South East Struts Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Apache Struts skills within the South East region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Struts over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Apache Struts
Location Altrincham Andover Basildon Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Brentford Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Conwy Cornwall Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Llandudno London Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Peterborough Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southwark St Ives Stockport Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	162	157
Rank change on same period last year	-5
Matching contract IT job ads	87	149
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.116 %	0.151 %
As % of the category below	3.124 %	3.548 %
Daily rates quoted	22	56
Average minimum daily rate	£365	£311
Average daily rate	£384	£324
% change on same period last year	+18.81 %
Average maximum daily rate	£404	£336
UK excluding London average daily rate	£362	£339
% change on same period last year	+6.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	16
Average minimum hourly rate	£41.33	£40.75
Average hourly rate	£43.17	£44.97
% change on same period last year	-4.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£45.00	£49.19
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£39.35	£37.67
% change on same period last year	+4.44 %
Application Development South East
Matching contract IT job ads	2785	4200
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.712 %	4.249 %
Daily rates quoted	683	1044
Average minimum daily rate	£310	£310
Average daily rate	£328	£328
% change on same period last year	+0.28 %
Average maximum daily rate	£347	£345
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	253	429
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.19	£34.39
Average hourly rate	£34.14	£36.86
% change on same period last year	-7.39 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.08	£39.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.78	£33.23
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
Struts England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Struts
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Struts across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Struts
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Struts across the South East region.

Struts
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Struts across the South East region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Struts
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Struts across the South East region.

Struts
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Struts across the South East region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Struts
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Struts within the South East region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Berkshire	+14	35	£324	+2.73 %
Hampshire	+21	17	£475	+58.33 %
Surrey	-11	10	£450	+1.12 %
Middlesex	+5	5	£475	-
Thames Valley	+16	4	-	-
Buckinghamshire	-3	4	£400	+37.50 %
Kent	+2	2	-	-

Struts England

Struts
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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.

1 211 (91.74 %) Java 2 199 (86.52 %) J2EE 3 124 (53.91 %) Hibernate 4 104 (45.22 %) Spring 5 97 (42.17 %) JSP 6 88 (38.26 %) Oracle 7 73 (31.74 %) WebLogic 8 61 (26.52 %) XML 9 60 (26.09 %) Security Cleared 10 56 (24.35 %) WebSphere 10 56 (24.35 %) SQL 11 52 (22.61 %) Eclipse 12 46 (20.00 %) Servlets 13 45 (19.57 %) SC Cleared 14 44 (19.13 %) EJB

15 37 (16.09 %) HTML 16 35 (15.22 %) UML 16 35 (15.22 %) MVC 16 35 (15.22 %) Government 17 32 (13.91 %) Degree 18 28 (12.17 %) DB2 19 27 (11.74 %) JavaScript 19 27 (11.74 %) AJAX 20 26 (11.30 %) E-Commerce 20 26 (11.30 %) Finance 21 23 (10.00 %) JUnit 21 23 (10.00 %) WebSphere Application Server 22 22 (9.565 %) RDBMS 23 19 (8.261 %) Internet 23 19 (8.261 %) JMS

Struts
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 1 199 (86.52 %) J2EE 2 124 (53.91 %) Hibernate 3 104 (45.22 %) Spring 4 97 (42.17 %) JSP 5 61 (26.52 %) XML 6 56 (24.35 %) WebSphere 7 46 (20.00 %) Servlets 8 44 (19.13 %) EJB 9 37 (16.09 %) HTML 10 35 (15.22 %) MVC 11 27 (11.74 %) AJAX 12 19 (8.261 %) JMS 13 18 (7.826 %) JDBC 14 15 (6.522 %) WebServices 15 13 (5.652 %) JRules 15 13 (5.652 %) Spring MVC 16 12 (5.217 %) JSF 17 10 (4.348 %) CSS 18 8 (3.478 %) SOAP 18 8 (3.478 %) BAPI	Application Platforms 1 73 (31.74 %) WebLogic 2 23 (10.00 %) WebSphere Application Server 3 7 (3.043 %) JBoss 4 6 (2.609 %) Tomcat 4 6 (2.609 %) WebLogic Portal 5 5 (2.174 %) IIS 6 4 (1.739 %) MQSeries 7 3 (1.304 %) NetWeaver 8 2 (0.870 %) TIBCO EMS 8 2 (0.870 %) Apache 9 1 (0.435 %) SAS 9 1 (0.435 %) TeamSite 9 1 (0.435 %) Oracle 10gAS 9 1 (0.435 %) WebLogic Integration 9 1 (0.435 %) CMS 9 1 (0.435 %) Oracle Application Server
Business Applications 1 8 (3.478 %) SAP CRM	Communications & Networking 1 19 (8.261 %) Internet 2 13 (5.652 %) Extranet 3 7 (3.043 %) HTTP 4 5 (2.174 %) LDAP 5 2 (0.870 %) Wireless 6 1 (0.435 %) SMPP 6 1 (0.435 %) SMS 6 1 (0.435 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 28 (12.17 %) DB2 2 22 (9.565 %) RDBMS 3 9 (3.913 %) SQL Server 2005 3 9 (3.913 %) SQL Server 4 8 (3.478 %) DB2 UDB 4 8 (3.478 %) Oracle 10g 5 5 (2.174 %) MySQL 6 4 (1.739 %) SQL Server 7 7 3 (1.304 %) Informix 8 2 (0.870 %) Oracle 9i 9 1 (0.435 %) Oracle Discoverer 9 1 (0.435 %) Oracle Reports 9 1 (0.435 %) Crystal Reports 9 1 (0.435 %) GIS 9 1 (0.435 %) InterBase 9 1 (0.435 %) BusinessObjects	Development Applications 1 52 (22.61 %) Eclipse 2 23 (10.00 %) JUnit 3 12 (5.217 %) Ant 4 5 (2.174 %) Subversion 5 3 (1.304 %) Log4j 6 2 (0.870 %) JDeveloper 6 2 (0.870 %) WebLogic Workshop 6 2 (0.870 %) Bugzilla 6 2 (0.870 %) VSS/SourceSafe 6 2 (0.870 %) ClearCase 6 2 (0.870 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 7 1 (0.435 %) Rational Rose 7 1 (0.435 %) Dreamweaver 7 1 (0.435 %) JBuilder 7 1 (0.435 %) Oracle Forms
General 1 35 (15.22 %) Government 2 26 (11.30 %) Finance 3 11 (4.783 %) Insurance 4 8 (3.478 %) Education 5 7 (3.043 %) Telecoms 6 6 (2.609 %) Billing 7 5 (2.174 %) Manufacturing 8 4 (1.739 %) Retail 8 4 (1.739 %) Pensions 9 3 (1.304 %) Banking 9 3 (1.304 %) Construction 10 2 (0.870 %) Retail Banking 11 1 (0.435 %) Local Government 11 1 (0.435 %) Legal 11 1 (0.435 %) Front Office 11 1 (0.435 %) Automotive	Job Titles 1 190 (82.61 %) Developer 2 146 (63.48 %) Java Developer 3 95 (41.30 %) J2EE Developer 4 85 (36.96 %) Java/J2EE Developer 5 11 (4.783 %) Architect 6 10 (4.348 %) Senior Developer 7 9 (3.913 %) J2EE Architect 8 5 (2.174 %) Applications Developer 8 5 (2.174 %) Project Leader 8 5 (2.174 %) Senior Java Developer 9 4 (1.739 %) J2EE Applications Developer 9 4 (1.739 %) WebLogic Developer 9 4 (1.739 %) Software Developer 10 3 (1.304 %) Technical Architect 10 3 (1.304 %) Programmer 10 3 (1.304 %) Consultant 10 3 (1.304 %) SAP Consultant 10 3 (1.304 %) Team Leader 10 3 (1.304 %) Lead Developer 10 3 (1.304 %) Interface Designer
Miscellaneous 1 4 (1.739 %) N-Tier 2 1 (0.435 %) Web 2.0 2 1 (0.435 %) Computer Science 2 1 (0.435 %) Mashup 2 1 (0.435 %) Client/Server	Operating Systems 1 16 (6.957 %) UNIX 2 10 (4.348 %) Windows 3 2 (0.870 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 60 (26.09 %) Security Cleared 2 45 (19.57 %) SC Cleared 3 35 (15.22 %) UML 4 26 (11.30 %) E-Commerce 5 17 (7.391 %) RUP 6 15 (6.522 %) OO 7 13 (5.652 %) CRM 8 12 (5.217 %) Unit Testing 9 11 (4.783 %) OOD 10 9 (3.913 %) DoDAF 10 9 (3.913 %) MODAF 11 8 (3.478 %) DV Cleared 11 8 (3.478 %) SOA 12 7 (3.043 %) Agile Software Development 13 6 (2.609 %) Web Development 14 4 (1.739 %) Continuous Integration 14 4 (1.739 %) Project Management 14 4 (1.739 %) Validation 15 3 (1.304 %) TDD 15 3 (1.304 %) OOA/OOD	Programming Languages 1 211 (91.74 %) Java 2 56 (24.35 %) SQL 3 27 (11.74 %) JavaScript 4 13 (5.652 %) PL/SQL 5 8 (3.478 %) Perl 6 7 (3.043 %) ABAP 6 7 (3.043 %) Shell Script 7 6 (2.609 %) C 8 3 (1.304 %) DHTML 9 1 (0.435 %) VB
Qualifications 1 32 (13.91 %) Degree 2 3 (1.304 %) Sun Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (0.870 %) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software 1 4 (1.739 %) AquaLogic	Vendors 1 88 (38.26 %) Oracle 2 12 (5.217 %) BEA 3 9 (3.913 %) SAP 3 9 (3.913 %) IBM 3 9 (3.913 %) NEC 4 4 (1.739 %) Sun 5 3 (1.304 %) ILOG 6 2 (0.870 %) TIBCO 7 1 (0.435 %) webMethods 7 1 (0.435 %) Mercator 7 1 (0.435 %) ESRI 7 1 (0.435 %) Sybase 7 1 (0.435 %) Business Objects 7 1 (0.435 %) Vignette 7 1 (0.435 %) FatWire 7 1 (0.435 %) Google