The first table below looks at the demand for Ant skills in IT contracts advertised for the South Wales 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 South Wales 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 - - 46
Contract jobs citing Ant 0 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Wales - - 0.240%
As % of the Development Applications category - - 3.846%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £200
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%
All Development Applications
South Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
33 25 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Wales 10.06% 6.188% 6.250%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 11 12
Average daily rate £325 £275 £297
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.18% -7.25%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £16.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Ant
Wales

Ant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Wales 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 South Wales region.

South Wales 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 South Wales region.

South Wales Ant Hourly Rate Trend

Ant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 8 (100.00%) ClearCase
1 8 (100.00%) ClearQuest
2 7 (87.50%) Maven
2 7 (87.50%) Java
2 7 (87.50%) Oracle
2 7 (87.50%) WebLogic
2 7 (87.50%) Oracle 11g
3 6 (75.00%) Release Management
3 6 (75.00%) Liferay
3 6 (75.00%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
3 6 (75.00%) IBM
3 6 (75.00%) Configuration Management
4 4 (50.00%) SAS
4 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
5 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
5 2 (25.00%) SQL
5 2 (25.00%) XML
5 2 (25.00%) XSD
5 2 (25.00%) XSLT
6 1 (12.50%) Windows
6 1 (12.50%) AIX
6 1 (12.50%) UML
6 1 (12.50%) OOA/OOD
6 1 (12.50%) DOM
6 1 (12.50%) OOD
6 1 (12.50%) J2EE
6 1 (12.50%) PL/SQL
6 1 (12.50%) CSS
6 1 (12.50%) JDBC
6 1 (12.50%) Servlets

Ant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 2 (25.00%) XML
1 2 (25.00%) XSD
1 2 (25.00%) XSLT
2 1 (12.50%) DOM
2 1 (12.50%) J2EE
2 1 (12.50%) CSS
2 1 (12.50%) JDBC
2 1 (12.50%) Servlets
2 1 (12.50%) Web Services
2 1 (12.50%) WSDL
2 1 (12.50%) JSF
2 1 (12.50%) JAXP
2 1 (12.50%) SAX
2 1 (12.50%) Java EE
2 1 (12.50%) JPA
2 1 (12.50%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 7 (87.50%) WebLogic
2 6 (75.00%) Liferay
3 4 (50.00%) SAS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) HTTPS
1 1 (12.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (87.50%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (12.50%) TOAD
2 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 8 (100.00%) ClearCase
1 8 (100.00%) ClearQuest
2 7 (87.50%) Maven
3 1 (12.50%) Eclipse
General
1 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Release Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Designer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Clustering
1 1 (12.50%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Release Management
1 6 (75.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (12.50%) UML
2 1 (12.50%) OOA/OOD
2 1 (12.50%) OOD
2 1 (12.50%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Java
2 6 (75.00%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
3 2 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (12.50%) PL/SQL
4 1 (12.50%) Korn
4 1 (12.50%) XPath
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Oracle
2 6 (75.00%) IBM