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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Grails
Rank 183 157 -
Rank change year-on-year
-26 -
Permanent jobs citing Grails 9 16 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 0.220% 0.442% -
As % of the Application Development category 0.422% 0.914% -
Number of salaries quoted 9 2 0
Average salary £42,500 £37,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.33% -
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-0.62% -
All Application Development
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
2132 1750 1682
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 52.06% 48.29% 42.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1954 1598 1559
Average salary £35,000 £33,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.06% +1.53%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £47,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Grails
North West

Grails
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester Grails Salary Trend

Grails
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 23 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 23 (100.00%) Java
1 23 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 23 (100.00%) Scrum
1 23 (100.00%) TDD
1 23 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 23 (100.00%) Ruby
1 23 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 12 (52.17%) Data Management
3 11 (47.83%) Software Engineering
3 11 (47.83%) Technical Architecture
4 3 (13.04%) Telecoms
4 3 (13.04%) Finance
4 3 (13.04%) MS Excel
4 3 (13.04%) Requirements Analysis

Grails
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 23 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
Applications
1 3 (13.04%) MS Excel
General
1 3 (13.04%) Telecoms
1 3 (13.04%) Finance
Job Titles
1 23 (100.00%) Business Analyst
1 23 (100.00%) Analyst
2 8 (34.78%) Business Consultant
2 8 (34.78%) Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 23 (100.00%) Scrum
1 23 (100.00%) TDD
1 23 (100.00%) Business Analysis
2 12 (52.17%) Data Management
3 11 (47.83%) Software Engineering
3 11 (47.83%) Technical Architecture
4 3 (13.04%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 23 (100.00%) Java
1 23 (100.00%) Ruby
Vendors
1 23 (100.00%) Microsoft