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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 524 490 560
Rank change year-on-year -34 +70 +146
Contract jobs citing Ant 7 27 19
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.024% 0.087% 0.047%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.16% 0.65% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 18 14
10th Percentile £415 £400 -
25th Percentile £415 £424 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £536 £450
Median % change year-on-year -16.08% +19.17% -21.74%
75th Percentile £550 £650 £552
90th Percentile £610 £700 £600
UK median daily rate £450 £448 £425
% change year-on-year +0.56% +5.29% -26.98%

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 4,504 4,148 5,188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.46% 13.30% 12.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,127 2,613 3,685
10th Percentile £325 £350 £375
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £545
% change year-on-year -3.85% -4.59% -2.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 138 227
10th Percentile £36.23 £37.55 £45.88
25th Percentile £50.00 £52.88 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £77.75 £74.13 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

Ant
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Ant relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Ant job vacancy trend in England

Ant
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

Ant
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ant in England over the 6 months to 31 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ant in England

Ant
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

Ant
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 31 October 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 +1 6 £433 -17.21% 8
North West -13 1 £550 -
North of England -32 1 £550 -
Ant
UK

Ant
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) JBoss
1 1 (14.29%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure API Management
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Run
3 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 1 (14.29%) Firebase
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (14.29%) Google Gemini
3 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
3 1 (14.29%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle Database
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle Database 10g
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (14.29%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) JUnit
2 2 (28.57%) SoapUI
3 1 (14.29%) Artifactory
3 1 (14.29%) Eclipse
3 1 (14.29%) Git
3 1 (14.29%) IntelliJ
3 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 1 (14.29%) JIRA
3 1 (14.29%) Maven
3 1 (14.29%) NUnit
3 1 (14.29%) Snyk
3 1 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (14.29%) Toad
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 1 (14.29%) Integration Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Linux DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Linux Scripter
3 1 (14.29%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Middleware Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Murex Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Kafka
1 3 (42.86%) Middleware
1 3 (42.86%) XML
2 2 (28.57%) HTML
2 2 (28.57%) IBM Integration Bus
2 2 (28.57%) REST
2 2 (28.57%) SOAP
2 2 (28.57%) Spring
3 1 (14.29%) ADO.NET
3 1 (14.29%) Ajax
3 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
3 1 (14.29%) CSS
3 1 (14.29%) EJB
3 1 (14.29%) Hibernate
3 1 (14.29%) JavaBeans
3 1 (14.29%) JDBC
3 1 (14.29%) Struts
3 1 (14.29%) Swing
3 1 (14.29%) Web Services
3 1 (14.29%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Credit Risk
2 1 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Market Risk
2 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) Unix
3 1 (14.29%) AIX
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
1 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) API Management
2 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Secure Coding
3 1 (14.29%) AI
3 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
3 1 (14.29%) Integration Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) OO
3 1 (14.29%) OOD
3 1 (14.29%) OWASP
3 1 (14.29%) Release Management
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) System Testing
3 1 (14.29%) UX Design
3 1 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Java
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) C#
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 2 (28.57%) Korn
2 2 (28.57%) Perl
2 2 (28.57%) PL/SQL
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) C++
3 1 (14.29%) Groovy
3 1 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
3 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) SEPA
2 1 (14.29%) Basel II
2 1 (14.29%) Basel III
2 1 (14.29%) GDPR
2 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (14.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) Control-M
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Podman
1 1 (14.29%) Puppet
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle
2 2 (28.57%) IBM
3 1 (14.29%) Calypso
3 1 (14.29%) Google
3 1 (14.29%) Murex
3 1 (14.29%) OpenAI
3 1 (14.29%) Perforce