Ant Job Trends

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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 647 669 682
Rank change year-on-year +22 +13 +175
Permanent jobs citing Ant 4 42 31
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.007% 0.076% 0.060%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.11% 0.74% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1 34 20
10th Percentile - - £46,250
25th Percentile £106,250 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £60,000 £79,288
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% -24.33% -11.90%
75th Percentile £118,750 £65,000 £91,934
90th Percentile - £98,750 -
UK excluding London median annual salary - £57,500 £83,577
% change year-on-year - -31.20% +33.72%

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 3,631 5,666 6,334
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.14% 10.26% 12.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,383 3,295 5,088
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,574 £41,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £82,548
90th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £55,000 £59,500
% change year-on-year -6.36% -7.56% +8.18%

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 7 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 1 January 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 +38 4 £112,500 +87.50% 7
UK excluding London +57 2 - - 4
London -2 2 £112,500 +87.50% 3
South East +21 1 - - 2
North of England - 1 - -
North West - 1 - -
Scotland - 1 - -

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Apache
1 2 (50.00%) JBoss
1 2 (50.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (25.00%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) OpenShift
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
2 3 (75.00%) Maven
3 2 (50.00%) Artifactory
3 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (50.00%) JIRA
3 2 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
4 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
4 1 (25.00%) Gradle
4 1 (25.00%) JUnit
4 1 (25.00%) Mockito
4 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
4 1 (25.00%) webpack
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Linux DevOps Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Scripter
1 2 (50.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Windows DevOps Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) CSS
1 2 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (50.00%) HTML
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
1 2 (50.00%) Middleware
1 2 (50.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (25.00%) Bootstrap
2 1 (25.00%) HTML5
2 1 (25.00%) Jest
2 1 (25.00%) LESS
2 1 (25.00%) Material-UI
2 1 (25.00%) Nightwatchjs
2 1 (25.00%) Sass
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (25.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 2 (50.00%) Release Management
2 2 (50.00%) Storage Management
3 1 (25.00%) BPMN
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Functional Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Product Discovery
3 1 (25.00%) Responsive Web Design
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) User Research
3 1 (25.00%) UX Research
3 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) Groovy
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Go
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Ansible
2 2 (50.00%) Podman
2 2 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat