The first table below looks at the demand for Struts skills in IT contracts advertised for the Wales region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Struts over the 3 months to 24 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 Wales 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Struts
Rank - - 58
Contract jobs citing Struts 0 0 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales - - 0.455%
As % of the Application Development category - - 1.818%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £274
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £356 £344
% change year-on-year
-10.17% +3.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £36.25 £42.50
% change year-on-year
- -14.70%
All Application Development
Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
85 142 165
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 19.95% 24.91% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 62 65
Average daily rate £325 £315 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.17% -3.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £228
10% offered a daily rate of more than £410 £470 £511
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 12
Average hourly rate £37.50 £27.50 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+36.36% -35.29%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Struts
UK

Struts
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wales 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 Wales region.

Wales 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 Wales region.

Wales Struts Hourly Rate Trend

Struts
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales 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%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Ant
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) JDBC
1 1 (100.00%) JSP
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (100.00%) J2SE
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Spring MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Security
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) TestNG

Struts
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales 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%) JDBC
1 1 (100.00%) JSP
1 1 (100.00%) J2SE
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Security
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Ant
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) TestNG
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle