Ant Contracts in Cheshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Ant skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Ant 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 Development Applications category for the Cheshire 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 Ant
Rank 60 43 71
Rank change year-on-year
-17 +28
Contract jobs citing Ant 3 20 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.414% 2.503% 0.103%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.750% 28.57% 1.786%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 0
Average daily rate £250 £318 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.38% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.24 £37.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year
-18.27% -2.63%
All Development Applications
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category		 80 70 56
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 11.05% 8.761% 5.779%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 33 32
Average daily rate £375 £301 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+24.79% -7.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £262
10% offered a daily rate of more than £445 £355 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
Average hourly rate £33.75 £30.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.75 £30.00 £29.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.75 £30.00 £31.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Ant
North West

Ant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire Ant Daily Rate Trend

Ant
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Ant across the Cheshire region.

Cheshire Ant Hourly 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 Cheshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Knutsford -8 1 - -
Ant
North West

Ant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 3 (100.00%) UNIX
2 2 (66.67%) Perl
2 2 (66.67%) PVCS
2 2 (66.67%) TestDirector
2 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (33.33%) Spring
3 1 (33.33%) Maven
3 1 (33.33%) Spring MVC
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) XenApp
3 1 (33.33%) RESTful
3 1 (33.33%) CouchDB
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (33.33%) ATDD
3 1 (33.33%) Couchbase
3 1 (33.33%) Gradle
3 1 (33.33%) MVC
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) AppSense
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) CSS
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) HTTP
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) Java

Ant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Spring MVC
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) CouchDB
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) PVCS
1 2 (66.67%) TestDirector
2 1 (33.33%) Maven
2 1 (33.33%) Gradle
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Configuration Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Change Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) UNIX
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) TDD
1 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (33.33%) BDD
1 1 (33.33%) ATDD
1 1 (33.33%) MVC
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Perl
1 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) XenApp
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) AppSense
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