Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Ant skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Ant over the 3 months to 9 September 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Development Applications category.

LinkApache Ant
Location
3 months to
9 Sep 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank231291306
Rank change year-on-year
Up+60Up+15
Matching permanent IT job ads10404621028
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK0.961 %0.679 %0.578 %
As % of the Development Applications category8.300 %6.910 %7.614 %
Salaries quoted856329891
Average salary£47,500£45,000£45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.550 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£32,500£31,050£32,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£70,000£60,000£75,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£37,500£40,000
% change year-on-year
--6.250 %
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryAll Development Applications
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
12530668613502
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK11.57 %9.832 %7.596 %
Salaries quoted10494552111401
Average salary£40,500£38,998£39,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.850 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£30,000£27,500£27,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£62,500£57,500£55,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£35,000£35,000

Ant
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Ant within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Ant Demand Trend

Ant
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Ant within the UK.

Ant Salary Trend

Ant
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Ant over the 3 months to 9 September 2010 within the UK.

Ant Salary Histogram

Ant
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 9 September 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+50995£47,500+5.55 %
LondonUp+25684£52,500+10.52 %
City of LondonDown-24192£55,000+25.00 %
South EastDown-2483£39,500-12.22 %
North WestUp+1975£35,000-22.22 %
CheshireUp+1352£37,500-16.66 %
East of EnglandDown-3447£40,000+14.28 %
South WestUp+1236£36,250-0.68 %
CardiffNew entry-31£37,500-
South WalesNew entry-31£37,500-
WalesNew entry-31£37,500-
CambridgeshireDown-1226£35,000+18.64 %
CambridgeDown-1823£35,000+18.64 %
East MidlandsDown-3522£34,000-28.42 %
SurreyDown-4120£52,500+13.51 %
HertfordshireDown-3519£47,500-13.63 %
YorkshireDown-4719£33,000-5.71 %
West MidlandsDown-618£42,500-19.04 %
BerkshireDown-1618£42,500+13.33 %
West YorkshireDown-2418£33,000-5.71 %
NottinghamDown-115£35,000-26.31 %
NottinghamshireDown-615£35,000-26.31 %
West SussexDown-715£36,500-2.01 %
LeedsDown-2414£27,500-21.42 %
CrawleyNew entry-13£36,500-
BristolUp+1712£36,375+29.91 %
HampshireDown-1411£30,750-25.45 %
ManchesterNew entry-11£29,000-
BournemouthNew entry-10£46,250-
ReadingNew entry-10£42,500-

Ant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 September 2010, IT jobs within the UK 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.

11612 (86.07 %)Java
2815 (43.51 %)J2EE
3805 (42.98 %)Spring
4766 (40.90 %)SQL
5742 (39.62 %)Oracle
6727 (38.81 %)Maven
7706 (37.69 %)JUnit
8693 (37.00 %)Hibernate
9678 (36.20 %)XML
10605 (32.30 %)Subversion
11509 (27.18 %)Linux
12500 (26.70 %)Finance
13493 (26.32 %)UNIX
14483 (25.79 %)Agile Software Development
15475 (25.36 %)JavaScript
16441 (23.55 %)Tomcat
17436 (23.28 %)Apache
18427 (22.80 %)Eclipse
19414 (22.10 %)Web Services
20411 (21.94 %)JSP
21390 (20.82 %)OO
22361 (19.27 %)JDBC
23331 (17.67 %)Struts
24326 (17.41 %)Servlets
25295 (15.75 %)TDD
25295 (15.75 %)Degree
26294 (15.70 %)C++
27290 (15.48 %)Banking
28289 (15.43 %)Scrum
29287 (15.32 %)JMS

Ant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 September 2010, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1815 (43.51 %)J2EE
2805 (42.98 %)Spring
3693 (37.00 %)Hibernate
4678 (36.20 %)XML
5414 (22.10 %)Web Services
6411 (21.94 %)JSP
7361 (19.27 %)JDBC
8331 (17.67 %)Struts
9326 (17.41 %)Servlets
10287 (15.32 %)JMS
11284 (15.16 %)AJAX
12277 (14.79 %)CSS
13274 (14.63 %)HTML
14230 (12.28 %)EJB
15203 (10.84 %)Java EE
16198 (10.57 %)WebSphere
17195 (10.41 %)J2SE
18176 (9.397 %)SOAP
19169 (9.023 %).NET
20149 (7.955 %)XSLT
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1441 (23.55 %)Tomcat
2436 (23.28 %)Apache
3254 (13.56 %)WebLogic
481 (4.325 %)WebSphere Application Server
572 (3.844 %)ESB
666 (3.524 %)GlassFish
746 (2.456 %)CMS
845 (2.403 %)IIS
930 (1.602 %)WebSphere Message Broker
1027 (1.442 %)TIBCO EMS
1126 (1.388 %)Jetty
1225 (1.335 %)SharePoint
1323 (1.228 %)Lightstreamer
1419 (1.014 %)LiveCycle
1517 (0.908 %)Mule
1517 (0.908 %)ActiveMQ
1615 (0.801 %)Confluence
1714 (0.747 %)Rendezvous
1714 (0.747 %)Oracle Application Server
1714 (0.747 %)Liferay
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
129 (1.548 %)MS Excel
220 (1.068 %)Photoshop
317 (0.908 %)MS Visio
415 (0.801 %)MS Office
54 (0.214 %)Fireworks
54 (0.214 %)GIMP
63 (0.160 %)S-PLUS
71 (0.053 %)SPSS
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
129 (1.548 %)Oracle BPM
215 (0.801 %)Oracle EBS
311 (0.587 %)Summit
47 (0.374 %)Oracle Applications
55 (0.267 %)BusinessWorks
64 (0.214 %)Oracle EBS R12
73 (0.160 %)TIBCO iProcess
73 (0.160 %)ADP Wilco Gloss
73 (0.160 %)SAP CRM
73 (0.160 %)Global One
81 (0.053 %)ION MarketView
81 (0.053 %)Bloomberg TOMS
81 (0.053 %)Enfinity
81 (0.053 %)Oracle 11i
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1138 (7.368 %)Internet
2112 (5.980 %)HTTP
349 (2.616 %)TCP/IP
446 (2.456 %)LDAP
517 (0.908 %)SSL
616 (0.854 %)DNS
715 (0.801 %)Broadband
813 (0.694 %)Intranet
912 (0.641 %)FTP
1010 (0.534 %)SNMP
1010 (0.534 %)SMTP
119 (0.481 %)VoIP
119 (0.481 %)HTTPS
128 (0.427 %)Firewall
137 (0.374 %)DHCP
146 (0.320 %)SSH
155 (0.267 %)NAS
155 (0.267 %)Ethernet
164 (0.214 %)SAN
164 (0.214 %)LAN
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1210 (11.21 %)SQL Server
2175 (9.343 %)MySQL
3160 (8.542 %)RDBMS
457 (3.043 %)PostgreSQL
552 (2.776 %)Oracle 8/8i
648 (2.563 %)DB2
747 (2.509 %)Oracle 9i
846 (2.456 %)Oracle 10g
928 (1.495 %)Oracle 11g
1027 (1.442 %)Reference Data
1027 (1.442 %)TOAD
1122 (1.175 %)SQL Server 2008
1212 (0.641 %)GIS
1311 (0.587 %)SQL Server 2005
1410 (0.534 %)JasperReports
159 (0.481 %)Data Cleansing
167 (0.374 %)SQL Server 2000
176 (0.320 %)Oracle Reports
176 (0.320 %)SQLite
185 (0.267 %)KDB
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1727 (38.81 %)Maven
2706 (37.69 %)JUnit
3605 (32.30 %)Subversion
4427 (22.80 %)Eclipse
5141 (7.528 %)JIRA
675 (4.004 %)Git (software)
767 (3.577 %)TeamCity
767 (3.577 %)ClearCase
856 (2.990 %)CruiseControl
949 (2.616 %)NUnit
1048 (2.563 %)Visual Studio
1146 (2.456 %)IntelliJ
1245 (2.403 %)Selenium
1342 (2.242 %)VSS/SourceSafe
1425 (1.335 %)AnthillPro
1425 (1.335 %)QuickTest Pro
1523 (1.228 %)JMeter
1523 (1.228 %)PVCS
1523 (1.228 %)Atlassian Bamboo
1622 (1.175 %)Team Foundation Server
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1500 (26.70 %)Finance
2290 (15.48 %)Banking
3151 (8.062 %)Pensions
4143 (7.635 %)Investment Banking
5137 (7.314 %)Front Office
683 (4.431 %)Health
781 (4.325 %)Government
874 (3.951 %)Insurance
964 (3.417 %)Telecoms
1063 (3.364 %)Education
1063 (3.364 %)Games
1144 (2.349 %)Financial Institution
1242 (2.242 %)Online Games
1340 (2.136 %)Back Office
1340 (2.136 %)Publishing
1425 (1.335 %)Marketing
1425 (1.335 %)Retail
1522 (1.175 %)Social Media
1618 (0.961 %)Online Betting
1717 (0.908 %)Music
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
11244 (66.42 %)Developer
2940 (50.19 %)Java Developer
3325 (17.35 %)Senior Developer
4244 (13.03 %)Senior Java Developer
5187 (9.984 %)Java/J2EE Developer
6172 (9.183 %)J2EE Developer
7123 (6.567 %)Software Engineer
878 (4.164 %)Web Developer
971 (3.791 %)Designer
1070 (3.737 %)Analyst
1167 (3.577 %)Software Developer
1261 (3.257 %)Build Manager
1356 (2.990 %)Applications Developer
1455 (2.936 %)Senior J2EE Developer
1553 (2.830 %)Programmer
1553 (2.830 %)Architect
1652 (2.776 %)Team Leader
1652 (2.776 %)Senior Java/J2EE Developer
1747 (2.509 %)Java Web Developer
1842 (2.242 %)Administrator
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1180 (9.610 %)Computer Science
2179 (9.557 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
3167 (8.916 %)Derivative
4135 (7.208 %)Client/Server
5126 (6.727 %)Open Source
6104 (5.553 %)Multithreading
797 (5.179 %)Fixed Income
883 (4.431 %)Mathematics
948 (2.563 %)Equities
1045 (2.403 %)iPhone
1144 (2.349 %)Hedge funds
1235 (1.869 %)Equity Derivative
1333 (1.762 %)Web 2.0
1432 (1.708 %)Social Network
1432 (1.708 %)Amazon AWS
1531 (1.655 %)Clustering
1627 (1.442 %)Spread Betting
1725 (1.335 %)Grid Computing
1821 (1.121 %)Credit Derivative
1918 (0.961 %)Handset
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1509 (27.18 %)Linux
2493 (26.32 %)UNIX
3279 (14.90 %)Windows
4155 (8.275 %)Solaris
573 (3.897 %)Red Hat Linux
650 (2.670 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
735 (1.869 %)Android
825 (1.335 %)HPUX
921 (1.121 %)Windows XP
921 (1.121 %)Windows Server 2003
1019 (1.014 %)Windows Mobile
1114 (0.747 %)Windows 2000
1212 (0.641 %)SUSE
1310 (0.534 %)AIX
1310 (0.534 %)Fedora
1310 (0.534 %)Windows Server 2008
149 (0.481 %)Windows 2000 Server
149 (0.481 %)OpenSolaris
149 (0.481 %)Embedded Linux
149 (0.481 %)FreeBSD
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1483 (25.79 %)Agile Software Development
2390 (20.82 %)OO
3295 (15.75 %)TDD
4289 (15.43 %)Scrum
5287 (15.32 %)Continuous Integration
6285 (15.22 %)UML
7248 (13.24 %)Unit Testing
8216 (11.53 %)MVC
9198 (10.57 %)E-Commerce
10179 (9.557 %)SOA
11104 (5.553 %)Configuration Management
1298 (5.232 %)Web Development
1394 (5.019 %)OOD
1473 (3.897 %)Release Management
1572 (3.844 %)Software Engineering
1668 (3.631 %)AOP
1765 (3.470 %)Project Management
1854 (2.883 %)Pair Programming
1854 (2.883 %)Automated Testing
1951 (2.723 %)RUP
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11612 (86.07 %)Java
2766 (40.90 %)SQL
3475 (25.36 %)JavaScript
4294 (15.70 %)C++
5267 (14.26 %)Perl
6198 (10.57 %)Python
7185 (9.877 %)C
8183 (9.770 %)Shell Script
9158 (8.436 %)C#
10153 (8.169 %)PL/SQL
11106 (5.659 %)PHP
12102 (5.446 %)Ruby
1366 (3.524 %)Bash shell
1445 (2.403 %)ActionScript
1544 (2.349 %)VB
1640 (2.136 %)Groovy
1731 (1.655 %)Erlang
1822 (1.175 %)Jython
1919 (1.014 %)T-SQL
2018 (0.961 %)BeanShell
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1295 (15.75 %)Degree
296 (5.125 %)Security Cleared
343 (2.296 %)SC Cleared
432 (1.708 %)DV Cleared
520 (1.068 %)Sun Certification
69 (0.481 %)SCJA
69 (0.481 %)SCJP
69 (0.481 %)PhD
78 (0.427 %)ISEB
87 (0.374 %)Postgraduate
95 (0.267 %)ITIL Certification
103 (0.160 %)MCP
103 (0.160 %)MCSE
103 (0.160 %)CISSP
103 (0.160 %)Microsoft Certification
112 (0.107 %)PMP
112 (0.107 %)PMI Certification
112 (0.107 %)IBM Certification
112 (0.107 %)BC Cleared
121 (0.053 %)GIAC
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1107 (5.713 %)QA
215 (0.801 %)SLA
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
130 (1.602 %)VMware Infrastructure
210 (0.534 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
39 (0.481 %)Terminal Services
48 (0.427 %)Xen
57 (0.374 %)Oracle RAC
65 (0.267 %)Squid
65 (0.267 %)Active Directory
72 (0.107 %)NFS
72 (0.107 %)VMware ESX
72 (0.107 %)Varnish
81 (0.053 %)vSphere
81 (0.053 %)Novell eDirectory
81 (0.053 %)Terminal Server
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
120 (1.068 %)MOM
120 (1.068 %)MSI
214 (0.747 %)Tivoli
313 (0.694 %)Nagios
412 (0.641 %)HP Quality Center
57 (0.374 %)AutoSys
65 (0.267 %)Puppet
74 (0.214 %)Zenoss
83 (0.160 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
92 (0.107 %)BMC PATROL
92 (0.107 %)Norton AntiVirus
92 (0.107 %)Sun Identity Manager
101 (0.053 %)SolarWinds Orion
101 (0.053 %)YUM
101 (0.053 %)SCCM
101 (0.053 %)SCOM
101 (0.053 %)NetBackup
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1742 (39.62 %)Oracle
2229 (12.23 %)JBoss
3186 (9.931 %)Perforce
4119 (6.353 %)Sybase
574 (3.951 %)IBM
669 (3.684 %)Microsoft
764 (3.417 %)Google
860 (3.203 %)TIBCO
948 (2.563 %)Sun
1045 (2.403 %)Red Hat
1143 (2.296 %)Adobe
1232 (1.708 %)HP
1331 (1.655 %)VMware
1426 (1.388 %)BEA
1525 (1.335 %)Terracotta
1525 (1.335 %)Calypso
1525 (1.335 %)Citrix
1620 (1.068 %)FatWire
1716 (0.854 %)BroadVision
1814 (0.747 %)Atos Origin