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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Ant
Rank 72 63 55
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -8
Permanent jobs citing Ant 15 21 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Guildford 1.684% 2.913% 0.224%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.463% 20.00% 1.163%
Number of salaries quoted 10 21 1
Average salary £41,750 £45,000 £39,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.22% +13.92%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +11.84%
All Development Applications
Guildford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
201 105 86
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Guildford 22.56% 14.56% 19.28%
Number of salaries quoted 156 100 83
Average salary £40,000 £42,500 £37,700
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.88% +12.73%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £33,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%
Ant
Surrey

Ant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford Ant Salary Trend

Ant
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Ant across the Guildford region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Guildford Ant Salary Histogram

Ant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Guildford 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 17 (80.95%) SQL
2 15 (71.43%) Java
3 11 (52.38%) XML
4 10 (47.62%) Hibernate
4 10 (47.62%) Spring
4 10 (47.62%) Maven
4 10 (47.62%) UML
4 10 (47.62%) HTML
5 9 (42.86%) MySQL
5 9 (42.86%) Oracle
5 9 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
6 8 (38.10%) Web Services
6 8 (38.10%) Python
6 8 (38.10%) ClearCase
7 7 (33.33%) MS Excel
7 7 (33.33%) Eclipse
7 7 (33.33%) EJB
7 7 (33.33%) CSS
7 7 (33.33%) PL/SQL
7 7 (33.33%) JUnit
7 7 (33.33%) Waterfall
7 7 (33.33%) Project Planning
7 7 (33.33%) JIRA
7 7 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
8 6 (28.57%) Perforce
8 6 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
8 6 (28.57%) WebSphere
8 6 (28.57%) Build Automation
8 6 (28.57%) Big Data
8 6 (28.57%) Analytics

Ant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Guildford 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 (52.38%) XML
2 10 (47.62%) Hibernate
2 10 (47.62%) Spring
2 10 (47.62%) HTML
3 8 (38.10%) Web Services
4 7 (33.33%) EJB
4 7 (33.33%) CSS
5 6 (28.57%) JSP
5 6 (28.57%) WebSphere
5 6 (28.57%) Apache Wicket
6 4 (19.05%) JPA
6 4 (19.05%) RESTful
6 4 (19.05%) jQuery
6 4 (19.05%) J2EE
6 4 (19.05%) ASP
6 4 (19.05%) Middleware
6 4 (19.05%) Lucene
7 3 (14.29%) JSF
7 3 (14.29%) Swing
7 3 (14.29%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 4 (19.05%) WebSphere Application Server
1 4 (19.05%) WebSphere MQ
1 4 (19.05%) WebSphere Message Broker
2 3 (14.29%) SAS
2 3 (14.29%) WebLogic
3 2 (9.524%) Apache
3 2 (9.524%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (33.33%) MS Excel
2 4 (19.05%) MS Project
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (42.86%) MySQL
2 6 (28.57%) Big Data
3 5 (23.81%) SQL Server
3 5 (23.81%) Hadoop
4 4 (19.05%) Adabas
5 1 (4.762%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (47.62%) Maven
2 8 (38.10%) ClearCase
3 7 (33.33%) Eclipse
3 7 (33.33%) JIRA
3 7 (33.33%) JUnit
4 4 (19.05%) RequisitePro
4 4 (19.05%) ClearQuest
4 4 (19.05%) Subversion
5 3 (14.29%) Jenkins
5 3 (14.29%) Mercurial
5 3 (14.29%) Hudson
6 2 (9.524%) MSBuild
6 2 (9.524%) Visual Studio
6 2 (9.524%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (4.762%) Bugzilla
General
1 4 (19.05%) Law
1 4 (19.05%) Retail
2 2 (9.524%) Finance
2 2 (9.524%) Games
2 2 (9.524%) Financial Institution
3 1 (4.762%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (52.38%) Java Developer
1 11 (52.38%) Developer
2 4 (19.05%) Solutions Architect
2 4 (19.05%) Architect
3 3 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 3 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (9.524%) Technical Leader
4 2 (9.524%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (4.762%) Team Leader
5 1 (4.762%) Technical Team Leader
5 1 (4.762%) Java Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Mathematics
2 3 (14.29%) Data Integration
2 3 (14.29%) Visualisation
3 2 (9.524%) Social Network
3 2 (9.524%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 5 (23.81%) Windows
2 3 (14.29%) Linux
3 2 (9.524%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) UML
2 9 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
3 7 (33.33%) Project Planning
3 7 (33.33%) Waterfall
3 7 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
4 6 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
4 6 (28.57%) Build Automation
4 6 (28.57%) Analytics
5 5 (23.81%) Data Analysis
5 5 (23.81%) OO
6 4 (19.05%) B2C
6 4 (19.05%) OOD
6 4 (19.05%) SOA
7 3 (14.29%) ETL
7 3 (14.29%) Data Management
7 3 (14.29%) Scrum
7 3 (14.29%) Process Management
7 3 (14.29%) CMMI
7 3 (14.29%) MVC
7 3 (14.29%) RUP
Programming Languages
1 17 (80.95%) SQL
2 15 (71.43%) Java
3 8 (38.10%) Python
4 7 (33.33%) PL/SQL
5 4 (19.05%) C++
5 4 (19.05%) VB
5 4 (19.05%) NATURAL
5 4 (19.05%) VB6
6 3 (14.29%) Shell Script
6 3 (14.29%) Perl
6 3 (14.29%) C#
7 2 (9.524%) PowerShell
8 1 (4.762%) C
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 4 (19.05%) ISEB
2 4 (19.05%) Sun Certification
2 4 (19.05%) SCJP
2 4 (19.05%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.524%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 9 (42.86%) Oracle
2 6 (28.57%) Perforce
3 4 (19.05%) Sun
4 2 (9.524%) Norkom
4 2 (9.524%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.762%) HP
5 1 (4.762%) IBM
Guildford, Surrey
The role will include the below responsibilities and the successful candidate should have demonstrable experience in all or most of these: *Administration of Microsoft Server operating systems including...
Ashdown IT
Salary: £23000 - £27000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Guildford, South East
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Salary: £30000 - £52000 per annum + Competitive Benefits.
Posted: 14 May 2013