The first table below looks at the demand for Grails skills in IT jobs advertised for the South West 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 South West region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Grails
Rank 214 209 202
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -7
Permanent jobs citing Grails 2 6 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 0.038% 0.108% 0.052%
As % of the Application Development category 0.081% 0.235% 0.126%
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 3
Average salary £35,000 £31,500 £39,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% -19.23%
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-1.85% +1.25%
All Application Development
South West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
2469 2553 2377
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 46.73% 46.07% 40.86%
Number of salaries quoted 2244 2289 2124
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £33,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +4.47%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £26,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £45,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Grails
England

Grails
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 South West region.

South West Grails Salary Trend

Grails
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Grails within the South West region over the 3 months to 21 May 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
Bristol -14 1 £35,000 +11.11%
Dorset - 1 - -
Grails
England

Grails
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West 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 (70.00%) MVC
1 7 (70.00%) Java
1 7 (70.00%) jQuery
2 6 (60.00%) Spring
2 6 (60.00%) Spring MVC
2 6 (60.00%) JUnit
2 6 (60.00%) XML
3 5 (50.00%) Oracle
4 4 (40.00%) Mule
4 4 (40.00%) Apache Solr
4 4 (40.00%) MarkLogic
5 3 (30.00%) Scrum
5 3 (30.00%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (30.00%) TDD
5 3 (30.00%) OO
5 3 (30.00%) Eclipse
5 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (30.00%) CSS
6 2 (20.00%) HTML
6 2 (20.00%) MySQL
6 2 (20.00%) Hibernate
6 2 (20.00%) Ajax
6 2 (20.00%) JSON
6 2 (20.00%) HTML5
6 2 (20.00%) CSS3
6 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
6 2 (20.00%) Django
6 2 (20.00%) YUI
6 2 (20.00%) QUnit
7 1 (10.00%) Highcharts JS

Grails
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West 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 (70.00%) jQuery
2 6 (60.00%) Spring
2 6 (60.00%) Spring MVC
2 6 (60.00%) XML
3 3 (30.00%) CSS
4 2 (20.00%) HTML
4 2 (20.00%) Hibernate
4 2 (20.00%) Ajax
4 2 (20.00%) JSON
4 2 (20.00%) HTML5
4 2 (20.00%) CSS3
4 2 (20.00%) Django
4 2 (20.00%) YUI
5 1 (10.00%) Highcharts JS
5 1 (10.00%) Sass
5 1 (10.00%) LESS
5 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
5 1 (10.00%) Flot
5 1 (10.00%) HTML5 Canvas
5 1 (10.00%) Backbone.js
Application Platforms
1 4 (40.00%) Mule
1 4 (40.00%) Apache Solr
2 1 (10.00%) WebLogic
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) MarkLogic
2 2 (20.00%) MySQL
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) JUnit
2 3 (30.00%) Eclipse
3 2 (20.00%) QUnit
4 1 (10.00%) Maven
General
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
1 1 (10.00%) Advertising
1 1 (10.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Developer
2 5 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 5 (50.00%) Senior Developer
3 3 (30.00%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Team Leader
4 2 (20.00%) JavaScript Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Agile Java Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Front-End Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Android
1 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (10.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) MVC
2 3 (30.00%) Scrum
2 3 (30.00%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (30.00%) TDD
2 3 (30.00%) OO
3 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (10.00%) OWASP
4 1 (10.00%) MVVM
4 1 (10.00%) Waterfall
4 1 (10.00%) Web Development
4 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Java
2 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (10.00%) Ruby
3 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (10.00%) C#
3 1 (10.00%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Sybase