The first table below looks at the demand for Groovy skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Groovy over the 3 months to 18 June 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 East of England 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Groovy
Rank - 130 -
Contract jobs citing Groovy 0 5 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England - 0.165% -
As % of the Programming Languages category - 0.394% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £260 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £305 £350
% change year-on-year
+14.75% -12.85%
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
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
924 1268 1048
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 41.25% 41.93% 38.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 623 467
Average daily rate £325 £325 £303
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.43%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £213 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £440 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 121 111
Average hourly rate £35.50 £35.22 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+0.79% +0.62%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.66 £20.06 £22.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £50.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
Groovy
England

Groovy
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England Groovy Daily 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 East of England region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
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Vacancies
Cambridgeshire - - - -
Hertfordshire - - - -
Suffolk - - - -
Groovy
England

Groovy
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) Grails
2 3 (60.00%) Spring
2 3 (60.00%) Web Services
3 2 (40.00%) Linux
3 2 (40.00%) E-Commerce
3 2 (40.00%) MySQL
3 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) JSON
3 2 (40.00%) RESTful
3 2 (40.00%) Kanban
3 2 (40.00%) Build Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Gradle
4 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (20.00%) Apache CXF
4 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (20.00%) WebDriver
4 1 (20.00%) JProfiler
4 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
4 1 (20.00%) BDD
4 1 (20.00%) REST
4 1 (20.00%) jQuery
4 1 (20.00%) Load Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (20.00%) FitNesse
4 1 (20.00%) Maven
4 1 (20.00%) Checkstyle
4 1 (20.00%) Ajax
4 1 (20.00%) Finance

Groovy
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 (100.00%) Grails
2 3 (60.00%) Spring
2 3 (60.00%) Web Services
3 2 (40.00%) RESTful
3 2 (40.00%) JSON
4 1 (20.00%) REST
4 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
4 1 (20.00%) J2EE
4 1 (20.00%) SOAP
4 1 (20.00%) Ajax
4 1 (20.00%) jQuery
4 1 (20.00%) Apache CXF
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JUnit
1 1 (20.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (20.00%) Maven
1 1 (20.00%) Checkstyle
1 1 (20.00%) FitNesse
1 1 (20.00%) WebDriver
1 1 (20.00%) JProfiler
1 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (20.00%) Gradle
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Java Software Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Software Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 1 (20.00%) J2EE Developer
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (40.00%) Scrum
1 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (40.00%) Kanban
1 2 (40.00%) Build Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (20.00%) BDD
2 1 (20.00%) TDD
2 1 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Load Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
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