Apache Ant
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Ant skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Ant over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 571 659 774
Rank change year-on-year +88 +115 -179
Contract jobs citing Ant 12 37 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.028% 0.064% 0.076%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.24% 0.43% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 23 36
10th Percentile £431 £410 £444
25th Percentile £481 £435 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% +7.84% +2.00%
75th Percentile £628 £656 £575
90th Percentile £745 £795 £631
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £460 £480
% change year-on-year +8.70% -4.17% +12.94%

All Development Application Skills
UK

Ant is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,105 8,652 15,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.94% 14.87% 18.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,428 6,098 11,217
10th Percentile £353 £381 £400
25th Percentile £425 £461 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 237 216
10th Percentile £33.20 £44.62 £38.54
25th Percentile £46.38 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.55
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.04% +15.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.13 £81.00 £76.24
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +20.88%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ant.

Daily rate trend for Ant in the UK

Ant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ant over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ant in the UK

Ant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ant.

Hourly rate trend for Ant in the UK

Ant
Top 6 Contract 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 13 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +84 12 £536 -2.55% 9
London +73 7 £610 +10.91% 8
UK excluding London +63 5 £500 +8.70% 1
Midlands +37 5 £500 -
West Midlands +27 5 £500 -
Work from Home +106 4 £568 +22.81% 3

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 2 (16.67%) Apache Spark
1 2 (16.67%) WebSphere
2 1 (8.33%) Apache
2 1 (8.33%) Confluence
2 1 (8.33%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
1 2 (16.67%) npm
1 2 (16.67%) Yarn
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) NoSQL
2 3 (25.00%) MongoDB
3 2 (16.67%) Data Lake
3 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (16.67%) RDBMS
3 2 (16.67%) Relational Database
4 1 (8.33%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (8.33%) Flink
4 1 (8.33%) MySQL
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle Database
4 1 (8.33%) Scylla
4 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Maven
2 3 (25.00%) Gradle
2 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (16.67%) Babel
3 2 (16.67%) JIRA
3 2 (16.67%) JUnit
3 2 (16.67%) TeamCity
3 2 (16.67%) webpack
4 1 (8.33%) Artifactory
4 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
4 1 (8.33%) Git
4 1 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Banking
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) SQL Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Senior
4 2 (16.67%) Data Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Lead
4 2 (16.67%) React Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) UI Developer
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Grid Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Linux Scripter
5 1 (8.33%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) Senior .NET Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) CSS
1 3 (25.00%) HTML
1 3 (25.00%) RESTful
2 2 (16.67%) .NET
2 2 (16.67%) CSS3
2 2 (16.67%) HTML5
2 2 (16.67%) Material-UI
2 2 (16.67%) MobX
2 2 (16.67%) React
2 2 (16.67%) Redux
2 2 (16.67%) Semantic UI
2 2 (16.67%) Web Services
2 2 (16.67%) WPF
3 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (8.33%) JDBC
3 1 (8.33%) Middleware
3 1 (8.33%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 2 (16.67%) Algorithms
2 2 (16.67%) Data Structures
3 1 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Unix
2 4 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Scrum
2 4 (33.33%) Agile
2 4 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
2 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 4 (33.33%) System Testing
3 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (16.67%) Asynchronous Programming
4 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
4 2 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (16.67%) DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) Full Stack Development
4 2 (16.67%) Functional Programming
4 2 (16.67%) Microservices
4 2 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (16.67%) User Experience
4 2 (16.67%) UX Design
4 2 (16.67%) Wireframes
5 1 (8.33%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) SQL
2 6 (50.00%) Bash
3 5 (41.67%) PL/SQL
4 4 (33.33%) Bourne shell
4 4 (33.33%) Java
4 4 (33.33%) Korn
4 4 (33.33%) Python
5 3 (25.00%) Shell Script
6 2 (16.67%) C
6 2 (16.67%) C#
6 2 (16.67%) C++
6 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
6 2 (16.67%) Scala
6 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
7 1 (8.33%) Groovy
7 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (8.33%) Degree
3 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Ansible
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Grafana
2 1 (8.33%) Kibana
2 1 (8.33%) Podman
2 1 (8.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) IBM