The first table below looks at the demand for Ant skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Ant over the 3 months to 19 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 Manchester 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Ant
Rank - 77 70
Contract jobs citing Ant 0 4 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester - 0.324% 0.096%
As % of the Development Applications category - 3.333% 1.111%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Average daily rate - £388 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +29.16%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
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
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
99 120 90
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 10.32% 9.724% 8.629%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 64 49
Average daily rate £300 £290 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% +5.45%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £261 £250 £165
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £425 £410
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 0
Average hourly rate £23.75 £32.90 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-27.81% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £36.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.04% +5.00%
Ant
North West

Ant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester 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 Manchester region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
Salford - - - -
Stockport - - - - 3
Ant
North West

Ant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, 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.

1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 5 (100.00%) XML
1 5 (100.00%) Subversion
1 5 (100.00%) Content Management
2 3 (60.00%) XMLBeans
2 3 (60.00%) Ajax
2 3 (60.00%) Blue Martini
2 3 (60.00%) Web 2.0
2 3 (60.00%) HTML
2 3 (60.00%) Internet
2 3 (60.00%) Games
2 3 (60.00%) Log4j
2 3 (60.00%) JSTL
2 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) ATG
2 3 (60.00%) WebSphere
2 3 (60.00%) Bash shell
2 3 (60.00%) XSLT
2 3 (60.00%) UNIX
2 3 (60.00%) HPUX
2 3 (60.00%) Solaris
2 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) UML
2 3 (60.00%) Perl
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) J2EE
2 3 (60.00%) DB2
2 3 (60.00%) JUnit
2 3 (60.00%) WebSphere Application Server

Ant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, 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.

Application Development
1 5 (100.00%) XML
2 3 (60.00%) XMLBeans
2 3 (60.00%) Ajax
2 3 (60.00%) HTML
2 3 (60.00%) JSTL
2 3 (60.00%) WebSphere
2 3 (60.00%) XSLT
2 3 (60.00%) J2EE
2 3 (60.00%) EJB
2 3 (60.00%) JDBC
2 3 (60.00%) JSP
2 3 (60.00%) Servlets
2 3 (60.00%) Struts
2 3 (60.00%) XHTML
2 3 (60.00%) JMS
3 2 (40.00%) JSON
3 2 (40.00%) Web Services
3 2 (40.00%) CSS
3 2 (40.00%) HTML5
3 2 (40.00%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 3 (60.00%) MQSeries
2 2 (40.00%) Apache
Business Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Internet
2 2 (40.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) DB2
1 3 (60.00%) RDBMS
2 2 (40.00%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Subversion
2 3 (60.00%) Log4j
2 3 (60.00%) JUnit
2 3 (60.00%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Eclipse
3 2 (40.00%) QUnit
3 2 (40.00%) PHPUnit
3 2 (40.00%) Git (software)
General
1 3 (60.00%) Games
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
1 3 (60.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Java Developer
2 3 (60.00%) J2EE Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Android Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Web 2.0
2 2 (40.00%) Linked Data
2 2 (40.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (40.00%) BBC
2 2 (40.00%) Semantic Web
2 2 (40.00%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) UNIX
1 3 (60.00%) HPUX
1 3 (60.00%) Solaris
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Apple iOS
2 2 (40.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Content Management
2 3 (60.00%) UML
2 3 (60.00%) E-Commerce
2 3 (60.00%) OO
2 3 (60.00%) RAD
3 2 (40.00%) BDD
3 2 (40.00%) Progressive Enhancement
3 2 (40.00%) RDF
3 2 (40.00%) OOP
3 2 (40.00%) Web Development
3 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (40.00%) Kanban
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) MVC
3 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (40.00%) TDD
3 2 (40.00%) Test-First Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (60.00%) Bash shell
2 3 (60.00%) Perl
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) XPath
3 2 (40.00%) PHP
3 2 (40.00%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Sun Certification
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Blue Martini
1 3 (60.00%) ATG
1 3 (60.00%) IBM
1 3 (60.00%) Interwoven
1 3 (60.00%) Elastic Path
2 2 (40.00%) Apple
2 2 (40.00%) Zend