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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 352 369 431
Rank change year-on-year +17 +62 +116
Contract jobs citing Ant 10 15 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.074% 0.092% 0.041%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.47% 0.63% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 7
10th Percentile £263 £508 -
25th Percentile £368 £613 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £650 £400
Median % change year-on-year -36.14% +62.50% -29.82%
75th Percentile £430 £745 £513
90th Percentile £528 £755 £585
England median daily rate £415 £650 £450
% change year-on-year -36.13% +44.44% -17.24%

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 2,128 2,391 3,226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.83% 14.68% 14.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,432 1,611 2,356
10th Percentile £350 £363 £400
25th Percentile £420 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £700
90th Percentile £750 £769 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 18 34
10th Percentile £37.00 £24.28 £32.38
25th Percentile £42.25 £25.99 £52.13
Median hourly rate £45.00 £46.25 £68.30
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -32.28% +54.84%
75th Percentile £67.50 £71.25 £79.38
90th Percentile £105.75 £71.44 £90.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

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

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 - 2 £415 -
Central London +1 1 - -
Ant
England

Ant
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 1 (10.00%) Apache
1 1 (10.00%) JBoss
1 1 (10.00%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (30.00%) MS Visio
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Azure API Management
3 2 (20.00%) AWS
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Run
4 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (10.00%) Firebase
4 1 (10.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (10.00%) Google Gemini
4 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (10.00%) Serverless
4 1 (10.00%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Oracle Database
2 3 (30.00%) Oracle Database 10g
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (10.00%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) SoapUI
1 3 (30.00%) Toad
2 2 (20.00%) JUnit
3 1 (10.00%) Artifactory
3 1 (10.00%) Git
3 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (10.00%) JIRA
3 1 (10.00%) Maven
3 1 (10.00%) Snyk
3 1 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (80.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (30.00%) Banking
3 3 (30.00%) Financial Institution
4 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (20.00%) Billing
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Integration Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Billing Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Data Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Data Entry Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Linux Scripter
4 1 (10.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Murex Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) Kafka
1 5 (50.00%) Middleware
1 5 (50.00%) XML
2 4 (40.00%) IBM Integration Bus
2 4 (40.00%) SOAP
3 3 (30.00%) EDI
4 2 (20.00%) REST
5 1 (10.00%) CSS
5 1 (10.00%) CSS3
5 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (10.00%) GraphQL
5 1 (10.00%) Highcharts JS
5 1 (10.00%) HTML
5 1 (10.00%) HTML5
5 1 (10.00%) OAuth
5 1 (10.00%) OAuth2
5 1 (10.00%) React
5 1 (10.00%) Spring
5 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
5 1 (10.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Credit Risk
2 1 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Market Risk
2 1 (10.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Linux
2 4 (40.00%) AIX
2 4 (40.00%) Unix
2 4 (40.00%) Windows
3 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) API Management
2 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Agile
3 2 (20.00%) Change Control
3 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (20.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (20.00%) Data Entry
3 2 (20.00%) Data Science
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Project Management
3 2 (20.00%) Secure Coding
3 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Operations
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (10.00%) Generative AI
4 1 (10.00%) LLM
4 1 (10.00%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Java
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 4 (40.00%) Korn
2 4 (40.00%) Perl
2 4 (40.00%) PL/SQL
3 3 (30.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (10.00%) Bash
4 1 (10.00%) C#
4 1 (10.00%) C++
4 1 (10.00%) Groovy
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (10.00%) Python
4 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) SEPA
2 1 (10.00%) Basel II
2 1 (10.00%) Basel III
2 1 (10.00%) GDPR
2 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (10.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Ansible
1 1 (10.00%) Control-M
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) Podman
1 1 (10.00%) Puppet
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Oracle
2 4 (40.00%) IBM
3 3 (30.00%) Perforce
4 1 (10.00%) Calypso
4 1 (10.00%) Google
4 1 (10.00%) Murex
4 1 (10.00%) OpenAI