The first table below looks at the demand for Groovy skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Groovy 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 Programming Languages category for the Reading 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
Groovy
Rank 71 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Groovy 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.227% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.816% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £369 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
+5.35% -
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
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
245 279 308
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 27.84% 24.24% 30.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 119 149
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £482 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 9 11
Average hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% +47.05%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £15.73 £11.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £31.45 £44.00 £31.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
Groovy
Berkshire

Groovy
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading Groovy Daily Rate Trend

Groovy
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 3 (100.00%) SOAP
1 3 (100.00%) Web Services
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) UNIX
1 3 (100.00%) ISEB
1 3 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 3 (100.00%) Handset
1 3 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 3 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 3 (100.00%) HP Quality Center
1 3 (100.00%) soapUI
1 3 (100.00%) REST
1 3 (100.00%) DbVisualizer
2 2 (66.67%) Waterfall
2 2 (66.67%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 2 (66.67%) Web Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
2 2 (66.67%) System Testing
2 2 (66.67%) WebSphere
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Statistics
3 1 (33.33%) LoadRunner
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) MS Access
3 1 (33.33%) JProfiler

Groovy
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 3 (100.00%) SOAP
1 3 (100.00%) Web Services
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) soapUI
1 3 (100.00%) REST
2 2 (66.67%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) WebSphere Application Server
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) DbVisualizer
2 1 (33.33%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) LoadRunner
2 1 (33.33%) JProfiler
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Test Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Handset
2 1 (33.33%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Waterfall
2 2 (66.67%) Web Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
2 2 (66.67%) System Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) ISEB
1 3 (100.00%) ISTQB
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) HP Quality Center