Ant Contracts in England

Apache Ant
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Ant skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ant over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 475 542 611
Rank change year-on-year +67 +69 +135
Contract jobs citing Ant 19 11 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.074% 0.029% 0.049%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.52% 0.24% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 8 14
10th Percentile £325 £425 £410
25th Percentile £412 £455 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £574 £486
Median % change year-on-year -12.85% +17.99% -4.66%
75th Percentile £690 £674 £653
90th Percentile £738 £747 £745
UK median daily rate £550 £574 £473
% change year-on-year -4.14% +21.43% -7.35%

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 3,662 4,541 6,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.17% 12.17% 14.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,498 3,046 4,733
10th Percentile £335 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £675
90th Percentile £706 £725 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 233 202
10th Percentile £28.27 £33.01 £48.20
25th Percentile £50.00 £52.50 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.84% +18.10%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +18.84%

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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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ant in England.

Daily rate trend for Ant in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ant in England over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ant in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ant in England.

Hourly rate trend for Ant in England

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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 2 July 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 +45 16 £540 -13.60% 70
South West +38 1 £400 - 4
West Midlands +10 1 - - 6
Midlands +6 1 - - 6
North West - 1 £550 -
North of England - 1 £550 - 1
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 2 (10.53%) Apache
1 2 (10.53%) JBoss
1 2 (10.53%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (15.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 6 (31.58%) Azure
2 4 (21.05%) AWS
2 4 (21.05%) Azure API Management
3 3 (15.79%) npm
3 3 (15.79%) Yarn
4 2 (10.53%) OpenShift
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.26%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (5.26%) Serverless
5 1 (5.26%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (21.05%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) Oracle Database
2 4 (21.05%) MongoDB
3 3 (15.79%) Data Mart
3 3 (15.79%) NoSQL
3 3 (15.79%) Oracle Database 10g
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.26%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Jenkins
2 4 (21.05%) JUnit
3 3 (15.79%) Babel
3 3 (15.79%) Git
3 3 (15.79%) Maven
3 3 (15.79%) SoapUI
3 3 (15.79%) TeamCity
3 3 (15.79%) Toad
3 3 (15.79%) webpack
4 2 (10.53%) Artifactory
4 2 (10.53%) JIRA
4 2 (10.53%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (5.26%) Cucumber
5 1 (5.26%) Eclipse
5 1 (5.26%) Gradle
5 1 (5.26%) IntelliJ
5 1 (5.26%) Mockito
5 1 (5.26%) NUnit
General
1 15 (78.95%) Finance
2 7 (36.84%) Banking
3 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
4 4 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (21.05%) Financial Institution
5 3 (15.79%) Billing
6 1 (5.26%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 12 (63.16%) Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Integration Developer
2 4 (21.05%) React Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Consultant
3 3 (15.79%) Java Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Murex Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (10.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Billing Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Data Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Data Entry Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 2 (10.53%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 2 (10.53%) Risk Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) Senior
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (31.58%) Kafka
1 6 (31.58%) Middleware
1 6 (31.58%) XML
2 5 (26.32%) .NET
2 5 (26.32%) HTML
2 5 (26.32%) SOAP
3 4 (21.05%) CSS
3 4 (21.05%) IBM Integration Bus
3 4 (21.05%) Material-UI
3 4 (21.05%) React
3 4 (21.05%) Redux
3 4 (21.05%) RESTful
3 4 (21.05%) Semantic UI
3 4 (21.05%) Web Services
4 3 (15.79%) CSS3
4 3 (15.79%) EDI
4 3 (15.79%) HTML5
4 3 (15.79%) Spring
4 3 (15.79%) WPF
5 2 (10.53%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Credit Risk
1 3 (15.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 3 (15.79%) Market Risk
1 3 (15.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 2 (10.53%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.26%) Algorithms
3 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.26%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 7 (36.84%) Linux
2 5 (26.32%) Windows
3 4 (21.05%) AIX
3 4 (21.05%) Unix
4 2 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) CI/CD
2 5 (26.32%) Microservices
2 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (21.05%) API Management
3 4 (21.05%) Computer Science
3 4 (21.05%) DevOps
3 4 (21.05%) User Experience
4 3 (15.79%) Asynchronous Programming
4 3 (15.79%) Collateral Management
4 3 (15.79%) Continuous Delivery
4 3 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (15.79%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (15.79%) Functional Programming
4 3 (15.79%) Scenario Testing
4 3 (15.79%) UX Design
4 3 (15.79%) Wireframes
5 2 (10.53%) Fintech
5 2 (10.53%) Front End Development
5 2 (10.53%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (68.42%) SQL
2 7 (36.84%) Java
3 6 (31.58%) C#
3 6 (31.58%) JavaScript
3 6 (31.58%) Shell Script
4 4 (21.05%) Korn
4 4 (21.05%) Perl
4 4 (21.05%) PL/SQL
4 4 (21.05%) TypeScript
5 3 (15.79%) Python
6 2 (10.53%) Bash
6 2 (10.53%) Groovy
7 1 (5.26%) Apex Code
7 1 (5.26%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) Basel II
1 3 (15.79%) Basel III
1 3 (15.79%) SEPA
2 1 (5.26%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Control-M
2 2 (10.53%) Ansible
2 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.53%) Podman
2 2 (10.53%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (36.84%) Oracle
2 4 (21.05%) IBM
3 3 (15.79%) Calypso
3 3 (15.79%) Murex
3 3 (15.79%) Perforce
4 1 (5.26%) Pardot
4 1 (5.26%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.26%) Sybase