The first table below looks at the demand for Struts skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester 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 Manchester 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 69 82 67
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -15
Contract jobs citing Struts 4 7 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.424% 0.538% 0.694%
As % of the Application Development category 1.379% 1.799% 2.491%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 4
Average daily rate £338 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.57% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £283 £294 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £410 £380 £368
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
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
290 389 281
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 30.72% 29.92% 27.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 232 153
Average daily rate £290 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.33% +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £230 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £375 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 14 13
Average hourly rate £21.00 £17.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -36.36%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £15.00 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £160.50 £33.32 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Struts
North West

Struts
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester 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 Manchester region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester Struts Hourly Rate Trend

Struts
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 21 (100.00%) Java
2 18 (85.71%) J2EE
3 16 (76.19%) SQL
4 15 (71.43%) JSP
5 14 (66.67%) JDBC
5 14 (66.67%) XML
6 13 (61.90%) WebSphere
7 12 (57.14%) HTML
8 11 (52.38%) Servlets
8 11 (52.38%) Linux
8 11 (52.38%) UML
8 11 (52.38%) OO
8 11 (52.38%) RAD
8 11 (52.38%) Content Management
8 11 (52.38%) E-Commerce
8 11 (52.38%) JMS
9 10 (47.62%) IBM
9 10 (47.62%) DB2
9 10 (47.62%) Ajax
9 10 (47.62%) JSTL
10 9 (42.86%) JavaScript
11 8 (38.10%) Perl
11 8 (38.10%) Ant
11 8 (38.10%) JUnit
11 8 (38.10%) WebSphere Application Server
11 8 (38.10%) EJB
11 8 (38.10%) XHTML
11 8 (38.10%) MQSeries
11 8 (38.10%) HPUX
11 8 (38.10%) Solaris

Struts
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 18 (85.71%) J2EE
2 15 (71.43%) JSP
3 14 (66.67%) JDBC
3 14 (66.67%) XML
4 13 (61.90%) WebSphere
5 12 (57.14%) HTML
6 11 (52.38%) Servlets
6 11 (52.38%) JMS
7 10 (47.62%) Ajax
7 10 (47.62%) JSTL
8 8 (38.10%) EJB
8 8 (38.10%) XHTML
8 8 (38.10%) XSLT
8 8 (38.10%) XMLBeans
9 3 (14.29%) .NET
9 3 (14.29%) ASP
9 3 (14.29%) Hibernate
9 3 (14.29%) Windows SharePoint Services
9 3 (14.29%) .NET Framework
9 3 (14.29%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 8 (38.10%) WebSphere Application Server
1 8 (38.10%) MQSeries
2 3 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 3 (14.29%) JCAPS
3 1 (4.762%) Apache
3 1 (4.762%) GlassFish
3 1 (4.762%) ESB
Business Applications
1 8 (38.10%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 8 (38.10%) Internet
2 3 (14.29%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (47.62%) DB2
2 8 (38.10%) RDBMS
3 3 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 3 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (14.29%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 8 (38.10%) Ant
1 8 (38.10%) JUnit
1 8 (38.10%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 8 (38.10%) Eclipse
1 8 (38.10%) Log4j
1 8 (38.10%) Subversion
2 3 (14.29%) Visual Studio
2 3 (14.29%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 3 (14.29%) NetBeans
General
1 7 (33.33%) Games
1 7 (33.33%) Retail
1 7 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 18 (85.71%) Developer
2 13 (61.90%) Java Developer
3 8 (38.10%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 7 (33.33%) J2EE Developer
5 3 (14.29%) Access Developer
5 3 (14.29%) Oracle Developer
6 2 (9.524%) WebSphere Developer
6 2 (9.524%) Enterprise Architect
6 2 (9.524%) Architect
6 2 (9.524%) Software Architect
7 1 (4.762%) Team Leader
7 1 (4.762%) Development Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 8 (38.10%) Web 2.0
2 3 (14.29%) NHS
2 3 (14.29%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (52.38%) Linux
2 8 (38.10%) HPUX
2 8 (38.10%) Solaris
2 8 (38.10%) UNIX
3 3 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) UML
1 11 (52.38%) OO
1 11 (52.38%) RAD
1 11 (52.38%) Content Management
1 11 (52.38%) E-Commerce
2 3 (14.29%) OOP
2 3 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (14.29%) Web Development
3 2 (9.524%) BDD
3 2 (9.524%) MVC
4 1 (4.762%) E-business
4 1 (4.762%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 21 (100.00%) Java
2 16 (76.19%) SQL
3 9 (42.86%) JavaScript
4 8 (38.10%) Perl
4 8 (38.10%) XPath
4 8 (38.10%) Bash shell
5 3 (14.29%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) HL7
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Oracle Identity Manager
1 3 (14.29%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 10 (47.62%) IBM
2 8 (38.10%) Interwoven
2 8 (38.10%) ATG
2 8 (38.10%) Blue Martini
2 8 (38.10%) Elastic Path
3 6 (28.57%) Oracle
4 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
5 2 (9.524%) Endeca
6 1 (4.762%) JBoss
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