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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Ant
Rank 314 228 305
Rank change year-on-year
-86 +77
Permanent jobs citing Ant 124 238 117
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 0.563% 1.002% 0.514%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.206% 7.151% 3.662%
Number of salaries quoted 97 211 106
Average salary £39,000 £45,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.33% +12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £35,000 £31,800
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £65,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +11.84%
All Development Applications
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
2948 3328 3195
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 13.39% 14.01% 14.05%
Number of salaries quoted 2544 2978 2873
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £30,000 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
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 South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

South 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 South East region.

South East Ant Salary Trend

Ant
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Ant across the South East region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 17 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
Berkshire +6 40 £38,500 +2.66%
Surrey +4 40 £35,000 -22.22%
Buckinghamshire -17 19 £42,500 -15.00%
Hampshire -42 13 £46,250 +2.77%
West Sussex -42 7 £37,500 -25.00%
Kent -15 5 £37,500 -23.07%
Ant
England

Ant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the South 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.

1 219 (87.60%) Java
2 156 (62.40%) Spring
3 152 (60.80%) Maven
4 135 (54.00%) JUnit
5 115 (46.00%) OO
6 114 (45.60%) Tomcat
7 111 (44.40%) Hibernate
8 106 (42.40%) UML
9 99 (39.60%) Subversion
10 96 (38.40%) Agile Software Development
11 94 (37.60%) XML
12 88 (35.20%) Degree
13 86 (34.40%) UNIX
14 85 (34.00%) JSP
14 85 (34.00%) J2EE
15 83 (33.20%) JavaScript
16 82 (32.80%) Oracle
16 82 (32.80%) Computer Science
17 81 (32.40%) SQL
18 73 (29.20%) Linux
19 72 (28.80%) MySQL
19 72 (28.80%) Eclipse
20 70 (28.00%) Continuous Integration
21 66 (26.40%) HTML
22 64 (25.60%) Web Services
23 63 (25.20%) Ajax
23 63 (25.20%) Apache
23 63 (25.20%) CSS
24 60 (24.00%) E-Commerce
25 58 (23.20%) Windows

Ant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the South 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
1 156 (62.40%) Spring
2 111 (44.40%) Hibernate
3 94 (37.60%) XML
4 85 (34.00%) JSP
4 85 (34.00%) J2EE
5 66 (26.40%) HTML
6 64 (25.60%) Web Services
7 63 (25.20%) CSS
7 63 (25.20%) Ajax
8 56 (22.40%) JDBC
9 51 (20.40%) JMS
10 48 (19.20%) Java EE
11 46 (18.40%) Servlets
12 36 (14.40%) jQuery
13 33 (13.20%) Struts
14 29 (11.60%) DHTML
15 25 (10.00%) JPA
16 24 (9.600%) WebSphere
16 24 (9.600%) EJB
16 24 (9.600%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 114 (45.60%) Tomcat
2 63 (25.20%) Apache
3 24 (9.600%) Magento
4 23 (9.200%) CMS
5 14 (5.600%) SharePoint
5 14 (5.600%) WebLogic
6 12 (4.800%) Apache Solr
7 9 (3.600%) Jetty
8 8 (3.200%) ESB
9 7 (2.800%) GlassFish
9 7 (2.800%) SAS
9 7 (2.800%) WebSphere MQ
10 5 (2.000%) WebSphere Application Server
11 4 (1.600%) WebSphere Message Broker
12 3 (1.200%) RabbitMQ
12 3 (1.200%) CICS
13 2 (0.800%) Documentum
13 2 (0.800%) SonicMQ
13 2 (0.800%) Sonic ESB
13 2 (0.800%) Confluence
Applications
1 15 (6.000%) MS Excel
2 10 (4.000%) MS Office
3 4 (1.600%) MS Project
4 1 (0.400%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.400%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 1 (0.400%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 36 (14.40%) HTTP
2 27 (10.80%) TCP/IP
3 21 (8.400%) LDAP
4 18 (7.200%) Internet
5 2 (0.800%) Firewall
5 2 (0.800%) SSH
5 2 (0.800%) OpenLDAP
5 2 (0.800%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.800%) FTP
5 2 (0.800%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (28.80%) MySQL
2 26 (10.40%) SQL Server
3 22 (8.800%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (6.000%) RDBMS
4 15 (6.000%) DB2
5 7 (2.800%) Oracle 8/8i
5 7 (2.800%) Oracle 11g
6 6 (2.400%) Hadoop
6 6 (2.400%) Big Data
7 5 (2.000%) TOAD
7 5 (2.000%) Oracle 10g
7 5 (2.000%) Oracle 9i
8 4 (1.600%) Adabas
8 4 (1.600%) SQL Server 2008
9 3 (1.200%) Ingres
9 3 (1.200%) Crystal Reports
9 3 (1.200%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.400%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.400%) Pentaho
10 1 (0.400%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 152 (60.80%) Maven
2 135 (54.00%) JUnit
3 99 (39.60%) Subversion
4 72 (28.80%) Eclipse
5 48 (19.20%) ClearCase
6 34 (13.60%) Git (software)
7 32 (12.80%) JIRA
7 32 (12.80%) Jenkins
8 31 (12.40%) Selenium
9 22 (8.800%) Bugzilla
10 21 (8.400%) ClearQuest
11 19 (7.600%) Hudson
12 15 (6.000%) IntelliJ
13 14 (5.600%) Log4j
14 8 (3.200%) WebDriver
14 8 (3.200%) Gradle
15 7 (2.800%) Team Foundation Server
15 7 (2.800%) TestNG
15 7 (2.800%) CruiseControl
16 5 (2.000%) JProfiler
General
1 38 (15.20%) Finance
2 10 (4.000%) Advertising
3 6 (2.400%) Games
3 6 (2.400%) Retail
4 5 (2.000%) Marketing
4 5 (2.000%) Banking
5 4 (1.600%) Law
5 4 (1.600%) Telecoms
6 2 (0.800%) Financial Institution
6 2 (0.800%) Legal
7 1 (0.400%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.400%) Back Office
7 1 (0.400%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 156 (62.40%) Developer
2 126 (50.40%) Java Developer
3 64 (25.60%) Senior Developer
4 59 (23.60%) Senior Java Developer
5 36 (14.40%) Java/J2EE Developer
6 28 (11.20%) J2EE Developer
7 27 (10.80%) Software Developer
8 23 (9.200%) Consultant
9 21 (8.400%) Lead Developer
10 20 (8.000%) Senior J2EE Developer
11 14 (5.600%) Software Engineer
12 12 (4.800%) Software Manager
13 11 (4.400%) Ada Developer
13 11 (4.400%) Architect
14 9 (3.600%) Test Engineer
14 9 (3.600%) Software Test Engineer
14 9 (3.600%) Automated Test Engineer
15 8 (3.200%) Analyst
16 7 (2.800%) Programmer
16 7 (2.800%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 82 (32.80%) Computer Science
2 38 (15.20%) Open Source
3 23 (9.200%) Mathematics
4 20 (8.000%) Embedded Systems
5 18 (7.200%) Inversion of Control
6 14 (5.600%) Physics
7 8 (3.200%) Client/Server
8 5 (2.000%) Clustering
8 5 (2.000%) Statistics
9 4 (1.600%) SaaS
10 3 (1.200%) Visualisation
10 3 (1.200%) Mainframe
10 3 (1.200%) Data Integration
11 2 (0.800%) Social Network
11 2 (0.800%) Wiki
11 2 (0.800%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.800%) Enterprise Software
12 1 (0.400%) Mobile App
12 1 (0.400%) Digital Media
12 1 (0.400%) EFT
Operating Systems
1 86 (34.40%) UNIX
2 73 (29.20%) Linux
3 58 (23.20%) Windows
4 21 (8.400%) Solaris
5 15 (6.000%) AIX
6 14 (5.600%) VxWorks
6 14 (5.600%) LynxOS
7 7 (2.800%) Ubuntu
8 5 (2.000%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.800%) CentOS
9 2 (0.800%) SUSE
10 1 (0.400%) Debian
10 1 (0.400%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (46.00%) OO
2 106 (42.40%) UML
3 96 (38.40%) Agile Software Development
4 70 (28.00%) Continuous Integration
5 60 (24.00%) E-Commerce
6 35 (14.00%) MVC
6 35 (14.00%) Information Management
7 28 (11.20%) SOA
8 27 (10.80%) TDD
8 27 (10.80%) Waterfall
9 23 (9.200%) Use Case
9 23 (9.200%) OOA/OOD
10 22 (8.800%) RUP
10 22 (8.800%) Automated Testing
11 21 (8.400%) Software Architecture
12 18 (7.200%) Multithreading
12 18 (7.200%) MODAF
13 17 (6.800%) Performance Testing
13 17 (6.800%) Dependency Injection
13 17 (6.800%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 219 (87.60%) Java
2 83 (33.20%) JavaScript
3 81 (32.40%) SQL
4 47 (18.80%) C#
5 45 (18.00%) Perl
6 38 (15.20%) Python
7 35 (14.00%) C++
8 32 (12.80%) Shell Script
9 31 (12.40%) C
10 20 (8.000%) Ada
11 17 (6.800%) PL/SQL
11 17 (6.800%) Bash shell
12 12 (4.800%) MATLAB
13 7 (2.800%) PowerShell
14 6 (2.400%) HQL
15 4 (1.600%) VB6
15 4 (1.600%) NATURAL
15 4 (1.600%) VB
16 3 (1.200%) VB.NET
16 3 (1.200%) PL/1
Qualifications
1 88 (35.20%) Degree
2 22 (8.800%) Security Cleared
3 17 (6.800%) SC Cleared
4 14 (5.600%) ISEB
5 7 (2.800%) Sun Certification
6 4 (1.600%) SCJP
7 1 (0.400%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.000%) DO-178B
2 18 (7.200%) QA
3 2 (0.800%) SLA
3 2 (0.800%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.400%) TickIT
4 1 (0.400%) ISO 8583
4 1 (0.400%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 7 (2.800%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.800%) Sendmail
2 2 (0.800%) NFS
2 2 (0.800%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.800%) Xen
Systems Management
1 28 (11.20%) HP Quality Center
2 9 (3.600%) Puppet
3 3 (1.200%) BladeLogic
4 2 (0.800%) Nagios
4 2 (0.800%) YUM
Vendors
1 82 (32.80%) Oracle
2 31 (12.40%) JBoss
2 31 (12.40%) HP
2 31 (12.40%) hybris
3 26 (10.40%) Microsoft
4 24 (9.600%) ATG
5 19 (7.600%) Demandware
6 17 (6.800%) IBM
7 16 (6.400%) Sun
8 13 (5.200%) Perforce
9 10 (4.000%) Remedy
10 9 (3.600%) Endeca
11 7 (2.800%) VMware
12 6 (2.400%) Red Hat
13 5 (2.000%) BT
13 5 (2.000%) Google
13 5 (2.000%) Percussion
14 4 (1.600%) Coverity
15 3 (1.200%) Pega
15 3 (1.200%) BEA
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