The first table below looks at the demand for Ant skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Ant over the 3 months to 21 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 West Midlands 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Ant
Rank 90 83 92
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +9
Contract jobs citing Ant 6 26 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.357% 1.157% 0.107%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.286% 12.94% 1.770%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 0
Average daily rate £260 £325 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £307 £325 £330
% change year-on-year
-5.61% -1.51%
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
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
140 201 113
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 8.328% 8.945% 6.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 105 67
Average daily rate £325 £313 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.00% +8.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £250 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £400 £366
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 6
Average hourly rate £37.80 £35.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.00% +20.68%
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 West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 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
Wolverhampton - 1 - -
Ant
England

Ant
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 6 (100.00%) HTML
1 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (100.00%) J2EE
1 6 (100.00%) CSS
1 6 (100.00%) JSP
1 6 (100.00%) Apache
1 6 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 6 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 6 (100.00%) Subversion
1 6 (100.00%) Maven
1 6 (100.00%) JSTL
1 6 (100.00%) jQuery
2 5 (83.33%) QA
3 1 (16.67%) CMS
3 1 (16.67%) Spring
3 1 (16.67%) TDD
3 1 (16.67%) Alterian
3 1 (16.67%) XML
3 1 (16.67%) XSLT
3 1 (16.67%) UNIX
3 1 (16.67%) Linux
3 1 (16.67%) REST

Ant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 6 (100.00%) HTML
1 6 (100.00%) J2EE
1 6 (100.00%) CSS
1 6 (100.00%) JSP
1 6 (100.00%) JSTL
1 6 (100.00%) jQuery
2 1 (16.67%) Spring
2 1 (16.67%) XML
2 1 (16.67%) XSLT
2 1 (16.67%) REST
Application Platforms
1 6 (100.00%) Apache
1 6 (100.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (16.67%) CMS
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 6 (100.00%) Subversion
1 6 (100.00%) Maven
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
1 6 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 5 (83.33%) Java/J2EE Developer
2 5 (83.33%) Java Web Developer
2 5 (83.33%) Web Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) UNIX
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (83.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Alterian
West Midlands
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