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

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 339 399
Rank change year-on-year -42 +60 +79
Contract jobs citing Ant 8 18 3
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.054% 0.13% 0.016%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.35% 0.93% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 3
10th Percentile £404 £385 £475
25th Percentile £409 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £400 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -33.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £628
90th Percentile £603 £700 £629
England median daily rate £470 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +4.44% -10.00% -13.04%

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 2,260 1,928 2,367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.16% 14.13% 12.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,547 1,246 1,763
10th Percentile £350 £341 £375
25th Percentile £420 £413 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £568
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -6.61% -5.42%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £733 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £507 £536
% change year-on-year -1.40% -5.39% -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 18
10th Percentile £55.60 £22.25 £25.64
25th Percentile £74.50 £25.63 £32.50
Median hourly rate £90.00 £48.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +84.62% +14.71% -26.09%
75th Percentile £98.75 £77.19 £58.44
90th Percentile £105.50 £87.88 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

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 8 February 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 8 February 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 - 1 - - 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 2 (25.00%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (12.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) Azure API Management
3 3 (37.50%) AWS
4 2 (25.00%) GCP
4 2 (25.00%) Google Gemini
4 2 (25.00%) OpenShift
4 2 (25.00%) Vertex AI
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
5 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (12.50%) ChatGPT
5 1 (12.50%) Cloud Run
5 1 (12.50%) CloudFront
5 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
5 1 (12.50%) Firebase
5 1 (12.50%) GitHub
5 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (12.50%) IBM Cloud
5 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle Database
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle Database 10g
2 2 (25.00%) MySQL
2 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) JUnit
2 3 (37.50%) Maven
2 3 (37.50%) SoapUI
3 2 (25.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (25.00%) Cypress.io
3 2 (25.00%) Git
3 2 (25.00%) Gradle
3 2 (25.00%) Mockito
4 1 (12.50%) REST Assured
4 1 (12.50%) Snyk
4 1 (12.50%) TestDirector
4 1 (12.50%) Toad
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Integration Developer
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 1 (12.50%) Middleware Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) SOAP
2 4 (50.00%) IBM Integration Bus
2 4 (50.00%) Kafka
2 4 (50.00%) Middleware
3 3 (37.50%) CSS
3 3 (37.50%) HTML
3 3 (37.50%) React
3 3 (37.50%) XML
4 2 (25.00%) AngularJS
4 2 (25.00%) Bootstrap
4 2 (25.00%) Nightwatchjs
4 2 (25.00%) REST
4 2 (25.00%) Spring
4 2 (25.00%) Spring Boot
4 2 (25.00%) Vue
5 1 (12.50%) JWT
5 1 (12.50%) LangChain
5 1 (12.50%) Next.js
5 1 (12.50%) PyTorch
5 1 (12.50%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) AI Agents
1 1 (12.50%) Algorithms
1 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
1 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
1 1 (12.50%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
1 4 (50.00%) Unix
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) API Management
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) User Experience
3 2 (25.00%) AI
3 2 (25.00%) BPMN
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (25.00%) Functional Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Generative AI
3 2 (25.00%) LLM
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Product Discovery
3 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) TDD
3 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (25.00%) User Research
3 2 (25.00%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) SQL
2 5 (62.50%) Java
3 4 (50.00%) Korn
3 4 (50.00%) Perl
3 4 (50.00%) PL/SQL
4 2 (25.00%) Go
4 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
5 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 1 (12.50%) Python
5 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) GDPR
1 2 (25.00%) NCSC
2 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (12.50%) SEPA
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) HP Fortify
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) IBM
2 4 (50.00%) Oracle
3 2 (25.00%) Google
3 2 (25.00%) OpenAI
3 2 (25.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (12.50%) Perforce