Ant Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 295 341 462
Rank change year-on-year +46 +121 +125
Contract jobs citing Ant 9 4 15
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.091% 0.026% 0.058%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.61% 0.22% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 12
10th Percentile - - £367
25th Percentile - £536 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £568 £463
Median % change year-on-year -42.78% +22.81% -9.31%
75th Percentile £620 £656 £675
90th Percentile - £713 £686
UK median daily rate £415 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -22.54% -2.55% +7.84%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

Ant falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,482 1,853 3,954
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 14.96% 12.08% 15.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,067 1,324 2,836
10th Percentile £340 £360 £395
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% +2.86%
75th Percentile £615 £600 £650
90th Percentile £750 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 43 114
10th Percentile £27.28 £28.99 £45.00
25th Percentile £58.81 £47.38 £54.06
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +30.00%
75th Percentile £80.38 £90.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.25 - £81.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Ant as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Ant trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Ant.

Ant daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Ant over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Ant daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Ant.

Ant hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Pipelines
1 1 (11.11%) CloudFront
1 1 (11.11%) Route 53
1 1 (11.11%) Serverless
1 1 (11.11%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (11.11%) MySQL
1 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (88.89%) Maven
2 5 (55.56%) Git
2 5 (55.56%) Jenkins
2 5 (55.56%) Subversion
3 3 (33.33%) Gradle
4 1 (11.11%) webpack
General
1 6 (66.67%) Finance
2 5 (55.56%) Banking
2 5 (55.56%) Front Office
2 5 (55.56%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Developer
2 5 (55.56%) .NET Developer
2 5 (55.56%) .NET Software Developer
2 5 (55.56%) .NET Software Engineer
2 5 (55.56%) C# .NET Developer
2 5 (55.56%) C# Developer
2 5 (55.56%) C# Software Developer
2 5 (55.56%) C# Software Engineer
2 5 (55.56%) Developer/Software Engineer
2 5 (55.56%) Software Engineer
3 3 (33.33%) Java Team Leader
3 3 (33.33%) Lead
3 3 (33.33%) Team Leader
3 3 (33.33%) Technical Leader
3 3 (33.33%) Technical Team Leader
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) .NET
2 3 (33.33%) CSS
2 3 (33.33%) HTML
2 3 (33.33%) JSP
2 3 (33.33%) Spring
2 3 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 3 (33.33%) Thymeleaf
3 1 (11.11%) JSON
3 1 (11.11%) JSON Schema
3 1 (11.11%) Node.js
3 1 (11.11%) OAuth
3 1 (11.11%) OpenAPI
3 1 (11.11%) RESTful
3 1 (11.11%) Swagger
3 1 (11.11%) TypeORM
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Derivative
1 5 (55.56%) Equities
1 5 (55.56%) Equity Derivative
1 5 (55.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Linux
1 5 (55.56%) Unix
1 5 (55.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Concurrent Programming
1 5 (55.56%) Design Patterns
1 5 (55.56%) High Availability
1 5 (55.56%) OO
1 5 (55.56%) OOA/OOD
1 5 (55.56%) SDLC
1 5 (55.56%) Software Engineering
2 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
3 3 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (33.33%) MVC
3 3 (33.33%) Scrum
4 1 (11.11%) API Development
4 1 (11.11%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) C#
1 5 (55.56%) SQL
2 4 (44.44%) TypeScript
3 3 (33.33%) Java
3 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft