Ant Contracts in the North West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Ant skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Ant over the 3 months to 23 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 North West 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Ant
Rank 114 88 120
Rank change year-on-year
-26 +32
Contract jobs citing Ant 4 41 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.171% 1.313% 0.226%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.587% 15.83% 3.097%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 23 6
Average daily rate £250 £325 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.07% -18.75%
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
-3.07% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.24 £37.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year
-18.27% -2.63%
All Development Applications
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category		 252 259 226
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 10.75% 8.296% 7.288%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 138 118
Average daily rate £313 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £270 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 17 2
Average hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £26.80 £16.30 £29.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £128.00 £33.32 £31.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Ant
England

Ant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West 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 North West region.

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 23 May 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
Cheshire -13 3 £250 -21.38%
Merseyside -5 1 - -
Ant
England

Ant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 11 (57.89%) Java
1 11 (57.89%) JavaScript
1 11 (57.89%) Perl
1 11 (57.89%) J2EE
1 11 (57.89%) JUnit
1 11 (57.89%) UNIX
2 10 (52.63%) XML
2 10 (52.63%) Subversion
2 10 (52.63%) Content Management
3 9 (47.37%) Linux
3 9 (47.37%) IBM
3 9 (47.37%) HTML
3 9 (47.37%) WebSphere
4 8 (42.11%) XPath
4 8 (42.11%) JSTL
4 8 (42.11%) XMLBeans
4 8 (42.11%) Ajax
4 8 (42.11%) Blue Martini
4 8 (42.11%) Web 2.0
4 8 (42.11%) Bash shell
4 8 (42.11%) Elastic Path
4 8 (42.11%) SQL
4 8 (42.11%) DB2
4 8 (42.11%) WebSphere Application Server
4 8 (42.11%) EJB
4 8 (42.11%) JDBC
4 8 (42.11%) JSP
4 8 (42.11%) Servlets
4 8 (42.11%) Struts
4 8 (42.11%) Interwoven

Ant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 11 (57.89%) J2EE
2 10 (52.63%) XML
3 9 (47.37%) HTML
3 9 (47.37%) WebSphere
4 8 (42.11%) JSTL
4 8 (42.11%) XMLBeans
4 8 (42.11%) Ajax
4 8 (42.11%) EJB
4 8 (42.11%) JDBC
4 8 (42.11%) JSP
4 8 (42.11%) Servlets
4 8 (42.11%) Struts
4 8 (42.11%) XHTML
4 8 (42.11%) JMS
4 8 (42.11%) XSLT
5 3 (15.79%) RESTful
5 3 (15.79%) Web Services
5 3 (15.79%) CSS
6 2 (10.53%) JSON
6 2 (10.53%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 8 (42.11%) WebSphere Application Server
1 8 (42.11%) MQSeries
2 2 (10.53%) Apache
3 1 (5.263%) ActiveMQ
Business Applications
1 8 (42.11%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 8 (42.11%) Internet
2 3 (15.79%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (42.11%) DB2
1 8 (42.11%) RDBMS
2 3 (15.79%) CouchDB
3 1 (5.263%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.263%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 11 (57.89%) JUnit
2 10 (52.63%) Subversion
3 8 (42.11%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
3 8 (42.11%) Eclipse
3 8 (42.11%) Log4j
4 6 (31.58%) Maven
5 3 (15.79%) Checkstyle
5 3 (15.79%) Hudson
5 3 (15.79%) FindBugs
5 3 (15.79%) AppScan
6 2 (10.53%) PVCS
6 2 (10.53%) TestDirector
6 2 (10.53%) QUnit
6 2 (10.53%) PHPUnit
6 2 (10.53%) Git (software)
7 1 (5.263%) Gradle
General
1 8 (42.11%) Finance
2 7 (36.84%) Games
2 7 (36.84%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (73.68%) Developer
2 10 (52.63%) J2EE Developer
3 9 (47.37%) Java Developer
4 7 (36.84%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 3 (15.79%) J2EE Applications Developer
5 3 (15.79%) Applications Developer
6 2 (10.53%) Web Developer
6 2 (10.53%) Configuration Manager
6 2 (10.53%) Change Manager
6 2 (10.53%) Build Engineer
6 2 (10.53%) Android Developer
7 1 (5.263%) WebSphere Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 8 (42.11%) Web 2.0
2 2 (10.53%) BBC
2 2 (10.53%) Linked Data
2 2 (10.53%) Mobile App
2 2 (10.53%) Smartphone
2 2 (10.53%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 11 (57.89%) UNIX
2 9 (47.37%) Linux
3 8 (42.11%) HPUX
3 8 (42.11%) Solaris
4 2 (10.53%) Apple iOS
4 2 (10.53%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Content Management
2 8 (42.11%) E-Commerce
2 8 (42.11%) UML
2 8 (42.11%) OO
2 8 (42.11%) RAD
3 5 (26.32%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (15.79%) BDD
4 3 (15.79%) TDD
4 3 (15.79%) MVC
4 3 (15.79%) Code Coverage
5 2 (10.53%) RDF
5 2 (10.53%) OOP
5 2 (10.53%) Migration
5 2 (10.53%) Test-First Development
5 2 (10.53%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (10.53%) Scrum
5 2 (10.53%) Progressive Enhancement
5 2 (10.53%) Web Development
5 2 (10.53%) Kanban
5 2 (10.53%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (57.89%) Java
1 11 (57.89%) JavaScript
1 11 (57.89%) Perl
2 8 (42.11%) XPath
2 8 (42.11%) Bash shell
2 8 (42.11%) SQL
3 2 (10.53%) PHP
3 2 (10.53%) Shell Script
3 2 (10.53%) Objective-C
4 1 (5.263%) Jython
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) BC Cleared
1 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) Sun Certification
System Software
1 1 (5.263%) XenApp
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) IBM
2 8 (42.11%) Blue Martini
2 8 (42.11%) Elastic Path
2 8 (42.11%) Interwoven
2 8 (42.11%) ATG
3 2 (10.53%) Apple
3 2 (10.53%) Zend
4 1 (5.263%) AppSense
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