The first table below looks at the demand for Groovy skills in IT contracts advertised for the Middlesex 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 Middlesex 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 - - 38
Contract jobs citing Groovy 0 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex - - 0.298%
As % of the Programming Languages category - - 1.136%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £350
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
Middlesex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
53 58 88
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 26.50% 18.77% 26.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 21 42
Average daily rate £338 £375 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.00% -16.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 8
Average hourly rate £37.50 £39.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% +34.48%
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 Middlesex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex Groovy Daily Rate Trend

Groovy
Top 9 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
1 1 (100.00%) Grails
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3

Groovy
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Grails
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby