North West Ant Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Apache Ant skills within the North West region with a comparison to our Development Applications category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Ant over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Apache Ant
Location Andover Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Colchester County Antrim Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dunstable East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hove Isle of Man Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newport Newton-le-Willows North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Reading Rickmansworth Romsey Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stevenage Stockport Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Wirral Woking Wokingham York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	212	276
Rank change on same period last year	+64
Matching permanent IT job ads	65	16
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.032 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	5.737 %	1.699 %
Salaries quoted	55	7
Average minimum salary	£33,780	£25,750
Average salary	£36,195	£29,125
% change on same period last year	+24.27 %
Average maximum salary	£38,610	£32,500
UK excluding London average salary	£40,042	£41,365
% change on same period last year	-3.19 %
Development Applications North West
Matching permanent IT job ads	1133	942
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.556 %	0.417 %
Salaries quoted	935	733
Average minimum salary	£28,538	£30,475
Average salary	£31,456	£33,347
% change on same period last year	-5.67 %
Average maximum salary	£34,373	£36,219
UK excluding London average salary	£35,047	£35,897
% change on same period last year	-2.36 %
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Ant
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing Ant across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Ant
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs ads citing Ant across the North West region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Ant across the North West region over the past 3 months.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ant within the North West region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	Merseyside	+24	36	£39,446	+79.30 %
2	Manchester	+18	21	£28,526	-16.09 %
3	Cheshire	+9	7	£44,929	+57.64 %
4	Lancashire	-20	2	£34,500	+91.66 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the North West region citing Ant also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Ant.

1 77 (96.25 %) Java 2 74 (92.50 %) XML 3 65 (81.25 %) J2EE 4 58 (72.50 %) JSP 5 53 (66.25 %) SQL 5 53 (66.25 %) Oracle 6 50 (62.50 %) WebServices 7 41 (51.25 %) Servlets 8 34 (42.50 %) Eclipse 8 34 (42.50 %) Spring 9 31 (38.75 %) RDBMS 10 30 (37.50 %) Struts 11 28 (35.00 %) JavaScript 12 27 (33.75 %) UML 13 24 (30.00 %) Hibernate

14 23 (28.75 %) XSLT 14 23 (28.75 %) DB2 14 23 (28.75 %) JUnit 15 22 (27.50 %) WSDL 16 21 (26.25 %) EJB 17 20 (25.00 %) HTML 17 20 (25.00 %) WebSphere 18 19 (23.75 %) JBoss 19 18 (22.50 %) Tomcat 19 18 (22.50 %) HND 19 18 (22.50 %) Degree 19 18 (22.50 %) XPath 20 16 (20.00 %) CSS 20 16 (20.00 %) JDBC 20 16 (20.00 %) WebLogic

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the North West region citing Ant also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Ant. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 74 (92.50 %) XML 2 65 (81.25 %) J2EE 3 58 (72.50 %) JSP 4 50 (62.50 %) WebServices 5 41 (51.25 %) Servlets 6 34 (42.50 %) Spring 7 30 (37.50 %) Struts 8 24 (30.00 %) Hibernate 9 23 (28.75 %) XSLT 10 22 (27.50 %) WSDL 11 21 (26.25 %) EJB 12 20 (25.00 %) HTML 12 20 (25.00 %) WebSphere 13 16 (20.00 %) CSS 13 16 (20.00 %) JDBC 14 14 (17.50 %) XSL 15 13 (16.25 %) XSD 15 13 (16.25 %) JAXB 16 12 (15.00 %) .NET 17 10 (12.50 %) XHTML	Application Platforms 1 19 (23.75 %) JBoss 2 18 (22.50 %) Tomcat 3 16 (20.00 %) WebLogic 4 13 (16.25 %) WebSphere Application Server 5 2 (2.500 %) ColdFusion MX 5 2 (2.500 %) ColdFusion 6 1 (1.250 %) Oracle Application Server 6 1 (1.250 %) Oracle 10gAS 6 1 (1.250 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 1 (1.250 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 4 (5.000 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 31 (38.75 %) RDBMS 2 23 (28.75 %) DB2 3 11 (13.75 %) Oracle 10g 4 10 (12.50 %) Oracle 9i 5 6 (7.500 %) MySQL 6 5 (6.250 %) SQL Server 6 5 (6.250 %) Oracle 8/8i	Development Applications 1 34 (42.50 %) Eclipse 2 23 (28.75 %) JUnit 3 13 (16.25 %) JDeveloper 4 6 (7.500 %) Subversion 5 4 (5.000 %) JIRA 6 1 (1.250 %) jMock
General 1 4 (5.000 %) Education 2 2 (2.500 %) Government 2 2 (2.500 %) Health 2 2 (2.500 %) Pensions 3 1 (1.250 %) Retail Banking 3 1 (1.250 %) Online Banking 3 1 (1.250 %) Pharmaceutical 3 1 (1.250 %) Finance 3 1 (1.250 %) Banking 3 1 (1.250 %) Retail	Job Titles 1 74 (92.50 %) Developer 2 58 (72.50 %) Java Developer 3 31 (38.75 %) Senior Developer 3 31 (38.75 %) Senior Java Developer 4 25 (31.25 %) Applications Developer 5 22 (27.50 %) Java/J2EE Developer 6 14 (17.50 %) J2EE Developer 7 13 (16.25 %) Junior 7 13 (16.25 %) Junior Developer 7 13 (16.25 %) Junior Applications Developer 8 12 (15.00 %) Java Applications Developer 9 10 (12.50 %) Senior Java/J2EE Developer 9 10 (12.50 %) Java Team Leader 9 10 (12.50 %) Team Leader 10 9 (11.25 %) Senior Applications Developer 10 9 (11.25 %) Senior Java Applications Developer 11 6 (7.500 %) Senior J2EE Developer 12 3 (3.750 %) Web Developer 13 2 (2.500 %) Architect 13 2 (2.500 %) Senior J2EE Architect
Miscellaneous 1 5 (6.250 %) Client/Server 2 3 (3.750 %) Web 2.0 3 1 (1.250 %) Asset Management	Operating Systems 1 10 (12.50 %) Unix 2 7 (8.750 %) Linux 3 1 (1.250 %) AIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 27 (33.75 %) UML 2 8 (10.00 %) OO 3 7 (8.750 %) Web Development 4 4 (5.000 %) MVC 5 2 (2.500 %) Validation 5 2 (2.500 %) Business Analysis 5 2 (2.500 %) Requirements Analysis 6 1 (1.250 %) Unit Testing 6 1 (1.250 %) Scrum 6 1 (1.250 %) Web Design 6 1 (1.250 %) TDD 6 1 (1.250 %) Document Management 6 1 (1.250 %) Supply Chain Management 6 1 (1.250 %) E-Procurement 6 1 (1.250 %) RAD	Programming Languages 1 77 (96.25 %) Java 2 53 (66.25 %) SQL 3 28 (35.00 %) JavaScript 4 18 (22.50 %) XPath 5 8 (10.00 %) PL/SQL 6 6 (7.500 %) Shell Script 7 3 (3.750 %) DHTML
Qualifications 1 18 (22.50 %) HND 1 18 (22.50 %) Degree 2 4 (5.000 %) Sun Certification 3 1 (1.250 %) Microsoft Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 7 (8.750 %) QA
System Software 1 1 (1.250 %) AquaLogic	Vendors 1 53 (66.25 %) Oracle 2 14 (17.50 %) BEA 3 13 (16.25 %) IBM 4 4 (5.000 %) Sun 5 2 (2.500 %) Macromedia 6 1 (1.250 %) Microsoft