The first table below looks at the demand for Groovy skills in IT jobs advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Groovy over the 3 months to 21 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 London region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Groovy
Rank 443 391 501
Rank change year-on-year
-52 +110
Permanent jobs citing Groovy 165 261 123
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.375% 0.485% 0.216%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.699% 0.896% 0.396%
Number of salaries quoted 129 226 99
Average salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £42,500 £43,300
10% offered a salary of more than £63,000 £65,000 £78,800
UK excluding London average salary £43,250 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+8.12% +6.66%
All Programming Languages
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
23613 29122 31054
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 53.71% 54.06% 54.60%
Number of salaries quoted 20303 25872 26539
Average salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £32,500 £33,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Groovy
England

Groovy
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London Groovy Salary Trend

Groovy
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Groovy across the London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 21 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
City of London -28 34 £47,500 -7.31%
Brentford - 6 - -
Twickenham - 4 - -
Docklands, London - 1 - -
Groovy
England

Groovy
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the London 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.

1 383 (96.47%) Java
2 243 (61.21%) Spring
3 194 (48.87%) JavaScript
4 193 (48.61%) TDD
5 180 (45.34%) Hibernate
6 175 (44.08%) Agile Software Development
7 167 (42.07%) Scrum
8 162 (40.81%) CSS
9 158 (39.80%) Grails
10 152 (38.29%) SQL
11 149 (37.53%) XML
12 144 (36.27%) HTML
13 133 (33.50%) Oracle
14 131 (33.00%) Ruby
14 131 (33.00%) Continuous Integration
15 119 (29.97%) Maven
16 118 (29.72%) J2EE
17 113 (28.46%) Linux
18 112 (28.21%) Scala
19 104 (26.20%) Tomcat
19 104 (26.20%) MVC
20 95 (23.93%) E-Commerce
21 91 (22.92%) Web Services
22 90 (22.67%) OO
23 85 (21.41%) Open Source
23 85 (21.41%) NoSQL
24 84 (21.16%) UNIX
25 81 (20.40%) Selenium
26 80 (20.15%) MySQL
27 76 (19.14%) Kanban

Groovy
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the London 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
1 243 (61.21%) Spring
2 180 (45.34%) Hibernate
3 162 (40.81%) CSS
4 158 (39.80%) Grails
5 149 (37.53%) XML
6 144 (36.27%) HTML
7 118 (29.72%) J2EE
8 91 (22.92%) Web Services
9 76 (19.14%) RESTful
10 68 (17.13%) jQuery
11 60 (15.11%) XSLT
12 59 (14.86%) Spring MVC
13 54 (13.60%) HTML5
13 54 (13.60%) Java EE
14 44 (11.08%) CSS3
15 43 (10.83%) Ajax
16 40 (10.08%) JSON
17 39 (9.824%) REST
17 39 (9.824%) .NET
18 37 (9.320%) JPA
Application Platforms
1 104 (26.20%) Tomcat
2 66 (16.62%) Apache
3 48 (12.09%) WebLogic
4 33 (8.312%) CMS
5 22 (5.542%) RabbitMQ
6 19 (4.786%) Apache Solr
7 17 (4.282%) Confluence
8 13 (3.275%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 12 (3.023%) Sitecore CMS
9 12 (3.023%) Umbraco
9 12 (3.023%) Jetty
10 9 (2.267%) IIS
10 9 (2.267%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 6 (1.511%) ESB
12 5 (1.259%) ColdFusion
12 5 (1.259%) WebSphere MQ
12 5 (1.259%) Oracle Service Bus
13 4 (1.008%) Oracle Coherence
14 3 (0.756%) Amazon AWS
15 2 (0.504%) Resin
Applications
1 3 (0.756%) MS Excel
2 2 (0.504%) MS Office
3 1 (0.252%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.252%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 1 (0.252%) Kiodex
Communications & Networking
1 69 (17.38%) Internet
2 46 (11.59%) HTTP
3 26 (6.549%) TCP/IP
4 14 (3.526%) Intranet
5 13 (3.275%) DNS
5 13 (3.275%) Firewall
6 12 (3.023%) Extranet
7 6 (1.511%) Broadband
8 3 (0.756%) SAN
8 3 (0.756%) NAS
9 1 (0.252%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (21.41%) NoSQL
2 80 (20.15%) MySQL
3 61 (15.37%) SQL Server
4 49 (12.34%) Big Data
5 42 (10.58%) Apache Cassandra
6 39 (9.824%) MongoDB
7 32 (8.060%) RDBMS
7 32 (8.060%) CouchDB
8 21 (5.290%) Hadoop
9 19 (4.786%) MarkLogic
10 18 (4.534%) PostgreSQL
11 14 (3.526%) Jackrabbit
12 10 (2.519%) Couchbase
13 9 (2.267%) Oracle 11g
14 6 (1.511%) DB2
15 5 (1.259%) Infinispan
16 4 (1.008%) Redis
17 3 (0.756%) Oracle 8/8i
17 3 (0.756%) Hazelcast
17 3 (0.756%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 119 (29.97%) Maven
2 81 (20.40%) Selenium
3 73 (18.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 68 (17.13%) JUnit
5 60 (15.11%) Hudson
6 59 (14.86%) JIRA
7 56 (14.11%) Subversion
7 56 (14.11%) Jenkins
8 53 (13.35%) Cucumber
9 33 (8.312%) Ant
10 32 (8.060%) FitNesse
11 31 (7.809%) Git (software)
12 26 (6.549%) JMeter
13 20 (5.038%) Eclipse
13 20 (5.038%) TeamCity
14 19 (4.786%) Jasmine
15 16 (4.030%) Capistrano
15 16 (4.030%) Mercurial
15 16 (4.030%) IntelliJ
16 15 (3.778%) GitHub
General
1 44 (11.08%) Finance
2 37 (9.320%) Publishing
3 34 (8.564%) Telecoms
4 31 (7.809%) Online Betting
5 29 (7.305%) Games
6 25 (6.297%) Banking
7 9 (2.267%) Investment Banking
8 8 (2.015%) Advertising
8 8 (2.015%) Financial Institution
9 7 (1.763%) Marketing
10 4 (1.008%) Automotive
11 3 (0.756%) Law
12 2 (0.504%) Retail
12 2 (0.504%) Legal
13 1 (0.252%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.252%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 240 (60.45%) Developer
2 180 (45.34%) Java Developer
3 75 (18.89%) Senior Developer
4 59 (14.86%) Senior Java Developer
5 48 (12.09%) Analyst
6 41 (10.33%) Software Engineer
7 36 (9.068%) Applications Support
8 34 (8.564%) Support Analyst
9 27 (6.801%) Applications Support Analyst
10 26 (6.549%) Agile Java Developer
11 23 (5.793%) Software Developer
12 20 (5.038%) Consultant
13 19 (4.786%) Support Engineer
14 17 (4.282%) Web Developer
14 17 (4.282%) Senior Consultant
15 16 (4.030%) QA Engineer
16 13 (3.275%) Web Analyst
16 13 (3.275%) Java Web Developer
16 13 (3.275%) Web Support Analyst
16 13 (3.275%) Java/J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 85 (21.41%) Open Source
2 29 (7.305%) Digital Media
3 26 (6.549%) Computer Science
4 25 (6.297%) Mobile App
5 23 (5.793%) Web 2.0
6 19 (4.786%) Cloud Computing
6 19 (4.786%) MHEG
6 19 (4.786%) BBC
7 14 (3.526%) Mathematics
8 13 (3.275%) Linked Data
9 11 (2.771%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (2.519%) Mobile Banking
10 10 (2.519%) Blog
11 9 (2.267%) Inversion of Control
11 9 (2.267%) iPhone
12 8 (2.015%) Kindle
12 8 (2.015%) Client/Server
13 7 (1.763%) Physics
13 7 (1.763%) Online Games
14 6 (1.511%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 113 (28.46%) Linux
2 84 (21.16%) UNIX
3 34 (8.564%) Solaris
4 31 (7.809%) Windows
5 15 (3.778%) Ubuntu
6 12 (3.023%) Android
7 11 (2.771%) Apple iOS
8 5 (1.259%) Mac OS X
9 3 (0.756%) CentOS
10 1 (0.252%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.252%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (48.61%) TDD
2 175 (44.08%) Agile Software Development
3 167 (42.07%) Scrum
4 131 (33.00%) Continuous Integration
5 104 (26.20%) MVC
6 95 (23.93%) E-Commerce
7 90 (22.67%) OO
8 76 (19.14%) Kanban
9 67 (16.88%) BDD
10 66 (16.62%) Pair Programming
11 62 (15.62%) SOA
12 43 (10.83%) Unit Testing
13 36 (9.068%) Data Modelling
14 33 (8.312%) Content Management
15 31 (7.809%) Multithreading
16 30 (7.557%) ITIL
17 28 (7.053%) Test Automation
18 27 (6.801%) Extreme Programming
19 25 (6.297%) Continuous Improvement
20 21 (5.290%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 383 (96.47%) Java
2 194 (48.87%) JavaScript
3 152 (38.29%) SQL
4 131 (33.00%) Ruby
5 112 (28.21%) Scala
6 53 (13.35%) Shell Script
7 50 (12.59%) Python
8 42 (10.58%) Perl
9 37 (9.320%) C++
10 33 (8.312%) PHP
11 32 (8.060%) PL/SQL
11 32 (8.060%) C#
12 26 (6.549%) Clojure
13 21 (5.290%) Bash shell
14 19 (4.786%) XPath
14 19 (4.786%) SPARQL
14 19 (4.786%) ActionScript
15 17 (4.282%) T-SQL
16 10 (2.519%) MATLAB
17 9 (2.267%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 44 (11.08%) Degree
2 1 (0.252%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (0.252%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (9.824%) QA
2 11 (2.771%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.252%) SLA
Systems Management
1 28 (7.053%) Puppet
2 13 (3.275%) OSSEC
3 5 (1.259%) MOM
Vendors
1 133 (33.50%) Oracle
2 46 (11.59%) JBoss
3 18 (4.534%) Microsoft
4 14 (3.526%) Atlassian
5 12 (3.023%) Sitecore
5 12 (3.023%) EPiServer
5 12 (3.023%) Telerik
6 9 (2.267%) Google
6 9 (2.267%) AccuRev
7 6 (1.511%) Sybase
8 5 (1.259%) StatPro
8 5 (1.259%) Perforce
9 4 (1.008%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.756%) Salesforce.com
10 3 (0.756%) TIBCO
10 3 (0.756%) Azul
10 3 (0.756%) Zend
11 2 (0.504%) DataSynapse
11 2 (0.504%) GigaSpaces
11 2 (0.504%) Joyent
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Salary: Sky benefits
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