Ant Contracts in the UK excluding London

Apache Ant
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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 368 377 417
Rank change year-on-year +9 +40 +91
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Ant 1 3 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.007% 0.017% 0.046%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.045% 0.14% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 6
10th Percentile - £356 £385
25th Percentile - £357 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £358 £538
Median % change year-on-year +53.63% -33.40% +2.38%
75th Percentile - £359 £653
90th Percentile - £360 £725
UK median daily rate £550 £638 £470
% change year-on-year -13.73% +35.64% -10.48%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,198 2,162 2,711
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.31% 11.90% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,484 1,350 1,851
10th Percentile £309 £340 £355
25th Percentile £395 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £625 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 157 181
10th Percentile £27.99 £46.18 £46.18
25th Percentile £51.77 £56.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £79.88 £73.85 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

Ant
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

Ant
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Ant.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Ant

Ant
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Ant.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Ant

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DemandTrendContract 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 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West - 1 £550 -
North of England - 1 £550 -
Ant
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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) NUnit
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) ADO.NET
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) EJB
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) JavaBeans
1 1 (100.00%) JDBC
1 1 (100.00%) JMS
1 1 (100.00%) JSP
1 1 (100.00%) JSTL
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Struts
1 1 (100.00%) Swing
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) WinForms
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOD
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree