The first table below looks at the demand for Ant skills in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Ant over the 3 months to 17 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 Development Applications category for the Buckinghamshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Ant
Rank 59 68 -
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -
Contract jobs citing Ant 6 7 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 0.761% 0.689% -
As % of the Development Applications category 9.836% 10.29% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 0
Average daily rate £425 £175 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+142.85% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £307 £325 £335
% change year-on-year
-5.61% -2.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.48 £37.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year
-25.72% -2.63%
All Development Applications
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
61 68 73
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 7.741% 6.693% 6.887%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 43 32
Average daily rate £358 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+19.16% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £200 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £375 £345
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
Average hourly rate - £36.50 £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Ant
South East

Ant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire Ant Jobs Demand Trend

Ant
Daily Rate Trend

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

Buckinghamshire Ant Daily Rate Trend

Ant
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ant within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Milton Keynes - 5 £425 -
Ant
South East

Ant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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.

1 8 (61.54%) Java
1 8 (61.54%) J2EE
2 7 (53.85%) XML
2 7 (53.85%) UML
2 7 (53.85%) JBoss
3 6 (46.15%) Oracle
3 6 (46.15%) Web Services
3 6 (46.15%) XSL
3 6 (46.15%) Eclipse
4 5 (38.46%) C#
4 5 (38.46%) .NET
4 5 (38.46%) SOAP
4 5 (38.46%) XSD
4 5 (38.46%) Oracle 8/8i
4 5 (38.46%) SOA
4 5 (38.46%) WSDL
4 5 (38.46%) JDeveloper
4 5 (38.46%) XQuery
4 5 (38.46%) Middleware
4 5 (38.46%) MVC
4 5 (38.46%) Workflow
4 5 (38.46%) Oracle Workflow
4 5 (38.46%) Scrum
4 5 (38.46%) Agile Software Development
4 5 (38.46%) BPEL
4 5 (38.46%) Web 2.0
4 5 (38.46%) Enterprise Architecture
4 5 (38.46%) XPath
4 5 (38.46%) WCF
4 5 (38.46%) Oracle 11g

Ant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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.

Application Development
1 8 (61.54%) J2EE
2 7 (53.85%) XML
3 6 (46.15%) XSL
3 6 (46.15%) Web Services
4 5 (38.46%) WCF
4 5 (38.46%) REST
4 5 (38.46%) WSDL
4 5 (38.46%) Middleware
4 5 (38.46%) XSD
4 5 (38.46%) SOAP
4 5 (38.46%) .NET
5 2 (15.38%) DHTML
5 2 (15.38%) CSS
5 2 (15.38%) JDBC
5 2 (15.38%) JSP
5 2 (15.38%) Servlets
5 2 (15.38%) Struts
5 2 (15.38%) JMS
5 2 (15.38%) Dojo
5 2 (15.38%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 5 (38.46%) Oracle Workflow
1 5 (38.46%) Oracle Service Bus
1 5 (38.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (7.692%) WebLogic
2 1 (7.692%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) HTTP
1 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) Oracle 8/8i
1 5 (38.46%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (7.692%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Eclipse
2 5 (38.46%) JDeveloper
2 5 (38.46%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (15.38%) Maven
4 1 (7.692%) JUnit
General
1 3 (23.08%) Retail
2 1 (7.692%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (100.00%) Developer
2 5 (38.46%) Lead Developer
2 5 (38.46%) Oracle Developer
2 5 (38.46%) J2EE Developer
3 4 (30.77%) Oracle SOA Developer
3 4 (30.77%) SOA Developer
4 3 (23.08%) Java Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Senior J2EE Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Senior Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Java/J2EE Developer
6 1 (7.692%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (7.692%) Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Web 2.0
2 1 (7.692%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.692%) UNIX
1 1 (7.692%) AIX
1 1 (7.692%) Solaris
1 1 (7.692%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) UML
2 5 (38.46%) Unit Testing
2 5 (38.46%) SOA
2 5 (38.46%) MVC
2 5 (38.46%) Workflow
2 5 (38.46%) Scrum
2 5 (38.46%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (38.46%) BPEL
2 5 (38.46%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (15.38%) Use Case
3 2 (15.38%) Software Architecture
3 2 (15.38%) OOA/OOD
3 2 (15.38%) OO
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) Java
2 5 (38.46%) XQuery
2 5 (38.46%) XPath
2 5 (38.46%) C#
3 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.692%) PL/SQL
4 1 (7.692%) SQL
4 1 (7.692%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.692%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) JBoss
2 6 (46.15%) Oracle
3 1 (7.692%) Microsoft