Groovy Contracts in the City of London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Groovy skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London 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 City of London 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 185 207 236
Rank change year-on-year
+22 +29
Contract jobs citing Groovy 18 11 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.282% 0.140% 0.092%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.676% 0.381% 0.217%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 8 8
Average daily rate £425 £425 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £328 £431
10% offered a daily rate of more than £545 £545 £558
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £350 £400
% change year-on-year
+10.71% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £20.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year
- -55.55%
All Programming Languages
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 2664 2885 4138
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 41.76% 36.68% 42.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2061 2166 3141
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 33 37
Average hourly rate £39.51 £32.50 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+21.55% +16.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.39 £15.00 £17.24
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.00 £50.00 £57.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Groovy
London

Groovy
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London Groovy Daily Rate Trend

Groovy
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Groovy across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London Groovy Daily Rate Histogram

Groovy
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 35 (92.11%) Java
2 32 (84.21%) JavaScript
3 28 (73.68%) Scrum
3 28 (73.68%) TDD
4 27 (71.05%) Grails
5 26 (68.42%) Spring
6 25 (65.79%) CSS
7 23 (60.53%) HTML
8 22 (57.89%) Ruby
9 20 (52.63%) BDD
10 18 (47.37%) Continuous Integration
10 18 (47.37%) Hibernate
11 17 (44.74%) Web Services
11 17 (44.74%) Selenium
11 17 (44.74%) Cucumber
12 14 (36.84%) J2EE
13 12 (31.58%) Refactoring
14 11 (28.95%) Agile Software Development
14 11 (28.95%) JUnit
15 9 (23.68%) Finance
15 9 (23.68%) jQuery
15 9 (23.68%) Scala
16 7 (18.42%) Kanban
16 7 (18.42%) XML
16 7 (18.42%) Linux
17 6 (15.79%) OO
17 6 (15.79%) SQL
17 6 (15.79%) Oracle
17 6 (15.79%) MVC
17 6 (15.79%) Banking

Groovy
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 27 (71.05%) Grails
2 26 (68.42%) Spring
3 25 (65.79%) CSS
4 23 (60.53%) HTML
5 18 (47.37%) Hibernate
6 17 (44.74%) Web Services
7 14 (36.84%) J2EE
8 9 (23.68%) jQuery
9 7 (18.42%) XML
10 5 (13.16%) HTML5
10 5 (13.16%) CSS3
11 4 (10.53%) RESTful
12 3 (7.895%) Spring MVC
12 3 (7.895%) XSLT
13 2 (5.263%) JSP
13 2 (5.263%) SOAP
13 2 (5.263%) DHTML
13 2 (5.263%) ASP
13 2 (5.263%) Underscore.js
13 2 (5.263%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 4 (10.53%) WebLogic
1 4 (10.53%) Tomcat
2 2 (5.263%) Apache
3 1 (2.632%) Alfresco
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.53%) HTTP
2 1 (2.632%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.263%) SQL Server
1 2 (5.263%) MongoDB
1 2 (5.263%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.632%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 17 (44.74%) Selenium
1 17 (44.74%) Cucumber
2 11 (28.95%) JUnit
3 5 (13.16%) Maven
3 5 (13.16%) Ant
3 5 (13.16%) Hudson
4 4 (10.53%) Eclipse
5 3 (7.895%) FitNesse
5 3 (7.895%) Git (software)
5 3 (7.895%) JMeter
6 2 (5.263%) Visual Studio
6 2 (5.263%) NUnit
6 2 (5.263%) QUnit
6 2 (5.263%) Jasmine
6 2 (5.263%) Jenkins
6 2 (5.263%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (5.263%) JIRA
6 2 (5.263%) WATIR
6 2 (5.263%) Subversion
7 1 (2.632%) JBehave
General
1 9 (23.68%) Finance
2 6 (15.79%) Banking
3 4 (10.53%) Investment Banking
4 2 (5.263%) Front Office
4 2 (5.263%) Private Banking
5 1 (2.632%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 34 (89.47%) Developer
2 26 (68.42%) Java Developer
3 15 (39.47%) Agile Java Developer
4 4 (10.53%) Senior Developer
5 3 (7.895%) Front-End Developer
5 3 (7.895%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (5.263%) Senior Web Developer
6 2 (5.263%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.263%) Web Developer
6 2 (5.263%) Development Manager
6 2 (5.263%) Senior Java Web Developer
6 2 (5.263%) Java Web Developer
7 1 (2.632%) Automation Test Analyst
7 1 (2.632%) GUI Developer
7 1 (2.632%) Ruby on Rails Developer
7 1 (2.632%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 1 (2.632%) Development Engineer
7 1 (2.632%) Automation Analyst
7 1 (2.632%) Analyst
7 1 (2.632%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.632%) Derivative
1 1 (2.632%) Computer Science
1 1 (2.632%) Open Source
1 1 (2.632%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 7 (18.42%) Linux
2 3 (7.895%) UNIX
3 2 (5.263%) Windows
3 2 (5.263%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (73.68%) Scrum
1 28 (73.68%) TDD
2 20 (52.63%) BDD
3 18 (47.37%) Continuous Integration
4 12 (31.58%) Refactoring
5 11 (28.95%) Agile Software Development
6 7 (18.42%) Kanban
7 6 (15.79%) OO
7 6 (15.79%) MVC
8 5 (13.16%) Extreme Programming
8 5 (13.16%) E-Commerce
9 4 (10.53%) Pair Programming
9 4 (10.53%) Test Automation
10 3 (7.895%) Web Development
11 2 (5.263%) ITIL
11 2 (5.263%) Data Modelling
11 2 (5.263%) SOA
11 2 (5.263%) Unit Testing
11 2 (5.263%) Test Scripting
11 2 (5.263%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (92.11%) Java
2 32 (84.21%) JavaScript
3 22 (57.89%) Ruby
4 9 (23.68%) Scala
5 6 (15.79%) SQL
6 5 (13.16%) Bash shell
7 4 (10.53%) C#
8 3 (7.895%) C-shell
8 3 (7.895%) Perl
9 2 (5.263%) PL/SQL
10 1 (2.632%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.263%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (15.79%) Oracle
2 2 (5.263%) JBoss
2 2 (5.263%) Sybase
3 1 (2.632%) Google
Java / Groovy Developer
City, London
You will be working on the initial stages of an exciting project - You will be working on B2B and D2C websites running cross-browser and cross-platform - You...
Coal IT Services
Rate: From £400 to £500 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
java/nosql developer
City, London
Is looking for a java/NoSQL developer... Experience with noSQL databases (Cassandra) Exposure to working in Agile environments. Experience with alternative languages such as Groovy, Ruby, Scala, Python...
Hydrogen Group
Rate: £0.00 - £425.00 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
Java GUI Developer - Banking - London - £600pd
City of London
The successful candidate's main skills will be: * Knowledge of both Java and C# and very strong in one of them* Strong front end web development in HTML,...
Orgtel
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Automation Development Tester
City, London
Support the creation scripts to be run under Continuous Integration using Hudson, Maven and Subversion... -Familiar of testing frameworks using Java and Groovy. -Competent in TESTNG. -Good SQL...
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £320 - £365 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
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