Ant Contracts

Apache Ant
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 536 540 642
Rank change year-on-year +4 +102 +134
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Ant 18 19 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.055% 0.049% 0.051%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.36% 0.38% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 12 17
10th Percentile £319 £356 £340
25th Percentile £415 £461 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £638 £470
Median % change year-on-year -13.73% +35.64% -10.48%
75th Percentile £633 £711 £588
90th Percentile £665 £750 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £358 £538
% change year-on-year +53.63% -33.40% +2.38%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,940 5,041 6,952
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.08% 13.00% 13.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,326 3,277 4,826
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £623 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.96% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 183 234
10th Percentile £28.53 £28.65 £45.97
25th Percentile £50.00 £51.25 £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 £84.80 £71.88 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

Ant
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Ant as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Ant in the UK

Ant
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Ant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ant over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ant in the UK

Ant
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Ant
Top 6 DemandTrendContract Locations

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 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
England +14 14 £433 -33.45% 11
London +22 13 £415 -36.13% 10
Work from Home +26 4 £620 -0.80%
UK excluding London +9 1 £550 +53.63% 6
North of England - 1 £550 -
North West - 1 £550 -

Ant
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (5.56%) Apache
1 1 (5.56%) JBoss
1 1 (5.56%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (16.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) Azure
2 4 (22.22%) Azure API Management
3 2 (11.11%) AWS
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Run
4 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.56%) Firebase
4 1 (5.56%) GCP
4 1 (5.56%) GitHub
4 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.56%) Google Gemini
4 1 (5.56%) npm
4 1 (5.56%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.56%) Serverless
4 1 (5.56%) Vertex AI
4 1 (5.56%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) Oracle Database
2 3 (16.67%) Data Mart
2 3 (16.67%) Oracle Database 10g
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Maven
2 3 (16.67%) Gradle
2 3 (16.67%) JUnit
2 3 (16.67%) SoapUI
2 3 (16.67%) Toad
3 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.56%) Artifactory
4 1 (5.56%) Babel
4 1 (5.56%) Eclipse
4 1 (5.56%) Git
4 1 (5.56%) IntelliJ
4 1 (5.56%) JIRA
4 1 (5.56%) NUnit
4 1 (5.56%) Snyk
4 1 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (5.56%) TeamCity
4 1 (5.56%) webpack
General
1 11 (61.11%) Finance
2 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 4 (22.22%) Banking
4 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (16.67%) Financial Institution
5 2 (11.11%) Billing
6 1 (5.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Integration Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Consultant
3 3 (16.67%) Java Team Leader
3 3 (16.67%) Lead
3 3 (16.67%) Murex Consultant
3 3 (16.67%) Team Leader
3 3 (16.67%) Technical Leader
3 3 (16.67%) Technical Team Leader
4 2 (11.11%) Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Billing Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Data Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Data Entry Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Java Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Risk Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Linux Scripter
5 1 (5.56%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (38.89%) HTML
1 7 (38.89%) XML
2 6 (33.33%) CSS
3 5 (27.78%) Kafka
3 5 (27.78%) Middleware
3 5 (27.78%) Spring
4 4 (22.22%) IBM Integration Bus
4 4 (22.22%) JSP
4 4 (22.22%) SOAP
4 4 (22.22%) Spring Boot
5 3 (16.67%) EDI
5 3 (16.67%) Thymeleaf
6 2 (11.11%) .NET
6 2 (11.11%) CSS3
6 2 (11.11%) HTML5
6 2 (11.11%) React
6 2 (11.11%) Redux
6 2 (11.11%) REST
6 2 (11.11%) Web Services
7 1 (5.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Credit Risk
1 3 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 3 (16.67%) Market Risk
1 3 (16.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) Linux
1 5 (27.78%) Windows
2 4 (22.22%) AIX
2 4 (22.22%) Unix
3 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) CI/CD
2 5 (27.78%) Agile
3 4 (22.22%) API Management
3 4 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (16.67%) Collateral Management
4 3 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 3 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
4 3 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (16.67%) DevOps
4 3 (16.67%) MVC
4 3 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
4 3 (16.67%) Scrum
5 2 (11.11%) Data Analysis
5 2 (11.11%) Data Entry
5 2 (11.11%) Project Management
5 2 (11.11%) Secure Coding
5 2 (11.11%) Software Engineering
5 2 (11.11%) User Experience
5 2 (11.11%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) Java
1 9 (50.00%) SQL
2 6 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 5 (27.78%) Shell Script
3 5 (27.78%) TypeScript
4 4 (22.22%) Korn
4 4 (22.22%) Perl
4 4 (22.22%) PL/SQL
5 3 (16.67%) C#
6 1 (5.56%) Bash
6 1 (5.56%) C++
6 1 (5.56%) Groovy
6 1 (5.56%) Python
6 1 (5.56%) XPath
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) Basel II
1 3 (16.67%) Basel III
1 3 (16.67%) SEPA
2 1 (5.56%) GDPR
2 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Control-M
2 1 (5.56%) Ansible
2 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) Podman
2 1 (5.56%) Puppet
2 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Oracle
2 4 (22.22%) IBM
3 3 (16.67%) Calypso
3 3 (16.67%) Murex
3 3 (16.67%) Perforce
4 1 (5.56%) Google
4 1 (5.56%) OpenAI