The first table below looks at the demand for Ant skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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 Bristol region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Ant
Rank 108 89 92
Rank change year-on-year
-19 +3
Permanent jobs citing Ant 9 28 24
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bristol 0.515% 1.597% 1.333%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.321% 8.889% 10.21%
Number of salaries quoted 4 13 19
Average salary £35,000 £38,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-9.09% +2.66%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +11.84%
All Development Applications
Bristol
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
271 315 235
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bristol 15.50% 17.97% 13.05%
Number of salaries quoted 241 281 206
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,800 £26,500 £26,400
10% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £45,000 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%
Ant
South West

Ant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol Ant Salary Trend

Ant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bristol 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 13 (100.00%) Java
1 13 (100.00%) XML
2 9 (69.23%) Eclipse
2 9 (69.23%) JSON
3 8 (61.54%) SQL
3 8 (61.54%) JUnit
4 5 (38.46%) JavaScript
4 5 (38.46%) Web Services
4 5 (38.46%) Apache
4 5 (38.46%) Tomcat
4 5 (38.46%) Subversion
4 5 (38.46%) Spring
4 5 (38.46%) Web Development
5 4 (30.77%) Java EE
5 4 (30.77%) XPath
5 4 (30.77%) Maven
5 4 (30.77%) Logistics
5 4 (30.77%) BPEL
5 4 (30.77%) Agile Software Development
5 4 (30.77%) TDD
5 4 (30.77%) JMS
5 4 (30.77%) SOA
5 4 (30.77%) HttpUnit
5 4 (30.77%) Oracle 11g
5 4 (30.77%) RIA
5 4 (30.77%) Google
5 4 (30.77%) Web 2.0
5 4 (30.77%) Test Scripting
5 4 (30.77%) Ext JS
5 4 (30.77%) Data Integration

Ant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bristol 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 13 (100.00%) XML
2 9 (69.23%) JSON
3 5 (38.46%) Web Services
3 5 (38.46%) Spring
4 4 (30.77%) Ext JS
4 4 (30.77%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (30.77%) Struts2
4 4 (30.77%) DOM
4 4 (30.77%) XSLT
4 4 (30.77%) JMS
4 4 (30.77%) JAXB
4 4 (30.77%) Middleware
4 4 (30.77%) J2EE
4 4 (30.77%) JDBC
4 4 (30.77%) Struts
4 4 (30.77%) Java EE
5 1 (7.692%) CSS
5 1 (7.692%) jQuery
5 1 (7.692%) Apache Wicket
5 1 (7.692%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 5 (38.46%) Apache
1 5 (38.46%) Tomcat
2 4 (30.77%) WebLogic
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) HTTP
1 4 (30.77%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) RDBMS
1 4 (30.77%) DataStage
1 4 (30.77%) Oracle 11g
1 4 (30.77%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 9 (69.23%) Eclipse
2 8 (61.54%) JUnit
3 5 (38.46%) Subversion
4 4 (30.77%) Maven
4 4 (30.77%) HttpUnit
4 4 (30.77%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 4 (30.77%) Oracle Forms
4 4 (30.77%) NetBeans
General
1 4 (30.77%) Telecoms
1 4 (30.77%) Aerospace
1 4 (30.77%) Military
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Development Manager
2 4 (30.77%) Technical Leader
2 4 (30.77%) Java Development Manager
2 4 (30.77%) Android Developer
3 1 (7.692%) Junior
3 1 (7.692%) Java Developer
3 1 (7.692%) Junior Developer
3 1 (7.692%) Junior Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Web 2.0
1 4 (30.77%) RIA
1 4 (30.77%) Data Integration
1 4 (30.77%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Web Development
2 4 (30.77%) Test Scripting
2 4 (30.77%) OOP
2 4 (30.77%) SOA
2 4 (30.77%) MVC
2 4 (30.77%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (30.77%) TDD
2 4 (30.77%) BPEL
2 4 (30.77%) Logistics
3 1 (7.692%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Java
2 8 (61.54%) SQL
3 5 (38.46%) JavaScript
4 4 (30.77%) PL/SQL
4 4 (30.77%) Objective-C
4 4 (30.77%) XPath
Qualifications
1 1 (7.692%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Oracle
1 4 (30.77%) JBoss
1 4 (30.77%) Google