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 21 May 2012 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.

Apache Ant
Location
3 months to
21 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank259302268
Rank change year-on-year
Up+43Down-34
Matching permanent IT job ads1176938756
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK0.970 %0.769 %0.794 %
As % of the Development Applications category6.831 %5.986 %7.377 %
Number of salaries quoted942783601
Average salary£45,000£45,000£45,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£32,500£34,500£28,600
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£72,500£70,000
UK excluding London average salary£42,500£38,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+11.84 %+8.57 %
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryAll Development Applications
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
172151566910248
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK14.20 %12.84 %10.76 %
Number of salaries quoted15107137538595
Average salary£42,500£40,000£40,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25 %-1.23 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£30,000£30,000£28,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£61,500£65,000£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£38,000£37,398£35,375
% change year-on-year
+1.60 %+5.71 %

Ant
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total 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 21 May 2012 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 21 May 2012. 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+601128£47,500-
LondonDown-7551£52,500-4.54 %
South EastUp+74238£45,000+12.50 %
East of EnglandUp+69119£42,500+6.25 %
City of LondonDown-17109£52,500-4.54 %
North WestNo change085£36,000-2.70 %
HertfordshireUp+7371£52,500+23.52 %
South WestUp+1065£40,000+6.66 %
SurreyUp+2454£45,000+13.20 %
HampshireUp+1754£45,000+14.64 %
West SussexUp+2742£50,000+36.98 %
BerkshireDown-642£37,500-
West MidlandsUp+1340£43,750+2.94 %
WatfordUp+3539--
ReadingUp+1136£37,500-1.96 %
CrawleyUp+1234£50,000+36.98 %
CheshireDown-2031£39,250+1.94 %
BuckinghamshireUp+4130£50,000+112.76 %
MerseysideUp+1429£45,000+5.88 %
LiverpoolUp+1329£45,000+5.88 %
EssexDown-328£42,500+6.25 %
Milton KeynesNew entry-27£50,000-
BristolUp+226£38,500+0.65 %
North EastUp+1522£35,000+75.00 %
GuildfordNo change021£45,000+13.92 %
BasingstokeDown-121£45,000+4.65 %
ManchesterDown-921£32,500-7.14 %
Tyne and WearUp+2320--
Newcastle upon TyneUp+1520--
ScotlandUp+420£37,500+7.14 %

Ant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, 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.

11944 (89.26 %)Java
21034 (47.47 %)Maven
31015 (46.60 %)Spring
4889 (40.82 %)Oracle
5885 (40.63 %)J2EE
6869 (39.90 %)SQL
7855 (39.26 %)Subversion
8763 (35.03 %)JavaScript
9744 (34.16 %)JUnit
10742 (34.07 %)XML
11704 (32.32 %)Hibernate
12679 (31.18 %)Eclipse
13601 (27.59 %)Agile Software Development
14582 (26.72 %)UNIX
15552 (25.34 %)OO
16544 (24.98 %)Linux
17522 (23.97 %)HTML
18519 (23.83 %)Tomcat
19517 (23.74 %)JSP
20495 (22.73 %)CSS
21484 (22.22 %)Web Services
22479 (21.99 %)Finance
23464 (21.30 %)Ajax
24462 (21.21 %)Apache
25458 (21.03 %)UML
26434 (19.93 %)TDD
27429 (19.70 %)JDBC
27429 (19.70 %)Struts
28419 (19.24 %)Degree
29416 (19.10 %)Continuous Integration

Ant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, 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
11015 (46.60 %)Spring
2885 (40.63 %)J2EE
3742 (34.07 %)XML
4704 (32.32 %)Hibernate
5522 (23.97 %)HTML
6517 (23.74 %)JSP
7495 (22.73 %)CSS
8484 (22.22 %)Web Services
9464 (21.30 %)Ajax
10429 (19.70 %)JDBC
10429 (19.70 %)Struts
11373 (17.13 %)Servlets
12364 (16.71 %)JMS
13358 (16.44 %)Java EE
14281 (12.90 %)EJB
15270 (12.40 %)XSLT
16263 (12.08 %)WebSphere
17255 (11.71 %)jQuery
17255 (11.71 %)SOAP
18243 (11.16 %).NET
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1519 (23.83 %)Tomcat
2462 (21.21 %)Apache
3351 (16.12 %)WebLogic
4126 (5.785 %)WebSphere Application Server
594 (4.316 %)CMS
682 (3.765 %)GlassFish
758 (2.663 %)ESB
852 (2.388 %)WebSphere MQ
945 (2.066 %)MQSeries
1044 (2.020 %)Apache Solr
1134 (1.561 %)JRun
1231 (1.423 %)Jetty
1328 (1.286 %)Oracle Coherence
1427 (1.240 %)Alfresco
1525 (1.148 %)IIS
1617 (0.781 %)Oracle Workflow
1716 (0.735 %)WebLogic Portal
1716 (0.735 %)WebSphere Process Server
1812 (0.551 %)Confluence
1812 (0.551 %)WebSphere Message Broker
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
154 (2.479 %)MS Visio
244 (2.020 %)MS Excel
329 (1.331 %)MATLAB
422 (1.010 %)Photoshop
517 (0.781 %)MS Office
615 (0.689 %)Mingle
710 (0.459 %)MS Project
710 (0.459 %)Adobe Illustrator
710 (0.459 %)Windchill
84 (0.184 %)Fireworks
93 (0.138 %)Doxygen
102 (0.092 %)Spreadsheet
111 (0.046 %)CATIA
111 (0.046 %)FrameMaker
111 (0.046 %)RoboHelp
111 (0.046 %)Acrobat
111 (0.046 %)MS PowerPoint
111 (0.046 %)GIMP
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
110 (0.459 %)Oracle BPM
110 (0.459 %)Tridion
24 (0.184 %)Google Analytics
24 (0.184 %)BusinessWorks
24 (0.184 %)WebTrends
33 (0.138 %)Dynamics CRM
33 (0.138 %)Dynamics AX
42 (0.092 %)Oracle 11i
42 (0.092 %)Oracle EBS
42 (0.092 %)Oracle ERP
51 (0.046 %)RMDS
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1213 (9.780 %)Internet
2164 (7.530 %)HTTP
363 (2.893 %)TCP/IP
452 (2.388 %)LDAP
536 (1.653 %)SSL
626 (1.194 %)Intranet
724 (1.102 %)AMQP
820 (0.918 %)FTP
917 (0.781 %)VoIP
1014 (0.643 %)Firewall
1113 (0.597 %)HTTPS
1210 (0.459 %)VPN
137 (0.321 %)Broadband
146 (0.275 %)ADSL
146 (0.275 %)SSH
155 (0.230 %)DNS
155 (0.230 %)LAN
164 (0.184 %)SMTP
173 (0.138 %)Wireless
173 (0.138 %)TELNET
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1330 (15.15 %)MySQL
2236 (10.84 %)SQL Server
3183 (8.402 %)RDBMS
471 (3.260 %)DB2
545 (2.066 %)Oracle 8/8i
640 (1.837 %)PostgreSQL
733 (1.515 %)Oracle 10g
829 (1.331 %)Oracle 11g
928 (1.286 %)NoSQL
928 (1.286 %)GIS
1021 (0.964 %)TOAD
1021 (0.964 %)MongoDB
1118 (0.826 %)KDB
1217 (0.781 %)SQLPlus
1217 (0.781 %)Hadoop
1315 (0.689 %)SQL Server 2008
1414 (0.643 %)SQL Server Integration Services
1513 (0.597 %)Oracle Reports
1513 (0.597 %)Oracle 9i
1611 (0.505 %)SQL Server 2005
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
11034 (47.47 %)Maven
2855 (39.26 %)Subversion
3744 (34.16 %)JUnit
4679 (31.18 %)Eclipse
5332 (15.24 %)Hudson
6231 (10.61 %)Git (software)
7130 (5.969 %)Selenium
8101 (4.637 %)TeamCity
999 (4.545 %)ClearCase
999 (4.545 %)CruiseControl
1098 (4.500 %)Bugzilla
1194 (4.316 %)JIRA
1283 (3.811 %)IntelliJ
1369 (3.168 %)VSS/SourceSafe
1468 (3.122 %)Visual Studio
1468 (3.122 %)Mercurial
1551 (2.342 %)Team Foundation Server
1644 (2.020 %)MSBuild
1644 (2.020 %)jMock
1742 (1.928 %)Atlassian Bamboo
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1479 (21.99 %)Finance
2234 (10.74 %)Banking
3152 (6.979 %)Telecoms
4120 (5.510 %)Games
5115 (5.280 %)Investment Banking
6104 (4.775 %)Marketing
765 (2.984 %)Retail
856 (2.571 %)Publishing
935 (1.607 %)Advertising
1034 (1.561 %)Financial Institution
1133 (1.515 %)Front Office
1219 (0.872 %)Multimedia
1316 (0.735 %)Electronics
1316 (0.735 %)Automotive
1414 (0.643 %)Military
1513 (0.597 %)Legal
1612 (0.551 %)Back Office
1711 (0.505 %)Billing
187 (0.321 %)Pharmaceutical
187 (0.321 %)Music
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
11517 (69.65 %)Developer
21189 (54.59 %)Java Developer
3385 (17.68 %)Senior Developer
4287 (13.18 %)Senior Java Developer
5257 (11.80 %)Java/J2EE Developer
6167 (7.668 %)J2EE Developer
7118 (5.418 %)Architect
8112 (5.142 %)Analyst
9102 (4.683 %)Software Developer
1097 (4.454 %)Web Developer
1177 (3.535 %)Java Swing Developer
1273 (3.352 %)Software Engineer
1370 (3.214 %)Programmer
1461 (2.801 %)Senior J2EE Developer
1555 (2.525 %)Lead Developer
1654 (2.479 %)Java Programmer
1654 (2.479 %)Build Manager
1751 (2.342 %)Java Web Developer
1848 (2.204 %)Java Software Developer
1947 (2.158 %)Applications Support
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1214 (9.826 %)Computer Science
2189 (8.678 %)Open Source
3101 (4.637 %)Mathematics
490 (4.132 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
574 (3.398 %)Derivative
669 (3.168 %)Social Media
764 (2.938 %)Embedded Systems
862 (2.847 %)Client/Server
960 (2.755 %)Online Games
1057 (2.617 %)N-Tier
1153 (2.433 %)Equities
1249 (2.250 %)Visualisation
1346 (2.112 %)Management Information System
1441 (1.882 %)Equity Derivative
1538 (1.745 %)Inversion of Control
1637 (1.699 %)Physics
1735 (1.607 %)Hedge funds
1830 (1.377 %)SWIFT
1929 (1.331 %)Fixed Income
1929 (1.331 %)Web 2.0
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1582 (26.72 %)UNIX
2544 (24.98 %)Linux
3371 (17.03 %)Windows
4156 (7.163 %)Solaris
560 (2.755 %)Android
647 (2.158 %)CentOS
740 (1.837 %)Apple iOS
839 (1.791 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
929 (1.331 %)LynxOS
929 (1.331 %)VxWorks
1027 (1.240 %)AIX
1121 (0.964 %)HPUX
1121 (0.964 %)Windows Server 2008
1213 (0.597 %)Windows Mobile
139 (0.413 %)Debian
145 (0.230 %)BlackBerry OS
152 (0.092 %)Windows Server 2003
152 (0.092 %)zOS
161 (0.046 %)Fedora
161 (0.046 %)MVS
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1601 (27.59 %)Agile Software Development
2552 (25.34 %)OO
3458 (21.03 %)UML
4434 (19.93 %)TDD
5416 (19.10 %)Continuous Integration
6312 (14.33 %)E-Commerce
7308 (14.14 %)MVC
8268 (12.30 %)Scrum
9246 (11.29 %)Unit Testing
10242 (11.11 %)SOA
11223 (10.24 %)Multithreading
12206 (9.458 %)Web Development
13180 (8.264 %)RUP
1494 (4.316 %)OOP
1494 (4.316 %)OOD
1591 (4.178 %)Automated Testing
1680 (3.673 %)Project Management
1778 (3.581 %)Waterfall
1870 (3.214 %)Dependency Injection
1967 (3.076 %)Software Engineering
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11944 (89.26 %)Java
2869 (39.90 %)SQL
3763 (35.03 %)JavaScript
4300 (13.77 %)Perl
5233 (10.70 %)C++
6228 (10.47 %)C#
7208 (9.550 %)Python
8170 (7.805 %)PL/SQL
9161 (7.392 %)Ruby
10138 (6.336 %)Shell Script
11127 (5.831 %)PHP
1298 (4.500 %)C
1385 (3.903 %)Bash shell
1473 (3.352 %)ActionScript
1554 (2.479 %)XPath
1651 (2.342 %)ActionScript 3.0
1749 (2.250 %)PowerShell
1840 (1.837 %)Groovy
1935 (1.607 %)VB.NET
2030 (1.377 %)VB
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1419 (19.24 %)Degree
2124 (5.693 %)Security Cleared
379 (3.627 %)SC Cleared
443 (1.974 %)Sun Certification
535 (1.607 %)DV Cleared
614 (0.643 %)ISTQB
713 (0.597 %)ISEB
85 (0.230 %)Microsoft Certification
94 (0.184 %)NVQ Level 3
94 (0.184 %)MCP
103 (0.138 %)CISA
103 (0.138 %)PRINCE2 Certification
103 (0.138 %)CISSP
103 (0.138 %)MCSE
112 (0.092 %)SCJA
112 (0.092 %)HND
112 (0.092 %)PhD
112 (0.092 %)SCJP
121 (0.046 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
121 (0.046 %)SCJD
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1158 (7.254 %)QA
237 (1.699 %)SLA
323 (1.056 %)DO-178B
410 (0.459 %)ISO 9001
57 (0.321 %)TickIT
63 (0.138 %)COBIT
72 (0.092 %)BS15000
81 (0.046 %)Dublin Core
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
119 (0.872 %)VMware Infrastructure
214 (0.643 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
39 (0.413 %)Varnish
48 (0.367 %)Squid
57 (0.321 %)XenServer
65 (0.230 %)Terminal Services
73 (0.138 %)Oracle RAC
82 (0.092 %)Hyper-V
91 (0.046 %)Active Directory
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
139 (1.791 %)HP Quality Center
225 (1.148 %)Nagios
318 (0.826 %)Puppet
414 (0.643 %)Tivoli
58 (0.367 %)ZABBIX
64 (0.184 %)Control-M
73 (0.138 %)BladeLogic
82 (0.092 %)Data Guard
91 (0.046 %)MOM
91 (0.046 %)Cacti
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1889 (40.82 %)Oracle
2402 (18.46 %)JBoss
3145 (6.657 %)IBM
4103 (4.729 %)Red Hat
597 (4.454 %)Sun
684 (3.857 %)Perforce
768 (3.122 %)BEA
856 (2.571 %)Sybase
954 (2.479 %)FatWire
1052 (2.388 %)HP
1052 (2.388 %)BroadVision
1151 (2.342 %)hybris
1250 (2.296 %)Google
1349 (2.250 %)Microsoft
1444 (2.020 %)Zend
1542 (1.928 %)TIBCO
1638 (1.745 %)ATG
1730 (1.377 %)Terracotta
1829 (1.331 %)Endeca
1928 (1.286 %)VMware