The first table below looks at the demand for Ant skills in IT contracts advertised for the Guildford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Ant over the 3 months to 21 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 Guildford 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Ant
Rank 29 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Ant 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 1.364% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 10.34% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £307 £325 £330
% change year-on-year
-5.61% -1.51%
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
Guildford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
29 10 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 13.18% 8.850% 12.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 6
Average daily rate £285 £425 £339
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-32.94% +25.46%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £228 £375 £245
10% offered a daily rate of more than £393 £425 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 1
Average hourly rate £37.50 - £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Ant
Surrey

Ant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford Ant Daily Rate Trend

Ant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 4 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (75.00%) MSBuild
2 3 (75.00%) Visual Studio
2 3 (75.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (50.00%) Validation
3 2 (50.00%) Games
3 2 (50.00%) MySQL
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (50.00%) QA
4 1 (25.00%) WebSphere Message Broker
4 1 (25.00%) Game Development
4 1 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (25.00%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
4 1 (25.00%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (25.00%) MS Project
4 1 (25.00%) Oracle
4 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
4 1 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (25.00%) VB
4 1 (25.00%) J2EE
4 1 (25.00%) ClearCase
4 1 (25.00%) Client/Server
4 1 (25.00%) Adabas
4 1 (25.00%) ASP
4 1 (25.00%) EJB
4 1 (25.00%) Web Services
4 1 (25.00%) XML

Ant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 (25.00%) J2EE
1 1 (25.00%) ASP
1 1 (25.00%) EJB
1 1 (25.00%) Web Services
1 1 (25.00%) XML
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
1 1 (25.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (25.00%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) WebSphere Message Broker
1 1 (25.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 1 (25.00%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Project
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MySQL
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Adabas
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) MSBuild
1 3 (75.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (25.00%) ClearCase
2 1 (25.00%) RequisitePro
General
1 2 (50.00%) Games
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Client/Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Game Development
3 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (25.00%) UML
3 1 (25.00%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) VB
2 1 (25.00%) VB6
2 1 (25.00%) NATURAL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SCJP
1 1 (25.00%) ISEB
1 1 (25.00%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Perforce
2 1 (25.00%) Sun