The first table below looks at the demand for Struts skills in IT contracts advertised for the Slough 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 Slough 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 38 - 32
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Struts 1 0 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Slough 0.400% - 3.257%
As % of the Application Development category 1.149% - 10.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £334 £350
% change year-on-year
-4.41% -4.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
Average hourly rate - - £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £36.25 £42.50
% change year-on-year
- -14.70%
All Application Development
Slough
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
87 43 95
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Slough 34.80% 20.98% 30.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 23 43
Average daily rate £325 £350 £315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% +11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £288 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £413 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 1 34
Average hourly rate £35.00 £14.40 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+143.05% -66.11%
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 Slough region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Slough 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 Slough region.

Slough 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 Slough region.

Slough Struts Hourly Rate Trend

Struts
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Slough 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 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Servlets
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSLT
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (100.00%) XHTML
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) GigaSpaces
1 1 (100.00%) Velocity
1 1 (100.00%) JSR 168
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Alfresco
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) Liferay
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub

Struts
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Slough 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 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Servlets
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSLT
1 1 (100.00%) XHTML
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Velocity
1 1 (100.00%) JSR 168
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (100.00%) Alfresco
1 1 (100.00%) Liferay
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) GigaSpaces