The first table below looks at the demand for Ant skills in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Ant over the 3 months to 23 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 Glasgow 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Ant
Rank 69 56 57
Rank change year-on-year
-13 +1
Contract jobs citing Ant 13 1 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 1.374% 0.129% 0.847%
As % of the Development Applications category 10.24% 1.852% 6.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 5
Average daily rate £338 £235 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+43.61% -39.35%
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
-3.07% +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
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
127 54 99
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 13.42% 6.986% 13.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 25 60
Average daily rate £338 £275 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+22.72% -26.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £207 £288
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £350 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £25.00 -
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 Glasgow region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow Ant Daily Rate Trend

Ant
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Ant across the Glasgow region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Glasgow Ant Daily Rate Histogram

Ant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 14 (82.35%) Java
2 11 (64.71%) Maven
3 8 (47.06%) Spring
3 8 (47.06%) Oracle
4 7 (41.18%) J2EE
4 7 (41.18%) XML
4 7 (41.18%) Eclipse
4 7 (41.18%) RDBMS
4 7 (41.18%) JSF
5 6 (35.29%) Subversion
5 6 (35.29%) JDeveloper
5 6 (35.29%) Struts
5 6 (35.29%) Tomcat
5 6 (35.29%) TeamCity
5 6 (35.29%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (29.41%) Unit Testing
6 5 (29.41%) Test Scripting
6 5 (29.41%) HTML
6 5 (29.41%) JavaScript
6 5 (29.41%) JSP
6 5 (29.41%) Servlets
6 5 (29.41%) Hibernate
6 5 (29.41%) CruiseControl
7 4 (23.53%) Tapestry
7 4 (23.53%) Finance
7 4 (23.53%) Configuration Management
8 3 (17.65%) Change Management
8 3 (17.65%) Agile Software Development
8 3 (17.65%) Requirements Analysis
8 3 (17.65%) WebSphere

Ant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 (47.06%) Spring
2 7 (41.18%) J2EE
2 7 (41.18%) XML
2 7 (41.18%) JSF
3 6 (35.29%) Struts
4 5 (29.41%) HTML
4 5 (29.41%) JSP
4 5 (29.41%) Servlets
4 5 (29.41%) Hibernate
5 4 (23.53%) Tapestry
6 3 (17.65%) WebSphere
6 3 (17.65%) JSTL
7 2 (11.76%) JFace
7 2 (11.76%) SWT
8 1 (5.882%) iBATIS
8 1 (5.882%) Java EE
8 1 (5.882%) EJB
8 1 (5.882%) JDBC
8 1 (5.882%) JMS
8 1 (5.882%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 6 (35.29%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (41.18%) RDBMS
2 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (64.71%) Maven
2 7 (41.18%) Eclipse
3 6 (35.29%) Subversion
3 6 (35.29%) JDeveloper
3 6 (35.29%) TeamCity
4 5 (29.41%) CruiseControl
5 3 (17.65%) JUnit
5 3 (17.65%) MSBuild
6 2 (11.76%) Eclipse RCP
6 2 (11.76%) PVCS
7 1 (5.882%) Visual Studio
7 1 (5.882%) Hudson
7 1 (5.882%) Jenkins
7 1 (5.882%) Git (software)
7 1 (5.882%) MSTest
General
1 4 (23.53%) Finance
2 1 (5.882%) Banking
2 1 (5.882%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Developer
1 9 (52.94%) Java Developer
2 6 (35.29%) Configuration Manager
3 3 (17.65%) Build Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Java Analyst Programmer
4 2 (11.76%) Java Programmer
4 2 (11.76%) Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Analyst Programmer
4 2 (11.76%) Programmer
5 1 (5.882%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.882%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) UNIX
1 3 (17.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Continuous Integration
2 5 (29.41%) Unit Testing
2 5 (29.41%) Test Scripting
3 4 (23.53%) Configuration Management
4 3 (17.65%) Change Management
4 3 (17.65%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (17.65%) Requirements Analysis
4 3 (17.65%) Data Modelling
4 3 (17.65%) Release Management
5 2 (11.76%) Database Tuning
5 2 (11.76%) OOA/OOD
5 2 (11.76%) OO
5 2 (11.76%) MVC
5 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (11.76%) Project Management
6 1 (5.882%) Automated Testing
6 1 (5.882%) Matrix Management
6 1 (5.882%) SOA
6 1 (5.882%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (82.35%) Java
2 5 (29.41%) JavaScript
3 3 (17.65%) C#
3 3 (17.65%) C++
3 3 (17.65%) SQL
3 3 (17.65%) T-SQL
4 1 (5.882%) Shell Script
4 1 (5.882%) Perl
4 1 (5.882%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (5.882%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) Oracle
2 3 (17.65%) Sybase
3 2 (11.76%) Sun
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.882%) HP