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

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Grails
Rank 123 - 97
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Grails 1 0 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 0.054% - 0.502%
As % of the Application Development category 0.138% - 0.945%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 8
Average salary £45,000 - £30,750
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-1.85% +1.25%
All Application Development
Oxfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
724 671 847
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 38.95% 45.68% 53.14%
Number of salaries quoted 636 597 793
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% -6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £27,865 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Grails
South East

Grails
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire Grails Salary Trend

Grails
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 7 (100.00%) Java
1 7 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 7 (100.00%) J2EE
1 7 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 7 (100.00%) Spring
1 7 (100.00%) Groovy
2 6 (85.71%) CSS
2 6 (85.71%) HTML
3 5 (71.43%) OLTP
3 5 (71.43%) OLAP
3 5 (71.43%) SQL
3 5 (71.43%) Ajax
3 5 (71.43%) Web 2.0
4 4 (57.14%) Pentaho
4 4 (57.14%) Open Source
4 4 (57.14%) OO
4 4 (57.14%) OOD
5 3 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (42.86%) Ubuntu
5 3 (42.86%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (42.86%) Retail
5 3 (42.86%) Java EE
6 2 (28.57%) Agile Project Management
6 2 (28.57%) Logistics
6 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (28.57%) Client/Server
6 2 (28.57%) Salesforce.com
6 2 (28.57%) Project Management
7 1 (14.29%) Intel
7 1 (14.29%) Apple

Grails
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 7 (100.00%) J2EE
1 7 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 7 (100.00%) Spring
2 6 (85.71%) CSS
2 6 (85.71%) HTML
3 5 (71.43%) Ajax
4 3 (42.86%) Java EE
5 1 (14.29%) jQuery
5 1 (14.29%) iOS SDK
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) Jetty
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) OLTP
1 5 (71.43%) OLAP
2 4 (57.14%) Pentaho
3 3 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
General
1 3 (42.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
2 5 (71.43%) Senior Developer
2 5 (71.43%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Java/J2EE Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior J2EE Software Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Java Software Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) J2EE Software Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Java Software Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Web 2.0
2 4 (57.14%) Open Source
3 2 (28.57%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Ubuntu
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Android
2 1 (14.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) OO
1 4 (57.14%) OOD
2 3 (42.86%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (28.57%) Agile Project Management
3 2 (28.57%) Logistics
3 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
1 7 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 7 (100.00%) Groovy
2 5 (71.43%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Salesforce.com
2 1 (14.29%) Intel
2 1 (14.29%) Apple