The first table below looks at the demand for Struts skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Struts over the 3 months to 17 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 Reading 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Struts
Rank 65 78 74
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -4
Contract jobs citing Struts 5 3 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.602% 0.282% 0.568%
As % of the Application Development category 2.381% 1.899% 2.459%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
Average daily rate £255 - £363
90% offered a daily rate of more than £251 - £273
10% offered a daily rate of more than £259 - £393
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
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
210 158 244
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 25.30% 14.85% 23.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 60 116
Average daily rate £363 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.33% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £230 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £470 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 9
Average hourly rate £15.00 £11.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+36.36% -43.58%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Struts
Berkshire

Struts
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading Struts Hourly Rate Trend

Struts
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 12 (92.31%) Java
1 12 (92.31%) jQuery
2 11 (84.62%) Struts2
3 10 (76.92%) Spring
4 9 (69.23%) Subversion
4 9 (69.23%) Eclipse
4 9 (69.23%) Finance
5 8 (61.54%) System Testing
5 8 (61.54%) Apache CXF
6 7 (53.85%) Jenkins
6 7 (53.85%) Maven
6 7 (53.85%) JUnit
6 7 (53.85%) Apache
6 7 (53.85%) Tomcat
7 6 (46.15%) Hibernate
8 4 (30.77%) HTML
9 3 (23.08%) XML
9 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
9 3 (23.08%) HTML5
10 2 (15.38%) Content Management
10 2 (15.38%) Ajax
10 2 (15.38%) Smartphone
10 2 (15.38%) JSON
10 2 (15.38%) Sencha
10 2 (15.38%) Apple iOS
10 2 (15.38%) REST
10 2 (15.38%) CSS3
10 2 (15.38%) Sencha Touch
10 2 (15.38%) Web Application Development
10 2 (15.38%) Windows 8

Struts
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 12 (92.31%) jQuery
2 11 (84.62%) Struts2
3 10 (76.92%) Spring
4 8 (61.54%) Apache CXF
5 6 (46.15%) Hibernate
6 4 (30.77%) HTML
7 3 (23.08%) XML
7 3 (23.08%) HTML5
8 2 (15.38%) REST
8 2 (15.38%) CSS3
8 2 (15.38%) Sencha Touch
8 2 (15.38%) Ajax
8 2 (15.38%) JSON
8 2 (15.38%) SOAP
8 2 (15.38%) Web Services
8 2 (15.38%) CSS
9 1 (7.692%) JDBC
9 1 (7.692%) JSP
9 1 (7.692%) Servlets
9 1 (7.692%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 7 (53.85%) Apache
1 7 (53.85%) Tomcat
2 2 (15.38%) CMS
Development Applications
1 9 (69.23%) Eclipse
1 9 (69.23%) Subversion
2 7 (53.85%) Maven
2 7 (53.85%) Jenkins
2 7 (53.85%) JUnit
3 1 (7.692%) Rational Rose
General
1 9 (69.23%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Developer
2 5 (38.46%) Analyst
2 5 (38.46%) Analyst Programmer
2 5 (38.46%) Programmer
2 5 (38.46%) Front-End Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Senior Analyst Programmer
3 3 (23.08%) Senior Programmer
3 3 (23.08%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Web Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Mobile Applications Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Mobile Developer
5 1 (7.692%) Senior Front-End Developer
5 1 (7.692%) Data Consultant
5 1 (7.692%) Web Applications Developer
5 1 (7.692%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (7.692%) Consultant
5 1 (7.692%) Applications Developer
5 1 (7.692%) Senior Developer
5 1 (7.692%) Java Developer
5 1 (7.692%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Blackberry
1 2 (15.38%) Smartphone
2 1 (7.692%) Mobile App
2 1 (7.692%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
1 2 (15.38%) Android
1 2 (15.38%) Apple iOS
1 2 (15.38%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) System Testing
2 2 (15.38%) Content Management
2 2 (15.38%) OO
2 2 (15.38%) Project Management
2 2 (15.38%) Web Application Development
3 1 (7.692%) UML
3 1 (7.692%) Data Security
3 1 (7.692%) SOA
3 1 (7.692%) DRM
3 1 (7.692%) Web Development
3 1 (7.692%) Unit Testing
3 1 (7.692%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) Java
2 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.692%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Sencha
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