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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Groovy
Rank 78 - 66
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Groovy 9 0 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 0.871% - 1.250%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.552% - 1.876%
Number of salaries quoted 9 0 10
Average salary £40,000 - £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £40,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+6.25% +8.10%
All Programming Languages
Oxford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
580 378 533
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 56.15% 59.62% 66.63%
Number of salaries quoted 513 331 510
Average salary £40,000 £38,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% -5.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £29,000 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £62,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Groovy
Oxfordshire

Groovy
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford Groovy Salary Trend

Groovy
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Groovy across the Oxford region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Oxford Groovy Salary Histogram

Groovy
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 17 (100.00%) Java
2 15 (88.24%) SQL
3 14 (82.35%) Business Intelligence
4 12 (70.59%) JUnit
4 12 (70.59%) TDD
4 12 (70.59%) Pair Programming
4 12 (70.59%) Unit Testing
4 12 (70.59%) Continuous Integration
4 12 (70.59%) Scala
4 12 (70.59%) BDD
5 10 (58.82%) Spring
6 7 (41.18%) MQSeries
6 7 (41.18%) JMS
6 7 (41.18%) Multithreading
6 7 (41.18%) Selenium
7 5 (29.41%) Grails
7 5 (29.41%) Degree
7 5 (29.41%) Computer Science
7 5 (29.41%) CSS
7 5 (29.41%) JavaScript
7 5 (29.41%) J2EE
7 5 (29.41%) SQL Server
7 5 (29.41%) HTML
7 5 (29.41%) Hibernate
8 3 (17.65%) Retail
8 3 (17.65%) Subversion
8 3 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (17.65%) OLAP
8 3 (17.65%) OO
8 3 (17.65%) OOD

Groovy
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 10 (58.82%) Spring
2 7 (41.18%) JMS
3 5 (29.41%) Grails
3 5 (29.41%) CSS
3 5 (29.41%) J2EE
3 5 (29.41%) HTML
3 5 (29.41%) Hibernate
4 3 (17.65%) Ajax
4 3 (17.65%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 7 (41.18%) MQSeries
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) SQL Server
2 3 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (17.65%) OLAP
2 3 (17.65%) OLTP
2 3 (17.65%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 12 (70.59%) JUnit
2 7 (41.18%) Selenium
3 3 (17.65%) Subversion
General
1 3 (17.65%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (100.00%) Developer
1 17 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 9 (52.94%) Java Programmer
2 9 (52.94%) Programmer
3 4 (23.53%) Senior Developer
3 4 (23.53%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior J2EE Software Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Java Software Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Java Software Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) J2EE Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Computer Science
2 3 (17.65%) Open Source
2 3 (17.65%) Web 2.0
3 2 (11.76%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) Business Intelligence
2 12 (70.59%) TDD
2 12 (70.59%) Pair Programming
2 12 (70.59%) Unit Testing
2 12 (70.59%) Continuous Integration
2 12 (70.59%) BDD
3 7 (41.18%) Multithreading
4 3 (17.65%) OO
4 3 (17.65%) OOD
5 2 (11.76%) Logistics
5 2 (11.76%) Agile Project Management
5 2 (11.76%) Project Management
5 2 (11.76%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) Java
2 15 (88.24%) SQL
3 12 (70.59%) Scala
4 5 (29.41%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Salesforce.com
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
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