The first table below looks at the demand for Ant skills in IT jobs advertised for the England 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 England region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Ant
Rank 375 255 309
Rank change year-on-year
-120 +54
Permanent jobs citing Ant 614 1114 892
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.607% 0.983% 0.757%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.103% 6.816% 5.866%
Number of salaries quoted 514 882 752
Average salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
90% offered a salary of more than £34,000 £32,600 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £72,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £38,500
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +10.38%
All Development Applications
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
14966 16345 15205
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 14.80% 14.42% 12.91%
Number of salaries quoted 12942 14368 13424
Average salary £43,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.35% +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%
Ant
UK

Ant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England Ant Salary Trend

Ant
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Ant across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England Ant Salary Histogram

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 England 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
London -48 344 £50,000 -4.76%
South East -80 123 £39,000 -13.33%
East of England -70 48 £50,000 +17.64%
North West -56 28 £42,500 +18.05%
Yorkshire +10 27 £32,500 -7.14%
West Midlands -36 21 £32,500 -25.71%
South West -47 12 £35,000 -12.50%
East Midlands -9 6 £40,000 +11.11%
Midlands - 2 £35,000 -
North East -19 1 £27,500 -21.42%
Ant
UK

Ant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the England 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 1005 (84.45%) Java
2 714 (60.00%) Maven
3 550 (46.22%) Spring
4 472 (39.66%) JavaScript
5 460 (38.66%) JUnit
6 439 (36.89%) XML
7 429 (36.05%) Subversion
8 411 (34.54%) Agile Software Development
9 401 (33.70%) SQL
10 385 (32.35%) Hibernate
11 380 (31.93%) OO
12 368 (30.92%) Tomcat
13 362 (30.42%) Linux
14 361 (30.34%) UNIX
15 357 (30.00%) HTML
15 357 (30.00%) Oracle
16 349 (29.33%) J2EE
17 342 (28.74%) Web Services
18 341 (28.66%) CSS
19 309 (25.97%) Degree
20 285 (23.95%) Eclipse
21 269 (22.61%) JSP
22 251 (21.09%) Scrum
23 242 (20.34%) Apache
23 242 (20.34%) Continuous Integration
24 229 (19.24%) MVC
25 222 (18.66%) jQuery
26 221 (18.57%) Finance
27 211 (17.73%) MySQL
28 206 (17.31%) JDBC

Ant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the England 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
1 550 (46.22%) Spring
2 439 (36.89%) XML
3 385 (32.35%) Hibernate
4 357 (30.00%) HTML
5 349 (29.33%) J2EE
6 342 (28.74%) Web Services
7 341 (28.66%) CSS
8 269 (22.61%) JSP
9 222 (18.66%) jQuery
10 206 (17.31%) JDBC
11 196 (16.47%) Ajax
12 172 (14.45%) SOAP
13 159 (13.36%) XSLT
14 156 (13.11%) JMS
15 153 (12.86%) WebSphere
16 152 (12.77%) Struts
17 139 (11.68%) HTML5
18 137 (11.51%) Servlets
19 129 (10.84%) Java EE
20 122 (10.25%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 368 (30.92%) Tomcat
2 242 (20.34%) Apache
3 162 (13.61%) WebLogic
4 74 (6.218%) ESB
5 52 (4.370%) CMS
6 48 (4.034%) Apache Solr
7 46 (3.866%) Magento
8 43 (3.613%) Confluence
9 39 (3.277%) WebSphere Application Server
10 30 (2.521%) GlassFish
11 27 (2.269%) SharePoint
12 26 (2.185%) SonicMQ
12 26 (2.185%) WebSphere MQ
12 26 (2.185%) Sonic ESB
13 24 (2.017%) IIS
14 22 (1.849%) Jetty
15 21 (1.765%) Oracle Workflow
16 17 (1.429%) MQSeries
17 14 (1.176%) Documentum
18 12 (1.008%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 45 (3.782%) MS Excel
2 42 (3.529%) Photoshop
3 25 (2.101%) Adobe Illustrator
4 12 (1.008%) MS Office
5 4 (0.336%) MS Project
6 3 (0.252%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.084%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 3 (0.252%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (0.168%) Oracle iStore
3 1 (0.084%) Google Analytics
3 1 (0.084%) TIBCO iProcess
3 1 (0.084%) Summit
3 1 (0.084%) Sophis RISQUE
3 1 (0.084%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 102 (8.571%) HTTP
2 57 (4.790%) Internet
3 34 (2.857%) NFC
4 32 (2.689%) TCP/IP
5 24 (2.017%) LDAP
6 15 (1.261%) Firewall
7 11 (0.924%) FTP
8 7 (0.588%) DNS
9 6 (0.504%) SSH
10 3 (0.252%) Wireless
10 3 (0.252%) DHCP
11 2 (0.168%) VPN
11 2 (0.168%) OpenLDAP
11 2 (0.168%) Cisco Nexus
12 1 (0.084%) ZigBee
12 1 (0.084%) VLAN
12 1 (0.084%) Intranet
12 1 (0.084%) Extranet
12 1 (0.084%) DSL
12 1 (0.084%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 211 (17.73%) MySQL
2 108 (9.076%) SQL Server
3 84 (7.059%) RDBMS
4 54 (4.538%) DB2
5 49 (4.118%) SQLite
6 31 (2.605%) PostgreSQL
7 21 (1.765%) Oracle 11g
7 21 (1.765%) Oracle 8/8i
8 15 (1.261%) SQL Server 2008
9 14 (1.176%) Crystal Reports
10 13 (1.092%) Big Data
11 12 (1.008%) NoSQL
12 11 (0.924%) Data Warehouse
13 10 (0.840%) Pentaho
14 8 (0.672%) Oracle 10g
15 7 (0.588%) TOAD
16 6 (0.504%) Oracle 9i
16 6 (0.504%) Hadoop
17 5 (0.420%) Oracle Reports
18 4 (0.336%) Adabas
Development Applications
1 714 (60.00%) Maven
2 460 (38.66%) JUnit
3 429 (36.05%) Subversion
4 285 (23.95%) Eclipse
5 203 (17.06%) Git (software)
6 140 (11.76%) Jenkins
7 126 (10.59%) Hudson
8 123 (10.34%) Selenium
9 122 (10.25%) JIRA
10 61 (5.126%) ClearCase
11 55 (4.622%) Mercurial
12 50 (4.202%) CruiseControl
13 42 (3.529%) FitNesse
14 32 (2.689%) IntelliJ
15 31 (2.605%) Cucumber
16 30 (2.521%) JBehave
16 30 (2.521%) jMock
17 29 (2.437%) WebDriver
18 25 (2.101%) Bugzilla
19 23 (1.933%) ClearQuest
General
1 221 (18.57%) Finance
2 86 (7.227%) Banking
3 70 (5.882%) Retail
4 57 (4.790%) Games
5 39 (3.277%) Financial Institution
6 36 (3.025%) Telecoms
7 24 (2.017%) Marketing
8 20 (1.681%) Advertising
9 19 (1.597%) Back Office
10 10 (0.840%) Pharmaceutical
10 10 (0.840%) Investment Banking
11 9 (0.756%) Publishing
12 8 (0.672%) Front Office
13 7 (0.588%) Military
14 6 (0.504%) Law
15 4 (0.336%) Billing
15 4 (0.336%) Aerospace
16 3 (0.252%) Automotive
16 3 (0.252%) Legal
16 3 (0.252%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 776 (65.21%) Developer
2 474 (39.83%) Java Developer
3 243 (20.42%) Senior Developer
4 172 (14.45%) Senior Java Developer
5 93 (7.815%) Front-End Developer
6 89 (7.479%) Java/J2EE Developer
7 65 (5.462%) Software Developer
7 65 (5.462%) J2EE Developer
8 64 (5.378%) Consultant
9 58 (4.874%) Programmer
10 49 (4.118%) Web Developer
11 46 (3.866%) Analyst
12 39 (3.277%) Lead Developer
13 37 (3.109%) Software Engineer
14 36 (3.025%) Java Programmer
15 35 (2.941%) Test Engineer
16 33 (2.773%) JavaScript Developer
17 31 (2.605%) Architect
17 31 (2.605%) Senior J2EE Developer
17 31 (2.605%) Android Developer
Miscellaneous
1 191 (16.05%) Computer Science
2 92 (7.731%) Open Source
3 79 (6.639%) Mobile App
4 53 (4.454%) Digital Media
5 45 (3.782%) Client/Server
6 34 (2.857%) Java Card
6 34 (2.857%) Mathematics
7 29 (2.437%) Blackberry
8 25 (2.101%) Inversion of Control
8 25 (2.101%) Enterprise Software
9 24 (2.017%) Heroku
10 22 (1.849%) Embedded Systems
10 22 (1.849%) Mobile Banking
11 21 (1.765%) Physics
12 19 (1.597%) iPhone
13 17 (1.429%) iSeries
14 16 (1.345%) RIA
15 14 (1.176%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 14 (1.176%) Visualisation
16 13 (1.092%) Flash Lite
Operating Systems
1 362 (30.42%) Linux
2 361 (30.34%) UNIX
3 195 (16.39%) Windows
4 90 (7.563%) Android
5 76 (6.387%) Solaris
6 72 (6.050%) Apple iOS
7 37 (3.109%) AIX
8 29 (2.437%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 25 (2.101%) Ubuntu
10 15 (1.261%) Windows Mobile
10 15 (1.261%) VxWorks
10 15 (1.261%) LynxOS
11 14 (1.176%) VMS
12 11 (0.924%) Fedora
13 8 (0.672%) Windows Server 2003
14 7 (0.588%) Windows Phone
15 5 (0.420%) CentOS
15 5 (0.420%) SUSE
15 5 (0.420%) HPUX
16 4 (0.336%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 411 (34.54%) Agile Software Development
2 380 (31.93%) OO
3 251 (21.09%) Scrum
4 242 (20.34%) Continuous Integration
5 229 (19.24%) MVC
6 206 (17.31%) UML
7 199 (16.72%) TDD
8 174 (14.62%) Unit Testing
9 158 (13.28%) E-Commerce
10 138 (11.60%) Multithreading
11 135 (11.34%) SOA
12 108 (9.076%) OOP
13 101 (8.487%) Waterfall
14 81 (6.807%) Web Development
15 68 (5.714%) BDD
16 66 (5.546%) Kanban
16 66 (5.546%) Configuration Management
17 65 (5.462%) Information Management
18 60 (5.042%) Test Automation
19 54 (4.538%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1005 (84.45%) Java
2 472 (39.66%) JavaScript
3 401 (33.70%) SQL
4 134 (11.26%) Perl
5 129 (10.84%) Shell Script
6 124 (10.42%) Python
7 92 (7.731%) PL/SQL
8 88 (7.395%) C++
9 78 (6.555%) C#
10 70 (5.882%) C
11 48 (4.034%) Groovy
11 48 (4.034%) PHP
12 47 (3.950%) Bash shell
13 32 (2.689%) Ruby
14 23 (1.933%) VB
15 22 (1.849%) Ada
16 20 (1.681%) XPath
16 20 (1.681%) T-SQL
17 16 (1.345%) Jython
18 15 (1.261%) Scala
Qualifications
1 309 (25.97%) Degree
2 33 (2.773%) ISEB
3 27 (2.269%) Security Cleared
4 20 (1.681%) ISTQB
5 18 (1.513%) SC Cleared
6 12 (1.008%) Sun Certification
7 6 (0.504%) SCJP
7 6 (0.504%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 4 (0.336%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.252%) NCDA
9 3 (0.252%) NCIE
9 3 (0.252%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.168%) IBM Certification
10 2 (0.168%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.168%) SCJA
11 1 (0.084%) OCP
11 1 (0.084%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.084%) PhD
11 1 (0.084%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (10.00%) QA
2 22 (1.849%) DO-178B
3 10 (0.840%) SLA
4 6 (0.504%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (0.336%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.336%) WAI
6 1 (0.084%) ISO/IEC 14443
6 1 (0.084%) ISO/IEC 7816
6 1 (0.084%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.084%) ISO 8583
6 1 (0.084%) ISO 14001
6 1 (0.084%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 18 (1.513%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 12 (1.008%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.336%) Terminal Services
3 4 (0.336%) Xen
4 3 (0.252%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 2 (0.168%) NFS
5 2 (0.168%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.168%) Sendmail
5 2 (0.168%) vSphere
6 1 (0.084%) Varnish
6 1 (0.084%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 46 (3.866%) Puppet
2 29 (2.437%) HP Quality Center
3 22 (1.849%) Nagios
4 18 (1.513%) Tivoli
5 13 (1.092%) ZABBIX
6 3 (0.252%) BladeLogic
7 2 (0.168%) YUM
8 1 (0.084%) Munin
8 1 (0.084%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.084%) Business Desktop Deployment
8 1 (0.084%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 357 (30.00%) Oracle
2 166 (13.95%) JBoss
3 97 (8.151%) Google
4 89 (7.479%) IBM
5 70 (5.882%) hybris
6 68 (5.714%) Microsoft
7 63 (5.294%) ATG
8 44 (3.697%) Demandware
9 34 (2.857%) HP
10 32 (2.689%) Perforce
11 24 (2.017%) Sun
12 23 (1.933%) Red Hat
13 19 (1.597%) Sybase
14 18 (1.513%) VMware
15 17 (1.429%) Trapeze
15 17 (1.429%) BEA
16 16 (1.345%) Remedy
16 16 (1.345%) Endeca
17 13 (1.092%) AccuRev
18 10 (0.840%) Venda
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