Ant Contracts in Scotland
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Ant skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Ant over the 3 months to 24 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 Scotland 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Ant
Rank 95 105 96
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -9
Contract jobs citing Ant 23 5 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.943% 0.188% 0.543%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.712% 2.959% 5.882%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 1 7
Average daily rate £375 £235 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+59.57% -39.35%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £333 £235 £367
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £235 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +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%
Search 3 Ant jobs in Scotland
All Development Applications
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category		 264 169 255
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 10.82% 6.353% 9.229%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 77 133
Average daily rate £356 £325 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.61% -16.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £210 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £423 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 1
Average hourly rate £28.50 £27.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.63% +30.95%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Ant
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Ant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Scotland Ant Daily Rate Histogram

Ant
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Ant across the Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 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
Glasgow -5 10 £363 +54.25%
Edinburgh +9 5 £425 -
Fife - 1 - -
West Lothian - 1 - -
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Ant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 26 (81.25%) Java
2 24 (75.00%) Maven
3 13 (40.63%) JUnit
4 12 (37.50%) XML
4 12 (37.50%) Jenkins
5 11 (34.38%) Oracle
5 11 (34.38%) Eclipse
6 10 (31.25%) JSF
7 9 (28.13%) Spring
7 9 (28.13%) Subversion
7 9 (28.13%) soapUI
7 9 (28.13%) Git (software)
7 9 (28.13%) J2EE
7 9 (28.13%) HTML
8 8 (25.00%) SQL
8 8 (25.00%) JSP
8 8 (25.00%) Servlets
8 8 (25.00%) CruiseControl
9 7 (21.88%) Agile Software Development
9 7 (21.88%) Unit Testing
9 7 (21.88%) Continuous Integration
9 7 (21.88%) Tomcat
9 7 (21.88%) JavaScript
9 7 (21.88%) RDBMS
9 7 (21.88%) Hibernate
10 6 (18.75%) SOA
10 6 (18.75%) JDeveloper
10 6 (18.75%) Struts
10 6 (18.75%) JAX-WS
10 6 (18.75%) Java EE

Ant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 12 (37.50%) XML
2 10 (31.25%) JSF
3 9 (28.13%) Spring
3 9 (28.13%) soapUI
3 9 (28.13%) J2EE
3 9 (28.13%) HTML
4 8 (25.00%) JSP
4 8 (25.00%) Servlets
5 7 (21.88%) Hibernate
6 6 (18.75%) Struts
6 6 (18.75%) JAX-WS
6 6 (18.75%) Java EE
7 4 (12.50%) Web Services
7 4 (12.50%) RESTful
7 4 (12.50%) WebSphere
7 4 (12.50%) Tapestry
8 3 (9.375%) JSON
8 3 (9.375%) JSTL
8 3 (9.375%) XML Schema
9 2 (6.250%) EJB
Application Platforms
1 7 (21.88%) Tomcat
2 1 (3.125%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (6.250%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.125%) SSL
1 1 (3.125%) HTTP
1 1 (3.125%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.88%) RDBMS
2 3 (9.375%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.125%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 24 (75.00%) Maven
2 13 (40.63%) JUnit
3 12 (37.50%) Jenkins
4 11 (34.38%) Eclipse
5 9 (28.13%) Subversion
5 9 (28.13%) Git (software)
6 8 (25.00%) CruiseControl
7 6 (18.75%) JDeveloper
7 6 (18.75%) TeamCity
8 5 (15.63%) Selenium
9 3 (9.375%) FitNesse
9 3 (9.375%) MSBuild
9 3 (9.375%) Eclipse RCP
9 3 (9.375%) Cucumber
10 2 (6.250%) PVCS
11 1 (3.125%) Hudson
11 1 (3.125%) MSTest
11 1 (3.125%) Concordion
11 1 (3.125%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (3.125%) Investment Banking
2 1 (3.125%) Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (59.38%) Developer
2 18 (56.25%) Java Developer
3 6 (18.75%) Configuration Manager
4 5 (15.63%) Analyst
5 3 (9.375%) Software Engineer
5 3 (9.375%) QA Analyst
5 3 (9.375%) QA Test Analyst
5 3 (9.375%) Build Manager
5 3 (9.375%) Test Analyst
6 2 (6.250%) Architect
6 2 (6.250%) Analyst Programmer
6 2 (6.250%) Programmer
6 2 (6.250%) Java Programmer
6 2 (6.250%) Java Software Engineer
6 2 (6.250%) Java Analyst Programmer
6 2 (6.250%) Java Architect
7 1 (3.125%) .NET Developer
7 1 (3.125%) C# Developer
7 1 (3.125%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (3.125%) Java Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (9.375%) Open Source
3 1 (3.125%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.50%) UNIX
1 4 (12.50%) Windows
2 2 (6.250%) Linux
3 1 (3.125%) Windows CE
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (21.88%) Agile Software Development
1 7 (21.88%) Unit Testing
1 7 (21.88%) Continuous Integration
2 6 (18.75%) SOA
3 5 (15.63%) TDD
3 5 (15.63%) Test Scripting
4 4 (12.50%) Configuration Management
4 4 (12.50%) UML
5 3 (9.375%) Requirements Analysis
5 3 (9.375%) Release Management
5 3 (9.375%) User Stories
5 3 (9.375%) BDD
5 3 (9.375%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (9.375%) Scrum
5 3 (9.375%) Change Management
5 3 (9.375%) Project Management
5 3 (9.375%) Data Modelling
5 3 (9.375%) OO
6 2 (6.250%) MVC
6 2 (6.250%) OOA/OOD
Programming Languages
1 26 (81.25%) Java
2 8 (25.00%) SQL
3 7 (21.88%) JavaScript
4 4 (12.50%) C#
5 3 (9.375%) XPath
5 3 (9.375%) C++
5 3 (9.375%) T-SQL
6 2 (6.250%) PL/SQL
7 1 (3.125%) Ruby
7 1 (3.125%) PowerShell
7 1 (3.125%) Bash shell
7 1 (3.125%) Perl
7 1 (3.125%) AWK
7 1 (3.125%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (6.250%) Sun Certification
2 1 (3.125%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.75%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (3.125%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 11 (34.38%) Oracle
2 3 (9.375%) Sybase
3 2 (6.250%) JBoss
3 2 (6.250%) Sun
3 2 (6.250%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.125%) HP
4 1 (3.125%) IBM
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