Ant Contracts in the UK excluding London

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UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 331 394 434
Rank change year-on-year +63 +40 +61
Contract jobs citing Ant 8 5 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.063% 0.024% 0.054%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.46% 0.22% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 8
10th Percentile - £446 -
25th Percentile - - £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £500 £460
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% +8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £469 £536 £559
90th Percentile £525 - £644
UK median daily rate £415 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -22.54% -2.55% +7.84%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,725 2,267 3,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.48% 10.92% 14.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,140 1,468 2,388
10th Percentile £325 £350 £350
25th Percentile £402 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -
75th Percentile £556 £588 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £676
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 170 181
10th Percentile £46.50 £40.85 £45.00
25th Percentile £52.18 £55.00 £52.38
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.28 £85.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Ant in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Ant in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ant in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ant in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Ant in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Northern Ireland - 4 £325 - 1
Scotland - 2 £500 - 5
Midlands +15 1 - - 18
West Midlands +11 1 - - 11
South West - 1 £400 - 9
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Pipelines
2 2 (25.00%) CloudFront
2 2 (25.00%) Route 53
2 2 (25.00%) Serverless
2 2 (25.00%) Yarn
3 1 (12.50%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Relational Database
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (25.00%) MySQL
3 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
3 1 (12.50%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Git
1 5 (62.50%) Maven
2 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (50.00%) Subversion
3 2 (25.00%) webpack
4 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
4 1 (12.50%) Gradle
4 1 (12.50%) JUnit
4 1 (12.50%) Mockito
General
1 8 (100.00%) Finance
2 4 (50.00%) Banking
2 4 (50.00%) Front Office
2 4 (50.00%) Wholesale Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Billing
3 1 (12.50%) Financial Institution
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Developer
2 5 (62.50%) Software Engineer
3 4 (50.00%) .NET Developer
3 4 (50.00%) .NET Software Developer
3 4 (50.00%) .NET Software Engineer
3 4 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 4 (50.00%) C# Developer
3 4 (50.00%) C# Software Developer
3 4 (50.00%) C# Software Engineer
3 4 (50.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Administrator
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Developer
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Salesforce Administrator
4 1 (12.50%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) .NET
2 3 (37.50%) RESTful
3 2 (25.00%) JSON
3 2 (25.00%) JSON Schema
3 2 (25.00%) Node.js
3 2 (25.00%) OAuth
3 2 (25.00%) TypeORM
4 1 (12.50%) CSS
4 1 (12.50%) HTML
4 1 (12.50%) J2EE
4 1 (12.50%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (12.50%) OpenAPI
4 1 (12.50%) REST
4 1 (12.50%) SOAP
4 1 (12.50%) Spring
4 1 (12.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Derivative
1 4 (50.00%) Equities
1 4 (50.00%) Equity Derivative
1 4 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Algorithms
2 1 (12.50%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
2 4 (50.00%) Unix
2 4 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Software Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) Concurrent Programming
2 4 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 4 (50.00%) High Availability
2 4 (50.00%) OO
2 4 (50.00%) OOA/OOD
2 4 (50.00%) SDLC
3 3 (37.50%) API Development
3 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 2 (25.00%) Batch Processing
4 2 (25.00%) Fintech
5 1 (12.50%) Agile
5 1 (12.50%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
5 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
5 1 (12.50%) DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) Performance Metrics
5 1 (12.50%) Process Improvement
5 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
5 1 (12.50%) User Experience
5 1 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) SQL
2 4 (50.00%) C#
3 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (12.50%) Apex Code
4 1 (12.50%) Java
4 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 1 (12.50%) Python
4 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Pardot
2 1 (12.50%) Salesforce
2 1 (12.50%) Sybase