The first table below looks at the demand for Groovy skills in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Groovy 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 Programming Languages category for the England region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Groovy
Rank 578 538 673
Rank change year-on-year
-40 +135
Permanent jobs citing Groovy 267 351 199
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.265% 0.310% 0.167%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.497% 0.569% 0.314%
Number of salaries quoted 206 279 153
Average salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.00% +5.26%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £37,500 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £44,000 £40,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+10.00% +8.10%
All Programming Languages
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
53693 61731 63394
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 53.34% 54.44% 53.11%
Number of salaries quoted 46642 54636 55275
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £28,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Groovy
UK

Groovy
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England Groovy Salary Trend

Groovy
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Groovy across the England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

England Groovy Salary Histogram

Groovy
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Groovy within the England region over the 3 months to 23 May 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
London -42 166 £50,000 -
South East +52 71 £45,000 -
East of England +15 17 £42,500 +8.97%
North West -42 7 £45,000 +28.57%
Yorkshire -5 4 £32,500 +7.43%
East Midlands -6 2 £42,250 -19.52%
Groovy
UK

Groovy
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the England 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.

1 557 (96.87%) Java
2 366 (63.65%) Spring
3 275 (47.83%) Hibernate
4 269 (46.78%) JavaScript
5 255 (44.35%) TDD
6 233 (40.52%) Agile Software Development
7 221 (38.43%) SQL
8 218 (37.91%) CSS
9 215 (37.39%) Grails
10 210 (36.52%) HTML
11 207 (36.00%) XML
12 203 (35.30%) Scrum
13 189 (32.87%) J2EE
14 165 (28.70%) Continuous Integration
15 162 (28.17%) Oracle
16 157 (27.30%) Maven
17 147 (25.57%) Scala
18 141 (24.52%) Linux
18 141 (24.52%) MVC
19 139 (24.17%) Tomcat
20 138 (24.00%) Ruby
21 128 (22.26%) Open Source
22 124 (21.57%) JUnit
23 122 (21.22%) Web Services
24 114 (19.83%) OO
25 107 (18.61%) MySQL
26 106 (18.43%) Degree
27 105 (18.26%) UNIX
28 104 (18.09%) jQuery
29 102 (17.74%) E-Commerce

Groovy
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the England 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
1 366 (63.65%) Spring
2 275 (47.83%) Hibernate
3 218 (37.91%) CSS
4 215 (37.39%) Grails
5 210 (36.52%) HTML
6 207 (36.00%) XML
7 189 (32.87%) J2EE
8 122 (21.22%) Web Services
9 104 (18.09%) jQuery
10 89 (15.48%) RESTful
11 87 (15.13%) Java EE
12 81 (14.09%) HTML5
13 69 (12.00%) JSON
14 68 (11.83%) XSLT
15 60 (10.43%) CSS3
16 59 (10.26%) Spring MVC
17 57 (9.913%) Ajax
18 55 (9.565%) JMS
18 55 (9.565%) REST
19 49 (8.522%) Struts
Application Platforms
1 139 (24.17%) Tomcat
2 84 (14.61%) Apache
3 57 (9.913%) WebLogic
4 35 (6.087%) ESB
5 33 (5.739%) CMS
6 21 (3.652%) RabbitMQ
7 20 (3.478%) Apache Solr
8 16 (2.783%) Confluence
9 15 (2.609%) IIS
10 14 (2.435%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 13 (2.261%) Jetty
12 12 (2.087%) Force.com
13 11 (1.913%) Sitecore CMS
13 11 (1.913%) Umbraco
14 9 (1.565%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 9 (1.565%) Liferay
14 9 (1.565%) Alfresco
15 7 (1.217%) MQSeries
16 5 (0.870%) LiveLink
16 5 (0.870%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (1.739%) MS Excel
2 4 (0.696%) ZBrush
2 4 (0.696%) Photoshop
2 4 (0.696%) 3ds Max
3 2 (0.348%) MS Office
4 1 (0.174%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (0.174%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 1 (0.174%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (0.174%) Kiodex
1 1 (0.174%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 83 (14.43%) Internet
2 49 (8.522%) HTTP
3 25 (4.348%) TCP/IP
4 14 (2.435%) DNS
4 14 (2.435%) Firewall
5 13 (2.261%) Intranet
6 11 (1.913%) Extranet
7 8 (1.391%) Broadband
8 3 (0.522%) SAN
8 3 (0.522%) LDAP
8 3 (0.522%) NAS
9 1 (0.174%) DSL
9 1 (0.174%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.174%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (18.61%) MySQL
2 84 (14.61%) SQL Server
3 82 (14.26%) NoSQL
4 57 (9.913%) MongoDB
5 50 (8.696%) Big Data
6 43 (7.478%) Apache Cassandra
7 39 (6.783%) RDBMS
8 31 (5.391%) CouchDB
9 22 (3.826%) PostgreSQL
10 21 (3.652%) Hadoop
11 19 (3.304%) MarkLogic
12 15 (2.609%) Jackrabbit
13 10 (1.739%) Couchbase
14 9 (1.565%) DB2
14 9 (1.565%) Oracle 11g
15 6 (1.043%) OLAP
15 6 (1.043%) TOAD
15 6 (1.043%) OLTP
16 5 (0.870%) Pentaho
16 5 (0.870%) Infinispan
Development Applications
1 157 (27.30%) Maven
2 124 (21.57%) JUnit
3 96 (16.70%) Subversion
4 95 (16.52%) Selenium
5 77 (13.39%) Jenkins
6 73 (12.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 72 (12.52%) JIRA
8 63 (10.96%) Hudson
9 53 (9.217%) Cucumber
10 52 (9.043%) Eclipse
11 48 (8.348%) Ant
11 48 (8.348%) Git (software)
12 33 (5.739%) FitNesse
13 29 (5.043%) JMeter
14 27 (4.696%) IntelliJ
15 25 (4.348%) Jasmine
16 24 (4.174%) GitHub
17 23 (4.000%) Mockito
18 20 (3.478%) QUnit
18 20 (3.478%) Mercurial
General
1 59 (10.26%) Finance
2 42 (7.304%) Telecoms
3 36 (6.261%) Publishing
4 33 (5.739%) Games
5 31 (5.391%) Online Betting
6 25 (4.348%) Banking
7 9 (1.565%) Investment Banking
8 8 (1.391%) Financial Institution
9 7 (1.217%) Advertising
9 7 (1.217%) Marketing
10 5 (0.870%) Retail
11 4 (0.696%) Billing
11 4 (0.696%) Automotive
11 4 (0.696%) Back Office
12 2 (0.348%) Law
12 2 (0.348%) Legal
13 1 (0.174%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.174%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 389 (67.65%) Developer
2 311 (54.09%) Java Developer
3 120 (20.87%) Senior Developer
4 97 (16.87%) Senior Java Developer
5 54 (9.391%) Analyst
6 46 (8.000%) Software Engineer
7 38 (6.609%) Java/J2EE Developer
8 37 (6.435%) Agile Java Developer
9 36 (6.261%) Applications Support
10 35 (6.087%) Support Analyst
10 35 (6.087%) Web Developer
11 32 (5.565%) Software Developer
12 28 (4.870%) Applications Support Analyst
13 22 (3.826%) Programmer
14 21 (3.652%) Java Web Developer
15 20 (3.478%) Support Engineer
16 19 (3.304%) Consultant
16 19 (3.304%) Java Programmer
17 18 (3.130%) QA Engineer
18 17 (2.957%) Front-End Developer
Miscellaneous
1 128 (22.26%) Open Source
2 50 (8.696%) Computer Science
3 36 (6.261%) Mobile App
4 31 (5.391%) Web 2.0
5 29 (5.043%) Digital Media
6 25 (4.348%) Cloud Computing
7 22 (3.826%) Mathematics
8 19 (3.304%) BBC
8 19 (3.304%) MHEG
9 15 (2.609%) Enterprise Software
10 13 (2.261%) Linked Data
10 13 (2.261%) N-Tier
11 12 (2.087%) Data Integration
12 11 (1.913%) Social Media
12 11 (1.913%) Physics
13 10 (1.739%) Inversion of Control
13 10 (1.739%) Client/Server
13 10 (1.739%) Mobile Banking
14 9 (1.565%) iPhone
14 9 (1.565%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 141 (24.52%) Linux
2 105 (18.26%) UNIX
3 48 (8.348%) Windows
4 43 (7.478%) Solaris
5 20 (3.478%) Ubuntu
6 15 (2.609%) Mac OS
7 13 (2.261%) Android
8 12 (2.087%) Apple iOS
9 7 (1.217%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.696%) Mac OS X
11 3 (0.522%) CentOS
12 1 (0.174%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (44.35%) TDD
2 233 (40.52%) Agile Software Development
3 203 (35.30%) Scrum
4 165 (28.70%) Continuous Integration
5 141 (24.52%) MVC
6 114 (19.83%) OO
7 102 (17.74%) E-Commerce
8 96 (16.70%) BDD
9 95 (16.52%) Pair Programming
10 80 (13.91%) Kanban
11 73 (12.70%) SOA
12 63 (10.96%) Unit Testing
13 42 (7.304%) Multithreading
14 36 (6.261%) Data Modelling
14 36 (6.261%) Extreme Programming
15 35 (6.087%) Content Management
16 34 (5.913%) Continuous Improvement
17 32 (5.565%) Business Intelligence
18 31 (5.391%) Test Automation
19 30 (5.217%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 557 (96.87%) Java
2 269 (46.78%) JavaScript
3 221 (38.43%) SQL
4 147 (25.57%) Scala
5 138 (24.00%) Ruby
6 63 (10.96%) Python
7 61 (10.61%) Shell Script
8 49 (8.522%) C++
9 45 (7.826%) Perl
10 43 (7.478%) C#
11 38 (6.609%) PL/SQL
12 33 (5.739%) PHP
13 31 (5.391%) Bash shell
14 27 (4.696%) Clojure
15 26 (4.522%) XPath
16 23 (4.000%) T-SQL
17 19 (3.304%) ActionScript
17 19 (3.304%) SPARQL
18 10 (1.739%) Erlang
19 9 (1.565%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 106 (18.43%) Degree
2 1 (0.174%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (0.174%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (7.478%) QA
2 13 (2.261%) SLA
3 10 (1.739%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.174%) ISO 8583
Systems Management
1 29 (5.043%) Puppet
2 12 (2.087%) OSSEC
3 5 (0.870%) MOM
Vendors
1 162 (28.17%) Oracle
2 56 (9.739%) JBoss
3 21 (3.652%) Google
4 17 (2.957%) Microsoft
5 16 (2.783%) Salesforce.com
6 13 (2.261%) Atlassian
7 11 (1.913%) EPiServer
7 11 (1.913%) Sitecore
7 11 (1.913%) GigaSpaces
7 11 (1.913%) Telerik
8 10 (1.739%) Red Hat
9 8 (1.391%) AccuRev
10 6 (1.043%) Sybase
10 6 (1.043%) Cognizant
10 6 (1.043%) Perforce
11 5 (0.870%) StatPro
12 3 (0.522%) Sun
12 3 (0.522%) TIBCO
12 3 (0.522%) Zend
12 3 (0.522%) Azul
London
The successful candidate will have a minimum of 5 years work experience around Java and J2EE in an Agile environment... The successful Senior Java Developer (Agile / JavaScript / Selenium)...
ANSON MCCADE
Salary: From £60,000 to £65,000 per annum + excellent package
Posted: 20 May 2013
Central London / West End
Java Developer / Software Engineer London to £60k. Java Developer / Senior Java Software Engineer (Groovy on Grails Linux Apache Postgres)... Requirements for Java Developer: Strong core Java development experience (...
Client Server
Salary: £50k to £60k + benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
South West London
Ideally you will be educated to degree or equivalent level or have relevant experience in an IT discipline and be able to demonstrate experience in developing Java based...
Reed Technology
Salary: £35000 - £43000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
London
Pioneering financial services online start-up based in Central London is seeking a skilled Java developer... As a Senior Java Developer you will work closely with stakeholders to...
Client Server
Salary: £50k to £60k + benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
London
As a highly skilled Java Developer you will be part of a small focused project team which is responsible for innovation and development of new product strategies. The...
TRG
Salary: 65000 Per Annum Excellent benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
London
The team is Agile with a particular focus on TDD, BDD, Pair Programming, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery... Essential Experience: * Strong Agile experience (TDD, Unit Testing) * RESTful web...
TRG
Salary: £65000 Per Annum Excellent benefits
Posted: 19 May 2013
Oxford, Oxfordshire
A leading BI Software vendor is looking for a Junior/graduate Java Developer to join a dynamic development team... The team is Agile with a particular focus on...
TRG
Salary: £40000 Per Annum Excellent benefits
Posted: 19 May 2013
Oxfordshire, South East
The team is Agile with a particular focus on TDD, BDD, Pair Programming, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery... Essential Experience: - 2.2 in Computer Science or related degree -...
TRG
Salary: 40000 Per Annum Excellent benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
East London
You will need to be passionate about what you do and keen to learn new technologies and grasp complex concepts... As an agency we are committed to offering...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 10 May 2013
Leicester, East Midlands
Java Developer, Java Programmer, Spring, Struts, Eclipse, IDE, JBuilder, J2EE, Netbeans, Tomcat, JSP... Technical environment: Java, J2EE/JEE, WEB, Spring, Struts, Javascript, HTML, CSS, Groovy and Grails To...
Salary: £42000 - £50000 per annum + Pension,
Posted: 21 May 2013
Leicester, Leicestershire
Java Developer, Java Programmer, Spring, Struts, Eclipse, IDE, JBuilder, J2EE, Netbeans, Tomcat, JSP. JEE, Oracle, Flex, Web Services, API - East Midlands 45-50K... Technical environment: Java, J2EE/JEE,...
Ascent People Ltd
Salary: £42000 - £50000 per annum + Pension,
Posted: 20 May 2013
Oxford, Oxfordshire
A leading BI Software vendor is looking for a high calibre Java Developer to join a dynamic development team... The team is Agile with a particular focus on...
TRG
Salary: £60000 Per Annum Excellent benefits
Posted: 19 May 2013
Oxfordshire, South East
The team is Agile with a particular focus on TDD, BDD, Pair Programming, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery. In addition, to the usual technical responsibilities the client is...
TRG
Salary: 60000 Per Annum Excellent benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Brentford, South East
Essential Skills A passion for Agile methodologies and concepts such as XP, Lean, and Kanban Proven delivery experience of large-scale, Java-based projects Java 5/6 Agile -...
British Sky Broadcasting
Salary: Sky benefits
Posted: 23 May 2013
Brentford, Middlesex
Essential Skills A passion for Agile methodologies and concepts such as XP, Lean, and Kanban. Proven delivery experience of large-scale, Java-based projects. Java 5/6. Agile -...
Sky
Salary: Sky benefits
Posted: 29 April 2013
City, London
Experience with agile development environments - Scrum, Kanban, TDD, Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration (CSM / CSPO certification would be advantageous)... -Strong competency with Web Services technology - SOA, SOAP, REST. -...
Connections Recruitment Ltd.
Salary: £75000 - £80000 per annum + 5% bonus, pension, medical
Posted: 20 May 2013
London
The Project Manager will assign resources and create preliminary schedules and track progress of all resources (programme management, development, QA and IT)... Core responsibilities:*Creates and executes project...
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £60000 - £65000 per annum + bonus + benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
London
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 £40,000 to £50,000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
City, London
JAX-WS Sevlet API JMS JMX Eclipse IDE Hibernate Google Giuce infinispan Lucene Groovy XML XSD XSLT Junit HTML etc preferably in a Windows or Oracle environment) The...
Intelligent Recruitment
Salary: From £45,000 to £70,000 per annum Superb base with excellent bonus na
Posted: 17 May 2013
London
Functional Automation Tester - SCRUM - SQL - Selenium2 - JAVA - London - Our client a leading global Broadcasting organisation are looking for a Automation Development Tester (functional) to join large programme of...
Reed Technology
Salary: £300 - £365 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
London
Working on a bespoke, flagship system this role will require an experienced Java developer/consultant who understands delivering the benefits of cutting edge Java technologies... This client is...
Claremont Consulting Ltd
Salary: £50000 - £65000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Liverpool, North West
4+ years Unity 3.x experience on commercial or open source projects 4+ years current experience in C# & .NET writing and debugging scripts in C# Video streaming over...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £35000.00 - £55000.00 per annum
Posted: 10 May 2013
Maidenhead, Thames Valley
Our client a Mobile Apps company are looking to recruit a Data Integration Services specialist - Junior Role Overview: The client are seeking a talented and eager Data Integration...
E-Resourcing
Salary: £20000 - £25000 per annum
Posted: 1 May 2013
London
Experienced in coding test scripts in one or more of the following; Java, Ruby, Python, Groovy, JavaScript, Objective C, and/or Visual Basic. Experience in two or more...
News International
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 23 May 2013
London
Code and script development (primarily using Java and Groovy) on a range of automated testing tools and frameworks, including Selenium, soapUI and JBehave... Conducting java/jUnit code reviews...
Epsilium Recruitment
Salary: From £45,000 to £55,000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 18 May 2013
Maidenhead, Thames Valley
This is an opportunity to get involved in a fast-moving mobile, cloud and web application environment with the potential of using some of the latest technologies and...
E-Resourcing
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 1 May 2013
Central London / West End
My client are currently building an Agile CoE (Centre of Excellence) and have a diverse and challenging portfolio of projects lined up using cutting edge Java and open...
ANSON MCCADE
Salary: £50,000 per annum + bonus + pension + healthcare
Posted: 21 May 2013
West London
Good working knowledge of Linux (in particular CentOS) Skilled with scripting languages such as perl, python or groovy and a strong instinctive grasp of good software engineering principles...
Moonfruit
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum + Exc Bens
Posted: 15 May 2013
City, London
A basic knowledge of economics and the IB industry... Desirable Skills: *Advanced knowledge of MS Office products. *VBA, Groovy Scripting, SQL and/or UNIX coding capabilities. *Experience and/...
Hatstand Limited
Salary: £25000 - £32000 per annum + BONUS,LIFE INSURANCE,PENSION
Posted: 16 May 2013