The first table below looks at the demand for Struts2 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Sheffield region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Struts2 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 Sheffield 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 2
Rank - - 26
Contract jobs citing Struts2 0 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Sheffield - - 1.325%
As % of the Application Development category - - 2.857%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £330
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
Sheffield
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
45 48 70
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Sheffield 30.00% 34.53% 46.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 27 31
Average daily rate £288 £288 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -4.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £236 £200 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £460 £500 £330
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 6
Average hourly rate £28.75 - £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Struts2
South Yorkshire

Struts2
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sheffield 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 Sheffield region.

Sheffield Struts2 Daily Rate Trend

Struts2
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Sheffield 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 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) MySQL
1 4 (100.00%) JUnit
1 4 (100.00%) JSP
1 4 (100.00%) Struts
1 4 (100.00%) Subversion
1 4 (100.00%) Spring
1 4 (100.00%) Maven
1 4 (100.00%) Selenium
1 4 (100.00%) FitNesse
1 4 (100.00%) Alfresco
1 4 (100.00%) Liferay
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 4 (100.00%) Hibernate
2 3 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (75.00%) HTML
2 3 (75.00%) Web Design
2 3 (75.00%) CSS
2 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Tomcat

Struts2
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Sheffield 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 4 (100.00%) JSP
1 4 (100.00%) Struts
1 4 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 4 (100.00%) Spring
2 3 (75.00%) HTML
2 3 (75.00%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) Alfresco
1 4 (100.00%) Liferay
2 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) JUnit
1 4 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 4 (100.00%) Subversion
1 4 (100.00%) Maven
1 4 (100.00%) Selenium
1 4 (100.00%) FitNesse
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Java Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Web Design
1 3 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) JavaScript