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 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 433 354 368
Rank change year-on-year -79 +14 +86
Contract jobs citing Ant 11 12 15
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.055% 0.089% 0.092%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.43% 0.57% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 10
10th Percentile £519 £263 £489
25th Percentile £540 £409 £537
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £415 £650
Median % change year-on-year +44.52% -36.13% +62.50%
75th Percentile £625 £648 £734
90th Percentile - £675 £753
England median daily rate £600 £433 £650
% change year-on-year +38.70% -33.45% +37.57%

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 2,538 2,119 2,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.58% 15.79% 14.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,635 1,451 1,585
10th Percentile £375 £350 £363
25th Percentile £446 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.38% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £747 £750 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 13 21
10th Percentile £18.75 £26.98 £22.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £36.25 £25.99
Median hourly rate £49.00 £45.00 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% +36.07% -52.76%
75th Percentile £73.56 £63.75 £71.25
90th Percentile £88.29 £84.50 -
England median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - -

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
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
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 1 (9.09%) Confluence
1 1 (9.09%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 3 (27.27%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (72.73%) Eclipse
2 7 (63.64%) Jenkins
3 6 (54.55%) Visual Studio Code
4 3 (27.27%) Git
5 2 (18.18%) Cypress.io
5 2 (18.18%) Storybook
6 1 (9.09%) JIRA
6 1 (9.09%) Liquibase
General
1 3 (27.27%) Automotive
2 2 (18.18%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Lead
2 3 (27.27%) Salesforce Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Salesforce Technical Leader
2 3 (27.27%) Senior
2 3 (27.27%) Senior Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Senior Salesforce Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Technical Leader
3 2 (18.18%) Core Java Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Java Developer
3 2 (18.18%) React Developer
3 2 (18.18%) UI Developer
4 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (72.73%) HTML
1 8 (72.73%) REST
2 6 (54.55%) Lightning Web Components
2 6 (54.55%) SOAP
2 6 (54.55%) Visualforce
2 6 (54.55%) Web Services
3 2 (18.18%) CSS
3 2 (18.18%) CSS3
3 2 (18.18%) HTML5
3 2 (18.18%) J2SE
3 2 (18.18%) Jest
3 2 (18.18%) Next.js
3 2 (18.18%) React
3 2 (18.18%) Redux
3 2 (18.18%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (9.09%) Terraform
4 1 (9.09%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) AI Agents
2 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
2 6 (54.55%) Code Coverage
2 6 (54.55%) Data Modelling
2 6 (54.55%) Data Validation
2 6 (54.55%) Migration
2 6 (54.55%) Validation
2 6 (54.55%) Workflow
3 3 (27.27%) AI
3 3 (27.27%) SDLC
4 2 (18.18%) Agile
4 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
4 2 (18.18%) Design Patterns
4 2 (18.18%) Multithreaded Programming
4 2 (18.18%) Multithreading
4 2 (18.18%) OO
4 2 (18.18%) OOP
4 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (18.18%) Responsive Web Design
4 2 (18.18%) Software Architecture
5 1 (9.09%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Apex Code
1 6 (54.55%) SOQL
1 6 (54.55%) SOSL
2 2 (18.18%) C#
2 2 (18.18%) C++
2 2 (18.18%) Java
2 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
2 2 (18.18%) TypeScript
3 1 (9.09%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (54.55%) Data Quality
2 2 (18.18%) Accessibility
2 2 (18.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Salesforce
2 1 (9.09%) IBM