The first table below looks at the demand for Ant skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hounslow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Ant over the 3 months to 20 June 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 Hounslow 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Ant
Rank - 14 11
Contract jobs citing Ant 0 2 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hounslow - 2.299% 3.947%
As % of the Development Applications category - 12.50% 60.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £375
% change year-on-year
- -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.24 £37.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-18.27% +5.71%
All Development Applications
Hounslow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
11 16 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hounslow 19.64% 18.39% 6.579%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 2
Average daily rate £388 £350 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.71% +6.06%
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £34.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £37.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.35% +5.71%
Ant
London

Ant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hounslow 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 Hounslow region.

Hounslow Ant Daily Rate Trend

Ant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hounslow 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 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Publishing
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Java EE
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Grails
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Mockito
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (100.00%) FFmpeg
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Build Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Gradle
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins

Ant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hounslow 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 (100.00%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Java EE
1 1 (100.00%) Grails
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (100.00%) FFmpeg
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Integration
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Mockito
1 1 (100.00%) Gradle
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Java Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Build Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA