The first table below looks at the demand for Groovy skills in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Groovy over the 3 months to 23 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 Surrey 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Groovy
Rank 65 97 98
Rank change year-on-year
+32 +1
Contract jobs citing Groovy 15 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 1.304% 0.062% 0.107%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.538% 0.156% 0.303%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
Average daily rate £388 - £425
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
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
424 639 660
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 36.87% 39.69% 35.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 338 357
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £494 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 50 32
Average hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.50 £22.50 £23.65
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.60 £42.50
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 Surrey region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey 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 Surrey region over the 3 months to 23 May 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
Camberley - 9 - -
Staines - 6 £388 -
Groovy
South East

Groovy
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 10 (62.50%) Java
1 10 (62.50%) Hibernate
1 10 (62.50%) Spring
1 10 (62.50%) Maven
1 10 (62.50%) GWT
1 10 (62.50%) Guice
1 10 (62.50%) TestNG
1 10 (62.50%) DbUnit
1 10 (62.50%) Mockito
1 10 (62.50%) Jenkins
2 8 (50.00%) Spring Batch
2 8 (50.00%) Spring Security
2 8 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
3 6 (37.50%) ESB
3 6 (37.50%) Windows Azure
3 6 (37.50%) JMeter
3 6 (37.50%) Visual Studio
4 5 (31.25%) Web Services
5 4 (25.00%) Scrum
6 3 (18.75%) Windows
6 3 (18.75%) SOA
6 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
6 3 (18.75%) SOAP
6 3 (18.75%) Finance
6 3 (18.75%) soapUI
7 2 (12.50%) MSTest
7 2 (12.50%) Google
7 2 (12.50%) MVC
8 1 (6.250%) SQL
8 1 (6.250%) Stakeholder Engagement

Groovy
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 10 (62.50%) Hibernate
1 10 (62.50%) Spring
1 10 (62.50%) GWT
1 10 (62.50%) Guice
2 8 (50.00%) Spring Batch
2 8 (50.00%) Spring Security
3 5 (31.25%) Web Services
4 3 (18.75%) SOAP
4 3 (18.75%) soapUI
Application Platforms
1 6 (37.50%) ESB
1 6 (37.50%) Windows Azure
Development Applications
1 10 (62.50%) Maven
1 10 (62.50%) TestNG
1 10 (62.50%) DbUnit
1 10 (62.50%) Mockito
1 10 (62.50%) Jenkins
2 6 (37.50%) JMeter
2 6 (37.50%) Visual Studio
3 2 (12.50%) MSTest
General
1 3 (18.75%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Developer
2 5 (31.25%) Test Leader
3 2 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Test Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Agile Test Analyst
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (25.00%) Scrum
3 3 (18.75%) SOA
4 2 (12.50%) MVC
5 1 (6.250%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) Java
2 1 (6.250%) SQL
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Google