The first table below looks at the demand for Grails skills in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Grails 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 Application Development category for the City of London region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Grails
Rank 293 314 306
Rank change year-on-year
+21 -8
Permanent jobs citing Grails 27 14 21
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.233% 0.107% 0.134%
As % of the Application Development category 0.607% 0.286% 0.369%
Number of salaries quoted 25 11 16
Average salary £52,500 £42,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+23.52% -15.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £25,000 £47,500
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £60,000 £61,250
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Application Development
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
4449 4887 5697
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 38.36% 37.40% 36.47%
Number of salaries quoted 3911 4577 5247
Average salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.00% -4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £80,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Grails
London

Grails
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Grails across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

City of London Grails Jobs Demand Trend

Grails
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Grails across the City of London region.

City of London Grails Salary Trend

Grails
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Grails across the City of London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

City of London Grails Salary Histogram

Grails
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing Grails 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 Grails.

1 46 (93.88%) Java
2 45 (91.84%) CSS
3 44 (89.80%) Spring
4 41 (83.67%) HTML
5 37 (75.51%) Groovy
6 35 (71.43%) Hibernate
6 35 (71.43%) Scrum
7 33 (67.35%) XML
8 32 (65.31%) SQL
9 31 (63.27%) Oracle
10 29 (59.18%) SOA
11 28 (57.14%) WebLogic
12 27 (55.10%) J2EE
12 27 (55.10%) JUnit
13 26 (53.06%) MVC
13 26 (53.06%) JavaScript
13 26 (53.06%) Selenium
14 25 (51.02%) DHTML
14 25 (51.02%) SQL Server
14 25 (51.02%) ITIL
14 25 (51.02%) JMeter
14 25 (51.02%) Data Modelling
14 25 (51.02%) RDBMS
15 17 (34.69%) Release Management
15 17 (34.69%) TDD
16 16 (32.65%) Struts
16 16 (32.65%) PL/SQL
16 16 (32.65%) T-SQL
17 13 (26.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 12 (24.49%) Continuous Integration

Grails
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing Grails 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 Grails. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 45 (91.84%) CSS
2 44 (89.80%) Spring
3 41 (83.67%) HTML
4 35 (71.43%) Hibernate
5 33 (67.35%) XML
6 27 (55.10%) J2EE
7 25 (51.02%) DHTML
8 16 (32.65%) Struts
9 11 (22.45%) HTML5
10 10 (20.41%) jQuery
10 10 (20.41%) CSS3
11 9 (18.37%) JSON
12 6 (12.24%) Web Services
13 5 (10.20%) Dojo
13 5 (10.20%) Spring MVC
14 4 (8.163%) REST
14 4 (8.163%) AngularJS
14 4 (8.163%) Ext JS
14 4 (8.163%) JSP
15 3 (6.122%) Servlets
Application Platforms
1 28 (57.14%) WebLogic
2 4 (8.163%) Tomcat
3 3 (6.122%) Amazon AWS
3 3 (6.122%) Mule
4 1 (2.041%) Apache
4 1 (2.041%) IIS
4 1 (2.041%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 8 (16.33%) HTTP
2 3 (6.122%) SSL
3 2 (4.082%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (51.02%) SQL Server
1 25 (51.02%) RDBMS
2 6 (12.24%) MongoDB
3 5 (10.20%) Big Data
4 3 (6.122%) Hadoop
4 3 (6.122%) CouchDB
4 3 (6.122%) Redis
5 2 (4.082%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.041%) Oracle 8/8i
6 1 (2.041%) MySQL
6 1 (2.041%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 27 (55.10%) JUnit
2 26 (53.06%) Selenium
3 25 (51.02%) JMeter
4 13 (26.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 12 (24.49%) Hudson
6 9 (18.37%) FitNesse
6 9 (18.37%) Cucumber
7 8 (16.33%) Jenkins
8 7 (14.29%) Maven
9 4 (8.163%) Git (software)
10 3 (6.122%) Ant
10 3 (6.122%) JIRA
10 3 (6.122%) QUnit
10 3 (6.122%) Jasmine
11 1 (2.041%) Mercurial
11 1 (2.041%) TeamCity
11 1 (2.041%) CruiseControl
11 1 (2.041%) Subversion
General
1 8 (16.33%) Finance
2 3 (6.122%) Advertising
2 3 (6.122%) Banking
3 2 (4.082%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.041%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.041%) Billing
Job Titles
1 28 (57.14%) Developer
2 17 (34.69%) Java Developer
3 12 (24.49%) Analyst
3 12 (24.49%) Support Analyst
4 8 (16.33%) Applications Support
5 7 (14.29%) Applications Support Analyst
6 5 (10.20%) Support Engineer
7 4 (8.163%) Software Developer
8 3 (6.122%) Applications Developer
8 3 (6.122%) Senior Developer
8 3 (6.122%) Java Software Engineer
8 3 (6.122%) Software Engineer
8 3 (6.122%) Java Software Developer
9 2 (4.082%) Senior Java Developer
9 2 (4.082%) Agile Java Developer
10 1 (2.041%) Architect
10 1 (2.041%) Tester
10 1 (2.041%) Solutions Architect
10 1 (2.041%) Software Tester
10 1 (2.041%) Lead Developer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.37%) Computer Science
2 4 (8.163%) Open Source
3 1 (2.041%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.041%) Online Gambling
3 1 (2.041%) New Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.20%) Linux
2 3 (6.122%) Android
2 3 (6.122%) Apple iOS
3 2 (4.082%) Mac OS X
3 2 (4.082%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (71.43%) Scrum
2 29 (59.18%) SOA
3 26 (53.06%) MVC
4 25 (51.02%) ITIL
4 25 (51.02%) Data Modelling
5 17 (34.69%) Release Management
5 17 (34.69%) TDD
6 12 (24.49%) Continuous Integration
7 8 (16.33%) Agile Software Development
8 6 (12.24%) BDD
8 6 (12.24%) Kanban
9 5 (10.20%) OOP
9 5 (10.20%) OO
10 4 (8.163%) Pair Programming
10 4 (8.163%) Asset Management
11 3 (6.122%) Refactoring
12 2 (4.082%) Responsive Web Design
12 2 (4.082%) Web Application Development
12 2 (4.082%) Web Development
12 2 (4.082%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 46 (93.88%) Java
2 37 (75.51%) Groovy
3 32 (65.31%) SQL
4 26 (53.06%) JavaScript
5 16 (32.65%) PL/SQL
5 16 (32.65%) T-SQL
6 10 (20.41%) Ruby
7 6 (12.24%) PHP
8 4 (8.163%) Scala
8 4 (8.163%) Python
8 4 (8.163%) Perl
9 1 (2.041%) VBScript
9 1 (2.041%) VB
9 1 (2.041%) Shell Script
9 1 (2.041%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 3 (6.122%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.041%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (8.163%) Puppet
Vendors
1 31 (63.27%) Oracle
2 3 (6.122%) JBoss
3 1 (2.041%) AccuRev
City, London
Beneficial experience: *BSc or MSc Computer Science or related *Strong Java, brownie points for Grails, Scala, Ruby or Python *Full web stack (HTTP, certs, cookies, headers, asset loading,...
Aston Carter
Salary: £45000 - £65000 per annum + Excellent Bonus and great Benefits
Posted: 18 May 2013
City of London
Should be hands-on on all the latest technologies line HTML5, CSS3, JS, JS MVC frameworks and micro-libraries. Should have good experience of using server-side frameworks...
Brightred Resourcing
Salary: £70000 - £80000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 8 May 2013
City, London
I am looking to recruit an experience QA Tester to work for a start up business based in London. The ideal candidate will have experience testing iOS and...
Bright Executive Recruitment
Salary: £35000 - £36000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013