtra
3 1 (0.735%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.676%) Internet
2 4 (2.941%) LDAP
2 4 (2.941%) Intranet
3 2 (1.471%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (30.15%) SQL Server
2 23 (16.91%) MySQL
3 9 (6.618%) MarkLogic
4 6 (4.412%) Big Data
4 6 (4.412%) Crystal Reports
5 4 (2.941%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.941%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.941%) RDBMS
5 4 (2.941%) InterSystems Cache
6 3 (2.206%) DB2
7 2 (1.471%) Oracle 8/8i
8 1 (0.735%) Oracle 11g
8 1 (0.735%) Sybase ASE
8 1 (0.735%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 51 (37.50%) JUnit
2 23 (16.91%) Maven
3 22 (16.18%) Eclipse
4 15 (11.03%) Subversion
5 13 (9.559%) JIRA
5 13 (9.559%) Team Foundation Server
6 12 (8.824%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 10 (7.353%) Ant
8 9 (6.618%) CruiseControl
9 8 (5.882%) Selenium
10 7 (5.147%) jMock
11 6 (4.412%) Mockito
11 6 (4.412%) Hudson
12 2 (1.471%) MSBuild
12 2 (1.471%) Rational Application Developer
13 1 (0.735%) Git (software)
13 1 (0.735%) Mercurial
13 1 (0.735%) NetBeans
13 1 (0.735%) Log4j
13 1 (0.735%) Visual Studio
General
1 32 (23.53%) Finance
2 28 (20.59%) Banking
3 12 (8.824%) Front Office
4 11 (8.088%) Investment Banking
5 9 (6.618%) Publishing
6 8 (5.882%) Telecoms
7 7 (5.147%) Back Office
8 5 (3.676%) Marketing
8 5 (3.676%) Games
9 4 (2.941%) Retail
10 1 (0.735%) Wholesale Banking
10 1 (0.735%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 106 (77.94%) Developer
2 80 (58.82%) Java Developer
3 23 (16.91%) Senior Developer
4 17 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
5 12 (8.824%) Java/J2EE Developer
6 11 (8.088%) Architect
7 6 (4.412%) Analyst
7 6 (4.412%) Solutions Designer
7 6 (4.412%) Designer
8 5 (3.676%) Team Leader
8 5 (3.676%) Technical Manager
8 5 (3.676%) Support Analyst
8 5 (3.676%) Software Developer
9 4 (2.941%) Applications Developer
9 4 (2.941%) Lead Developer
9 4 (2.941%) WebSphere Developer
9 4 (2.941%) Java Team Leader
10 3 (2.206%) Java Architect
10 3 (2.206%) Agile Java Developer
10 3 (2.206%) Applications Support
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.824%) N-Tier
2 11 (8.088%) Mobile App
3 10 (7.353%) Kindle
3 10 (7.353%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 9 (6.618%) Semantic Web
5 7 (5.147%) Open Source
6 5 (3.676%) Digital Media
6 5 (3.676%) Inversion of Control
7 3 (2.206%) Credit Risk
7 3 (2.206%) Web 2.0
8 2 (1.471%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.471%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.471%) Clustering
8 2 (1.471%) Equities
9 1 (0.735%) Mobile Banking
9 1 (0.735%) Linked Data
Operating Systems
1 28 (20.59%) Linux
2 15 (11.03%) UNIX
3 13 (9.559%) Windows
4 7 (5.147%) Android
5 4 (2.941%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.471%) Solaris
7 1 (0.735%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (38.97%) MVC
2 45 (33.09%) TDD
3 27 (19.85%) Agile Software Development
4 22 (16.18%) Unit Testing
5 21 (15.44%) OO
6 19 (13.97%) E-Commerce
7 17 (12.50%) Multithreading
8 15 (11.03%) Migration
9 14 (10.29%) Scrum
9 14 (10.29%) Continuous Integration
10 12 (8.824%) UML
11 9 (6.618%) Domain-Driven Design
11 9 (6.618%) BDD
12 7 (5.147%) Requirements Analysis
12 7 (5.147%) OOD
13 6 (4.412%) Content Management
14 5 (3.676%) Data Architecture
14 5 (3.676%) Data Migration
14 5 (3.676%) Asset Management
14 5 (3.676%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 133 (97.79%) Java
2 44 (32.35%) JavaScript
3 35 (25.74%) SQL
4 23 (16.91%) C#
5 11 (8.088%) XQuery
6 9 (6.618%) VB6
6 9 (6.618%) PL/SQL
6 9 (6.618%) VBScript
6 9 (6.618%) VB
6 9 (6.618%) VBA
7 5 (3.676%) T-SQL
8 4 (2.941%) Bash shell
8 4 (2.941%) C++
9 3 (2.206%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.206%) Perl
10 2 (1.471%) PHP
10 2 (1.471%) Scala
10 2 (1.471%) Groovy
11 1 (0.735%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.735%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 6 (4.412%) CIPD
2 5 (3.676%) Degree
3 1 (0.735%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.559%) QA
2 7 (5.147%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.735%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (6.618%) Squid
2 2 (1.471%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (3.676%) MOM
Vendors
1 55 (40.44%) Oracle
2 30 (22.06%) JBoss
3 13 (9.559%) Microsoft
4 11 (8.088%) Intershop
5 10 (7.353%) Reuters
5 10 (7.353%) Sony
6 8 (5.882%) ATG
7 6 (4.412%) Cadis
7 6 (4.412%) Sybase
7 6 (4.412%) Business Objects
7 6 (4.412%) IBM
7 6 (4.412%) SunGard
7 6 (4.412%) Citrix
8 5 (3.676%) VMware
8 5 (3.676%) Informatica
8 5 (3.676%) hybris
9 4 (2.941%) 29West
9 4 (2.941%) TIBCO
9 4 (2.941%) Bloomberg
9 4 (2.941%) FatWire
London
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Progressive Recruitment
Rate: £200 - £250 per day
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City of London
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Rate: neg
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City of London
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Rate: 70 - 80 per hour
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
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Rate: From £25 to £50 per hour DOE and skills range & location
Posted: 30 April 2013