The first table below looks at the demand for Ant skills in IT jobs advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Ant over the 3 months to 21 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 West region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Ant
Rank 226 161 161
Rank change year-on-year
-65 0
Permanent jobs citing Ant 28 85 71
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.388% 1.200% 1.049%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.516% 7.596% 7.577%
Number of salaries quoted 26 56 66
Average salary £42,500 £36,000 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.05% -2.70%
90% offered a salary of more than £33,000 £25,000 £31,250
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £49,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +11.84%
All Development Applications
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
1113 1119 937
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 15.43% 15.79% 13.84%
Number of salaries quoted 968 989 861
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,000 £50,000 £45,000
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 West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

North West 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 West region.

North West Ant Salary Trend

Ant
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Ant across the North West region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 21 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
Cheshire -5 17 £45,000 +14.64%
Manchester -25 9 £35,000 +7.69%
Lancashire +6 2 £34,000 +36.00%
Ant
England

Ant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 64 (98.46%) Java
2 42 (64.62%) Spring
3 41 (63.08%) JUnit
4 39 (60.00%) XML
4 39 (60.00%) J2EE
5 37 (56.92%) SQL
6 35 (53.85%) Web Services
7 33 (50.77%) JavaScript
8 30 (46.15%) HTML
9 27 (41.54%) JSP
10 26 (40.00%) Oracle
11 25 (38.46%) Eclipse
12 21 (32.31%) Finance
12 21 (32.31%) Struts
12 21 (32.31%) UNIX
13 20 (30.77%) Linux
13 20 (30.77%) JDBC
14 19 (29.23%) Tomcat
14 19 (29.23%) JMS
14 19 (29.23%) Ajax
14 19 (29.23%) jQuery
14 19 (29.23%) Unit Testing
15 18 (27.69%) Hibernate
16 17 (26.15%) Maven
17 15 (23.08%) TDD
18 14 (21.54%) IBM
19 13 (20.00%) SOAP
19 13 (20.00%) OO
19 13 (20.00%) PHP
19 13 (20.00%) PL/SQL

Ant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 42 (64.62%) Spring
2 39 (60.00%) XML
2 39 (60.00%) J2EE
3 35 (53.85%) Web Services
4 30 (46.15%) HTML
5 27 (41.54%) JSP
6 21 (32.31%) Struts
7 20 (30.77%) JDBC
8 19 (29.23%) JMS
8 19 (29.23%) Ajax
8 19 (29.23%) jQuery
9 18 (27.69%) Hibernate
10 13 (20.00%) SOAP
11 10 (15.38%) CSS
12 8 (12.31%) REST
13 7 (10.77%) Servlets
13 7 (10.77%) WSDL
13 7 (10.77%) Apache Flex
14 6 (9.231%) GWT
14 6 (9.231%) Dojo
Application Platforms
1 19 (29.23%) Tomcat
2 8 (12.31%) WebLogic
3 7 (10.77%) Apache
4 6 (9.231%) Jetty
5 3 (4.615%) ESB
Applications
1 8 (12.31%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.231%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.231%) RDBMS
2 5 (7.692%) MySQL
3 4 (6.154%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 41 (63.08%) JUnit
2 25 (38.46%) Eclipse
3 17 (26.15%) Maven
4 13 (20.00%) Subversion
5 10 (15.38%) JIRA
6 8 (12.31%) Hudson
7 7 (10.77%) Synon
8 6 (9.231%) Log4j
9 4 (6.154%) Git (software)
General
1 21 (32.31%) Finance
2 1 (1.538%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 46 (70.77%) Developer
2 45 (69.23%) Java Developer
3 16 (24.62%) J2EE Developer
4 15 (23.08%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 10 (15.38%) Java Analyst Programmer
5 10 (15.38%) Java Programmer
5 10 (15.38%) Analyst
5 10 (15.38%) Senior Developer
5 10 (15.38%) Analyst Programmer
5 10 (15.38%) Programmer
6 9 (13.85%) Senior Java Developer
7 8 (12.31%) Applications Support Engineer
7 8 (12.31%) Support Engineer
7 8 (12.31%) Applications Support
8 6 (9.231%) Senior Java Analyst Programmer
8 6 (9.231%) Senior Java Programmer
8 6 (9.231%) Graduate Java Developer
8 6 (9.231%) Java Analyst Developer
8 6 (9.231%) Senior Programmer
8 6 (9.231%) Developer Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.231%) iSeries
1 6 (9.231%) Derivative
1 6 (9.231%) Open Source
2 2 (3.077%) Computer Science
2 2 (3.077%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.538%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 21 (32.31%) UNIX
2 20 (30.77%) Linux
3 6 (9.231%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (29.23%) Unit Testing
2 15 (23.08%) TDD
3 13 (20.00%) OO
3 13 (20.00%) MVC
4 12 (18.46%) Agile Software Development
5 8 (12.31%) Multithreading
5 8 (12.31%) User Acceptance Testing
6 7 (10.77%) Integration Testing
7 6 (9.231%) Scrum
7 6 (9.231%) Project Management
7 6 (9.231%) RAD
7 6 (9.231%) High Availability
8 5 (7.692%) OOA/OOD
9 4 (6.154%) Dependency Injection
10 2 (3.077%) AOP
10 2 (3.077%) Continuous Integration
10 2 (3.077%) Web Development
10 2 (3.077%) SOA
10 2 (3.077%) E-Commerce
11 1 (1.538%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 64 (98.46%) Java
2 37 (56.92%) SQL
3 33 (50.77%) JavaScript
4 13 (20.00%) PHP
4 13 (20.00%) PL/SQL
5 10 (15.38%) Python
6 7 (10.77%) RPG
6 7 (10.77%) Perl
6 7 (10.77%) RPG/400
7 6 (9.231%) RPG IV
7 6 (9.231%) Groovy
7 6 (9.231%) VB
7 6 (9.231%) VBA
8 3 (4.615%) C++
8 3 (4.615%) Ruby
9 2 (3.077%) C#
10 1 (1.538%) C
Qualifications
1 6 (9.231%) Degree
2 2 (3.077%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.538%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (1.538%) NCDA
3 1 (1.538%) NCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.154%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 26 (40.00%) Oracle
2 14 (21.54%) IBM
3 7 (10.77%) JD Edwards
4 5 (7.692%) Zend
5 3 (4.615%) JBoss
6 1 (1.538%) HP
6 1 (1.538%) NetApp
6 1 (1.538%) Cisco
6 1 (1.538%) VMware
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