The first table below looks at the demand for Groovy skills in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Groovy
Rank 82 - 99
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Groovy 2 0 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.187% - 0.127%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.339% - 0.304%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 2
Average salary £42,500 - £30,500
90% offered a salary of more than £38,500 - £30,100
10% offered a salary of more than £46,500 - £30,900
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £40,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+6.25% +8.10%
All Programming Languages
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
590 667 658
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 55.09% 48.97% 41.94%
Number of salaries quoted 360 515 476
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% -
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £47,500 £46,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Groovy
Scotland

Groovy
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh Groovy Jobs Demand Trend

Groovy
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Groovy across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Groovy Salary Trend

Groovy
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 3 (75.00%) MySQL
1 3 (75.00%) Java
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Ruby
1 3 (75.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 3 (75.00%) Shell Script
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) Gradle
2 2 (50.00%) CruiseControl
2 2 (50.00%) Bash shell
2 2 (50.00%) Hudson
2 2 (50.00%) Git (software)
2 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (50.00%) JIRA
3 1 (25.00%) QA
3 1 (25.00%) Selenium
3 1 (25.00%) Grails
3 1 (25.00%) GlassFish
3 1 (25.00%) Web Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Eclipse
3 1 (25.00%) QuickTest Pro
3 1 (25.00%) LoadRunner
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) PHP
3 1 (25.00%) SQL

Groovy
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 3 (75.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 1 (25.00%) Grails
2 1 (25.00%) J2EE
2 1 (25.00%) EJB
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) Servlets
2 1 (25.00%) SOAP
2 1 (25.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) XSLT
2 1 (25.00%) soapUI
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) GlassFish
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) Gradle
2 2 (50.00%) CruiseControl
2 2 (50.00%) Hudson
2 2 (50.00%) Git (software)
2 2 (50.00%) JIRA
3 1 (25.00%) Selenium
3 1 (25.00%) Eclipse
3 1 (25.00%) QuickTest Pro
3 1 (25.00%) LoadRunner
3 1 (25.00%) Ant
3 1 (25.00%) JUnit
3 1 (25.00%) Concordion
3 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Build Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Software Build Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Leader
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Web Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
1 3 (75.00%) Ruby
1 3 (75.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (50.00%) Bash shell
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) PHP
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Puppet
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