The first table below looks at the demand for Ant skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Sussex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Ant over the 3 months to 17 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 Sussex 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Ant
Rank - 54 49
Contract jobs citing Ant 0 4 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex - 0.632% 0.674%
As % of the Development Applications category - 8.511% 13.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £300 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £307 £325 £335
% change year-on-year
-5.61% -2.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.48 £37.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year
-25.72% -2.63%
All Development Applications
West Sussex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
32 47 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex 8.290% 7.425% 4.944%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 37 11
Average daily rate £425 £350 £295
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.42% +18.64%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 9
Average hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +33.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Ant
South East

Ant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Sussex 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 Sussex region.

West Sussex Ant Daily Rate Trend

Ant
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JBoss
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (100.00%) CRM
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) JDO
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
1 1 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Java EE
1 1 (100.00%) Spring MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Web Flow
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) Apache OFBiz
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Path
1 1 (100.00%) hybris

Ant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) JDO
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Java EE
1 1 (100.00%) Spring MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Web Flow
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Apache OFBiz
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
General
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Web Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Web Applications Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CRM
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) JBoss
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Path
1 1 (100.00%) hybris