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This section looks at the demand for Apache Ant skills within the Birmingham region with a comparison to our Development Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Ant over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkApache Ant
Location
3 months to 25 Jul 2008Same period last year
Rank5067
Rank change on same period last yearUp+17
Matching contract IT job ads23
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.003 %0.003 %
As % of the category below3.636 %2.419 %
Daily rates quoted10
Average minimum daily rate£300-
Average daily rate£325-
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum daily rate£350-
UK excluding London average daily rate£388£331
% change on same period last year+17.19 %
Hourly rates quoted00
Average minimum hourly rate--
Average hourly rate--
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum hourly rate--
UK excluding London average hourly rate£42.50£39.63
% change on same period last year+7.24 %
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
Birmingham
Matching contract IT job ads55124
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.073 %0.125 %
Daily rates quoted1726
Average minimum daily rate£267£273
Average daily rate£297£302
% change on same period last year-1.66 %
Average maximum daily rate£327£330
UK excluding London average daily rate£329£331
% change on same period last year-0.66 %
Hourly rates quoted11
Average minimum hourly rate£20.00£28.00
Average hourly rate£22.00£33.00
% change on same period last year-33.33 %
Average maximum hourly rate£24.00£38.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£32.89£34.13
% change on same period last year-3.63 %
Ant West MidlandsAnt
West Midlands

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Ant
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Ant across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Birmingham Ant Demand Trend

Ant
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Ant across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham Ant Daily Rate Trend

Ant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Ant 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 Ant.

16 (100.00 %)J2EE
16 (100.00 %)JUnit
16 (100.00 %)JMS
16 (100.00 %)Hibernate
25 (83.33 %)WebSphere Application Server
25 (83.33 %)EJB
25 (83.33 %)XML
25 (83.33 %)XSLT
25 (83.33 %)JDBC
25 (83.33 %)WebSphere
34 (66.67 %)UML
34 (66.67 %)OO
34 (66.67 %)Agile Software Development
43 (50.00 %)Scrum
43 (50.00 %)WebSphere Studio Application Developer
43 (50.00 %)Eclipse
43 (50.00 %)WBIMB
52 (33.33 %)Spring
52 (33.33 %)CruiseControl
52 (33.33 %)RAD
52 (33.33 %)UNIX
52 (33.33 %)Windows
52 (33.33 %)Java
61 (16.67 %)PL/SQL
61 (16.67 %)SQL
61 (16.67 %)Oracle
61 (16.67 %)CSS
61 (16.67 %)Struts
61 (16.67 %)SCJP
61 (16.67 %)JAXB

Ant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Ant 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 Ant. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
16 (100.00 %)J2EE
16 (100.00 %)JMS
16 (100.00 %)Hibernate
25 (83.33 %)WebSphere
25 (83.33 %)XML
25 (83.33 %)XSLT
25 (83.33 %)EJB
25 (83.33 %)JDBC
33 (50.00 %)WBIMB
42 (33.33 %)Spring
51 (16.67 %)JTA
51 (16.67 %)AJAX
51 (16.67 %)Struts
51 (16.67 %)CSS
51 (16.67 %)JAXB
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
15 (83.33 %)WebSphere Application Server
21 (16.67 %)WebSphere MQ
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
16 (100.00 %)JUnit
23 (50.00 %)WebSphere Studio Application Developer
23 (50.00 %)Eclipse
32 (33.33 %)CruiseControl
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
16 (100.00 %)Developer
16 (100.00 %)J2EE Developer
24 (66.67 %)Lead Developer
32 (33.33 %)Java Developer
32 (33.33 %)Java/J2EE Developer
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
11 (16.67 %)N-Tier
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
12 (33.33 %)UNIX
12 (33.33 %)Windows
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
14 (66.67 %)UML
14 (66.67 %)OO
14 (66.67 %)Agile Software Development
23 (50.00 %)Scrum
32 (33.33 %)RAD
41 (16.67 %)EAI
41 (16.67 %)OOD
41 (16.67 %)Logistics
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
12 (33.33 %)Java
21 (16.67 %)PL/SQL
21 (16.67 %)SQL
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
11 (16.67 %)SCJP
11 (16.67 %)SCJA
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
11 (16.67 %)Oracle
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