The first table below looks at the demand for Ant skills in IT jobs advertised for the Watford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Ant over the 3 months to 23 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 Watford region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Ant
Rank 42 23 63
Rank change year-on-year
-19 +40
Permanent jobs citing Ant 4 41 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 1.394% 11.71% 0.887%
As % of the Development Applications category 10.26% 44.09% 3.636%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 2
Average salary - - £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +11.84%
All Development Applications
Watford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
39 93 110
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 13.59% 26.57% 24.39%
Number of salaries quoted 31 37 85
Average salary £36,250 £40,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-9.37% -11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £28,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £56,250 £61,500 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%
Ant
Hertfordshire

Ant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Watford 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 Watford region.

Watford Ant Salary Trend

Ant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Watford 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 14 (100.00%) Java
1 14 (100.00%) Linux
1 14 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 14 (100.00%) HTTP
2 13 (92.86%) IBM
2 13 (92.86%) Finance
2 13 (92.86%) Games
2 13 (92.86%) Apache
2 13 (92.86%) SQL
2 13 (92.86%) Windows
2 13 (92.86%) AIX
2 13 (92.86%) J2EE
2 13 (92.86%) Oracle
2 13 (92.86%) DB2
2 13 (92.86%) WebSphere Application Server
2 13 (92.86%) WebSphere
2 13 (92.86%) Retail
2 13 (92.86%) Subversion
2 13 (92.86%) Jenkins
3 12 (85.71%) IIS
3 12 (85.71%) .NET
3 12 (85.71%) IBM HTTP Server
3 12 (85.71%) Firewall
3 12 (85.71%) UNIX
3 12 (85.71%) MQSeries
4 2 (14.29%) Internet
4 2 (14.29%) Perl
5 1 (7.143%) HTML
5 1 (7.143%) JavaScript
5 1 (7.143%) SOAP

Ant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Watford 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 13 (92.86%) J2EE
1 13 (92.86%) WebSphere
2 12 (85.71%) .NET
3 1 (7.143%) HTML
3 1 (7.143%) SOAP
3 1 (7.143%) Web Services
3 1 (7.143%) REST
3 1 (7.143%) Apache CXF
Application Platforms
1 13 (92.86%) Apache
1 13 (92.86%) WebSphere Application Server
2 12 (85.71%) IIS
2 12 (85.71%) IBM HTTP Server
2 12 (85.71%) MQSeries
3 1 (7.143%) Tomcat
3 1 (7.143%) Apache Solr
Communications & Networking
1 14 (100.00%) HTTP
2 12 (85.71%) Firewall
3 2 (14.29%) Internet
4 1 (7.143%) DNS
4 1 (7.143%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (92.86%) DB2
Development Applications
1 13 (92.86%) Subversion
1 13 (92.86%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.143%) Maven
2 1 (7.143%) Git (software)
General
1 13 (92.86%) Finance
1 13 (92.86%) Games
1 13 (92.86%) Retail
2 1 (7.143%) Interactive Media
Job Titles
1 13 (92.86%) Architect
2 12 (85.71%) Infrastructure Architect
3 8 (57.14%) Senior Architect
3 8 (57.14%) Senior Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (7.143%) DevOps Engineer
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) Linux
2 13 (92.86%) Windows
2 13 (92.86%) AIX
3 12 (85.71%) UNIX
4 1 (7.143%) Fedora
4 1 (7.143%) VMS
4 1 (7.143%) CentOS
4 1 (7.143%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (7.143%) Configuration Management
2 1 (7.143%) High Availability
2 1 (7.143%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (7.143%) Release Management
2 1 (7.143%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) Java
2 13 (92.86%) SQL
3 2 (14.29%) Perl
4 1 (7.143%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.143%) Python
4 1 (7.143%) Shell Script
4 1 (7.143%) AWK
4 1 (7.143%) Bash shell
System Software
1 1 (7.143%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1 (7.143%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (92.86%) IBM
1 13 (92.86%) Oracle
2 1 (7.143%) JBoss
2 1 (7.143%) Sun
2 1 (7.143%) Red Hat
2 1 (7.143%) Endeca