The first table below looks at the demand for Groovy skills in IT contracts advertised for the Watford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Groovy over the 3 months to 20 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 Watford 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Groovy
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Groovy 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Watford - - -
As % of the Programming Languages category - - -
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
Watford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
27 48 42
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Watford 34.62% 51.61% 42.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 16 16
Average daily rate £325 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £280 £280
10% offered a daily rate of more than £415 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £20.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
Groovy
Hertfordshire

Groovy
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Watford 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 Watford region.

Watford Groovy Daily Rate Trend

Groovy
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Watford 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 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) Grails
2 3 (60.00%) Spring
2 3 (60.00%) Web Services
3 2 (40.00%) Linux
3 2 (40.00%) E-Commerce
3 2 (40.00%) MySQL
3 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) JSON
3 2 (40.00%) RESTful
3 2 (40.00%) Kanban
3 2 (40.00%) Build Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Gradle
4 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (20.00%) Apache CXF
4 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (20.00%) WebDriver
4 1 (20.00%) JProfiler
4 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
4 1 (20.00%) BDD
4 1 (20.00%) REST
4 1 (20.00%) jQuery
4 1 (20.00%) Load Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (20.00%) FitNesse
4 1 (20.00%) Maven
4 1 (20.00%) Checkstyle
4 1 (20.00%) Ajax
4 1 (20.00%) Finance

Groovy
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Watford 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 5 (100.00%) Grails
2 3 (60.00%) Spring
2 3 (60.00%) Web Services
3 2 (40.00%) JSON
3 2 (40.00%) RESTful
4 1 (20.00%) Apache CXF
4 1 (20.00%) REST
4 1 (20.00%) jQuery
4 1 (20.00%) Ajax
4 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
4 1 (20.00%) SOAP
4 1 (20.00%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Gradle
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) WebDriver
1 1 (20.00%) JProfiler
1 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (20.00%) FitNesse
1 1 (20.00%) Maven
1 1 (20.00%) Checkstyle
1 1 (20.00%) JUnit
1 1 (20.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Software Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Java Software Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 1 (20.00%) J2EE Developer
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (40.00%) Scrum
1 2 (40.00%) Kanban
1 2 (40.00%) Build Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (20.00%) BDD
2 1 (20.00%) Load Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (20.00%) TDD
2 1 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
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