The first table below looks at the demand for Ant skills in IT jobs advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Ant over the 3 months to 20 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 Kent region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Ant
Rank 85 75 86
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +11
Permanent jobs citing Ant 5 2 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 0.428% 0.282% 0.774%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.906% 2.299% 4.061%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 8
Average salary £37,500 £48,750 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-23.07% +39.28%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +11.84%
All Development Applications
Kent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
128 87 197
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 10.97% 12.25% 19.05%
Number of salaries quoted 103 79 190
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,800 £25,000 £28,700
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £45,000 £49,850
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%
Ant
South East

Ant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent 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 Kent region over the 3 months to 20 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
Folkestone +11 3 £35,000 -26.31%
Ant
South East

Ant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 8 (80.00%) UNIX
2 7 (70.00%) Finance
2 7 (70.00%) Subversion
3 6 (60.00%) Maven
3 6 (60.00%) Hibernate
3 6 (60.00%) Java
3 6 (60.00%) Jenkins
4 5 (50.00%) Oracle
4 5 (50.00%) Spring
5 4 (40.00%) WebSphere
5 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
5 4 (40.00%) J2EE
5 4 (40.00%) DB2
5 4 (40.00%) JUnit
5 4 (40.00%) Perl
5 4 (40.00%) Windows
5 4 (40.00%) ClearCase
5 4 (40.00%) ETL
5 4 (40.00%) GlassFish
6 3 (30.00%) Unit Testing
6 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
6 3 (30.00%) Pega
6 3 (30.00%) TeamCity
6 3 (30.00%) Build Forge
6 3 (30.00%) JProfiler
6 3 (30.00%) SAS
6 3 (30.00%) CICS
6 3 (30.00%) BMC
6 3 (30.00%) JBoss
6 3 (30.00%) Tomcat

Ant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 6 (60.00%) Hibernate
2 5 (50.00%) Spring
3 4 (40.00%) WebSphere
3 4 (40.00%) J2EE
4 3 (30.00%) ASP.NET
4 3 (30.00%) HTML
4 3 (30.00%) .NET
4 3 (30.00%) .NET Framework
4 3 (30.00%) Java EE
5 2 (20.00%) XML
6 1 (10.00%) XHTML
6 1 (10.00%) CSS
6 1 (10.00%) Web Services
6 1 (10.00%) MDX
6 1 (10.00%) jQuery
6 1 (10.00%) Java SE
Application Platforms
1 4 (40.00%) GlassFish
2 3 (30.00%) CICS
2 3 (30.00%) Tomcat
2 3 (30.00%) SAS
3 1 (10.00%) ColdFusion
3 1 (10.00%) MQSeries
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (40.00%) DB2
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (10.00%) Pentaho
3 1 (10.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (70.00%) Subversion
2 6 (60.00%) Maven
2 6 (60.00%) Jenkins
3 4 (40.00%) JUnit
3 4 (40.00%) ClearCase
4 3 (30.00%) Build Forge
4 3 (30.00%) JProfiler
4 3 (30.00%) JIRA
4 3 (30.00%) TeamCity
5 1 (10.00%) Git (software)
5 1 (10.00%) NetBeans
General
1 7 (70.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Applications Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Junior Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Junior Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) UNIX Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Junior Web Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Java Web Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Java Software Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Junior Java Web Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Java Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Junior
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Web Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (10.00%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) UNIX
2 4 (40.00%) Windows
3 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) ETL
2 3 (30.00%) Validation
2 3 (30.00%) Unit Testing
2 3 (30.00%) AOP
3 2 (20.00%) Release Management
3 2 (20.00%) TDD
3 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (10.00%) Web Application Development
4 1 (10.00%) Migration
4 1 (10.00%) Scrum
4 1 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (10.00%) ITIL
4 1 (10.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Java
2 4 (40.00%) Perl
3 3 (30.00%) VB.NET
3 3 (30.00%) PL/1
3 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (30.00%) C#
3 3 (30.00%) COBOL
4 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (20.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Oracle
2 3 (30.00%) JBoss
2 3 (30.00%) BMC
2 3 (30.00%) Pega
3 1 (10.00%) Informatica
3 1 (10.00%) IBM
3 1 (10.00%) Sybase