The first table below looks at the demand for Groovy skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Groovy over the 3 months to 21 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 Manchester 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Groovy
Rank 69 - 71
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Groovy 4 0 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.424% - 0.297%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.187% - 1.003%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £350 £413
% change year-on-year
+10.71% -15.15%
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
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
337 479 299
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 35.70% 36.85% 29.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 284 169
Average daily rate £290 £301 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.49% +9.27%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £226 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £400 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 30 16
Average hourly rate £27.75 £27.50 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+0.90% +22.22%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.58 £14.73 £11.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £126.90 £37.00 £35.05
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Groovy
North West

Groovy
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester Groovy Daily Rate Trend

Groovy
Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 7 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (71.43%) Ruby
2 5 (71.43%) TDD
2 5 (71.43%) Bash shell
3 2 (28.57%) Spring
3 2 (28.57%) Java EE
3 2 (28.57%) JPA
3 2 (28.57%) Scala
3 2 (28.57%) MVC
3 2 (28.57%) OO
3 2 (28.57%) RDBMS

Groovy
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 2 (28.57%) Spring
1 2 (28.57%) Java EE
1 2 (28.57%) JPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) RDBMS
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Java Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) TDD
2 2 (28.57%) MVC
2 2 (28.57%) OO
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (71.43%) Ruby
2 5 (71.43%) Bash shell
3 2 (28.57%) Scala