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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 587 457 527
Rank change year-on-year -130 +70 +93
Contract jobs citing Ant 12 17 14
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.029% 0.071% 0.038%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.24% 0.50% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 15 13
10th Percentile £471 £288 £438
25th Percentile £488 £396 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £415 £536
Median % change year-on-year +26.46% -22.54% -2.55%
75th Percentile £588 £705 £638
90th Percentile £625 £738 £726
UK median daily rate £515 £458 £536
% change year-on-year +12.50% -14.63% +10.23%

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 5,038 3,368 4,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.05% 14.08% 11.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,304 2,287 2,925
10th Percentile £349 £350 £350
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £638
90th Percentile £684 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 61 203
10th Percentile £36.13 £27.50 £31.71
25th Percentile £55.31 £48.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £77.90
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £58.88 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.40% -9.42% +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

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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 29 May 2026.

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

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 29 May 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 -78 11 £540 +3.29% 6
South West -30 1 £525 +31.25%
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 4 (33.33%) WebSphere
2 3 (25.00%) Confluence
3 2 (16.67%) Camunda
4 1 (8.33%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 2 (16.67%) OpenShift
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (8.33%) Azure
4 1 (8.33%) ChatGPT
4 1 (8.33%) CloudFront
4 1 (8.33%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) Google Gemini
4 1 (8.33%) IBM Cloud
4 1 (8.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (8.33%) Serverless
4 1 (8.33%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) Relational Database
2 2 (16.67%) MySQL
2 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 8 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 7 (58.33%) Git
3 4 (33.33%) Liquibase
3 4 (33.33%) Maven
4 3 (25.00%) Cucumber
4 3 (25.00%) Cypress.io
4 3 (25.00%) Eclipse
4 3 (25.00%) JIRA
4 3 (25.00%) JUnit
4 3 (25.00%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (16.67%) Gradle
5 2 (16.67%) Mockito
6 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
6 1 (8.33%) IntelliJ
6 1 (8.33%) REST Assured
6 1 (8.33%) SoapUI
6 1 (8.33%) SonarQube
6 1 (8.33%) Storybook
General
1 3 (25.00%) Automotive
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Lead
2 3 (25.00%) Salesforce Technical Leader
2 3 (25.00%) Senior
2 3 (25.00%) Technical Leader
3 2 (16.67%) Developer
3 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Applications Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) React Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) HTML
2 5 (41.67%) REST
3 4 (33.33%) SOAP
3 4 (33.33%) Web Services
3 4 (33.33%) WebSphere MQ
4 3 (25.00%) CSS
4 3 (25.00%) Lightning Web Components
4 3 (25.00%) React
4 3 (25.00%) Spring
4 3 (25.00%) Visualforce
5 2 (16.67%) AngularJS
5 2 (16.67%) Bootstrap
5 2 (16.67%) Middleware
5 2 (16.67%) Nightwatchjs
5 2 (16.67%) Spring Boot
5 2 (16.67%) Vue
6 1 (8.33%) CSS3
6 1 (8.33%) Gherkin
6 1 (8.33%) HTML5
6 1 (8.33%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) AI Agents
1 1 (8.33%) Algorithms
1 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 7 (58.33%) DevOps
3 5 (41.67%) Scrum
3 5 (41.67%) Workflow
4 3 (25.00%) Agile
4 3 (25.00%) Code Coverage
4 3 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 3 (25.00%) Data Validation
4 3 (25.00%) Migration
4 3 (25.00%) Validation
5 2 (16.67%) BPMN
5 2 (16.67%) Cloud Security
5 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (16.67%) Functional Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 2 (16.67%) TDD
5 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 2 (16.67%) User Experience
5 2 (16.67%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Apex Code
1 3 (25.00%) Bash
1 3 (25.00%) SOQL
1 3 (25.00%) SOSL
1 3 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) Go
2 2 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.33%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (16.67%) NCSC
3 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (8.33%) GDPR
3 1 (8.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Ansible
1 4 (33.33%) Terraform
2 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (8.33%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) IBM
2 3 (25.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (16.67%) Red Hat
4 1 (8.33%) Google
4 1 (8.33%) OpenAI
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle
4 1 (8.33%) Thales