The first table below looks at the demand for Ant skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Ant over the 3 months to 24 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 Cheshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Ant
Rank 107 98 76
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -22
Permanent jobs citing Ant 16 30 43
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.889% 1.494% 2.604%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.714% 8.824% 16.73%
Number of salaries quoted 14 17 43
Average salary £45,000 £40,000 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% +3.89%
90% offered a salary of more than £40,750 £33,800 £37,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £55,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £38,500
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +10.38%
All Development Applications
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
280 340 257
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 15.56% 16.93% 15.57%
Number of salaries quoted 229 306 248
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -5.40%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%
Ant
North West

Ant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire Ant Salary Trend

Ant
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ant within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Chester -17 8 £42,500 +6.25%
Crewe -3 6 £47,500 +90.00%
Ant
North West

Ant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 33 (100.00%) Java
2 31 (93.94%) XML
3 27 (81.82%) HTML
3 27 (81.82%) Spring
4 26 (78.79%) JavaScript
5 25 (75.76%) JUnit
5 25 (75.76%) JSP
6 21 (63.64%) Web Services
7 19 (57.58%) Struts
7 19 (57.58%) Tomcat
7 19 (57.58%) Ajax
7 19 (57.58%) jQuery
8 18 (54.55%) JDBC
8 18 (54.55%) SQL
9 15 (45.45%) J2EE
10 14 (42.42%) IBM
11 13 (39.39%) Oracle
11 13 (39.39%) PL/SQL
11 13 (39.39%) Eclipse
12 12 (36.36%) Unit Testing
12 12 (36.36%) JMS
12 12 (36.36%) Subversion
12 12 (36.36%) PHP
12 12 (36.36%) UNIX
13 11 (33.33%) Linux
13 11 (33.33%) MVC
14 10 (30.30%) Hibernate
14 10 (30.30%) JIRA
15 8 (24.24%) REST
15 8 (24.24%) TDD

Ant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 31 (93.94%) XML
2 27 (81.82%) HTML
2 27 (81.82%) Spring
3 25 (75.76%) JSP
4 21 (63.64%) Web Services
5 19 (57.58%) Struts
5 19 (57.58%) Ajax
5 19 (57.58%) jQuery
6 18 (54.55%) JDBC
7 15 (45.45%) J2EE
8 12 (36.36%) JMS
9 10 (30.30%) Hibernate
10 8 (24.24%) REST
10 8 (24.24%) CSS
11 6 (18.18%) WSDL
11 6 (18.18%) Servlets
11 6 (18.18%) SOAP
11 6 (18.18%) XSLT
11 6 (18.18%) JAXB
11 6 (18.18%) JMX
Application Platforms
1 19 (57.58%) Tomcat
2 6 (18.18%) Apache
2 6 (18.18%) Jetty
Communications & Networking
1 6 (18.18%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.15%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 25 (75.76%) JUnit
2 13 (39.39%) Eclipse
3 12 (36.36%) Subversion
4 10 (30.30%) JIRA
5 6 (18.18%) Log4j
5 6 (18.18%) Maven
5 6 (18.18%) Synon
6 4 (12.12%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 27 (81.82%) Developer
1 27 (81.82%) Java Developer
2 13 (39.39%) J2EE Developer
2 13 (39.39%) Java/J2EE Developer
3 7 (21.21%) Senior Java Developer
3 7 (21.21%) Senior Developer
4 6 (18.18%) Analyst Programmer
4 6 (18.18%) Programmer
4 6 (18.18%) Analyst
4 6 (18.18%) Analyst Developer
4 6 (18.18%) Senior Analyst Programmer
4 6 (18.18%) Team Leader
4 6 (18.18%) Senior Analyst
4 6 (18.18%) Java Analyst Programmer
4 6 (18.18%) Java Programmer
4 6 (18.18%) Developer Analyst
4 6 (18.18%) Graduate Developer
4 6 (18.18%) Senior Analyst Developer
4 6 (18.18%) Senior Java Analyst Programmer
4 6 (18.18%) Senior Java Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.18%) iSeries
1 6 (18.18%) Derivative
2 2 (6.061%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 12 (36.36%) UNIX
2 11 (33.33%) Linux
3 6 (18.18%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (36.36%) Unit Testing
2 11 (33.33%) MVC
3 8 (24.24%) TDD
4 7 (21.21%) Agile Software Development
5 6 (18.18%) RAD
5 6 (18.18%) Project Management
5 6 (18.18%) High Availability
5 6 (18.18%) Integration Testing
5 6 (18.18%) Multithreading
6 5 (15.15%) Scrum
7 2 (6.061%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 33 (100.00%) Java
2 26 (78.79%) JavaScript
3 18 (54.55%) SQL
4 13 (39.39%) PL/SQL
5 12 (36.36%) PHP
6 6 (18.18%) Perl
6 6 (18.18%) RPG
6 6 (18.18%) VB
6 6 (18.18%) VBA
6 6 (18.18%) Python
6 6 (18.18%) RPG/400
6 6 (18.18%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 2 (6.061%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 14 (42.42%) IBM
2 13 (39.39%) Oracle
3 6 (18.18%) JD Edwards
4 5 (15.15%) Zend
Chester, North West
The key responsibilities of the role are:- Design and development of new functionality following Intetech processes and architectural standards Working with the in-house test team Deploying the...
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Salary: £42000 - £49000 per annum
Posted: 25 May 2013
Chester, North West
Due to continual massive success the company are looking to continue to grow the team and take on strong java developers who will be training and support where...
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Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Chester, North West
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Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013
Chester, Cheshire
Java J2EE Developer (Spring MVC,JSP, HTML)... Deploying the company’s software products onto clients systems and ongoing support & maintenance of software products implemented at clients The key...
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Salary: 40,000 - 45,00 + Bens
Posted: 22 May 2013
Chester, North West
Senior Java Developer -Chester- £40,000 - £45,000 - fantastic benefits package and pension scheme A strong java J2EE developer is required to join a market leader within the...
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Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013