The first table below looks at the demand for Struts2 skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Struts2 over the 3 months to 19 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Struts 2
Rank 530 539 554
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +15
Contract jobs citing Struts2 11 31 47
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.023% 0.053% 0.076%
As % of the Application Development category 0.082% 0.207% 0.273%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 36
Average daily rate £363 £379 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.29% +1.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £258 £330 £330
10% offered a daily rate of more than £426 £450 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £260 £375 £350
% change year-on-year
-30.66% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £30.00
All Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
13369 14943 17245
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.79% 25.75% 27.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 8406 8920 10221
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 342 381 538
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%

Struts2
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

Struts2 Daily Rate Trend

Struts2
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Struts2 within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Struts2 Daily Rate Histogram

Struts2
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Struts2 within the UK.

Struts2 Hourly Rate Trend

Struts2
Top 24 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Struts2 within the UK over the 3 months to 19 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 -7 11 £363 -4.29% 8
London +25 6 £375 -16.66% 1
South East +15 3 £255 -32.67% 3
Reading +8 2 £255 - 1
Berkshire +8 2 £255 -33.33% 3
East of England +16 1 £450 +12.50% 1
North West +13 1 - -
Scotland - - - -
Cambridgeshire - - - -
Hampshire - - - -
Norfolk - - - - 1
City of London - - - - 1
North East - - - -
Slough - - - - 2
South West - - - -
Tyne and Wear - - - -
Manchester - - - -
Newcastle upon Tyne - - - -
Norwich - - - - 1
Basingstoke - - - -
Bristol - - - -
Cambridge - - - -
Edinburgh - - - -
Glasgow - - - -

Struts2
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 30 (100.00%) Struts
2 29 (96.67%) Java
3 25 (83.33%) J2EE
4 22 (73.33%) Spring
5 20 (66.67%) JavaScript
6 19 (63.33%) XML
6 19 (63.33%) Hibernate
7 18 (60.00%) Web Services
8 15 (50.00%) Oracle
9 14 (46.67%) SQL
9 14 (46.67%) jQuery
10 13 (43.33%) Ajax
10 13 (43.33%) JSP
11 12 (40.00%) Finance
11 12 (40.00%) Subversion
12 11 (36.67%) Agile Software Development
13 10 (33.33%) Maven
13 10 (33.33%) JUnit
14 9 (30.00%) WebLogic
14 9 (30.00%) RUP
15 8 (26.67%) Scrum
15 8 (26.67%) JBoss
15 8 (26.67%) Windows
15 8 (26.67%) EJB
15 8 (26.67%) CSS
16 7 (23.33%) HTML
16 7 (23.33%) Tomcat
16 7 (23.33%) Apache
17 6 (20.00%) Eclipse
17 6 (20.00%) JMS

Struts2
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 30 (100.00%) Struts
2 25 (83.33%) J2EE
3 22 (73.33%) Spring
4 19 (63.33%) XML
4 19 (63.33%) Hibernate
5 18 (60.00%) Web Services
6 14 (46.67%) jQuery
7 13 (43.33%) Ajax
7 13 (43.33%) JSP
8 8 (26.67%) EJB
8 8 (26.67%) CSS
9 7 (23.33%) HTML
10 6 (20.00%) JMS
11 5 (16.67%) Java EE
11 5 (16.67%) Guice
11 5 (16.67%) WebSphere
11 5 (16.67%) WSDL
11 5 (16.67%) XSD
11 5 (16.67%) Servlets
12 4 (13.33%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 9 (30.00%) WebLogic
2 7 (23.33%) Tomcat
2 7 (23.33%) Apache
3 4 (13.33%) Oracle Application Server
4 3 (10.00%) Liferay
4 3 (10.00%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (6.667%) CMS
6 1 (3.333%) Amazon AWS
6 1 (3.333%) Jetty
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
1 5 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 5 (16.67%) DB2
2 4 (13.33%) MySQL
3 3 (10.00%) Big Data
3 3 (10.00%) Oracle 11g
3 3 (10.00%) JasperReports
3 3 (10.00%) GIS
4 2 (6.667%) Oracle 10g
5 1 (3.333%) MarkLogic
Development Applications
1 12 (40.00%) Subversion
2 10 (33.33%) Maven
2 10 (33.33%) JUnit
3 6 (20.00%) Eclipse
4 5 (16.67%) ClearCase
5 4 (13.33%) Git (software)
6 3 (10.00%) Hudson
6 3 (10.00%) Jenkins
6 3 (10.00%) Gradle
7 2 (6.667%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (3.333%) Mockito
8 1 (3.333%) Mercurial
8 1 (3.333%) JIRA
8 1 (3.333%) Log4j
8 1 (3.333%) NetBeans
General
1 12 (40.00%) Finance
2 6 (20.00%) Banking
3 3 (10.00%) Publishing
4 1 (3.333%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (90.00%) Developer
2 23 (76.67%) Java Developer
3 9 (30.00%) Senior Developer
3 9 (30.00%) Senior Java Developer
4 5 (16.67%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 2 (6.667%) Web Developer
5 2 (6.667%) Front-End Developer
5 2 (6.667%) Mobile Applications Developer
5 2 (6.667%) Mobile Developer
6 1 (3.333%) Java/J2EE Architect
6 1 (3.333%) Java Architect
6 1 (3.333%) Senior Programmer
6 1 (3.333%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (3.333%) Build Manager
6 1 (3.333%) J2EE Developer
6 1 (3.333%) Senior Analyst Programmer
6 1 (3.333%) Web Applications Developer
6 1 (3.333%) J2EE Architect
6 1 (3.333%) Architect
6 1 (3.333%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) PMI
2 4 (13.33%) Open Source
3 3 (10.00%) Mobile App
4 2 (6.667%) Blackberry
4 2 (6.667%) Smartphone
5 1 (3.333%) Linked Data
5 1 (3.333%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.333%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (3.333%) Semantic Web
5 1 (3.333%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 8 (26.67%) Windows
2 4 (13.33%) Linux
3 3 (10.00%) UNIX
3 3 (10.00%) Solaris
4 2 (6.667%) Android
4 2 (6.667%) Windows 8
4 2 (6.667%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (36.67%) Agile Software Development
2 9 (30.00%) RUP
3 8 (26.67%) Scrum
4 6 (20.00%) Unit Testing
4 6 (20.00%) Waterfall
5 5 (16.67%) BDD
5 5 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (16.67%) TDD
5 5 (16.67%) PRINCE
5 5 (16.67%) Project Management
5 5 (16.67%) CMMI
5 5 (16.67%) PRINCE2
6 4 (13.33%) UML
6 4 (13.33%) Software Engineering
6 4 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (10.00%) Requirements Analysis
7 3 (10.00%) Data Migration
7 3 (10.00%) MVC
7 3 (10.00%) Workflow
7 3 (10.00%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (96.67%) Java
2 20 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 14 (46.67%) SQL
4 4 (13.33%) Scala
5 3 (10.00%) Groovy
6 2 (6.667%) C
6 2 (6.667%) PL/SQL
7 1 (3.333%) SPARQL
7 1 (3.333%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) PMI Certification
2 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (10.00%) CTC Cleared
2 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.667%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 2 (6.667%) SLA
1 2 (6.667%) QA
Vendors
1 15 (50.00%) Oracle
2 8 (26.67%) JBoss
3 5 (16.67%) Google
3 5 (16.67%) Chordiant
4 2 (6.667%) Sencha
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