The first table below looks at the demand for Groovy skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cardiff region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Groovy over the 3 months to 24 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 Cardiff region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Groovy
Rank 66 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Groovy 1 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cardiff 0.180% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.322% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Average salary £35,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £40,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+6.25% +8.10%
All Programming Languages
Cardiff
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
311 223 368
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cardiff 55.94% 50.57% 64.11%
Number of salaries quoted 282 209 345
Average salary £34,400 £32,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.84% -13.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £42,100 £50,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Groovy
South Wales

Groovy
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cardiff Groovy Jobs Demand Trend

Groovy
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cardiff 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Groovy.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Ant
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) SOA
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) CruiseControl
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) WebDriver
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) soapUI
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software

Groovy
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cardiff 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Groovy. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) soapUI
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Ant
1 1 (100.00%) CruiseControl
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) WebDriver
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) SOA
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Cardiff, South Glamorgan
Code and script development (primarily using Java and Groovy) on a range of automated testing tools and frameworks, including Selenium, soapUI and JBehave... Automating webservice tests with an...
Epsilium Recruitment
Salary: From £35,000 to £55,000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Cardiff, South Glamorgan
Code and script development (primarily using Java and Groovy) on a range of automated testing tools and frameworks, including Selenium, soapUI and JBehave... Automating webservice tests with an...
Epsilium Recruitment
Salary: From £35,000 to £55,000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Cardiff, South Glamorgan
Code and script development (primarily using Java and Groovy) on a range of automated testing tools and frameworks, including Selenium, soapUI and JBehave... ISTQB/ISEB qualified to intermediate...
Epsilium Recruitment
Salary: From £35,000 to £40,000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013