The first table below looks at the demand for Groovy skills in IT jobs advertised for the Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Groovy
Rank - - 69
Permanent jobs citing Groovy 0 0 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton - - 0.321%
As % of the Programming Languages category - - 0.658%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 2
Average salary - - £37,250
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £40,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+6.25% +8.10%
All Programming Languages
Southampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
453 539 304
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 54.32% 58.59% 48.72%
Number of salaries quoted 431 501 279
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% +15.38%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £26,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Groovy
Hampshire

Groovy
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton Groovy Salary Trend

Groovy
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton 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 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
2 2 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (66.67%) Ajax
2 2 (66.67%) Grails
2 2 (66.67%) jQuery
2 2 (66.67%) Hibernate
2 2 (66.67%) OO
2 2 (66.67%) OOD
2 2 (66.67%) JSP
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) J2EE
3 1 (33.33%) JUnit
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Servlets
3 1 (33.33%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) JSON
3 1 (33.33%) Maven

Groovy
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton 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 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
2 2 (66.67%) Ajax
2 2 (66.67%) Grails
2 2 (66.67%) jQuery
2 2 (66.67%) Hibernate
2 2 (66.67%) JSP
2 2 (66.67%) J2EE
3 1 (33.33%) Servlets
3 1 (33.33%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JUnit
1 1 (33.33%) Maven
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Java Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (66.67%) OO
1 2 (66.67%) OOD
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) SQL