The first table below looks at the demand for Struts skills in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Struts over the 3 months to 22 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 Yorkshire 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Struts
Rank 104 111 81
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -30
Contract jobs citing Struts 9 3 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.477% 0.130% 0.838%
As % of the Application Development category 1.633% 0.544% 3.319%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 8
Average daily rate £293 £283 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.53% -13.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £287 £249 £267
10% offered a daily rate of more than £299 £317 £337
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-8.85% -
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
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
551 551 452
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 29.20% 23.95% 25.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 329 240
Average daily rate £300 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £213 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £380 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 10 21
Average hourly rate £33.00 £17.00 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+94.11% -60.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Struts
England

Struts
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire Struts Hourly Rate Trend

Struts
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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 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
West Yorkshire +3 6 £293 -10.00%
North Yorkshire - 2 - -
South Yorkshire - 1 £293 -
Struts
England

Struts
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 27 (100.00%) Java
2 23 (85.19%) Hibernate
2 23 (85.19%) J2EE
3 20 (74.07%) Spring
4 15 (55.56%) JSP
5 10 (37.04%) Agile Software Development
6 9 (33.33%) Subversion
6 9 (33.33%) Maven
6 9 (33.33%) Struts2
7 8 (29.63%) JUnit
7 8 (29.63%) JavaScript
7 8 (29.63%) SQL
7 8 (29.63%) Tomcat
8 7 (25.93%) TDD
9 6 (22.22%) HTML
9 6 (22.22%) MySQL
9 6 (22.22%) Oracle
10 5 (18.52%) WebLogic
10 5 (18.52%) Apache
10 5 (18.52%) JBoss
10 5 (18.52%) XML
10 5 (18.52%) Web Design
10 5 (18.52%) Eclipse
10 5 (18.52%) Hudson
11 4 (14.81%) Liferay
11 4 (14.81%) Jenkins
11 4 (14.81%) Selenium
11 4 (14.81%) FitNesse
11 4 (14.81%) Alfresco
11 4 (14.81%) XSLT

Struts
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 23 (85.19%) Hibernate
1 23 (85.19%) J2EE
2 20 (74.07%) Spring
3 15 (55.56%) JSP
4 9 (33.33%) Struts2
5 6 (22.22%) HTML
6 5 (18.52%) XML
7 4 (14.81%) XSLT
7 4 (14.81%) EJB
7 4 (14.81%) CSS
7 4 (14.81%) JDBC
7 4 (14.81%) Servlets
8 3 (11.11%) SOAP
8 3 (11.11%) Web Services
8 3 (11.11%) JMS
8 3 (11.11%) JavaBeans
8 3 (11.11%) Ajax
8 3 (11.11%) jQuery
8 3 (11.11%) WebSphere
8 3 (11.11%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 8 (29.63%) Tomcat
2 5 (18.52%) WebLogic
2 5 (18.52%) Apache
3 4 (14.81%) Liferay
3 4 (14.81%) Alfresco
4 3 (11.11%) Oracle Application Server
4 3 (11.11%) Adobe CQ
5 2 (7.407%) Jetty
5 2 (7.407%) ESB
5 2 (7.407%) Mule
6 1 (3.704%) MQSeries
6 1 (3.704%) Magento
Business Applications
1 1 (3.704%) SAP Oil and Gas
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) MySQL
2 3 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (3.704%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.704%) DB2
3 1 (3.704%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.704%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (3.704%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 9 (33.33%) Subversion
1 9 (33.33%) Maven
2 8 (29.63%) JUnit
3 5 (18.52%) Eclipse
3 5 (18.52%) Hudson
4 4 (14.81%) Jenkins
4 4 (14.81%) Selenium
4 4 (14.81%) FitNesse
5 3 (11.11%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (3.704%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (7.407%) Telecoms
1 2 (7.407%) Finance
2 1 (3.704%) Automotive
2 1 (3.704%) Manufacturing
2 1 (3.704%) Electronics
2 1 (3.704%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 26 (96.30%) Developer
2 23 (85.19%) Java Developer
3 4 (14.81%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 2 (7.407%) J2EE Developer
5 1 (3.704%) Web Developer
5 1 (3.704%) Java Web Developer
5 1 (3.704%) Designer
5 1 (3.704%) Web Content Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) N-Tier
2 1 (3.704%) DTV
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.81%) Linux
2 2 (7.407%) UNIX
3 1 (3.704%) Windows
3 1 (3.704%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (37.04%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (25.93%) TDD
3 5 (18.52%) Web Design
4 3 (11.11%) MVC
4 3 (11.11%) Content Management
5 2 (7.407%) Unit Testing
5 2 (7.407%) OO
6 1 (3.704%) E-Commerce
6 1 (3.704%) Configuration Management
6 1 (3.704%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (3.704%) Programme Management
6 1 (3.704%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (3.704%) Digital Marketing
6 1 (3.704%) System Testing
6 1 (3.704%) Change Control
6 1 (3.704%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 27 (100.00%) Java
2 8 (29.63%) JavaScript
2 8 (29.63%) SQL
3 3 (11.11%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.704%) C#
System Software
1 3 (11.11%) OpenSSO
Vendors
1 6 (22.22%) Oracle
2 5 (18.52%) JBoss
3 3 (11.11%) Adobe
4 1 (3.704%) SAP
4 1 (3.704%) Twitter
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