The first table below looks at the demand for Struts skills in IT jobs advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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 Merseyside region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Struts
Rank - 40 64
Permanent jobs citing Struts 0 45 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside - 6.618% 0.664%
As % of the Application Development category - 13.08% 1.485%
Number of salaries quoted 0 30 3
Average salary - £40,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -20.00%
UK excluding London average salary £44,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+11.25% -
All Application Development
Merseyside
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
236 344 202
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 51.08% 50.59% 44.69%
Number of salaries quoted 206 310 161
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Struts
North West

Struts
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside Struts Jobs Demand Trend

Struts
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Struts across the Merseyside region.

Merseyside Struts Salary Trend

Struts
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Struts.

1 7 (100.00%) HTML
1 7 (100.00%) Java
1 7 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (85.71%) SQL
2 6 (85.71%) JUnit
2 6 (85.71%) CSS
2 6 (85.71%) Spring
2 6 (85.71%) Ruby
2 6 (85.71%) Open Source
3 5 (71.43%) Degree
3 5 (71.43%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (71.43%) EJB
4 4 (57.14%) C#
4 4 (57.14%) C++
4 4 (57.14%) MVC
4 4 (57.14%) Hibernate
4 4 (57.14%) JBoss
4 4 (57.14%) Python
4 4 (57.14%) JMS
4 4 (57.14%) SOA
4 4 (57.14%) Maven
4 4 (57.14%) Dependency Injection
4 4 (57.14%) Groovy
4 4 (57.14%) EJB 3.0
4 4 (57.14%) AOP
4 4 (57.14%) Web Development
4 4 (57.14%) Computer Science
4 4 (57.14%) Spring Web Flow
4 4 (57.14%) Unit Testing
5 3 (42.86%) Tomcat

Struts
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Struts. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (100.00%) HTML
2 6 (85.71%) CSS
2 6 (85.71%) Spring
3 5 (71.43%) EJB
4 4 (57.14%) Hibernate
4 4 (57.14%) JMS
4 4 (57.14%) EJB 3.0
4 4 (57.14%) Spring Web Flow
5 3 (42.86%) J2EE
5 3 (42.86%) JDBC
6 2 (28.57%) Servlets
6 2 (28.57%) Ruby on Rails
6 2 (28.57%) JSTL
6 2 (28.57%) jQuery
6 2 (28.57%) Java EE
7 1 (14.29%) JSF
7 1 (14.29%) SOAP
7 1 (14.29%) XML
7 1 (14.29%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) Tomcat
2 2 (28.57%) Apache
2 2 (28.57%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (28.57%) ESB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) JUnit
2 4 (57.14%) Maven
3 2 (28.57%) Ant
3 2 (28.57%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
1 7 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Senior Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Java/J2EE Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Java Web Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Web Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Web Developer
3 1 (14.29%) J2EE Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Web Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Open Source
2 4 (57.14%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) UNIX
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (57.14%) MVC
2 4 (57.14%) SOA
2 4 (57.14%) Dependency Injection
2 4 (57.14%) AOP
2 4 (57.14%) Web Development
2 4 (57.14%) Unit Testing
3 2 (28.57%) E-Commerce
3 2 (28.57%) Scrum
3 2 (28.57%) TDD
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (28.57%) Multithreading
3 2 (28.57%) Kanban
4 1 (14.29%) OOD
4 1 (14.29%) OOA/OOD
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
1 7 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (85.71%) SQL
2 6 (85.71%) Ruby
3 4 (57.14%) C#
3 4 (57.14%) C++
3 4 (57.14%) Python
3 4 (57.14%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) Degree
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) JBoss
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle