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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Ant
Rank - 54 71
Permanent jobs citing Ant 0 28 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside - 4.154% 0.215%
As % of the Development Applications category - 20.59% 1.250%
Number of salaries quoted 0 12 1
Average salary - £45,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +5.88%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +11.84%
All Development Applications
Merseyside
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
63 136 80
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 14.13% 20.18% 17.17%
Number of salaries quoted 59 114 64
Average salary £32,500 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-18.75% +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £32,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £50,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%
Ant
North West

Ant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside Ant Salary Trend

Ant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 6 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (66.67%) Hibernate
2 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 4 (66.67%) Oracle
2 4 (66.67%) Spring
2 4 (66.67%) Degree
2 4 (66.67%) Unit Testing
3 3 (50.00%) Maven
3 3 (50.00%) Open Source
3 3 (50.00%) OO
3 3 (50.00%) Eclipse
4 2 (33.33%) JMS
4 2 (33.33%) SOA
4 2 (33.33%) JBoss
4 2 (33.33%) Python
4 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
4 2 (33.33%) JUnit
4 2 (33.33%) J2EE
4 2 (33.33%) EJB
4 2 (33.33%) CSS
4 2 (33.33%) C#
4 2 (33.33%) C++
4 2 (33.33%) HTML
4 2 (33.33%) Struts
4 2 (33.33%) Dependency Injection
4 2 (33.33%) AOP
4 2 (33.33%) Ruby
4 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (33.33%) Web Development

Ant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 4 (66.67%) Hibernate
1 4 (66.67%) Spring
2 2 (33.33%) Spring Web Flow
2 2 (33.33%) EJB 3.0
2 2 (33.33%) HTML
2 2 (33.33%) J2EE
2 2 (33.33%) EJB
2 2 (33.33%) CSS
2 2 (33.33%) Struts
2 2 (33.33%) JMS
3 1 (16.67%) JSP
3 1 (16.67%) Servlets
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) WebLogic
1 1 (16.67%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Eclipse
1 3 (50.00%) Maven
2 2 (33.33%) JUnit
3 1 (16.67%) Hudson
3 1 (16.67%) Subversion
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
2 4 (66.67%) Java Developer
3 3 (50.00%) Senior Developer
4 2 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
5 1 (16.67%) Applications Support
5 1 (16.67%) J2EE Developer
5 1 (16.67%) Applications Support Engineer
5 1 (16.67%) Senior J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Open Source
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) UNIX
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Unit Testing
2 3 (50.00%) OO
3 2 (33.33%) SOA
3 2 (33.33%) MVC
3 2 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (33.33%) AOP
3 2 (33.33%) Web Development
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (33.33%) Multithreading
3 2 (33.33%) Dependency Injection
4 1 (16.67%) Mobile Application Development
4 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 4 (66.67%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) Python
3 2 (33.33%) Ruby
3 2 (33.33%) Groovy
3 2 (33.33%) C#
3 2 (33.33%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Oracle
2 2 (33.33%) JBoss