The first table below looks at the demand for Ant skills in IT jobs advertised for the Staffordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Ant over the 3 months to 17 June 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 Staffordshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Ant
Rank - 52 59
Permanent jobs citing Ant 0 16 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staffordshire - 2.636% 0.354%
As % of the Development Applications category - 14.41% 4.255%
Number of salaries quoted 0 4 2
Average salary - £40,000 £32,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +25.00%
UK excluding London average salary £41,000 £42,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-3.52% +13.33%
All Development Applications
Staffordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
65 111 47
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staffordshire 10.16% 18.29% 8.319%
Number of salaries quoted 62 86 46
Average salary £35,000 £40,000 £34,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.50% +15.94%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,500 £32,500 £27,125
10% offered a salary of more than £43,250 £42,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
Ant
West Midlands

Ant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire Ant Salary Trend

Ant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire 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 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) Python
1 5 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 5 (100.00%) CruiseControl
1 5 (100.00%) JIRA
1 5 (100.00%) Maven
1 5 (100.00%) Ruby
1 5 (100.00%) AccuRev
1 5 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 5 (100.00%) Hudson
1 5 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (60.00%) Change Control
2 3 (60.00%) Mercurial
2 3 (60.00%) Remedy
2 3 (60.00%) Git (software)
2 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (60.00%) Subversion
2 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (60.00%) C#
2 3 (60.00%) T-SQL
2 3 (60.00%) VB.NET
3 2 (40.00%) E-Commerce
3 2 (40.00%) Change Management
3 2 (40.00%) TeamCity
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (20.00%) Degree
4 1 (20.00%) Bugzilla
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft

Ant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire 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 5 (100.00%) .NET
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) CruiseControl
1 5 (100.00%) Maven
1 5 (100.00%) JIRA
1 5 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 5 (100.00%) Hudson
1 5 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (60.00%) Mercurial
2 3 (60.00%) Git (software)
2 3 (60.00%) Subversion
3 2 (40.00%) TeamCity
4 1 (20.00%) Bugzilla
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Release Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Software Manager
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Release Manager
2 2 (40.00%) Build Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (60.00%) Change Control
3 2 (40.00%) Change Management
3 2 (40.00%) E-Commerce
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
1 5 (100.00%) Ruby
2 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (60.00%) C#
2 3 (60.00%) T-SQL
2 3 (60.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) AccuRev
2 3 (60.00%) Remedy
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft