The first table below looks at the demand for Ant skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hampshire 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 Hampshire 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 79 78 61
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -17
Contract jobs citing Ant 24 16 46
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 1.573% 1.006% 2.488%
As % of the Development Applications category 10.39% 7.882% 19.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 6
Average daily rate £288 £356 £295
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-19.29% +20.76%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 23
Average hourly rate - £37.00 £36.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +1.36%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.24 £37.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year
-18.27% -2.63%
All Development Applications
Hampshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
231 203 240
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 15.14% 12.76% 12.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 93 69
Average daily rate £330 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.71% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £265 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £445 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 34 64
Average hourly rate £39.50 £37.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.75% +5.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £28.15 £31.00 £32.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £47.50 £40.00
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 Hampshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire 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 Hampshire 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
Eastleigh - 2 - -
Southampton -4 1 - -
Ant
South East

Ant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 23 (95.83%) UNIX
2 20 (83.33%) Linux
2 20 (83.33%) UML
2 20 (83.33%) ClearCase
2 20 (83.33%) OOD
3 18 (75.00%) C++
4 17 (70.83%) C
4 17 (70.83%) NUnit
4 17 (70.83%) CppUnit
4 17 (70.83%) GoogleTest
5 15 (62.50%) SQL
5 15 (62.50%) XML
6 14 (58.33%) Ingres
6 14 (58.33%) CruiseControl
6 14 (58.33%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (58.33%) Configuration Management
6 14 (58.33%) Continuous Integration
7 13 (54.17%) Security Cleared
7 13 (54.17%) Motif
8 11 (45.83%) wxWidgets
9 10 (41.67%) Software Engineering
9 10 (41.67%) ClearQuest
9 10 (41.67%) Unified Process
9 10 (41.67%) Subversion
9 10 (41.67%) Python
9 10 (41.67%) RUP
10 8 (33.33%) OO
10 8 (33.33%) Multithreading
11 7 (29.17%) SC Cleared
11 7 (29.17%) Refactoring

Ant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 15 (62.50%) XML
2 13 (54.17%) Motif
3 11 (45.83%) wxWidgets
4 7 (29.17%) JDBC
5 4 (16.67%) Spring
6 3 (12.50%) WebSphere
6 3 (12.50%) Swing
7 1 (4.167%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (4.167%) jQuery
7 1 (4.167%) .NET Framework
7 1 (4.167%) Java EE
7 1 (4.167%) JSTL
7 1 (4.167%) Ajax
7 1 (4.167%) PowerMock
7 1 (4.167%) KnockoutJS
7 1 (4.167%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 1 (4.167%) Underscore.js
7 1 (4.167%) Kendo UI
7 1 (4.167%) Java RMI
7 1 (4.167%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 3 (12.50%) WebSphere Process Server
2 1 (4.167%) Oracle 10gAS
2 1 (4.167%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (4.167%) Tomcat
2 1 (4.167%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (16.67%) MS Excel
2 1 (4.167%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (4.167%) Doxygen
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (58.33%) Ingres
1 14 (58.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.333%) GIS
2 2 (8.333%) RDBMS
3 1 (4.167%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 20 (83.33%) ClearCase
2 17 (70.83%) NUnit
2 17 (70.83%) CppUnit
2 17 (70.83%) GoogleTest
3 14 (58.33%) CruiseControl
4 10 (41.67%) ClearQuest
4 10 (41.67%) Subversion
5 7 (29.17%) Hudson
6 6 (25.00%) Rational Rose
7 4 (16.67%) Eclipse
7 4 (16.67%) JUnit
7 4 (16.67%) Jenkins
8 3 (12.50%) Mockito
8 3 (12.50%) FindBugs
8 3 (12.50%) NetBeans
9 1 (4.167%) PyUnit
9 1 (4.167%) Checkstyle
9 1 (4.167%) GDB
9 1 (4.167%) Jasmine
9 1 (4.167%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) Developer
2 8 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 7 (29.17%) C++ Developer
4 6 (25.00%) C++ Software Engineer
5 2 (8.333%) Java Engineer
6 1 (4.167%) WebSphere Developer
6 1 (4.167%) Java Developer
6 1 (4.167%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (4.167%) WebSphere Consultant
6 1 (4.167%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 23 (95.83%) UNIX
2 20 (83.33%) Linux
3 7 (29.17%) Windows
4 4 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (12.50%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (83.33%) UML
1 20 (83.33%) OOD
2 14 (58.33%) Configuration Management
2 14 (58.33%) Continuous Integration
3 10 (41.67%) Software Engineering
3 10 (41.67%) Unified Process
3 10 (41.67%) RUP
4 8 (33.33%) OO
4 8 (33.33%) Multithreading
5 7 (29.17%) Refactoring
6 5 (20.83%) Code Coverage
7 4 (16.67%) Project Management
7 4 (16.67%) Analytics
7 4 (16.67%) Memory Management
7 4 (16.67%) Use Case
7 4 (16.67%) Integration Testing
7 4 (16.67%) Time Management
8 3 (12.50%) Dependency Injection
8 3 (12.50%) Software Architecture
8 3 (12.50%) AOP
Programming Languages
1 18 (75.00%) C++
2 17 (70.83%) C
3 15 (62.50%) SQL
4 10 (41.67%) Python
5 4 (16.67%) Java
6 3 (12.50%) Jython
7 1 (4.167%) JavaScript
7 1 (4.167%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (54.17%) Security Cleared
2 7 (29.17%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.167%) Degree
3 1 (4.167%) Sun Certification
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 4 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 3 (12.50%) Siebel
2 3 (12.50%) Cognizant
3 2 (8.333%) Coverity
4 1 (4.167%) Oracle
4 1 (4.167%) Serena
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