The first table below looks at the demand for Grails skills in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Grails over the 3 months to 19 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 Application Development category for the Glasgow 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Grails
Rank - 50 -
Contract jobs citing Grails 0 9 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow - 1.106% -
As % of the Application Development category - 4.412% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 0
Average daily rate - £350 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £375 £413
% change year-on-year
-14.66% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £45.00
All Application Development
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
389 204 284
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 43.27% 25.06% 36.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 90 174
Average daily rate £350 £311 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.72% -8.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £240 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £400 £401
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
Average hourly rate - £22.50 £26.83
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -16.13%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
Grails
Scotland

Grails
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Grails across the Glasgow region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Glasgow Grails Jobs Demand Trend

Grails
Daily Rate Trend

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

Glasgow Grails Daily Rate Trend

Grails
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing Grails 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 Grails.

1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) JSF
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) BDD

Grails
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing Grails 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 Grails. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) JSF
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL