Ant Contract Job Trends in England

Apache Ant
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Ant skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 501 512 570
Rank change year-on-year +11 +58 +136
Contract jobs citing Ant 11 16 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.040% 0.049% 0.048%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.27% 0.36% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 13
10th Percentile £263 £508 -
25th Percentile £404 £613 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £650 £450
Median % change year-on-year -36.13% +44.44% -17.24%
75th Percentile £475 £745 £575
90th Percentile £570 £755 £660
UK median daily rate £433 £574 £450
% change year-on-year -24.60% +27.50% -20.53%

All Development Application Skills
England

Ant falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,137 4,402 5,536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.89% 13.37% 13.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,857 2,829 3,902
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £405 £425 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -3.51%
75th Percentile £603 £631 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 169 229
10th Percentile £44.63 £37.39 £46.18
25th Percentile £54.94 £54.36 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £78.00
90th Percentile £81.50 £73.80 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

Ant
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Ant as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Ant in England

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Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Ant.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Ant

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ant in England over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ant in England

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Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Ant.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Ant

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ant within the England region over the 6 months to 18 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +17 10 £415 -36.14% 2
North West - 1 £550 -
North of England - 1 £550 -
Ant
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) Apache
1 1 (9.09%) JBoss
1 1 (9.09%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (27.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) Azure API Management
3 2 (18.18%) AWS
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Run
4 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
4 1 (9.09%) Firebase
4 1 (9.09%) GCP
4 1 (9.09%) GitHub
4 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (9.09%) Google Gemini
4 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
4 1 (9.09%) Serverless
4 1 (9.09%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) Oracle Database
2 3 (27.27%) Oracle Database 10g
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (9.09%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) JUnit
1 3 (27.27%) SoapUI
1 3 (27.27%) Toad
2 1 (9.09%) Artifactory
2 1 (9.09%) Eclipse
2 1 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) IntelliJ
2 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) Maven
2 1 (9.09%) NUnit
2 1 (9.09%) Snyk
2 1 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (72.73%) Finance
2 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Banking
3 3 (27.27%) Financial Institution
4 2 (18.18%) Billing
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Integration Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Billing Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Data Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Data Entry Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Java Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Linux Scripter
4 1 (9.09%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Murex Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) XML
2 5 (45.45%) Kafka
2 5 (45.45%) Middleware
3 4 (36.36%) IBM Integration Bus
3 4 (36.36%) SOAP
4 3 (27.27%) EDI
5 2 (18.18%) HTML
5 2 (18.18%) REST
5 2 (18.18%) Spring
6 1 (9.09%) Ajax
6 1 (9.09%) CSS3
6 1 (9.09%) Hibernate
6 1 (9.09%) Highcharts JS
6 1 (9.09%) HTML5
6 1 (9.09%) JavaBeans
6 1 (9.09%) JSTL
6 1 (9.09%) OAuth
6 1 (9.09%) OAuth2
6 1 (9.09%) WebSockets
6 1 (9.09%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Credit Risk
2 1 (9.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 1 (9.09%) Market Risk
2 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Linux
1 5 (45.45%) Windows
2 4 (36.36%) AIX
2 4 (36.36%) Unix
3 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) API Management
2 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
2 3 (27.27%) Computer Science
2 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (27.27%) DevOps
2 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (18.18%) Agile
3 2 (18.18%) Change Control
3 2 (18.18%) Data Analysis
3 2 (18.18%) Data Entry
3 2 (18.18%) Data Science
3 2 (18.18%) Project Management
3 2 (18.18%) Secure Coding
3 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
4 1 (9.09%) API Design
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Operations
4 1 (9.09%) Collateral Management
4 1 (9.09%) Microservices
4 1 (9.09%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (9.09%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Java
1 6 (54.55%) SQL
2 4 (36.36%) Korn
2 4 (36.36%) Perl
2 4 (36.36%) PL/SQL
3 3 (27.27%) Shell Script
4 2 (18.18%) C#
4 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
5 1 (9.09%) Bash
5 1 (9.09%) C++
5 1 (9.09%) Groovy
5 1 (9.09%) Python
5 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) SEPA
2 1 (9.09%) Basel II
2 1 (9.09%) Basel III
2 1 (9.09%) GDPR
2 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (9.09%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Ansible
1 1 (9.09%) Control-M
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) Podman
1 1 (9.09%) Puppet
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Oracle
2 4 (36.36%) IBM
3 3 (27.27%) Perforce
4 1 (9.09%) Calypso
4 1 (9.09%) Google
4 1 (9.09%) Murex
4 1 (9.09%) OpenAI