Apache Ant
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Ant skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Ant over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 587 677 778
Rank change year-on-year +90 +101 -204
Contract jobs citing Ant 11 42 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.025% 0.070% 0.080%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.21% 0.46% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 24 40
10th Percentile £431 £410 £459
25th Percentile £481 £440 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% +6.80% +3.00%
75th Percentile £628 £678 £587
90th Percentile £745 £793 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £460 £487
% change year-on-year +8.70% -5.45% +14.47%

All Development Application Skills
UK

Ant is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,120 9,058 15,913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.82% 15.15% 17.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,445 6,374 11,232
10th Percentile £356 £385 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.24%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +16.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 250 212
10th Percentile £31.71 £45.00 £37.25
25th Percentile £46.20 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% +21.78% +11.60%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £82.75 £78.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +12.84% +21.11%

Ant
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Ant as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Ant in the UK

Ant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ant.

Daily rate trend for Ant in the UK

Ant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ant over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ant in the UK

Ant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ant.

Hourly rate trend for Ant in the UK

Ant
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ant within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +104 11 £536 -2.55% 13
London +85 6 £610 -2.40% 10
UK excluding London +56 5 £500 +8.70% 3
West Midlands +34 5 £500 -
Midlands +27 5 £500 -
Work from Home +119 4 £568 +22.81% 3

Ant
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) Apache Spark
2 1 (9.09%) Confluence
2 1 (9.09%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) npm
1 2 (18.18%) Yarn
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) NoSQL
2 3 (27.27%) MongoDB
3 2 (18.18%) Data Lake
3 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (18.18%) RDBMS
3 2 (18.18%) Relational Database
4 1 (9.09%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (9.09%) Flink
4 1 (9.09%) MySQL
4 1 (9.09%) Scylla
4 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Maven
2 3 (27.27%) Gradle
3 2 (18.18%) Babel
3 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
3 2 (18.18%) JUnit
3 2 (18.18%) TeamCity
3 2 (18.18%) webpack
4 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
4 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Developer
2 4 (36.36%) SQL Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Senior
4 2 (18.18%) Data Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) React Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) UI Developer
5 1 (9.09%) .NET Developer
5 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (9.09%) Grid Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Java Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Java Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Scala Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior .NET Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Java Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior React Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Scala Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) CSS
1 3 (27.27%) HTML
1 3 (27.27%) RESTful
2 2 (18.18%) .NET
2 2 (18.18%) CSS3
2 2 (18.18%) HTML5
2 2 (18.18%) Material-UI
2 2 (18.18%) MobX
2 2 (18.18%) React
2 2 (18.18%) Redux
2 2 (18.18%) Semantic UI
2 2 (18.18%) Web Services
2 2 (18.18%) WPF
3 1 (9.09%) JDBC
3 1 (9.09%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (9.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Onboarding
2 2 (18.18%) Algorithms
2 2 (18.18%) Data Structures
3 1 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Unix
2 3 (27.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Scrum
2 4 (36.36%) Agile
2 4 (36.36%) Continuous Delivery
2 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (36.36%) Software Testing
2 4 (36.36%) System Testing
3 2 (18.18%) Asynchronous Programming
3 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
3 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
3 2 (18.18%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (18.18%) Full Stack Development
3 2 (18.18%) Functional Programming
3 2 (18.18%) Microservices
3 2 (18.18%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (18.18%) User Experience
3 2 (18.18%) UX Design
3 2 (18.18%) Wireframes
4 1 (9.09%) MVC
4 1 (9.09%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) SQL
2 5 (45.45%) Bash
3 4 (36.36%) Bourne shell
3 4 (36.36%) Java
3 4 (36.36%) Korn
3 4 (36.36%) PL/SQL
4 3 (27.27%) Python
4 3 (27.27%) Shell Script
5 2 (18.18%) C
5 2 (18.18%) C#
5 2 (18.18%) C++
5 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
5 2 (18.18%) Scala
5 2 (18.18%) TypeScript
6 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (9.09%) Degree
3 1 (9.09%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Ansible
1 1 (9.09%) Grafana
1 1 (9.09%) Kibana
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Oracle
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) IBM