The first table below looks at the demand for Grails skills in IT jobs advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Grails over the 3 months to 20 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 Oxford region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Grails
Rank - - 73
Permanent jobs citing Grails 0 0 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford - - 0.254%
As % of the Application Development category - - 0.465%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 2
Average salary - - £31,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-1.85% +1.25%
All Application Development
Oxford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
416 277 430
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 40.74% 43.42% 54.71%
Number of salaries quoted 359 244 416
Average salary £42,500 £35,000 £39,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+21.42% -10.82%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £55,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Grails
Oxfordshire

Grails
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford Grails Salary Trend

Grails
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 5 (100.00%) HTML
1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 5 (100.00%) J2EE
1 5 (100.00%) CSS
1 5 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 5 (100.00%) Spring
1 5 (100.00%) Groovy
2 3 (60.00%) Retail
2 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (60.00%) OOD
2 3 (60.00%) OLTP
2 3 (60.00%) OO
2 3 (60.00%) OLAP
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Pentaho
2 3 (60.00%) Open Source
2 3 (60.00%) Ajax
2 3 (60.00%) Ubuntu
2 3 (60.00%) Web 2.0
2 3 (60.00%) Java EE
3 2 (40.00%) Agile Project Management
3 2 (40.00%) Logistics
3 2 (40.00%) Client/Server
3 2 (40.00%) Salesforce.com
3 2 (40.00%) Project Management
3 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development

Grails
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 5 (100.00%) HTML
1 5 (100.00%) J2EE
1 5 (100.00%) CSS
1 5 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 5 (100.00%) Spring
2 3 (60.00%) Ajax
2 3 (60.00%) Java EE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) OLAP
1 3 (60.00%) OLTP
1 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (60.00%) Pentaho
General
1 3 (60.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 4 (80.00%) Senior Developer
2 4 (80.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (40.00%) J2EE Software Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) Senior J2EE Software Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) Senior Java Software Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) Java Software Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Web 2.0
1 3 (60.00%) Open Source
2 2 (40.00%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) OO
1 3 (60.00%) OOD
2 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Project Management
2 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (40.00%) Logistics
2 2 (40.00%) Agile Project Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 5 (100.00%) Groovy
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Salesforce.com