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 1 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 334 387
Rank change year-on-year -49 +53 +95
Contract jobs citing Ant 10 20 5
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.063% 0.15% 0.027%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.42% 1.08% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 16 5
10th Percentile £404 £393 £439
25th Percentile £415 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.33% +10.53% -20.10%
75th Percentile £566 £700 £625
90th Percentile £591 £736 £628
England median daily rate £473 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.69% -15.22%

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 2,354 1,854 2,336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.87% 13.89% 12.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,600 1,225 1,709
10th Percentile £350 £334 £375
25th Percentile £420 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £535 £568
Median % change year-on-year -2.80% -5.73% -5.42%
75th Percentile £633 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £777
England median daily rate £500 £510 £530
% change year-on-year -1.96% -3.77% -7.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 23
10th Percentile - £26.48 £25.08
25th Percentile £18.75 £27.14 £28.75
Median hourly rate £70.00 £48.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +43.59% +14.71% -26.09%
75th Percentile £95.00 £77.19 £62.88
90th Percentile £98.00 £87.88 £73.32
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%

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 1 March 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 1 March 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 -3 2 £471 -31.53% 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 3 (30.00%) WebSphere
2 2 (20.00%) Camunda
2 2 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) Azure
3 4 (40.00%) Azure API Management
4 2 (20.00%) OpenShift
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (10.00%) ChatGPT
5 1 (10.00%) CloudFront
5 1 (10.00%) GCP
5 1 (10.00%) Google Gemini
5 1 (10.00%) IBM Cloud
5 1 (10.00%) Serverless
5 1 (10.00%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle Database
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle Database 10g
2 2 (20.00%) MySQL
2 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Git
1 5 (50.00%) JUnit
2 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (30.00%) Liquibase
2 3 (30.00%) Maven
2 3 (30.00%) SoapUI
3 2 (20.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (20.00%) Cypress.io
3 2 (20.00%) Gradle
3 2 (20.00%) JIRA
3 2 (20.00%) Mockito
4 1 (10.00%) REST Assured
4 1 (10.00%) TestDirector
4 1 (10.00%) Toad
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Banking
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Integration Developer
3 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Applications Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Middleware Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) Middleware
1 5 (50.00%) SOAP
2 4 (40.00%) IBM Integration Bus
2 4 (40.00%) Kafka
3 3 (30.00%) WebSphere MQ
3 3 (30.00%) XML
4 2 (20.00%) AngularJS
4 2 (20.00%) Bootstrap
4 2 (20.00%) CSS
4 2 (20.00%) HTML
4 2 (20.00%) Nightwatchjs
4 2 (20.00%) React
4 2 (20.00%) Spring
4 2 (20.00%) Spring Boot
4 2 (20.00%) Vue
5 1 (10.00%) J2EE
5 1 (10.00%) PyTorch
5 1 (10.00%) REST
5 1 (10.00%) TensorFlow
5 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (10.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (10.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
1 4 (40.00%) Unix
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
2 3 (30.00%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) API Management
2 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (30.00%) Scrum
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) BPMN
4 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
4 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (20.00%) Functional Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) Product Discovery
4 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) TDD
4 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (20.00%) User Experience
4 2 (20.00%) User Research
4 2 (20.00%) UX Research
4 2 (20.00%) Workflow
5 1 (10.00%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) SQL
2 5 (50.00%) Java
3 4 (40.00%) Korn
3 4 (40.00%) Perl
3 4 (40.00%) PL/SQL
4 2 (20.00%) Bash
4 2 (20.00%) Go
4 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
5 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) NCSC
2 1 (10.00%) GDPR
2 1 (10.00%) SEPA
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Ansible
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) IBM
2 4 (40.00%) Oracle
3 2 (20.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (10.00%) Google
4 1 (10.00%) OpenAI
4 1 (10.00%) Perforce