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Groovy Contracts in Scotland
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Groovy skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland 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 Scotland 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 119 99 106
Rank change year-on-year
-20 +7
Contract jobs citing Groovy 4 11 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.159% 0.413% 0.210%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.398% 1.599% 0.717%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 6
Average daily rate £275 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.42% +7.69%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £305 £350
% change year-on-year
+14.75% -12.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £20.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £20.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year
- -55.55%
All Programming Languages
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 1006 688 837
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 39.87% 25.84% 29.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 457 296 431
Average daily rate £370 £320 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.62% -8.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £235 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £415 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 25 23
Average hourly rate £28.50 £30.00 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% -4.76%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.42 £16.00 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.00 £32.80 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
Groovy
UK

Groovy
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland 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		 Find
Job
Vacancies
Edinburgh - 4 £275 - 2
Glasgow - - - -
Groovy
UK

Groovy
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 6 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (66.67%) Linux
2 4 (66.67%) MySQL
2 4 (66.67%) TopLink
2 4 (66.67%) GlassFish
2 4 (66.67%) JPA
3 3 (50.00%) JavaBeans
3 3 (50.00%) Grails
3 3 (50.00%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (33.33%) Ruby
4 2 (33.33%) Scrum
4 2 (33.33%) EJB
4 2 (33.33%) SOAP
4 2 (33.33%) UNIX
4 2 (33.33%) SOA
4 2 (33.33%) Perl
4 2 (33.33%) soapUI
4 2 (33.33%) JBehave
4 2 (33.33%) C#
5 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 1 (16.67%) J2EE

Groovy
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 4 (66.67%) TopLink
1 4 (66.67%) JPA
2 3 (50.00%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (50.00%) Grails
2 3 (50.00%) JavaBeans
3 2 (33.33%) EJB
3 2 (33.33%) SOAP
3 2 (33.33%) soapUI
4 1 (16.67%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 4 (66.67%) GlassFish
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JBehave
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
1 4 (66.67%) Java Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Test Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Automation Test Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Automation Analyst
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) SOA
1 2 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) Perl
2 2 (33.33%) Ruby
2 2 (33.33%) C#
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