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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Ant
Rank - 50 67
Permanent jobs citing Ant 0 20 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North East - 2.283% 0.139%
As % of the Development Applications category - 18.69% 1.010%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 1
Average salary - £35,000 £20,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +75.00%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +11.84%
All Development Applications
North East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
88 107 99
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North East 12.81% 12.21% 13.73%
Number of salaries quoted 83 72 80
Average salary £32,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.33% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £31,000 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £42,200 £72,500 £68,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%
Ant
England

Ant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North East 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 North East region.

North East Ant Salary Trend

Ant
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the North East 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 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) J2EE
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
1 4 (100.00%) JSP
1 4 (100.00%) XML
1 4 (100.00%) XSLT
1 4 (100.00%) UNIX
1 4 (100.00%) UML
1 4 (100.00%) RUP
1 4 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 4 (100.00%) Sun Certification
1 4 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
1 4 (100.00%) Billing
1 4 (100.00%) Content Management
1 4 (100.00%) WebSphere

Ant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the North East 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 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) J2EE
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
1 4 (100.00%) JSP
1 4 (100.00%) XML
1 4 (100.00%) XSLT
1 4 (100.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) Tomcat
General
1 4 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 4 (100.00%) Billing
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Java Developer
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) UML
1 4 (100.00%) RUP
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
1 4 (100.00%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Sun Certification
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle