The first table below looks at the demand for Groovy skills in IT jobs advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Groovy over the 3 months to 18 June 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 South East region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Groovy
Rank 376 421 379
Rank change year-on-year
+45 -42
Permanent jobs citing Groovy 66 21 49
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 0.295% 0.088% 0.206%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.595% 0.176% 0.399%
Number of salaries quoted 52 19 36
Average salary £44,500 £45,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.11% +28.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £32,300 £30,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £55,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £40,000 £36,000
% change year-on-year
+6.25% +11.11%
All Programming Languages
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
11084 11914 12291
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 49.58% 50.09% 51.63%
Number of salaries quoted 9815 10577 11040
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £27,500 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
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 South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

South East 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 South East region.

South East Groovy Salary Trend

Groovy
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Groovy across the South East region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Berkshire +17 22 £32,500 -27.77% 1
Oxfordshire -9 13 £40,000 +25.00% 2
Hampshire +8 12 £45,000 -18.18% 1
Surrey - 12 £45,000 - 1
Middlesex +6 5 - -
Buckinghamshire -8 2 £37,750 -31.36%
Groovy
England

Groovy
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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.

1 118 (100.00%) Java
2 80 (67.80%) Spring
3 52 (44.07%) Hibernate
4 47 (39.83%) TDD
5 46 (38.98%) Agile Software Development
6 45 (38.14%) Degree
7 44 (37.29%) Open Source
7 44 (37.29%) HTML
7 44 (37.29%) XML
8 42 (35.59%) JavaScript
9 39 (33.05%) JUnit
9 39 (33.05%) CSS
10 36 (30.51%) Continuous Integration
11 35 (29.66%) SQL
11 35 (29.66%) Tomcat
11 35 (29.66%) Pair Programming
12 32 (27.12%) Grails
13 30 (25.42%) MVC
14 29 (24.58%) J2EE
15 28 (23.73%) Linux
15 28 (23.73%) OO
15 28 (23.73%) Subversion
15 28 (23.73%) JSON
15 28 (23.73%) Scala
16 27 (22.88%) BDD
17 26 (22.03%) Servlets
18 25 (21.19%) GWT
19 23 (19.49%) Guice
19 23 (19.49%) Eclipse
20 22 (18.64%) Scrum

Groovy
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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 80 (67.80%) Spring
2 52 (44.07%) Hibernate
3 44 (37.29%) HTML
3 44 (37.29%) XML
4 39 (33.05%) CSS
5 32 (27.12%) Grails
6 29 (24.58%) J2EE
7 28 (23.73%) JSON
8 26 (22.03%) Servlets
9 25 (21.19%) GWT
10 23 (19.49%) Guice
11 22 (18.64%) HTML5
12 17 (14.41%) Velocity
13 15 (12.71%) CSS3
14 14 (11.86%) REST
14 14 (11.86%) SOAP
14 14 (11.86%) XSLT
15 13 (11.02%) XSL
15 13 (11.02%) jQuery
16 12 (10.17%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 35 (29.66%) Tomcat
2 20 (16.95%) ESB
2 20 (16.95%) Apache
3 12 (10.17%) WebLogic
4 9 (7.627%) Alfresco
4 9 (7.627%) Liferay
5 7 (5.932%) Force.com
5 7 (5.932%) MQSeries
6 5 (4.237%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 5 (4.237%) WebLogic Portal
6 5 (4.237%) CMS
6 5 (4.237%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.847%) Oracle BPEL
7 1 (0.847%) LiveLink
7 1 (0.847%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.847%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.695%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.847%) Mingle
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.322%) HTTP
2 9 (7.627%) Internet
3 6 (5.085%) LDAP
4 2 (1.695%) Firewall
4 2 (1.695%) DNS
5 1 (0.847%) Broadband
5 1 (0.847%) FTP
5 1 (0.847%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (17.80%) MySQL
2 17 (14.41%) SQL Server
3 12 (10.17%) MongoDB
4 8 (6.780%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (5.085%) DB2
6 5 (4.237%) Jackrabbit
6 5 (4.237%) RDBMS
7 4 (3.390%) OLTP
7 4 (3.390%) OLAP
8 3 (2.542%) Pentaho
9 2 (1.695%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.847%) TOAD
10 1 (0.847%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 39 (33.05%) JUnit
2 28 (23.73%) Subversion
3 23 (19.49%) Eclipse
4 21 (17.80%) Maven
5 18 (15.25%) JIRA
6 16 (13.56%) Jenkins
7 14 (11.86%) Git (software)
8 13 (11.02%) Mockito
9 11 (9.322%) Selenium
10 9 (7.627%) TestNG
10 9 (7.627%) IntelliJ
10 9 (7.627%) Mocha
10 9 (7.627%) QUnit
10 9 (7.627%) Jasmine
10 9 (7.627%) GitHub
10 9 (7.627%) Gradle
11 7 (5.932%) DbUnit
11 7 (5.932%) Spring Roo
12 6 (5.085%) JProfiler
13 5 (4.237%) FishEye
General
1 7 (5.932%) Telecoms
2 3 (2.542%) Retail
Job Titles
1 102 (86.44%) Developer
2 87 (73.73%) Java Developer
3 25 (21.19%) Senior Developer
4 23 (19.49%) Senior Java Developer
5 18 (15.25%) Web Developer
6 15 (12.71%) Programmer
6 15 (12.71%) Java Programmer
7 10 (8.475%) Software Developer
8 9 (7.627%) Applications Developer
8 9 (7.627%) Java Web Developer
8 9 (7.627%) Java Applications Developer
8 9 (7.627%) Front-End Developer
8 9 (7.627%) Front-End Web Developer
8 9 (7.627%) Agile Java Developer
9 7 (5.932%) Data Manager
9 7 (5.932%) Integration Manager
9 7 (5.932%) Service Manager
10 6 (5.085%) Java/J2EE Developer
10 6 (5.085%) Data Integration Specialist
11 5 (4.237%) Web Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 44 (37.29%) Open Source
2 16 (13.56%) Computer Science
3 13 (11.02%) Data Integration
3 13 (11.02%) Mobile App
4 6 (5.085%) Social Media
5 5 (4.237%) Mathematics
5 5 (4.237%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (4.237%) Clustering
6 4 (3.390%) Web 2.0
7 2 (1.695%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.847%) EFT
8 1 (0.847%) EFTPOS
8 1 (0.847%) Smartcard
8 1 (0.847%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 28 (23.73%) Linux
2 16 (13.56%) Windows
3 14 (11.86%) Solaris
3 14 (11.86%) UNIX
4 12 (10.17%) Mac OS
5 9 (7.627%) Ubuntu
6 6 (5.085%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.847%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (39.83%) TDD
2 46 (38.98%) Agile Software Development
3 36 (30.51%) Continuous Integration
4 35 (29.66%) Pair Programming
5 30 (25.42%) MVC
6 28 (23.73%) OO
7 27 (22.88%) BDD
8 22 (18.64%) Scrum
9 18 (15.25%) Business Intelligence
10 15 (12.71%) Unit Testing
11 14 (11.86%) Workflow
12 13 (11.02%) Validation
12 13 (11.02%) ETL
12 13 (11.02%) Information Management
12 13 (11.02%) Multithreading
12 13 (11.02%) Data Validation
13 12 (10.17%) Web Application Development
13 12 (10.17%) Supply Chain Management
13 12 (10.17%) OOP
14 11 (9.322%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 118 (100.00%) Java
2 42 (35.59%) JavaScript
3 35 (29.66%) SQL
4 28 (23.73%) Scala
5 9 (7.627%) Shell Script
6 8 (6.780%) Bash shell
7 7 (5.932%) XPath
8 2 (1.695%) Erlang
8 2 (1.695%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.695%) Python
9 1 (0.847%) C#
9 1 (0.847%) VB6
9 1 (0.847%) Ruby
9 1 (0.847%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.847%) VB
9 1 (0.847%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.847%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 45 (38.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.02%) SLA
2 1 (0.847%) ISO 8583
Systems Management
1 2 (1.695%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (11.86%) Oracle
2 9 (7.627%) Salesforce.com
2 9 (7.627%) GigaSpaces
3 8 (6.780%) Google
4 6 (5.085%) Cognizant
4 6 (5.085%) Red Hat
5 5 (4.237%) JBoss
6 2 (1.695%) Facebook
6 2 (1.695%) Twitter
7 1 (0.847%) Intel
7 1 (0.847%) Canoo
7 1 (0.847%) VocaLink
Surrey, South East
As a highly skilled Java Developer you will be part of a small focused project team which is responsible for innovation and development of new product strategies. The...
TRG
Salary: 55000 Per Annum Excellent benefits
Posted: 9 June 2013
Oxfordshire, South East
The team is Agile with a particular focus on TDD, BDD, Pair Programming, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery... Essential Experience: - 2.2 in Computer Science or related degree -...
TRG
Salary: 40000 Per Annum Excellent benefits
Posted: 19 May 2013
Oxfordshire, South East
The team is Agile with a particular focus on TDD, BDD, Pair Programming, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery. In addition, to the usual technical responsibilities the client is...
TRG
Salary: 60000 Per Annum Excellent benefits
Posted: 19 May 2013
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