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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 365 356 424
Rank change year-on-year -9 +68 +98
Contract jobs citing Ant 6 25 8
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.044% 0.16% 0.039%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.27% 1.13% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 17 7
10th Percentile £415 - -
25th Percentile £415 £400 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £523 £400
Median % change year-on-year -17.21% +30.63% -32.09%
75th Percentile £519 £650 £513
90th Percentile £598 £700 £585
England median daily rate £450 £536 £450
% change year-on-year -16.08% +19.17% -21.74%

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 2,190 2,220 2,838
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 16.04% 14.18% 13.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,499 1,480 2,094
10th Percentile £350 £360 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £667 £688
90th Percentile £734 £775 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 30
10th Percentile £36.63 £27.88 £29.58
25th Percentile £41.69 £32.62 £41.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £46.25 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -17.78% +27.52%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.89 £74.69
90th Percentile £107.88 £71.44 £86.90
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +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 1 November 2025.

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 November 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
East London 0 1 £415 +3.79%
Central London -2 1 - - 4
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 1 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) JBoss
1 1 (16.67%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (16.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure API Management
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Run
3 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) Firebase
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (16.67%) Google Gemini
3 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
3 1 (16.67%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle Database 10g
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (16.67%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JUnit
1 2 (33.33%) SoapUI
2 1 (16.67%) Artifactory
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) Maven
2 1 (16.67%) Snyk
2 1 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (16.67%) Toad
General
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
2 1 (16.67%) Integration Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Linux DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Scripter
2 1 (16.67%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Middleware Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Murex Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Kafka
1 3 (50.00%) Middleware
2 2 (33.33%) IBM Integration Bus
2 2 (33.33%) REST
2 2 (33.33%) SOAP
2 2 (33.33%) XML
3 1 (16.67%) CSS
3 1 (16.67%) CSS3
3 1 (16.67%) EDI
3 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (16.67%) GraphQL
3 1 (16.67%) Highcharts JS
3 1 (16.67%) HTML
3 1 (16.67%) HTML5
3 1 (16.67%) OAuth
3 1 (16.67%) OAuth2
3 1 (16.67%) React
3 1 (16.67%) Spring
3 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 1 (16.67%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Credit Risk
2 1 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) Market Risk
2 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Unix
2 2 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (16.67%) AIX
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) API Management
2 2 (33.33%) Secure Coding
3 1 (16.67%) AI
3 1 (16.67%) Anomaly Detection
3 1 (16.67%) Collateral Management
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 1 (16.67%) Data Privacy
3 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
3 1 (16.67%) Microservices
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Release Management
3 1 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (16.67%) SDLC
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) System Testing
3 1 (16.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Korn
2 2 (33.33%) Perl
2 2 (33.33%) PL/SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) C++
3 1 (16.67%) Groovy
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
3 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) SEPA
2 1 (16.67%) Basel II
2 1 (16.67%) Basel III
2 1 (16.67%) GDPR
2 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (16.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Control-M
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Podman
1 1 (16.67%) Puppet
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Oracle
2 2 (33.33%) IBM
3 1 (16.67%) Calypso
3 1 (16.67%) Google
3 1 (16.67%) Murex
3 1 (16.67%) OpenAI
3 1 (16.67%) Perforce