The first table below looks at the demand for Ant skills in IT jobs advertised for the Basingstoke region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Ant over the 3 months to 20 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 Basingstoke region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Ant
Rank 70 51 53
Rank change year-on-year
-19 +2
Permanent jobs citing Ant 8 21 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Basingstoke 1.135% 3.415% 1.336%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.298% 15.56% 8.974%
Number of salaries quoted 6 21 7
Average salary £46,250 £45,000 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.77% +25.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £39,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £51,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +11.84%
All Development Applications
Basingstoke
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
151 135 78
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Basingstoke 21.42% 21.95% 14.89%
Number of salaries quoted 136 109 63
Average salary £42,500 £45,000 £43,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.55% +3.44%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £36,050 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%
Ant
Hampshire

Ant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Basingstoke Ant Jobs Demand Trend

Ant
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Ant across the Basingstoke region.

Basingstoke Ant Salary Trend

Ant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Basingstoke 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Ant.

1 11 (84.62%) Java
1 11 (84.62%) XML
2 10 (76.92%) Hibernate
2 10 (76.92%) JUnit
2 10 (76.92%) Tomcat
3 8 (61.54%) Apache
3 8 (61.54%) RDBMS
3 8 (61.54%) J2EE
3 8 (61.54%) Advertising
4 7 (53.85%) JMS
4 7 (53.85%) OO
4 7 (53.85%) JBoss
4 7 (53.85%) Open Source
5 6 (46.15%) Maven
6 5 (38.46%) Oracle
6 5 (38.46%) Customer Insight
7 4 (30.77%) Subversion
8 3 (23.08%) Spring
8 3 (23.08%) ESB
8 3 (23.08%) JSON
8 3 (23.08%) WebSphere
8 3 (23.08%) TDD
8 3 (23.08%) Workflow
8 3 (23.08%) WebSphere MQ
8 3 (23.08%) Bugzilla
8 3 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (23.08%) Log4j
8 3 (23.08%) VMware
8 3 (23.08%) NetBeans
8 3 (23.08%) Clustering

Ant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Basingstoke 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Ant. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (84.62%) XML
2 10 (76.92%) Hibernate
3 8 (61.54%) J2EE
4 7 (53.85%) JMS
5 3 (23.08%) Swing
5 3 (23.08%) JDBC
5 3 (23.08%) JSP
5 3 (23.08%) SOAP
5 3 (23.08%) Web Services
5 3 (23.08%) JDO
5 3 (23.08%) Spring
5 3 (23.08%) WebSphere
5 3 (23.08%) JSON
5 3 (23.08%) Velocity
5 3 (23.08%) JAX-WS
5 3 (23.08%) REST
5 3 (23.08%) JAXB
6 2 (15.38%) HTML
6 2 (15.38%) CGI
Application Platforms
1 10 (76.92%) Tomcat
2 8 (61.54%) Apache
3 3 (23.08%) WebSphere MQ
3 3 (23.08%) ESB
3 3 (23.08%) RabbitMQ
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (61.54%) RDBMS
2 3 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (23.08%) MySQL
3 2 (15.38%) DB2
Development Applications
1 10 (76.92%) JUnit
2 6 (46.15%) Maven
3 4 (30.77%) Subversion
4 3 (23.08%) Mockito
4 3 (23.08%) Hudson
4 3 (23.08%) Bugzilla
4 3 (23.08%) Log4j
4 3 (23.08%) NetBeans
5 2 (15.38%) ClearCase
5 2 (15.38%) ClearQuest
5 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (61.54%) Advertising
2 1 (7.692%) Banking
2 1 (7.692%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (84.62%) Developer
1 11 (84.62%) Java Developer
2 7 (53.85%) J2EE Developer
2 7 (53.85%) Java/J2EE Developer
3 5 (38.46%) Senior Java Developer
3 5 (38.46%) Senior Developer
4 4 (30.77%) Lead Developer
4 4 (30.77%) Lead Java Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Senior J2EE Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Software Manager
6 1 (7.692%) Release Manager
6 1 (7.692%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Open Source
2 3 (23.08%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
2 2 (15.38%) AIX
2 2 (15.38%) Solaris
2 2 (15.38%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) OO
2 5 (38.46%) Customer Insight
3 3 (23.08%) TDD
3 3 (23.08%) Test Automation
3 3 (23.08%) BDD
3 3 (23.08%) EAI
3 3 (23.08%) SOA
3 3 (23.08%) Workflow
4 2 (15.38%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (15.38%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 11 (84.62%) Java
2 3 (23.08%) C++
3 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
3 2 (15.38%) Perl
4 1 (7.692%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) JBoss
2 5 (38.46%) Oracle
3 3 (23.08%) VMware
4 2 (15.38%) IBM
4 2 (15.38%) HP
4 2 (15.38%) Remedy