The first table below looks at the demand for Ant skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Ant over the 3 months to 22 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 Reading 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Ant
Rank 69 80 72
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -8
Contract jobs citing Ant 2 1 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.232% 0.088% 0.485%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.942% 1.205% 4.545%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Average daily rate £413 £445 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.30% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £307 £325 £320
% change year-on-year
-5.61% +1.56%
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
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
103 83 110
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 11.96% 7.293% 10.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 19 35
Average daily rate £350 £338 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.70% +8.87%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £201 £238 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £371 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 6
Average hourly rate £15.00 £11.00 £18.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+36.36% -41.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.40 £11.00 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.40 £11.00 £23.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Ant
Berkshire

Ant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading Ant Hourly Rate Trend

Ant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 7 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (85.71%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (57.14%) Spring
3 4 (57.14%) Hibernate
4 3 (42.86%) Jython
4 3 (42.86%) IBM
4 3 (42.86%) WebSphere Application Server
4 3 (42.86%) Maven
4 3 (42.86%) Automated Testing
4 3 (42.86%) StarTeam
4 3 (42.86%) WebSphere
4 3 (42.86%) TDD
4 3 (42.86%) QA
4 3 (42.86%) WATIR
4 3 (42.86%) Selenium
4 3 (42.86%) FitNesse
4 3 (42.86%) Cucumber
4 3 (42.86%) BDD
4 3 (42.86%) Automation Testing
5 2 (28.57%) Integration Testing
5 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (28.57%) E-Commerce
5 2 (28.57%) Java EE
5 2 (28.57%) J2EE
5 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
6 1 (14.29%) Finance
6 1 (14.29%) JUnit
6 1 (14.29%) SQL
6 1 (14.29%) XML
6 1 (14.29%) XSLT

Ant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 4 (57.14%) Spring
1 4 (57.14%) Hibernate
2 3 (42.86%) WebSphere
3 2 (28.57%) Java EE
3 2 (28.57%) J2EE
4 1 (14.29%) XML
4 1 (14.29%) XSLT
4 1 (14.29%) JSON
4 1 (14.29%) JMS
4 1 (14.29%) Velocity
4 1 (14.29%) FreeMarker
Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (14.29%) Tomcat
2 1 (14.29%) Jetty
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) LDAP
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Maven
1 3 (42.86%) StarTeam
1 3 (42.86%) WATIR
1 3 (42.86%) Selenium
1 3 (42.86%) FitNesse
1 3 (42.86%) Cucumber
2 1 (14.29%) JUnit
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Banking
1 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Configuration Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Software Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Applications Support
2 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Applications Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (42.86%) Automated Testing
2 3 (42.86%) TDD
2 3 (42.86%) BDD
2 3 (42.86%) Automation Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Integration Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (28.57%) E-Commerce
3 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
4 1 (14.29%) Predictive Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Multithreading
4 1 (14.29%) Time Management
4 1 (14.29%) OWASP
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) Jython
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) Bash shell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) IBM