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This section looks at the demand for Apache Ant skills within the Manchester region with a comparison to our Development Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Ant over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkApache Ant
Location
3 months to 25 Jul 2008Same period last year
Rank8066
Rank change on same period last yearDown-14
Matching contract IT job ads12
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.001 %0.002 %
As % of the category below0.909 %2.105 %
Daily rates quoted00
Average minimum daily rate--
Average daily rate--
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum daily rate--
UK excluding London average daily rate£388£331
% change on same period last year+17.19 %
Hourly rates quoted00
Average minimum hourly rate--
Average hourly rate--
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum hourly rate--
UK excluding London average hourly rate£42.50£39.63
% change on same period last year+7.24 %
Manchester IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
Manchester
Matching contract IT job ads11095
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.147 %0.096 %
Daily rates quoted924
Average minimum daily rate£291£240
Average daily rate£326£260
% change on same period last year+25.30 %
Average maximum daily rate£360£280
UK excluding London average daily rate£329£331
% change on same period last year-0.66 %
Hourly rates quoted2310
Average minimum hourly rate£21.42£16.35
Average hourly rate£24.13£17.35
% change on same period last year+39.10 %
Average maximum hourly rate£26.85£18.35
UK excluding London average hourly rate£32.89£34.13
% change on same period last year-3.63 %
Ant North WestAnt
North West

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Ant
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Ant across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Manchester Ant Demand Trend

Ant
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Ant across the Manchester region.

Manchester Ant Daily Rate Trend

Ant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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.

14 (100.00 %)Java
14 (100.00 %)J2EE
14 (100.00 %)Oracle
23 (75.00 %)EJB
32 (50.00 %)JUnit
32 (50.00 %)JavaScript
32 (50.00 %)SQL
32 (50.00 %)HTML
32 (50.00 %)XML
32 (50.00 %)Oracle 9i
32 (50.00 %)JSP
32 (50.00 %)Servlets
32 (50.00 %)Struts
32 (50.00 %)Eclipse
32 (50.00 %)Oracle 10g
41 (25.00 %)XML Schema
41 (25.00 %)JavaBeans
41 (25.00 %)IBM
41 (25.00 %)WebServices
41 (25.00 %)JMS
41 (25.00 %)Hibernate
41 (25.00 %)Spring
41 (25.00 %)WebSphere
41 (25.00 %)XSL
41 (25.00 %)UNIX
41 (25.00 %)UML
41 (25.00 %)OO
41 (25.00 %)JBoss
41 (25.00 %)Oracle Forms
41 (25.00 %)Oracle Reports

Ant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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.

Manchester IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
14 (100.00 %)J2EE
23 (75.00 %)EJB
32 (50.00 %)HTML
32 (50.00 %)JSP
32 (50.00 %)Servlets
32 (50.00 %)Struts
32 (50.00 %)XML
41 (25.00 %)XSL
41 (25.00 %)JMS
41 (25.00 %)XML Schema
41 (25.00 %)JavaBeans
41 (25.00 %)Hibernate
41 (25.00 %)Spring
41 (25.00 %)WebSphere
41 (25.00 %)WebServices
41 (25.00 %)JDBC
Manchester IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
11 (25.00 %)JBoss
11 (25.00 %)Tomcat
Manchester IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
12 (50.00 %)Oracle 9i
12 (50.00 %)Oracle 10g
21 (25.00 %)Oracle Reports
Manchester IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
12 (50.00 %)JUnit
12 (50.00 %)Eclipse
21 (25.00 %)Oracle Forms
Manchester IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
14 (100.00 %)Developer
14 (100.00 %)Java Developer
22 (50.00 %)Java/J2EE Developer
31 (25.00 %)J2EE Developer
Manchester IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
11 (25.00 %)UNIX
Manchester IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
11 (25.00 %)UML
11 (25.00 %)OO
Manchester IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
14 (100.00 %)Java
22 (50.00 %)JavaScript
22 (50.00 %)SQL
31 (25.00 %)DHTML
Manchester IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
14 (100.00 %)Oracle
21 (25.00 %)IBM
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