Groovy Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Groovy skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Groovy over the 3 months to 16 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category.

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.

Groovy
Location
3 months to
16 May 2012		Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank513481445
Rank change year-on-year
Down-32Down-36
Matching contract IT job ads6610091
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.112 %0.163 %0.165 %
As % of the Programming Languages category0.323 %0.436 %0.440 %
Number of daily rates quoted335949
Average daily rate£375£450£350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.66 %+28.57 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£250£340£236
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£520£550£400
UK excluding London average daily rate£313£413£240
% change year-on-year
-24.24 %+71.87 %
Number of hourly rates quoted190
Average hourly rate£20.00£45.00-
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-55.55 %-
UK excluding London average hourly rate£20.00£45.00-
% change year-on-year
-55.55 %-
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		204102292520661
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK34.48 %37.36 %37.52 %
Number of daily rates quoted121261324810820
Average daily rate£375£413£425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.09 %-2.94 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£250£260£235
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£558£600£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£325£300
% change year-on-year
-+8.33 %
Number of hourly rates quoted698916770
Average hourly rate£34.00£35.00£30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.85 %+16.66 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£17.50£19.50£16.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£45.00£45.00£42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£34.00£35.00£30.00
% change year-on-year
-2.85 %+16.66 %

Groovy
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Groovy within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Groovy Demand Trend

Groovy
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Groovy within the UK.

Groovy Daily Rate Trend

Groovy
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Groovy within the UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012.

Groovy Daily Rate Histogram

Groovy
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Groovy within the UK.

Groovy Hourly Rate Trend

Groovy
Top 21 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 UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandDown-3356£400-11.11 %
LondonDown-433£400-12.32 %
South EastDown-1314£188-54.54 %
City of LondonUp+3911£368-21.60 %
ScotlandNew entry-10£350-
GlasgowNew entry-9£350-
BuckinghamshireNew entry-9£188-
High WycombeNew entry-8£175-
East MidlandsDown-23£525-
North WestDown-23£275-
MerseysideNew entry-3£275-
NorthamptonNew entry-3£525-
East of EnglandNew entry-3--
LiverpoolNew entry-3£275-
HertfordshireNew entry-3--
NorthamptonshireNew entry-3£525-
SurreyUp+11--
BerkshireDown-241--
Thames ValleyNew entry-1--
DorkingNew entry-1--
EdinburghNew entry-1£400-

Groovy
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1143 (88.27 %)Java
285 (52.47 %)Spring
375 (46.30 %)Grails
466 (40.74 %)TDD
466 (40.74 %)Hibernate
554 (33.33 %)SQL
651 (31.48 %)JavaScript
748 (29.63 %)J2EE
845 (27.78 %)Agile Software Development
942 (25.93 %)Scrum
1040 (24.69 %)CSS
1138 (23.46 %)Web Services
1138 (23.46 %)HTML
1138 (23.46 %)Linux
1235 (21.60 %)Maven
1235 (21.60 %)Ruby
1332 (19.75 %)MVC
1431 (19.14 %)Scala
1527 (16.67 %)Oracle
1527 (16.67 %)XML
1527 (16.67 %)Selenium
1625 (15.43 %)Open Source
1724 (14.81 %)Pair Programming
1724 (14.81 %)JUnit
1823 (14.20 %)Ant
1823 (14.20 %)SOAP
1823 (14.20 %)jQuery
1922 (13.58 %)Continuous Integration
1922 (13.58 %)Subversion
1922 (13.58 %)REST

Groovy
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
185 (52.47 %)Spring
275 (46.30 %)Grails
366 (40.74 %)Hibernate
448 (29.63 %)J2EE
540 (24.69 %)CSS
638 (23.46 %)Web Services
638 (23.46 %)HTML
727 (16.67 %)XML
823 (14.20 %)SOAP
823 (14.20 %)jQuery
922 (13.58 %)REST
1019 (11.73 %)Spring MVC
1117 (10.49 %)JMS
1215 (9.259 %)Ajax
1312 (7.407 %)JSON
1411 (6.790 %)RESTful
1510 (6.173 %)JPA
169 (5.556 %)Ruby on Rails
169 (5.556 %)JDBC
178 (4.938 %)JSP
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
120 (12.35 %)Tomcat
215 (9.259 %)Apache
310 (6.173 %)CMS
46 (3.704 %)ESB
55 (3.086 %)Apache Solr
55 (3.086 %)WebLogic
64 (2.469 %)GlassFish
73 (1.852 %)Jetty
82 (1.235 %)WebSphere Application Server
82 (1.235 %)Mule
91 (0.617 %)RabbitMQ
91 (0.617 %)Google App Engine
91 (0.617 %)Amazon AWS
91 (0.617 %)Adobe CQ
91 (0.617 %)Amazon EC2
91 (0.617 %)Alfresco
91 (0.617 %)Resin
91 (0.617 %)Oracle Workflow
91 (0.617 %)IIS
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
16 (3.704 %)BusinessWorks
23 (1.852 %)Oracle BPM
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
19 (5.556 %)Internet
26 (3.704 %)HTTP
32 (1.235 %)Extranet
32 (1.235 %)AMQP
41 (0.617 %)VoIP
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
117 (10.49 %)MySQL
211 (6.790 %)NoSQL
37 (4.321 %)Apache Cassandra
46 (3.704 %)Hadoop
46 (3.704 %)MongoDB
55 (3.086 %)RDBMS
64 (2.469 %)SQL Server
73 (1.852 %)HBase
73 (1.852 %)Oracle 11g
82 (1.235 %)PostgreSQL
91 (0.617 %)CouchDB
91 (0.617 %)SimpleDB
91 (0.617 %)DB2 UDB
91 (0.617 %)Data Warehouse
91 (0.617 %)ETL
91 (0.617 %)DB2
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
135 (21.60 %)Maven
227 (16.67 %)Selenium
324 (14.81 %)JUnit
423 (14.20 %)Ant
522 (13.58 %)Subversion
618 (11.11 %)Hudson
77 (4.321 %)Cucumber
77 (4.321 %)Eclipse
86 (3.704 %)Atlassian Bamboo
86 (3.704 %)Git (software)
94 (2.469 %)IntelliJ
94 (2.469 %)CruiseControl
94 (2.469 %)HttpUnit
94 (2.469 %)EasyMock
94 (2.469 %)Mockito
103 (1.852 %)WebDriver
103 (1.852 %)Concordion
103 (1.852 %)TestNG
103 (1.852 %)JIRA
112 (1.235 %)NetBeans
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
111 (6.790 %)Banking
210 (6.173 %)Finance
37 (4.321 %)Publishing
37 (4.321 %)Telecoms
46 (3.704 %)Automotive
46 (3.704 %)Games
53 (1.852 %)Retail
53 (1.852 %)Retail Banking
62 (1.235 %)Marketing
62 (1.235 %)Investment Banking
71 (0.617 %)Multimedia
71 (0.617 %)Billing
71 (0.617 %)Front Office
71 (0.617 %)Advertising
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1119 (73.46 %)Developer
288 (54.32 %)Java Developer
330 (18.52 %)Senior Developer
425 (15.43 %)Senior Java Developer
520 (12.35 %)Agile Java Developer
611 (6.790 %)Analyst
710 (6.173 %)Test Analyst
88 (4.938 %)Architect
97 (4.321 %)Java/J2EE Developer
106 (3.704 %)Software Developer
106 (3.704 %)Front-End Developer
115 (3.086 %)Web Developer
115 (3.086 %)J2EE Developer
124 (2.469 %)Configuration Manager
124 (2.469 %)Tester
124 (2.469 %)Technical Architect
124 (2.469 %)Consultant
133 (1.852 %)Technical Tester
133 (1.852 %)Senior Software Developer
133 (1.852 %)Java Software Developer
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
125 (15.43 %)Open Source
28 (4.938 %)Computer Science
28 (4.938 %)SaaS
36 (3.704 %)iPad
45 (3.086 %)Digital Media
45 (3.086 %)iPhone
54 (2.469 %)Mainframe
54 (2.469 %)Cloud Computing
63 (1.852 %)Reference Data
63 (1.852 %)Online Games
63 (1.852 %)Smartphone
72 (1.235 %)Streaming Video
72 (1.235 %)Handset
72 (1.235 %)Social Network
72 (1.235 %)Mashup
72 (1.235 %)Inversion of Control
81 (0.617 %)Social Media
81 (0.617 %)Heroku
81 (0.617 %)Data Integration
81 (0.617 %)CMDB
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
138 (23.46 %)Linux
219 (11.73 %)UNIX
37 (4.321 %)Windows
42 (1.235 %)CentOS
51 (0.617 %)Apple iOS
51 (0.617 %)Android
51 (0.617 %)Ubuntu
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
166 (40.74 %)TDD
245 (27.78 %)Agile Software Development
342 (25.93 %)Scrum
432 (19.75 %)MVC
524 (14.81 %)Pair Programming
622 (13.58 %)Continuous Integration
718 (11.11 %)OO
817 (10.49 %)E-Commerce
817 (10.49 %)SOA
916 (9.877 %)Web Development
1011 (6.790 %)Web Application Development
119 (5.556 %)Unit Testing
127 (4.321 %)Dependency Injection
127 (4.321 %)BDD
127 (4.321 %)AOP
127 (4.321 %)Automated Testing
136 (3.704 %)Multithreading
136 (3.704 %)Test Automation
144 (2.469 %)Workflow
144 (2.469 %)Content Management
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1143 (88.27 %)Java
254 (33.33 %)SQL
351 (31.48 %)JavaScript
435 (21.60 %)Ruby
531 (19.14 %)Scala
621 (12.96 %)Python
715 (9.259 %)Shell Script
89 (5.556 %)C++
98 (4.938 %)C#
107 (4.321 %)PL/SQL
116 (3.704 %)Perl
116 (3.704 %)XPath
116 (3.704 %)Clojure
125 (3.086 %)COBOL
134 (2.469 %)PHP
134 (2.469 %)XQuery
142 (1.235 %)VBScript
142 (1.235 %)Bash shell
151 (0.617 %)Erlang
151 (0.617 %)AspectJ
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
18 (4.938 %)Degree
27 (4.321 %)ISEB
36 (3.704 %)ISTQB
42 (1.235 %)Security Cleared
51 (0.617 %)SC Cleared
51 (0.617 %)DV Cleared
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
16 (3.704 %)QA
21 (0.617 %)WCAG
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
11 (0.617 %)Varnish
11 (0.617 %)Xen
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
13 (1.852 %)HP Quality Center
22 (1.235 %)Nagios
22 (1.235 %)Cacti
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
127 (16.67 %)Oracle
216 (9.877 %)JBoss
36 (3.704 %)Perforce
36 (3.704 %)TIBCO
45 (3.086 %)IBM
54 (2.469 %)Canoo
63 (1.852 %)HP
63 (1.852 %)FatWire
63 (1.852 %)VMware
72 (1.235 %)Vignette
72 (1.235 %)Informatica
72 (1.235 %)Mercator
72 (1.235 %)Intalio
81 (0.617 %)Akamai
81 (0.617 %)Foundry
81 (0.617 %)Facebook
81 (0.617 %)Twitter
81 (0.617 %)Google
81 (0.617 %)Red Hat
81 (0.617 %)Microsoft
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