Ant Contract Job Trends in London

Apache Ant
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Ant skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 412 338 398
Rank change year-on-year -74 +60 +62
Contract jobs citing Ant 15 17 9
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.079% 0.14% 0.051%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.62% 0.88% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 15 7
10th Percentile £471 £288 £450
25th Percentile £488 £409 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £450 £625
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -28.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £625 £705 £698
90th Percentile - £738 £747
England median daily rate £550 £433 £529
% change year-on-year +27.14% -18.27% +8.84%

All Development Application Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,418 1,937 2,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.66% 15.44% 13.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,582 1,303 1,720
10th Percentile £360 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £421 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £671
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 9 27
10th Percentile - £25.00 £23.80
25th Percentile £18.75 £27.50 £25.99
Median hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -50.00%
75th Percentile £73.00 £47.50 £69.13
90th Percentile £95.00 £71.75 £71.50
England median hourly rate £67.50 £59.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +14.41% -9.23% +4.84%

Ant
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Ant job vacancy trend in London

Ant
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Ant

Ant
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ant in London over the 6 months to 23 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Ant in London

Ant
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Ant

Ant
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ant within the London region over the 6 months to 23 June 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
Central London -13 2 £471 -35.07% 1
Ant
England

Ant
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 (26.67%) WebSphere
2 3 (20.00%) Confluence
3 2 (13.33%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) AWS
2 6 (40.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 3 (20.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 2 (13.33%) OpenShift
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (6.67%) Azure
5 1 (6.67%) ChatGPT
5 1 (6.67%) CloudFront
5 1 (6.67%) GCP
5 1 (6.67%) Google Gemini
5 1 (6.67%) IBM Cloud
5 1 (6.67%) Serverless
5 1 (6.67%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (53.33%) Relational Database
2 2 (13.33%) MySQL
2 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 8 (53.33%) Git
3 6 (40.00%) Eclipse
3 6 (40.00%) Visual Studio Code
4 4 (26.67%) Cypress.io
4 4 (26.67%) Liquibase
5 3 (20.00%) JIRA
5 3 (20.00%) JUnit
5 3 (20.00%) Maven
6 2 (13.33%) Cucumber
6 2 (13.33%) Gradle
6 2 (13.33%) Mockito
6 2 (13.33%) Storybook
7 1 (6.67%) REST Assured
7 1 (6.67%) SoapUI
General
1 3 (20.00%) Automotive
2 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Developer
1 5 (33.33%) Senior
2 4 (26.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Lead
3 3 (20.00%) Salesforce Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Salesforce Technical Leader
3 3 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Senior Salesforce Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Technical Leader
4 2 (13.33%) React Developer
4 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Software Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) UI Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Applications Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (66.67%) HTML
2 9 (60.00%) REST
3 7 (46.67%) SOAP
3 7 (46.67%) Web Services
4 6 (40.00%) Lightning Web Components
4 6 (40.00%) Visualforce
5 4 (26.67%) CSS
5 4 (26.67%) React
5 4 (26.67%) WebSphere MQ
6 2 (13.33%) AngularJS
6 2 (13.33%) Bootstrap
6 2 (13.33%) CSS3
6 2 (13.33%) HTML5
6 2 (13.33%) Jest
6 2 (13.33%) Middleware
6 2 (13.33%) Nightwatchjs
6 2 (13.33%) Redux
6 2 (13.33%) Spring
6 2 (13.33%) Spring Boot
6 2 (13.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) AI Agents
2 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
2 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) CI/CD
2 8 (53.33%) Workflow
3 7 (46.67%) DevOps
4 6 (40.00%) Code Coverage
4 6 (40.00%) Data Modelling
4 6 (40.00%) Data Validation
4 6 (40.00%) Migration
4 6 (40.00%) Validation
5 4 (26.67%) AI
5 4 (26.67%) Scrum
6 2 (13.33%) Agile
6 2 (13.33%) BPMN
6 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (13.33%) Responsive Web Design
6 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
6 2 (13.33%) TDD
6 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
6 2 (13.33%) User Experience
6 2 (13.33%) User Research
6 2 (13.33%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) Apex Code
1 6 (40.00%) SOQL
1 6 (40.00%) SOSL
2 3 (20.00%) Bash
3 2 (13.33%) Go
3 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (13.33%) SQL
3 2 (13.33%) TypeScript
4 1 (6.67%) Java
4 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (13.33%) Accessibility
2 2 (13.33%) NCSC
2 2 (13.33%) WCAG
3 1 (6.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Ansible
1 4 (26.67%) Terraform
2 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.67%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Salesforce
2 5 (33.33%) IBM
3 2 (13.33%) Red Hat
4 1 (6.67%) Google
4 1 (6.67%) OpenAI