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 21 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 21 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	458	364	361
Rank change year-on-year	-94	-3	+67
Contract jobs citing Ant	11	9	20
As % of all contract jobs in London	0.054%	0.067%	0.13%
As % of the Development Applications category	0.41%	0.42%	0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted	3	7	12
10^th Percentile	£538	£411	-
25^th Percentile	£552	£415	£400
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£600	£415	£536
Median % change year-on-year	+44.52%	-22.58%	+34.06%
75^th Percentile	£625	£445	£650
90^th Percentile	-	£545	£695
England median daily rate	£600	£415	£550
% change year-on-year	+44.52%	-24.52%	+22.22%

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.

	6 months to 21 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills	2,680	2,128	2,264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London	13.11%	15.89%	14.30%
Number of daily rates quoted	1,765	1,453	1,514
10^th Percentile	£363	£357	£363
25^th Percentile	£435	£425	£450
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£530	£525	£550
Median % change year-on-year	+0.95%	-4.55%	-4.35%
75^th Percentile	£638	£638	£662
90^th Percentile	£738	£738	£775
England median daily rate	£500	£500	£525
% change year-on-year	-	-4.76%	-4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted	21	12	10
10^th Percentile	£19.25	£36.63	£25.39
25^th Percentile	£41.25	£41.69	£31.71
Median hourly rate	£57.00	£45.00	£46.25
Median % change year-on-year	+26.67%	-2.70%	-15.91%
75^th Percentile	£73.75	£70.00	£68.80
90^th Percentile	£88.75	£107.88	£71.88
England median hourly rate	£65.00	£65.00	£65.00

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 Daily Rate Trend in London

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.

Ant Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 21 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Ant also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region with a requirement for Ant.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Eclipse	72.7%	8
1	HTML	72.7%	8
1	REST	72.7%	8
4	CI/CD	63.6%	7
4	Jenkins	63.6%	7
6	Apex Code	54.5%	6
6	Code Coverage	54.5%	6
6	Data Modelling	54.5%	6
6	Data Quality	54.5%	6
6	Data Validation	54.5%	6
6	Lightning Web Components	54.5%	6
6	Migration	54.5%	6
6	Relational Database	54.5%	6
6	Salesforce	54.5%	6
6	Salesforce Sales Cloud	54.5%	6
6	SOAP	54.5%	6
6	SOQL	54.5%	6
6	SOSL	54.5%	6
6	Validation	54.5%	6
6	Visual Studio Code	54.5%	6
6	Visualforce	54.5%	6
6	Web Services	54.5%	6
6	Workflow	54.5%	6
24	Agile	27.3%	3
24	AI	27.3%	3
24	Git	27.3%	3
24	Problem-Solving	27.3%	3
24	Salesforce Service Cloud	27.3%	3
29	Accessibility	18.2%	2
29	C#	18.2%	2

Ant Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Development Applications

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Eclipse	72.7%	8
2	Jenkins	63.6%	7
3	Visual Studio Code	54.5%	6
4	Git	27.3%	3
5	Cypress.io	18.2%	2
5	Storybook	18.2%	2
7	GitLab	9.1%	1
7	JIRA	9.1%	1
7	Liquibase	9.1%	1