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

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Ant
Rank - 55 50
Permanent jobs citing Ant 0 4 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset - 0.883% 1.290%
As % of the Development Applications category - 3.101% 6.897%
Number of salaries quoted 0 4 6
Average salary - £35,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -5.33%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +11.84%
All Development Applications
Somerset
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
118 129 87
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset 18.41% 28.48% 18.71%
Number of salaries quoted 103 126 80
Average salary £42,500 £33,950 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+25.18% -5.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £28,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £37,500 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%
Ant
South West

Ant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset Ant Salary Trend

Ant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Somerset 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 18 (100.00%) SOAP
1 18 (100.00%) Web Services
1 18 (100.00%) XML
2 17 (94.44%) XML Schema
2 17 (94.44%) Degree
2 17 (94.44%) Unit Testing
2 17 (94.44%) Trapeze
3 16 (88.89%) Computer Science
3 16 (88.89%) QA
3 16 (88.89%) Hudson
3 16 (88.89%) Continuous Integration
3 16 (88.89%) TDD
4 9 (50.00%) Hibernate
4 9 (50.00%) Data Modelling
4 9 (50.00%) RDBMS
4 9 (50.00%) Java
4 9 (50.00%) SQL
4 9 (50.00%) Oracle
4 9 (50.00%) JUnit
4 9 (50.00%) Spring
4 9 (50.00%) Google
4 9 (50.00%) Google Maps API
4 9 (50.00%) jMock
5 8 (44.44%) jQuery
5 8 (44.44%) Waterfall
5 8 (44.44%) Bing Maps
5 8 (44.44%) Ajax
5 8 (44.44%) JSTL
5 8 (44.44%) Ext JS
5 8 (44.44%) JavaScript

Ant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Somerset 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 18 (100.00%) SOAP
1 18 (100.00%) Web Services
1 18 (100.00%) XML
2 17 (94.44%) XML Schema
3 9 (50.00%) Hibernate
3 9 (50.00%) Spring
3 9 (50.00%) Google Maps API
4 8 (44.44%) jQuery
4 8 (44.44%) Bing Maps
4 8 (44.44%) Ajax
4 8 (44.44%) JSTL
4 8 (44.44%) Ext JS
4 8 (44.44%) HTML
4 8 (44.44%) JSP
5 1 (5.556%) EJB
5 1 (5.556%) Struts
5 1 (5.556%) JSON
5 1 (5.556%) JSF
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.556%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (5.556%) Oracle iStore
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (50.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (5.556%) GIS
2 1 (5.556%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (88.89%) Hudson
2 9 (50.00%) JUnit
2 9 (50.00%) jMock
3 8 (44.44%) Visual Studio
4 1 (5.556%) Subversion
4 1 (5.556%) Eclipse
4 1 (5.556%) WebLogic Workshop
4 1 (5.556%) Git (software)
4 1 (5.556%) Mercurial
4 1 (5.556%) JIRA
4 1 (5.556%) Maven
4 1 (5.556%) Gradle
4 1 (5.556%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.556%) Robotium
Job Titles
1 18 (100.00%) Developer
2 16 (88.89%) Software Developer
3 1 (5.556%) Senior Developer
3 1 (5.556%) Java Developer
3 1 (5.556%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (5.556%) iPhone Developer
3 1 (5.556%) iPhone Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 16 (88.89%) Computer Science
2 8 (44.44%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.556%) iPhone
3 1 (5.556%) Open Source
3 1 (5.556%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 8 (44.44%) UNIX
1 8 (44.44%) Linux
2 1 (5.556%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (94.44%) Unit Testing
2 16 (88.89%) Continuous Integration
2 16 (88.89%) TDD
3 9 (50.00%) Data Modelling
4 8 (44.44%) Waterfall
5 1 (5.556%) MVC
5 1 (5.556%) User Experience Design
5 1 (5.556%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) Java
1 9 (50.00%) SQL
2 8 (44.44%) JavaScript
2 8 (44.44%) C++
Qualifications
1 17 (94.44%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (88.89%) QA
Vendors
1 17 (94.44%) Trapeze
2 9 (50.00%) Oracle
2 9 (50.00%) Google
3 8 (44.44%) JBoss
3 8 (44.44%) Microsoft