The first table below looks at the demand for Ant skills in IT jobs advertised for the Stockport region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Ant over the 3 months to 20 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 Stockport region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Ant
Rank 35 33 31
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -2
Permanent jobs citing Ant 7 4 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stockport 3.431% 1.990% 3.371%
As % of the Development Applications category 17.50% 8.889% 17.65%
Number of salaries quoted 7 4 5
Average salary £34,000 £33,750 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+0.74% +12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,000 £32,500 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £36,000 £35,000 £33,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +11.84%
All Development Applications
Stockport
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
40 45 34
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stockport 19.61% 22.39% 19.10%
Number of salaries quoted 40 40 30
Average salary £32,500 £32,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.56% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £29,000 £28,500
10% offered a salary of more than £37,350 £37,500 £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%
Ant
Manchester

Ant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stockport 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 Stockport region.

Stockport Ant Salary Trend

Ant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stockport 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 16 (100.00%) Java
2 14 (87.50%) J2EE
3 12 (75.00%) Finance
4 9 (56.25%) Oracle
4 9 (56.25%) OO
4 9 (56.25%) Eclipse
5 7 (43.75%) MS Excel
5 7 (43.75%) JUnit
5 7 (43.75%) WebLogic
5 7 (43.75%) SOAP
5 7 (43.75%) Web Services
5 7 (43.75%) XML
5 7 (43.75%) UNIX
5 7 (43.75%) Linux
5 7 (43.75%) User Acceptance Testing
5 7 (43.75%) Hudson
5 7 (43.75%) SQL
6 5 (31.25%) OOA/OOD
6 5 (31.25%) JMS
6 5 (31.25%) RDBMS
7 2 (12.50%) JDBC
7 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
7 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
7 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (12.50%) Unit Testing
7 2 (12.50%) Dependency Injection
7 2 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
7 2 (12.50%) Spring
7 2 (12.50%) JNDI
7 2 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001

Ant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stockport 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 14 (87.50%) J2EE
2 7 (43.75%) SOAP
2 7 (43.75%) Web Services
2 7 (43.75%) XML
3 5 (31.25%) JMS
4 2 (12.50%) Hibernate
4 2 (12.50%) Spring
4 2 (12.50%) JNDI
4 2 (12.50%) JDBC
Application Platforms
1 7 (43.75%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (43.75%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) RDBMS
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (56.25%) Eclipse
2 7 (43.75%) Hudson
2 7 (43.75%) JUnit
General
1 12 (75.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Developer
1 9 (56.25%) Java Developer
2 7 (43.75%) Support Engineer
2 7 (43.75%) Applications Support
2 7 (43.75%) Applications Support Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Java/J2EE Developer
3 2 (12.50%) J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 7 (43.75%) UNIX
1 7 (43.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) OO
2 7 (43.75%) User Acceptance Testing
3 5 (31.25%) OOA/OOD
4 2 (12.50%) Unit Testing
4 2 (12.50%) Dependency Injection
4 2 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) Java
2 7 (43.75%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Oracle
Stockport, North West
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