The first table below looks at the demand for Struts skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Struts over the 3 months to 20 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.

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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Struts
Rank 392 378 259
Rank change year-on-year
-14 -119
Contract jobs citing Struts 149 209 426
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.305% 0.366% 0.685%
As % of the Application Development category 1.096% 1.419% 2.461%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 116 240
Average daily rate £400 £395 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.26% +5.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £311 £262
10% offered a daily rate of more than £506 £550 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £356 £335
% change year-on-year
-1.75% +6.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 33
Average hourly rate £39.53 £35.00 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.94% -17.64%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.51 £35.00 £32.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.40 £37.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £36.25 £42.50
% change year-on-year
- -14.70%
All Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
13589 14731 17307
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.79% 25.77% 27.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 8537 8800 10282
Average daily rate £375 £353 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.38% -11.87%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 351 379 533
Average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £17.50 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%

Struts
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

Struts Daily Rate Trend

Struts
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Struts within the UK over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Struts Daily Rate Histogram

Struts
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Struts within the UK.

Struts Hourly Rate Trend

Struts
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Struts within the UK over the 3 months to 20 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
England -22 134 £388 -3.12% 61
London +8 95 £400 -17.94% 22
City of London +11 23 £375 -25.00% 8
South East +1 19 £318 -16.17% 8
Scotland -16 14 £475 +35.71%
Glasgow -15 8 - -
Yorkshire +10 7 £300 -7.69% 13
West Yorkshire +8 6 £300 -7.69% 11
Berkshire +5 6 £255 -42.20% 4
Hampshire -12 6 £315 -30.00%
Reading +6 4 £255 - 1
Leeds +2 4 £300 -7.69% 3
Milton Keynes -3 4 £343 +30.47%
Buckinghamshire -7 4 £343 +30.47% 1
South West +23 3 £313 -16.38%
North West -2 3 £363 -3.33% 7
Dorset - 3 £313 -
Manchester +11 2 £363 -3.33% 1
East of England +4 2 £425 +13.33% 8
East Midlands -9 2 £228 -28.90% 1
Bromley - 2 - -
Hertfordshire +11 1 £450 +20.00% 1
Brighton +5 1 £320 +1.58% 1
East Sussex +3 1 £320 +1.58% 1
Cheshire -1 1 - - 2
Oxfordshire -3 1 - - 1
Edinburgh -3 1 - -
Brentford - 1 £545 -
Newcastle upon Tyne - 1 £375 -
Northampton - 1 £135 -

Struts
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1 297 (98.34%) Java
2 205 (67.88%) Spring
3 199 (65.89%) J2EE
4 147 (48.68%) JSP
5 143 (47.35%) Oracle
6 134 (44.37%) XML
7 132 (43.71%) Hibernate
8 131 (43.38%) JavaScript
9 117 (38.74%) SQL
10 101 (33.44%) HTML
11 94 (31.13%) JUnit
12 88 (29.14%) CSS
13 85 (28.15%) JMS
14 76 (25.17%) Apache
14 76 (25.17%) MVC
15 75 (24.83%) Servlets
15 75 (24.83%) Ajax
16 74 (24.50%) Web Services
17 72 (23.84%) OO
18 69 (22.85%) JBoss
18 69 (22.85%) JDBC
19 68 (22.52%) Finance
20 66 (21.85%) TDD
21 65 (21.52%) Agile Software Development
21 65 (21.52%) EJB
21 65 (21.52%) SQL Server
22 62 (20.53%) XSLT
23 58 (19.21%) Tomcat
24 55 (18.21%) WebLogic
24 55 (18.21%) Eclipse

Struts
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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
1 205 (67.88%) Spring
2 199 (65.89%) J2EE
3 147 (48.68%) JSP
4 134 (44.37%) XML
5 132 (43.71%) Hibernate
6 101 (33.44%) HTML
7 88 (29.14%) CSS
8 85 (28.15%) JMS
9 75 (24.83%) Servlets
9 75 (24.83%) Ajax
10 74 (24.50%) Web Services
11 69 (22.85%) JDBC
12 65 (21.52%) EJB
13 62 (20.53%) XSLT
14 55 (18.21%) WebSphere
15 54 (17.88%) Spring MVC
15 54 (17.88%) jQuery
16 36 (11.92%) .NET
17 31 (10.26%) Struts2
18 30 (9.934%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 76 (25.17%) Apache
2 58 (19.21%) Tomcat
3 55 (18.21%) WebLogic
4 18 (5.960%) IIS
5 17 (5.629%) WebSphere Application Server
6 12 (3.974%) CMS
7 10 (3.311%) MQSeries
8 9 (2.980%) ESB
9 6 (1.987%) BizTalk Server
9 6 (1.987%) Adobe CQ
10 5 (1.656%) AquaLogic
10 5 (1.656%) Oracle Application Server
11 4 (1.325%) Oracle Workflow
11 4 (1.325%) Liferay
11 4 (1.325%) TIBCO EMS
12 3 (0.993%) GlassFish
12 3 (0.993%) Jetty
12 3 (0.993%) Force.com
12 3 (0.993%) Confluence
12 3 (0.993%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 6 (1.987%) MS Excel
2 5 (1.656%) Mingle
3 3 (0.993%) MS Office
4 1 (0.331%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (3.311%) RMDS
1 10 (3.311%) Tridion
2 7 (2.318%) Oracle BPM
3 6 (1.987%) 3000 Xtra
4 4 (1.325%) Oracle Retail
5 1 (0.331%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.967%) Internet
2 7 (2.318%) HTTP
3 6 (1.987%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.325%) Unified Communications
5 3 (0.993%) LDAP
6 2 (0.662%) Broadband
7 1 (0.331%) Intranet
7 1 (0.331%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (21.52%) SQL Server
2 32 (10.60%) MySQL
2 32 (10.60%) RDBMS
3 18 (5.960%) DB2
4 14 (4.636%) Oracle 10g
5 9 (2.980%) MarkLogic
6 8 (2.649%) Oracle 8/8i
6 8 (2.649%) Oracle 11g
7 6 (1.987%) Oracle Reports
7 6 (1.987%) Crystal Reports
7 6 (1.987%) Big Data
8 5 (1.656%) JasperReports
8 5 (1.656%) SQL Server 2005
8 5 (1.656%) SQL Server 2000
9 4 (1.325%) InterSystems Cache
9 4 (1.325%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.993%) Sybase ASE
10 3 (0.993%) GIS
11 2 (0.662%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (0.662%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 94 (31.13%) JUnit
2 55 (18.21%) Eclipse
3 52 (17.22%) Maven
4 44 (14.57%) Subversion
5 33 (10.93%) Ant
6 21 (6.954%) Selenium
7 20 (6.623%) CruiseControl
8 14 (4.636%) JIRA
9 13 (4.305%) Team Foundation Server
10 12 (3.974%) Log4j
11 11 (3.642%) Git (software)
11 11 (3.642%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 11 (3.642%) Hudson
12 10 (3.311%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
12 10 (3.311%) JDeveloper
13 9 (2.980%) jMock
14 8 (2.649%) Jenkins
15 6 (1.987%) Mockito
16 5 (1.656%) ClearCase
16 5 (1.656%) NetBeans
General
1 68 (22.52%) Finance
2 51 (16.89%) Banking
3 22 (7.285%) Retail
4 15 (4.967%) Investment Banking
5 13 (4.305%) Games
6 11 (3.642%) Publishing
6 11 (3.642%) Front Office
7 9 (2.980%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.318%) Back Office
9 6 (1.987%) Marketing
10 2 (0.662%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.662%) Wholesale Banking
11 1 (0.331%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.331%) Automotive
11 1 (0.331%) Electronics
11 1 (0.331%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.331%) Billing
Job Titles
1 242 (80.13%) Developer
2 183 (60.60%) Java Developer
3 33 (10.93%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 32 (10.60%) Senior Developer
5 24 (7.947%) Senior Java Developer
6 18 (5.960%) J2EE Developer
7 17 (5.629%) Analyst
7 17 (5.629%) Programmer
8 15 (4.967%) Java Programmer
9 14 (4.636%) Architect
10 12 (3.974%) Consultant
10 12 (3.974%) Designer
11 10 (3.311%) Web Developer
11 10 (3.311%) Solutions Designer
12 9 (2.980%) Analyst Programmer
13 8 (2.649%) JavaScript Developer
14 7 (2.318%) Software Developer
14 7 (2.318%) Java Analyst Programmer
15 6 (1.987%) Team Leader
15 6 (1.987%) Developer Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.954%) Open Source
2 15 (4.967%) Mobile App
3 10 (3.311%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 10 (3.311%) Kindle
3 10 (3.311%) Web 2.0
4 9 (2.980%) Semantic Web
4 9 (2.980%) N-Tier
5 6 (1.987%) Credit Risk
6 5 (1.656%) Inversion of Control
6 5 (1.656%) Digital Media
6 5 (1.656%) PMI
7 4 (1.325%) Heroku
7 4 (1.325%) Computer Science
8 3 (0.993%) Client/Server
8 3 (0.993%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.662%) Blackberry
9 2 (0.662%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.662%) Mathematics
9 2 (0.662%) Smartphone
10 1 (0.331%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 48 (15.89%) Linux
2 45 (14.90%) UNIX
3 27 (8.940%) Windows
4 18 (5.960%) Solaris
5 10 (3.311%) HPUX
5 10 (3.311%) Android
6 6 (1.987%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.325%) CentOS
8 2 (0.662%) Windows 8
9 1 (0.331%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (25.17%) MVC
2 72 (23.84%) OO
3 66 (21.85%) TDD
4 65 (21.52%) Agile Software Development
5 54 (17.88%) Unit Testing
6 48 (15.89%) UML
7 36 (11.92%) E-Commerce
8 26 (8.609%) Scrum
9 25 (8.278%) Continuous Integration
10 23 (7.616%) Content Management
11 20 (6.623%) RAD
11 20 (6.623%) BDD
11 20 (6.623%) Web Application Development
12 18 (5.960%) Migration
13 16 (5.298%) OOD
13 16 (5.298%) Web Development
14 14 (4.636%) Multithreading
15 13 (4.305%) Requirements Analysis
15 13 (4.305%) Software Architecture
15 13 (4.305%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 297 (98.34%) Java
2 131 (43.38%) JavaScript
3 117 (38.74%) SQL
4 45 (14.90%) PL/SQL
5 28 (9.272%) C#
6 24 (7.947%) Perl
6 24 (7.947%) Shell Script
7 14 (4.636%) XQuery
8 13 (4.305%) Bash shell
9 12 (3.974%) XPath
10 11 (3.642%) VB
10 11 (3.642%) VB6
11 9 (2.980%) C++
11 9 (2.980%) VBScript
11 9 (2.980%) VBA
12 6 (1.987%) T-SQL
13 5 (1.656%) Scala
13 5 (1.656%) PHP
14 4 (1.325%) Apex Code
14 4 (1.325%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 12 (3.974%) Degree
2 8 (2.649%) Sun Certification
3 6 (1.987%) CIPD
4 5 (1.656%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.656%) PMI Certification
5 4 (1.325%) SC Cleared
6 3 (0.993%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.331%) MBCS
7 1 (0.331%) CITP
7 1 (0.331%) SCWCD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.954%) QA
2 9 (2.980%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (0.993%) SLA
4 1 (0.331%) HL7
4 1 (0.331%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (2.980%) Squid
2 3 (0.993%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (0.993%) OpenSSO
3 1 (0.331%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.331%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 4 (1.325%) Oracle Identity Manager
2 3 (0.993%) MOM
3 1 (0.331%) Data Guard
3 1 (0.331%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.331%) Tivoli
3 1 (0.331%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 143 (47.35%) Oracle
2 69 (22.85%) JBoss
3 21 (6.954%) IBM
4 20 (6.623%) ATG
5 16 (5.298%) Microsoft
6 12 (3.974%) Google
7 11 (3.642%) Intershop
8 10 (3.311%) Sony
8 10 (3.311%) Reuters
8 10 (3.311%) Blue Martini
9 9 (2.980%) Elastic Path
9 9 (2.980%) Sybase
9 9 (2.980%) Interwoven
10 8 (2.649%) Business Objects
11 7 (2.318%) Pega
11 7 (2.318%) Sun
12 6 (1.987%) Metastorm
12 6 (1.987%) VMware
12 6 (1.987%) SunGard
12 6 (1.987%) Citrix
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Computer Futures
Rate: £325 - £340 per day
Posted: 28 May 2013
West Yorkshire
You need to be an experienced developer with the following skill sets: - 4+ years Java/J2EE - Spring & Hibernate - Struts2 - JavaScript - JQuery - JUnit - Agile development methodologies Additional favourable skills: -...
Computer Futures
Rate: £300 - £340 per day
Posted: 30 May 2013
Bradford, Yorkshire
Java Developer - 6 months (initially, possible extension) - Bradford (West Yorkshire)Our client are looking for 2 web focused Java developers to assist in upcoming projects for the group...
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £320 - £355 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
Bradford, West Yorkshire
Strong core Java skills (1.4, 1.5 , 1.6) -Experience of JUnit testing -Ability to understand and follow in-housava frameworks -Struts 1 -XML/XSLT -Source control...
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £320 - £355 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
2 x Java Developer - Java, JAX-WS, Web Services, CSS, XML, XSLT. Great Java Skills needed such as Java, JAX-WS, Web Services, CSS, XML, XSLT... - Struts 1. -...
Integrity IT Solutions
Rate: Unspecified Excellent Rate
Posted: 14 June 2013
West Midlands
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Rate: £31 - £350 per day + Negotiable
Posted: 19 June 2013
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Rate: £300.00 - £360.00 per day
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Rate: £550 - £585 per day
Posted: 29 May 2013
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London
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