The first table below looks at the demand for Ant skills in IT contracts advertised for the Fife 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 Fife 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 8 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Ant 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Fife 2.857% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 25.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
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
Fife
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
4 5 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Fife 11.43% 13.51% 3.704%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £280 £150 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+86.66% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Average hourly rate £28.50 £18.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+54.05% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Ant
Scotland

Ant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Fife Ant Jobs Demand Trend

Ant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Fife 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%) JSP
1 3 (100.00%) Servlets
1 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) JSF
2 2 (66.67%) CruiseControl
2 2 (66.67%) Subversion
2 2 (66.67%) JBoss
2 2 (66.67%) Hibernate
2 2 (66.67%) UML
2 2 (66.67%) Eclipse
2 2 (66.67%) PL/SQL
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 2 (66.67%) JUnit
2 2 (66.67%) Selenium
2 2 (66.67%) RichFaces
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Java EE
3 1 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (33.33%) Bash shell
3 1 (33.33%) Concordion
3 1 (33.33%) Eclipse RCP
3 1 (33.33%) PowerMock
3 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 1 (33.33%) JBoss Seam
3 1 (33.33%) EJB 3.0
3 1 (33.33%) RESTful
3 1 (33.33%) EJB
3 1 (33.33%) CSS

Ant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Fife 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 3 (100.00%) JSP
1 3 (100.00%) Servlets
1 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) JSF
2 2 (66.67%) Hibernate
2 2 (66.67%) RichFaces
3 1 (33.33%) Java EE
3 1 (33.33%) PowerMock
3 1 (33.33%) JBoss Seam
3 1 (33.33%) EJB 3.0
3 1 (33.33%) RESTful
3 1 (33.33%) EJB
3 1 (33.33%) CSS
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (33.33%) JavaBeans
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) CruiseControl
1 2 (66.67%) Subversion
1 2 (66.67%) Eclipse
1 2 (66.67%) JUnit
1 2 (66.67%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) Concordion
2 1 (33.33%) Eclipse RCP
2 1 (33.33%) Maven
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Java Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) UNIX
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows CE
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) UML
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
2 1 (33.33%) OO
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) PL/SQL
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Bash shell
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) AWK
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) JBoss
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle