The first table below looks at the demand for Struts skills in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Struts over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Milton Keynes 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Struts
Rank 53 57 57
Rank change year-on-year
+4 0
Contract jobs citing Struts 4 6 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 0.666% 0.896% 0.158%
As % of the Application Development category 2.817% 4.651% 1.000%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
Average daily rate £343 £263 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+30.47% -4.54%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £356 £333
% change year-on-year
-1.75% +7.14%
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
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
142 129 100
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 23.63% 19.25% 15.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 56 50
Average daily rate £365 £319 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.42% -1.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £265 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £438 £343 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 6
Average hourly rate £20.00 £35.00 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-42.85% +141.37%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
Struts
Buckinghamshire

Struts
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes Struts Daily Rate Trend

Struts
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 7 (100.00%) Java
1 7 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 7 (100.00%) J2EE
1 7 (100.00%) CSS
1 7 (100.00%) JSP
1 7 (100.00%) Servlets
1 7 (100.00%) XML
1 7 (100.00%) OOA/OOD
1 7 (100.00%) OO
1 7 (100.00%) Spring
1 7 (100.00%) Ajax
2 6 (85.71%) Hibernate
2 6 (85.71%) Dojo
2 6 (85.71%) Use Case
2 6 (85.71%) Software Architecture
2 6 (85.71%) JMS
2 6 (85.71%) HTTP
2 6 (85.71%) TCP/IP
2 6 (85.71%) JDBC
2 6 (85.71%) DHTML
3 5 (71.43%) Finance
3 5 (71.43%) Open Source
4 4 (57.14%) JSON
5 2 (28.57%) Maven
5 2 (28.57%) UML
5 2 (28.57%) Ant
6 1 (14.29%) JUnit
6 1 (14.29%) WebLogic
6 1 (14.29%) EJB
6 1 (14.29%) Web Services

Struts
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 7 (100.00%) J2EE
1 7 (100.00%) CSS
1 7 (100.00%) JSP
1 7 (100.00%) Servlets
1 7 (100.00%) XML
1 7 (100.00%) Spring
1 7 (100.00%) Ajax
2 6 (85.71%) Hibernate
2 6 (85.71%) Dojo
2 6 (85.71%) JMS
2 6 (85.71%) JDBC
2 6 (85.71%) DHTML
3 4 (57.14%) JSON
4 1 (14.29%) EJB
4 1 (14.29%) Web Services
4 1 (14.29%) HTML
4 1 (14.29%) JPA
4 1 (14.29%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) WebLogic
1 1 (14.29%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) HTTP
1 6 (85.71%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Maven
1 2 (28.57%) Ant
2 1 (14.29%) JUnit
2 1 (14.29%) Eclipse
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (57.14%) JavaScript Developer
3 3 (42.86%) Java Developer
4 2 (28.57%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (28.57%) Senior Developer
5 1 (14.29%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 1 (14.29%) J2EE Developer
5 1 (14.29%) Senior J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) UNIX
1 1 (14.29%) AIX
1 1 (14.29%) Solaris
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) OOA/OOD
1 7 (100.00%) OO
2 6 (85.71%) Use Case
2 6 (85.71%) Software Architecture
3 2 (28.57%) UML
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
1 7 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) JBoss