Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Grails skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Grails over the 3 months to 3 September 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category.

LinkGrails
Location
3 months to
3 Sep 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank725646892
Rank change year-on-year
Down-79Up+246
Matching permanent IT job ads781635
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK0.072 %0.023 %0.020 %
As % of the Application Development category0.184 %0.061 %0.059 %
Salaries quoted751633
Average salary£45,000£42,500£52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.880 %-19.04 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£32,500£24,500£28,750
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£60,000£45,000£54,750
UK excluding London average salary£39,500£42,500£30,000
% change year-on-year
-7.050 %+41.66 %
IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
424512612658957
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK39.32 %38.06 %32.90 %
Salaries quoted363162228550897
Average salary£40,000£36,500£37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.580 %-2.660 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£25,500£26,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£60,000£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£33,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+6.060 %-5.710 %

Grails
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Grails within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Grails Demand Trend

Grails
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Grails within the UK.

Grails Salary Trend

Grails
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Grails over the 3 months to 3 September 2010 within the UK.

Grails Salary Histogram

Grails
Top 24 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 UK over the 3 months to 3 September 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandDown-8878£45,000+5.88 %
LondonDown-11436£50,000+17.64 %
YorkshireNew entry-17£40,000-
South EastNew entry-11£47,500-
YorkNew entry-10£38,750-
North YorkshireNew entry-10£38,750-
East of EnglandNew entry-9£32,000-
SuffolkNew entry-8£32,000-
SheffieldNew entry-7£44,000-
IpswichNew entry-7£31,500-
South YorkshireNew entry-7£44,000-
OxfordshireNew entry-6£47,500-
North WestNew entry-5£35,000-
City of LondonDown-744£50,000+11.11 %
HampshireNew entry-3£20,000-
BerkshireNew entry-2£50,000-
ManchesterNew entry-2£36,250-
MerseysideNew entry-2£36,250-
LiverpoolNew entry-2£36,250-
SouthamptonNew entry-2£20,000-
CheshireNew entry-1£27,500-
CambridgeshireNew entry-1--
OxfordNew entry-1£50,000-
CreweNew entry-1£27,500-

Grails
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 3 September 2010, IT jobs within the UK 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.

1141 (88.68 %)Java
2118 (74.21 %)Spring
3115 (72.33 %)Groovy
493 (58.49 %)Hibernate
583 (52.20 %)J2EE
678 (49.06 %)JavaScript
765 (40.88 %)SQL
861 (38.36 %)CSS
861 (38.36 %)AJAX
944 (27.67 %)HTML
1043 (27.04 %)jQuery
1140 (25.16 %)XML
1238 (23.90 %)Linux
1238 (23.90 %)OO
1335 (22.01 %)MVC
1335 (22.01 %)TDD
1433 (20.75 %)JSF
1433 (20.75 %)Apache
1433 (20.75 %)MySQL
1433 (20.75 %)Oracle
1531 (19.50 %)Scrum
1629 (18.24 %)N-Tier
1629 (18.24 %)Facelets
1728 (17.61 %)Agile Software Development
1728 (17.61 %)JSP
1826 (16.35 %)PHP
1925 (15.72 %)UML
1925 (15.72 %)Web Development
1925 (15.72 %)Spring MVC
2024 (15.09 %)UNIX

Grails
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 3 September 2010, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1118 (74.21 %)Spring
293 (58.49 %)Hibernate
383 (52.20 %)J2EE
461 (38.36 %)CSS
461 (38.36 %)AJAX
544 (27.67 %)HTML
643 (27.04 %)jQuery
740 (25.16 %)XML
833 (20.75 %)JSF
929 (18.24 %)Facelets
1028 (17.61 %)JSP
1125 (15.72 %)Spring MVC
1222 (13.84 %)Servlets
1320 (12.58 %)Web Services
1419 (11.95 %)XHTML
1517 (10.69 %)XSLT
1614 (8.805 %)SOAP
1614 (8.805 %)Struts
1713 (8.176 %)Adobe Flex
1713 (8.176 %)Apache Axis
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
133 (20.75 %)Apache
224 (15.09 %)Tomcat
37 (4.403 %)Drupal
37 (4.403 %)Lotus Domino
43 (1.887 %)Jetty
43 (1.887 %)WebLogic
51 (0.629 %)Liferay
51 (0.629 %)Confluence
51 (0.629 %)CMS
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
14 (2.516 %)Photoshop
23 (1.887 %)Adobe Illustrator
31 (0.629 %)MS Excel
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
110 (6.289 %)HTTP
25 (3.145 %)OSPF
25 (3.145 %)BGP
25 (3.145 %)SNMP
33 (1.887 %)Internet
42 (1.258 %)TCP/IP
42 (1.258 %)SMTP
42 (1.258 %)HTTPS
42 (1.258 %)LDAP
42 (1.258 %)Intranet
42 (1.258 %)SAN
42 (1.258 %)Firewall
42 (1.258 %)SSH
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
133 (20.75 %)MySQL
213 (8.176 %)JasperReports
36 (3.774 %)PostgreSQL
36 (3.774 %)Pentaho
44 (2.516 %)RDBMS
51 (0.629 %)Oracle 8/8i
51 (0.629 %)Oracle 10g
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
122 (13.84 %)JUnit
213 (8.176 %)Subversion
312 (7.547 %)Selenium
411 (6.918 %)Ant
510 (6.289 %)Eclipse
69 (5.660 %)Maven
76 (3.774 %)TestNG
85 (3.145 %)XDoclet
85 (3.145 %)Git (software)
93 (1.887 %)JIRA
93 (1.887 %)Mockito
93 (1.887 %)Cucumber
102 (1.258 %)CruiseControl
111 (0.629 %)FitNesse
111 (0.629 %)Canoo WebTest
111 (0.629 %)HtmlUnit
111 (0.629 %)Visual Studio
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
124 (15.09 %)Finance
210 (6.289 %)Marketing
37 (4.403 %)Publishing
46 (3.774 %)Education
46 (3.774 %)Law
54 (2.516 %)Health
63 (1.887 %)Online Games
63 (1.887 %)Games
72 (1.258 %)Telecoms
72 (1.258 %)Financial Institution
72 (1.258 %)Pensions
72 (1.258 %)Retail
81 (0.629 %)Advertising
81 (0.629 %)Government
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1127 (79.87 %)Developer
285 (53.46 %)Java Developer
331 (19.50 %)Programmer
429 (18.24 %)Java/J2EE Developer
528 (17.61 %)Analyst
627 (16.98 %)Analyst Programmer
721 (13.21 %)Java Programmer
721 (13.21 %)Web Developer
820 (12.58 %)Senior Developer
917 (10.69 %)Java Analyst Programmer
1015 (9.434 %)Developer Analyst
1114 (8.805 %)Senior Java Developer
1114 (8.805 %)Senior Programmer
1212 (7.547 %)Lead Developer
1311 (6.918 %)Lead Java Developer
1311 (6.918 %)Senior Analyst Programmer
1311 (6.918 %)Senior Analyst
149 (5.660 %)Senior Java Programmer
149 (5.660 %)Agile Java Developer
158 (5.031 %)Front-End Developer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
129 (18.24 %)N-Tier
220 (12.58 %)Open Source
313 (8.176 %)Web 2.0
48 (5.031 %)iPhone
57 (4.403 %)Mathematics
66 (3.774 %)Streaming Video
75 (3.145 %)Statistics
75 (3.145 %)Amazon EC2
75 (3.145 %)Multithreading
84 (2.516 %)Clustering
84 (2.516 %)Video on Demand
84 (2.516 %)Computer Science
92 (1.258 %)iPad
92 (1.258 %)Wiki
101 (0.629 %)Informatics
101 (0.629 %)Google App Engine
101 (0.629 %)Amazon AWS
101 (0.629 %)Client/Server
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
138 (23.90 %)Linux
224 (15.09 %)UNIX
39 (5.660 %)Windows
45 (3.145 %)Solaris
52 (1.258 %)Debian
52 (1.258 %)Android
52 (1.258 %)CentOS
52 (1.258 %)Red Hat Linux
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
138 (23.90 %)OO
235 (22.01 %)MVC
235 (22.01 %)TDD
331 (19.50 %)Scrum
428 (17.61 %)Agile Software Development
525 (15.72 %)UML
525 (15.72 %)Web Development
614 (8.805 %)E-Commerce
711 (6.918 %)SOA
89 (5.660 %)SEO
98 (5.031 %)AOP
107 (4.403 %)Configuration Management
107 (4.403 %)B2C
116 (3.774 %)Business Intelligence
116 (3.774 %)B2B
116 (3.774 %)Workflow
116 (3.774 %)Digital Marketing
125 (3.145 %)Automated Testing
125 (3.145 %)Problem Management
125 (3.145 %)Continuous Integration
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1141 (88.68 %)Java
2115 (72.33 %)Groovy
378 (49.06 %)JavaScript
465 (40.88 %)SQL
526 (16.35 %)PHP
619 (11.95 %)Python
713 (8.176 %)Ruby
89 (5.660 %)Shell Script
98 (5.031 %)Bash shell
107 (4.403 %)PL/SQL
107 (4.403 %)C
116 (3.774 %)Perl
122 (1.258 %)C++
131 (0.629 %)XPath
131 (0.629 %)Scala
131 (0.629 %)PowerHouse
131 (0.629 %)C#
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
17 (4.403 %)Degree
21 (0.629 %)Security Cleared
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
18 (5.031 %)QA
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
17 (4.403 %)VMware Infrastructure
22 (1.258 %)Active Directory
22 (1.258 %)XenServer
22 (1.258 %)Xen
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
133 (20.75 %)Oracle
220 (12.58 %)JBoss
38 (5.031 %)VMware
46 (3.774 %)Apple
55 (3.145 %)Terracotta
63 (1.887 %)Adobe
72 (1.258 %)Red Hat
72 (1.258 %)Sony
81 (0.629 %)Google
81 (0.629 %)Zend
81 (0.629 %)Canoo
81 (0.629 %)Microsoft