Apache Ant
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Ant skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 785 674 787
Rank change year-on-year -111 +113 -12
Permanent jobs citing Ant 4 13 25
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.004% 0.026% 0.030%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.087% 0.32% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 2 9 21
10th Percentile £81,000 £54,319 -
25th Percentile £82,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £87,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £89,000 £118,750 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 - £57,500
% change year-on-year - - -2.54%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,580 4,024 7,096
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.28% 8.02% 8.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,972 2,494 4,498
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,813
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -4.35%

Ant
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Ant relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Ant job vacancy trend in the UK

Ant
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Ant.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Ant

Ant
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ant within the UK over the 6 months to 17 August 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -77 4 £85,000 +41.67% 2
UK excluding London -96 3 £80,000 - 2
Midlands - 2 - - 1
West Midlands - 2 - - 1
London -60 1 £90,000 +50.00%
North West - 1 £80,000 - 1
North of England - 1 £80,000 - 1
Work from Home - 1 £90,000 -

Ant
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) IaaS
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Copilot
2 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI
1 2 (50.00%) Power Query
2 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Ivy
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) IBM UrbanCode
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (50.00%) Maven
General
1 3 (75.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (25.00%) Middleware
1 1 (25.00%) Next.js
1 1 (25.00%) React
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
1 1 (25.00%) Tailwind CSS
1 1 (25.00%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Solaris
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) AI
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
3 2 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) ITSM
3 2 (50.00%) Problem Management
3 2 (50.00%) Service Management
3 2 (50.00%) Task Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Apex Code
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) SLA
2 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Progress Chef
1 2 (50.00%) Puppet
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce