Ant Contracts in London

Apache Ant
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Ant skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ant over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 344 386 475
Rank change year-on-year +42 +89 +116
Contract jobs citing Ant 16 10 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.12% 0.057% 0.047%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.78% 0.40% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 7 6
10th Percentile £305 £450 £481
25th Percentile £415 £487 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.60% +4.17% +17.65%
75th Percentile £720 £698 £675
90th Percentile £738 £747 £738
England median daily rate £500 £574 £486
% change year-on-year -12.85% +17.99% -4.66%

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 2,039 2,476 4,035
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.35% 14.07% 15.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,371 1,757 2,942
10th Percentile £350 £363 £407
25th Percentile £420 £450 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £650 £669 £713
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 25 37
10th Percentile £25.52 £23.30 £49.25
25th Percentile £32.13 £25.99 £54.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £37.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -50.00% +68.54%
75th Percentile £59.69 £71.25 £82.50
90th Percentile £69.63 £71.63 £90.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +16.82%

Ant
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Ant as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Ant in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ant in London.

Daily rate trend for Ant in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ant in London over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ant in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ant in London.

Hourly rate trend for Ant in London

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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 6 July 2025. 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 +8 3 £725 +5.45% 11
East London - 2 £415 -
Ant
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) Apache
1 2 (12.50%) JBoss
1 2 (12.50%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (18.75%) MS Visio
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) Azure API Management
3 3 (18.75%) AWS
3 3 (18.75%) npm
3 3 (18.75%) Yarn
4 2 (12.50%) OpenShift
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) Oracle Database
2 3 (18.75%) Data Mart
2 3 (18.75%) MongoDB
2 3 (18.75%) NoSQL
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle Database 10g
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Jenkins
2 3 (18.75%) Babel
2 3 (18.75%) SoapUI
2 3 (18.75%) TeamCity
2 3 (18.75%) Toad
2 3 (18.75%) webpack
3 2 (12.50%) Artifactory
3 2 (12.50%) Git
3 2 (12.50%) JIRA
3 2 (12.50%) JUnit
3 2 (12.50%) Maven
3 2 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (81.25%) Finance
2 7 (43.75%) Banking
3 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (18.75%) Financial Institution
5 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (12.50%) Billing
6 1 (6.25%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Integration Developer
2 4 (25.00%) React Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Consultant
3 3 (18.75%) Murex Consultant
4 2 (12.50%) Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Billing Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Data Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Data Entry Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 2 (12.50%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Linux Scripter
4 2 (12.50%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 2 (12.50%) Risk Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) Kafka
1 6 (37.50%) Middleware
2 5 (31.25%) XML
3 4 (25.00%) .NET
3 4 (25.00%) IBM Integration Bus
3 4 (25.00%) Material-UI
3 4 (25.00%) React
3 4 (25.00%) Redux
3 4 (25.00%) Semantic UI
3 4 (25.00%) SOAP
4 3 (18.75%) CSS
4 3 (18.75%) CSS3
4 3 (18.75%) EDI
4 3 (18.75%) HTML
4 3 (18.75%) HTML5
4 3 (18.75%) RESTful
4 3 (18.75%) Web Services
4 3 (18.75%) WPF
5 2 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Credit Risk
1 3 (18.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 3 (18.75%) Market Risk
1 3 (18.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 2 (12.50%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) Linux
2 4 (25.00%) AIX
2 4 (25.00%) Unix
2 4 (25.00%) Windows
3 2 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 5 (31.25%) Microservices
3 4 (25.00%) API Management
3 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (18.75%) Asynchronous Programming
4 3 (18.75%) Collateral Management
4 3 (18.75%) Continuous Delivery
4 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (18.75%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (18.75%) DevOps
4 3 (18.75%) Functional Programming
4 3 (18.75%) Scenario Testing
4 3 (18.75%) User Experience
4 3 (18.75%) UX Design
4 3 (18.75%) Wireframes
5 2 (12.50%) Change Control
5 2 (12.50%) Data Entry
5 2 (12.50%) Fintech
5 2 (12.50%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) SQL
2 5 (31.25%) C#
2 5 (31.25%) Java
2 5 (31.25%) Shell Script
3 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (25.00%) Korn
3 4 (25.00%) Perl
3 4 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 4 (25.00%) TypeScript
4 2 (12.50%) Bash
4 2 (12.50%) Groovy
4 2 (12.50%) Python
5 1 (6.25%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) Basel II
1 3 (18.75%) Basel III
1 3 (18.75%) SEPA
2 1 (6.25%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Control-M
2 2 (12.50%) Ansible
2 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (12.50%) Podman
2 2 (12.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Oracle
2 4 (25.00%) IBM
3 3 (18.75%) Calypso
3 3 (18.75%) Murex
3 3 (18.75%) Perforce