The first table below looks at the demand for Ant skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds 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 Leeds 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 69 75 58
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -17
Contract jobs citing Ant 8 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 0.996% 0.100% 0.297%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.202% 0.752% 2.381%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
Average daily rate £375 - £325
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
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
129 133 84
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 16.06% 13.29% 12.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 82 34
Average daily rate £275 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £270 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £350 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 2
Average hourly rate £34.50 - £26.25
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £29.25 - £23.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.75 - £29.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £37.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.35% +5.71%
Ant
West Yorkshire

Ant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds 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 Leeds region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Leeds Ant Daily Rate Histogram

Ant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 8 (88.89%) Linux
1 8 (88.89%) Subversion
1 8 (88.89%) Maven
1 8 (88.89%) Continuous Integration
2 7 (77.78%) WebSphere
2 7 (77.78%) UNIX
2 7 (77.78%) Java
2 7 (77.78%) WebLogic
2 7 (77.78%) E-Commerce
2 7 (77.78%) Configuration Management
2 7 (77.78%) CruiseControl
3 6 (66.67%) Jenkins
4 5 (55.56%) Hudson
5 4 (44.44%) AWK
5 4 (44.44%) Change Management
5 4 (44.44%) Perl
5 4 (44.44%) Apache
6 3 (33.33%) Tomcat
6 3 (33.33%) JBoss
6 3 (33.33%) ITIL
6 3 (33.33%) ATG
6 3 (33.33%) ATG Dynamo
6 3 (33.33%) Solaris
6 3 (33.33%) Shell Script
6 3 (33.33%) Marketing
6 3 (33.33%) Release Management
7 2 (22.22%) Bash shell
7 2 (22.22%) Python
7 2 (22.22%) Oracle
8 1 (11.11%) JUnit

Ant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 7 (77.78%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 7 (77.78%) WebLogic
2 4 (44.44%) Apache
3 3 (33.33%) Tomcat
3 3 (33.33%) ATG Dynamo
4 1 (11.11%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (88.89%) Subversion
1 8 (88.89%) Maven
2 7 (77.78%) CruiseControl
3 6 (66.67%) Jenkins
4 5 (55.56%) Hudson
5 1 (11.11%) JUnit
5 1 (11.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (11.11%) JIRA
5 1 (11.11%) Selenium
General
1 3 (33.33%) Marketing
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Release Engineer
1 6 (66.67%) Configuration Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Test Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Agile Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Linux
2 7 (77.78%) UNIX
3 3 (33.33%) Solaris
4 1 (11.11%) Windows
4 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Continuous Integration
2 7 (77.78%) E-Commerce
2 7 (77.78%) Configuration Management
3 4 (44.44%) Change Management
4 3 (33.33%) ITIL
4 3 (33.33%) Release Management
5 1 (11.11%) PRINCE2
5 1 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (11.11%) Scrum
5 1 (11.11%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Java
2 4 (44.44%) AWK
2 4 (44.44%) Perl
3 3 (33.33%) Shell Script
4 2 (22.22%) Bash shell
4 2 (22.22%) Python
5 1 (11.11%) PHP
5 1 (11.11%) Jython
5 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
5 1 (11.11%) Ruby
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Nagios
1 1 (11.11%) Puppet
1 1 (11.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) JBoss
1 3 (33.33%) ATG
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) IBM
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat
Leeds, West Yorkshire
The successful DevOps Engineer must have demonstrable experience of designing software solutions, and possessing the technical ability to bring the initial design through to UAT and release whilst...
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Rate: £400 - £450 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013