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

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Grails
Rank 36 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Grails 3 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Albans 1.613% - -
As % of the Application Development category 4.839% - -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
Average salary £72,500 - -
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-1.85% +1.25%
All Application Development
St Albans
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
62 66 49
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Albans 33.33% 48.53% 27.37%
Number of salaries quoted 47 56 45
Average salary £45,000 £52,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-14.28% +31.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,500 £37,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £55,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Grails
Hertfordshire

Grails
Jobs Demand Trend

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

St Albans 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 St Albans region.

St Albans Grails Salary Trend

Grails
Top 7 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the St Albans 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 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) J2EE
1 3 (100.00%) JSP
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Ajax
1 3 (100.00%) Groovy

Grails
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the St Albans 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 3 (100.00%) J2EE
1 3 (100.00%) JSP
1 3 (100.00%) Ajax
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Development Manager
1 3 (100.00%) Java Development Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) Groovy