Ant Contract Job Trends in England

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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 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 534 464 526
Rank change year-on-year -70 +62 +110
Contract jobs citing Ant 7 22 19
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.022% 0.080% 0.053%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.15% 0.61% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 16 17
10th Percentile £404 £393 £400
25th Percentile £407 £400 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.00% - -13.04%
75th Percentile £544 £663 £600
90th Percentile £588 £700 £627
UK median daily rate £426 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +6.56% -11.11% -23.60%

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 4,664 3,627 4,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.78% 13.25% 11.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,231 2,268 3,052
10th Percentile £333 £334 £375
25th Percentile £410 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £538
% change year-on-year -1.96% -5.12% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 65 192
10th Percentile £39.53 £46.18 £44.73
25th Percentile £53.44 £54.00 £49.62
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £82.30 £75.85 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%

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 8 January 2026.

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 8 January 2026. 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 -24 7 £415 -17.00% 3
Ant
UK

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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 2 (28.57%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) Azure API Management
3 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) OpenShift
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Run
4 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 1 (14.29%) Firebase
4 1 (14.29%) GCP
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (14.29%) Google Gemini
4 1 (14.29%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle Database
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle Database 10g
2 2 (28.57%) MySQL
2 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) JUnit
2 2 (28.57%) Cucumber
2 2 (28.57%) Cypress.io
2 2 (28.57%) Git
2 2 (28.57%) Gradle
2 2 (28.57%) Maven
2 2 (28.57%) Mockito
2 2 (28.57%) SoapUI
3 1 (14.29%) Snyk
3 1 (14.29%) TestDirector
3 1 (14.29%) Toad
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Integration Developer
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 1 (14.29%) Middleware Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) IBM Integration Bus
1 4 (57.14%) Kafka
1 4 (57.14%) SOAP
2 3 (42.86%) CSS
2 3 (42.86%) HTML
2 3 (42.86%) Middleware
2 3 (42.86%) React
2 3 (42.86%) XML
3 2 (28.57%) AngularJS
3 2 (28.57%) Bootstrap
3 2 (28.57%) Nightwatchjs
3 2 (28.57%) Spring
3 2 (28.57%) Spring Boot
3 2 (28.57%) Vue
4 1 (14.29%) GraphQL
4 1 (14.29%) JWT
4 1 (14.29%) Next.js
4 1 (14.29%) OAuth2
4 1 (14.29%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (14.29%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
1 1 (14.29%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
1 4 (57.14%) Unix
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) API Management
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) User Experience
3 2 (28.57%) BPMN
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
3 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (28.57%) Functional Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Product Discovery
3 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) TDD
3 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
3 2 (28.57%) User Research
3 2 (28.57%) UX Research
3 2 (28.57%) Workflow
4 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Operations
4 1 (14.29%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) SQL
2 4 (57.14%) Java
2 4 (57.14%) Korn
2 4 (57.14%) Perl
2 4 (57.14%) PL/SQL
3 2 (28.57%) Go
3 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
4 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) NCSC
2 1 (14.29%) GDPR
2 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (14.29%) SEPA
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) IBM
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle
2 2 (28.57%) Red Hat
3 1 (14.29%) Google
3 1 (14.29%) OpenAI
3 1 (14.29%) Perforce