The first table below looks at the demand for Ant skills in IT jobs advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Ant over the 3 months to 23 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 Hertfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Ant
Rank 106 74 152
Rank change year-on-year
-32 +78
Permanent jobs citing Ant 36 78 15
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 1.472% 3.079% 0.439%
As % of the Development Applications category 9.524% 15.23% 2.693%
Number of salaries quoted 28 34 9
Average salary £51,250 £52,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.38% +23.52%
90% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £42,500 £34,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +11.84%
All Development Applications
Hertfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
378 512 557
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 15.46% 20.21% 16.31%
Number of salaries quoted 305 386 492
Average salary £40,000 £47,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-15.78% +18.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,300 £35,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £52,900 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%
Ant
East of England

Ant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Ant Salary Trend

Ant
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Ant across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Hertford +6 19 £50,000 +11.11%
Watford -19 4 - -
Rickmansworth -5 3 £62,750 +14.09%
Ant
East of England

Ant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 69 (95.83%) Java
2 55 (76.39%) J2EE
3 51 (70.83%) WebSphere
4 47 (65.28%) Oracle
5 44 (61.11%) SQL
6 41 (56.94%) Subversion
7 40 (55.56%) WebLogic
7 40 (55.56%) UNIX
8 39 (54.17%) XML
9 37 (51.39%) Retail
10 34 (47.22%) Apache
11 32 (44.44%) Web Services
12 30 (41.67%) IBM
12 30 (41.67%) Maven
13 29 (40.28%) JavaScript
14 28 (38.89%) JBoss
14 28 (38.89%) Tomcat
15 27 (37.50%) XSLT
15 27 (37.50%) JSP
15 27 (37.50%) Hibernate
15 27 (37.50%) Spring
16 26 (36.11%) Finance
16 26 (36.11%) Servlets
16 26 (36.11%) JDBC
16 26 (36.11%) MySQL
16 26 (36.11%) SQL Server
16 26 (36.11%) Shell Script
16 26 (36.11%) Multithreading
17 23 (31.94%) SOA
17 23 (31.94%) Linux

Ant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 55 (76.39%) J2EE
2 51 (70.83%) WebSphere
3 39 (54.17%) XML
4 32 (44.44%) Web Services
5 27 (37.50%) XSLT
5 27 (37.50%) JSP
5 27 (37.50%) Hibernate
5 27 (37.50%) Spring
6 26 (36.11%) Servlets
6 26 (36.11%) JDBC
7 22 (30.56%) XML Schema
8 21 (29.17%) Struts
9 20 (27.78%) JAXB
9 20 (27.78%) XMLBeans
9 20 (27.78%) Castor
9 20 (27.78%) JiBX
10 18 (25.00%) Middleware
11 14 (19.44%) .NET
12 6 (8.333%) Swing
13 3 (4.167%) REST
Application Platforms
1 40 (55.56%) WebLogic
2 34 (47.22%) Apache
3 28 (38.89%) Tomcat
4 20 (27.78%) Oracle Workflow
5 13 (18.06%) MQSeries
5 13 (18.06%) WebSphere Application Server
5 13 (18.06%) IIS
6 12 (16.67%) IBM HTTP Server
7 8 (11.11%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 8 (11.11%) WebSphere MQ
8 1 (1.389%) Apache Solr
8 1 (1.389%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (8.333%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 22 (30.56%) HTTP
2 12 (16.67%) Firewall
3 3 (4.167%) Internet
4 1 (1.389%) HTTPS
4 1 (1.389%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (36.11%) MySQL
1 26 (36.11%) SQL Server
2 13 (18.06%) DB2
3 8 (11.11%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 41 (56.94%) Subversion
2 30 (41.67%) Maven
3 21 (29.17%) Eclipse
4 14 (19.44%) Jenkins
5 7 (9.722%) JMeter
6 4 (5.556%) Git (software)
7 2 (2.778%) JUnit
8 1 (1.389%) WebDriver
8 1 (1.389%) Hudson
8 1 (1.389%) TestNG
8 1 (1.389%) Selenium
8 1 (1.389%) Visual Studio
General
1 37 (51.39%) Retail
2 26 (36.11%) Finance
3 13 (18.06%) Games
4 7 (9.722%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.389%) Banking
5 1 (1.389%) Interactive Media
Job Titles
1 30 (41.67%) Developer
2 25 (34.72%) Senior Developer
3 24 (33.33%) Java Developer
4 23 (31.94%) Senior Java Developer
5 15 (20.83%) Architect
6 12 (16.67%) Infrastructure Architect
7 8 (11.11%) Senior Infrastructure Architect
7 8 (11.11%) Test Engineer
7 8 (11.11%) Senior Architect
8 7 (9.722%) Senior Test Engineer
9 6 (8.333%) Middleware Engineer
10 2 (2.778%) QA Engineer
10 2 (2.778%) Software Developer
10 2 (2.778%) Administrator
10 2 (2.778%) Middleware Administrator
11 1 (1.389%) DevOps Engineer
11 1 (1.389%) Technical Developer
11 1 (1.389%) Middleware Architect
11 1 (1.389%) Software Engineer
11 1 (1.389%) Lead Developer
Miscellaneous
1 16 (22.22%) Mobile App
2 5 (6.944%) Computer Science
3 2 (2.778%) PKI
3 2 (2.778%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 40 (55.56%) UNIX
2 23 (31.94%) Linux
3 18 (25.00%) Solaris
4 16 (22.22%) Windows
4 16 (22.22%) Android
4 16 (22.22%) Apple iOS
5 13 (18.06%) AIX
6 1 (1.389%) Fedora
6 1 (1.389%) CentOS
6 1 (1.389%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.389%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (36.11%) Multithreading
2 23 (31.94%) SOA
3 20 (27.78%) CRM
3 20 (27.78%) ERP
3 20 (27.78%) Workflow
3 20 (27.78%) Web Development
4 16 (22.22%) Mobile Application Development
5 15 (20.83%) Web Application Development
6 14 (19.44%) E-Commerce
7 11 (15.28%) Agile Software Development
7 11 (15.28%) Scrum
7 11 (15.28%) ITIL
8 10 (13.89%) Test Automation
9 9 (12.50%) Unit Testing
10 8 (11.11%) MVC
10 8 (11.11%) Service Delivery
10 8 (11.11%) Waterfall
11 7 (9.722%) Automated Testing
11 7 (9.722%) V-Model
12 2 (2.778%) UML
Programming Languages
1 69 (95.83%) Java
2 44 (61.11%) SQL
3 29 (40.28%) JavaScript
4 26 (36.11%) Shell Script
5 11 (15.28%) Ruby
6 9 (12.50%) C++
6 9 (12.50%) Python
7 8 (11.11%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
8 6 (8.333%) C
8 6 (8.333%) Perl
9 5 (6.944%) Bash shell
10 4 (5.556%) PL/SQL
10 4 (5.556%) Korn
11 2 (2.778%) Groovy
12 1 (1.389%) AWK
12 1 (1.389%) C#
Qualifications
1 11 (15.28%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.89%) QA
2 7 (9.722%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (23.61%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 1 (1.389%) Xen
Systems Management
1 17 (23.61%) Tivoli
2 1 (1.389%) Puppet
Vendors
1 47 (65.28%) Oracle
2 30 (41.67%) IBM
3 28 (38.89%) JBoss
4 5 (6.944%) Red Hat
5 4 (5.556%) VocaLink
6 2 (2.778%) BEA
6 2 (2.778%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.778%) Thunderhead
7 1 (1.389%) Endeca
7 1 (1.389%) Sun
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