The first table below looks at the demand for Grails skills in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Grails over the 3 months to 19 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 Application Development category for the England region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Grails
Rank 735 690 715
Rank change year-on-year
-45 +25
Permanent jobs citing Grails 109 179 148
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.107% 0.158% 0.122%
As % of the Application Development category 0.264% 0.374% 0.300%
Number of salaries quoted 89 141 117
Average salary £50,000 £47,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% +11.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,000 £30,000 £34,850
10% offered a salary of more than £66,000 £65,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -6.25%
All Application Development
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
41221 47891 49369
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 40.49% 42.25% 40.64%
Number of salaries quoted 36155 42700 43917
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £28,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
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Grails
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England Grails Salary Trend

Grails
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Grails across the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

England Grails Salary Histogram

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Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Grails within the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
London 0 75 £55,000 +10.00% 7
South East +8 12 £45,000 -
East of England +7 11 £40,000 +50.94% 1
North West -7 5 £42,500 +21.42%
South West 0 3 £35,000 +18.64% 1
East Midlands +9 2 £42,250 -24.88%
Yorkshire +4 1 £19,500 -35.53% 1
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Grails
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the England 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.

1 293 (96.70%) Java
2 208 (68.65%) Spring
3 201 (66.34%) Groovy
4 173 (57.10%) Hibernate
5 169 (55.78%) CSS
6 166 (54.79%) Scrum
7 148 (48.84%) TDD
8 142 (46.86%) HTML
9 141 (46.53%) Agile Software Development
10 136 (44.88%) JavaScript
11 134 (44.22%) SQL
12 130 (42.90%) Oracle
13 123 (40.59%) XML
14 94 (31.02%) J2EE
15 90 (29.70%) MVC
16 82 (27.06%) Ruby
16 82 (27.06%) jQuery
17 77 (25.41%) JUnit
17 77 (25.41%) Web Services
18 75 (24.75%) Continuous Integration
19 69 (22.77%) HTML5
20 68 (22.44%) Kanban
21 66 (21.78%) OO
22 64 (21.12%) Linux
23 63 (20.79%) MySQL
24 61 (20.13%) Spring MVC
25 60 (19.80%) SOA
26 58 (19.14%) CSS3
27 55 (18.15%) Java EE
28 54 (17.82%) Selenium

Grails
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the England 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
1 208 (68.65%) Spring
2 173 (57.10%) Hibernate
3 169 (55.78%) CSS
4 142 (46.86%) HTML
5 123 (40.59%) XML
6 94 (31.02%) J2EE
7 82 (27.06%) jQuery
8 77 (25.41%) Web Services
9 69 (22.77%) HTML5
10 61 (20.13%) Spring MVC
11 58 (19.14%) CSS3
12 55 (18.15%) Java EE
13 53 (17.49%) JSON
14 47 (15.51%) RESTful
15 40 (13.20%) JSP
15 40 (13.20%) REST
16 32 (10.56%) Struts
17 31 (10.23%) Servlets
18 27 (8.911%) Ajax
19 26 (8.581%) DHTML
Application Platforms
1 48 (15.84%) WebLogic
2 39 (12.87%) Tomcat
3 35 (11.55%) Apache
4 15 (4.950%) CICS
4 15 (4.950%) GlassFish
5 13 (4.290%) Mule
6 9 (2.970%) Apache Solr
6 9 (2.970%) Jetty
7 8 (2.640%) Amazon AWS
7 8 (2.640%) Force.com
8 7 (2.310%) IIS
9 6 (1.980%) CMS
9 6 (1.980%) Confluence
10 5 (1.650%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.990%) nginx
11 3 (0.990%) ESB
11 3 (0.990%) Zope
12 2 (0.660%) ElasticSearch
13 1 (0.330%) Adobe CQ
13 1 (0.330%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.330%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 45 (14.85%) Internet
2 37 (12.21%) HTTP
3 9 (2.970%) AMQP
4 8 (2.640%) SSL
5 2 (0.660%) DNS
5 2 (0.660%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.660%) Firewall
6 1 (0.330%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (20.79%) MySQL
2 40 (13.20%) SQL Server
3 38 (12.54%) MongoDB
4 35 (11.55%) Oracle ODI
5 33 (10.89%) NoSQL
6 25 (8.251%) RDBMS
7 22 (7.261%) Apache Cassandra
8 17 (5.611%) PostgreSQL
9 15 (4.950%) Big Data
10 10 (3.300%) Redis
10 10 (3.300%) CouchDB
11 6 (1.980%) Oracle 11g
11 6 (1.980%) Hadoop
12 4 (1.320%) OLAP
12 4 (1.320%) OLTP
12 4 (1.320%) MarkLogic
13 3 (0.990%) Pentaho
13 3 (0.990%) DB2
14 1 (0.330%) SQL Server 2008
14 1 (0.330%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 77 (25.41%) JUnit
2 54 (17.82%) Selenium
3 43 (14.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 42 (13.86%) Hudson
4 42 (13.86%) Jenkins
5 41 (13.53%) Maven
6 32 (10.56%) Git (software)
7 31 (10.23%) Subversion
8 30 (9.901%) JMeter
9 23 (7.591%) Cucumber
10 20 (6.601%) QUnit
10 20 (6.601%) JIRA
10 20 (6.601%) Ant
11 19 (6.271%) Jasmine
12 15 (4.950%) FitNesse
13 13 (4.290%) Eclipse
13 13 (4.290%) Mocha
14 8 (2.640%) Spring Roo
15 7 (2.310%) TeamCity
15 7 (2.310%) Mercurial
General
1 41 (13.53%) Finance
2 28 (9.241%) Telecoms
3 27 (8.911%) Online Betting
4 14 (4.620%) Retail
5 9 (2.970%) Financial Institution
6 7 (2.310%) Games
7 6 (1.980%) Billing
7 6 (1.980%) Banking
7 6 (1.980%) Advertising
8 4 (1.320%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.320%) Back Office
9 3 (0.990%) Automotive
10 2 (0.660%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 217 (71.62%) Developer
2 156 (51.49%) Java Developer
3 48 (15.84%) Senior Developer
4 35 (11.55%) Senior Java Developer
5 34 (11.22%) Analyst
6 32 (10.56%) Agile Java Developer
7 25 (8.251%) Software Engineer
8 24 (7.921%) Java/J2EE Developer
9 22 (7.261%) Web Developer
10 21 (6.931%) Java Software Engineer
11 18 (5.941%) Front-End Developer
11 18 (5.941%) Applications Developer
12 16 (5.281%) Support Analyst
13 14 (4.620%) Business Analyst
14 13 (4.290%) Lead Developer
14 13 (4.290%) Front-End Web Developer
15 12 (3.960%) QA Engineer
15 12 (3.960%) PHP Developer
15 12 (3.960%) Applications Support
16 10 (3.300%) Senior Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 44 (14.52%) Open Source
2 30 (9.901%) Computer Science
3 25 (8.251%) Cloud Computing
4 15 (4.950%) Mainframe
4 15 (4.950%) W3C
5 9 (2.970%) Client/Server
6 8 (2.640%) N-Tier
7 7 (2.310%) Web 2.0
8 6 (1.980%) iPhone
9 5 (1.650%) iPad
9 5 (1.650%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.650%) Blog
9 5 (1.650%) Mathematics
10 4 (1.320%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.320%) Inversion of Control
11 3 (0.990%) Online Games
11 3 (0.990%) Life Science
12 2 (0.660%) Smartphone
12 2 (0.660%) Digital Media
13 1 (0.330%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 64 (21.12%) Linux
2 34 (11.22%) UNIX
3 7 (2.310%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (2.310%) Android
3 7 (2.310%) Windows
4 6 (1.980%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.320%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.990%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.330%) Windows 8
7 1 (0.330%) zOS
7 1 (0.330%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (54.79%) Scrum
2 148 (48.84%) TDD
3 141 (46.53%) Agile Software Development
4 90 (29.70%) MVC
5 75 (24.75%) Continuous Integration
6 68 (22.44%) Kanban
7 66 (21.78%) OO
8 60 (19.80%) SOA
9 49 (16.17%) BDD
10 42 (13.86%) E-Commerce
11 32 (10.56%) Data Modelling
12 30 (9.901%) Pair Programming
12 30 (9.901%) ITIL
13 25 (8.251%) Unit Testing
14 24 (7.921%) Continuous Improvement
15 21 (6.931%) Software Engineering
15 21 (6.931%) User Stories
16 20 (6.601%) Asset Management
16 20 (6.601%) Release Management
17 19 (6.271%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 293 (96.70%) Java
2 201 (66.34%) Groovy
3 136 (44.88%) JavaScript
4 134 (44.22%) SQL
5 82 (27.06%) Ruby
6 34 (11.22%) PL/SQL
7 32 (10.56%) PHP
8 31 (10.23%) Scala
9 24 (7.921%) Python
10 18 (5.941%) T-SQL
11 17 (5.611%) Perl
12 16 (5.281%) XPath
13 14 (4.620%) COBOL
14 8 (2.640%) C#
14 8 (2.640%) Shell Script
14 8 (2.640%) Bash shell
15 6 (1.980%) VBScript
16 4 (1.320%) C++
17 3 (0.990%) PowerShell
18 2 (0.660%) VB
Qualifications
1 46 (15.18%) Degree
2 1 (0.330%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.611%) QA
2 1 (0.330%) SLA
2 1 (0.330%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (0.330%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 17 (5.611%) Puppet
Vendors
1 130 (42.90%) Oracle
2 18 (5.941%) Microsoft
3 17 (5.611%) JBoss
4 10 (3.300%) Salesforce.com
5 8 (2.640%) AccuRev
6 7 (2.310%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.650%) Google
8 4 (1.320%) Twitter
9 3 (0.990%) hybris
9 3 (0.990%) Demandware
9 3 (0.990%) Facebook
9 3 (0.990%) Venda
9 3 (0.990%) ATG
10 2 (0.660%) Zend
11 1 (0.330%) Canoo
11 1 (0.330%) BT
11 1 (0.330%) Intel
11 1 (0.330%) Sybase
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Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + Benefits + Bonus
Posted: 14 June 2013
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Posted: 17 June 2013
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