The first table below looks at the demand for Groovy skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Groovy over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Berkshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Groovy
Rank 118 134 115
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -19
Contract jobs citing Groovy 2 1 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.084% 0.032% 0.470%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.279% 0.142% 1.504%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £350 £400
% change year-on-year
+10.71% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
Average hourly rate - - £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £20.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year
- -55.55%
All Programming Languages
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
717 706 931
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 29.94% 22.45% 31.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 341 378
Average daily rate £375 £350 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +9.37%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £245 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £434
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 12 90
Average hourly rate £34.00 £36.25 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.20% -14.70%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.65 £18.50 £30.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £45.00 £47.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Groovy
South East

Groovy
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Groovy across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Berkshire Groovy Jobs Demand Trend

Groovy
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Groovy across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire Groovy Daily Rate Trend

Groovy
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Groovy across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire Groovy Hourly Rate Trend

Groovy
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Groovy within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Reading - 2 - -
Groovy
South East

Groovy
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Groovy also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Groovy.

1 5 (83.33%) Web Services
1 5 (83.33%) XML
1 5 (83.33%) REST
2 4 (66.67%) DbVisualizer
2 4 (66.67%) soapUI
2 4 (66.67%) HP Quality Center
2 4 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Handset
2 4 (66.67%) SOAP
3 3 (50.00%) WebSphere Application Server
3 3 (50.00%) Java
3 3 (50.00%) UNIX
3 3 (50.00%) ISEB
3 3 (50.00%) Shell Script
3 3 (50.00%) Web Testing
3 3 (50.00%) ISTQB
3 3 (50.00%) WebSphere
3 3 (50.00%) System Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Scala
4 2 (33.33%) Cucumber
4 2 (33.33%) Test Scripting
4 2 (33.33%) TDD
4 2 (33.33%) Spring
5 1 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
5 1 (16.67%) Scrum
5 1 (16.67%) Extreme Programming
5 1 (16.67%) MVC
5 1 (16.67%) Finance
5 1 (16.67%) LoadRunner

Groovy
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Groovy also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Groovy. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (83.33%) Web Services
1 5 (83.33%) XML
1 5 (83.33%) REST
2 4 (66.67%) soapUI
2 4 (66.67%) SOAP
3 3 (50.00%) WebSphere
4 2 (33.33%) Spring
5 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
5 1 (16.67%) XSLT
5 1 (16.67%) XHTML
5 1 (16.67%) Servlets
5 1 (16.67%) Struts
5 1 (16.67%) HTML
5 1 (16.67%) Velocity
5 1 (16.67%) JSR 168
5 1 (16.67%) Grails
5 1 (16.67%) Gherkin
5 1 (16.67%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (16.67%) Apache
2 1 (16.67%) Tomcat
2 1 (16.67%) Alfresco
2 1 (16.67%) Liferay
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) DbVisualizer
2 1 (16.67%) MS Access
2 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (16.67%) LoadRunner
2 1 (16.67%) Eclipse
2 1 (16.67%) IntelliJ
2 1 (16.67%) JUnit
2 1 (16.67%) Subversion
2 1 (16.67%) Selenium
2 1 (16.67%) FitNesse
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) JProfiler
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Test Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Java Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Test Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Test Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Agile Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Handset
2 1 (16.67%) Statistics
2 1 (16.67%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) UNIX
2 1 (16.67%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Web Testing
2 3 (50.00%) System Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 2 (33.33%) TDD
4 1 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (16.67%) Scrum
4 1 (16.67%) Extreme Programming
4 1 (16.67%) MVC
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Testing
4 1 (16.67%) BDD
4 1 (16.67%) Functional Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Kanban
4 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
1 3 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (33.33%) Scala
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) ISEB
1 3 (50.00%) ISTQB
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) GigaSpaces