The first table below looks at the demand for Ant skills in IT contracts advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Ant over the 3 months to 17 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 Kent 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Ant
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Ant 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent - - -
As % of the Development Applications category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £307 £325 £335
% change year-on-year
-5.61% -2.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.48 £37.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year
-25.72% -2.63%
All Development Applications
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
30 30 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 9.804% 11.32% 8.464%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 18 15
Average daily rate £280 £280 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £242 £241
10% offered a daily rate of more than £420 £318 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £36.64 - -
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 Kent region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent Ant Hourly Rate Trend

Ant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 (75.00%) Java
1 3 (75.00%) J2EE
1 3 (75.00%) JUnit
1 3 (75.00%) Servlets
1 3 (75.00%) XML
1 3 (75.00%) Spring
2 2 (50.00%) Ajax
2 2 (50.00%) UML
2 2 (50.00%) Sun
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) Web Services
2 2 (50.00%) JDBC
2 2 (50.00%) JSP
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Sun Certification
2 2 (50.00%) CruiseControl
2 2 (50.00%) Subversion
3 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Bugzilla
3 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) Struts
3 1 (25.00%) Retail
3 1 (25.00%) ISEB
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
3 1 (25.00%) Java EE
3 1 (25.00%) Selenium
3 1 (25.00%) Use Case
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing

Ant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 (75.00%) J2EE
1 3 (75.00%) Servlets
1 3 (75.00%) XML
1 3 (75.00%) Spring
2 2 (50.00%) Ajax
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) Web Services
2 2 (50.00%) JDBC
2 2 (50.00%) JSP
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) Struts
3 1 (25.00%) Java EE
3 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) JUnit
2 2 (50.00%) CruiseControl
2 2 (50.00%) Subversion
3 1 (25.00%) Selenium
3 1 (25.00%) Bugzilla
General
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) UML
2 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Use Case
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Sun Certification
2 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (25.00%) ISEB
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Sun