The first 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 17 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.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Grails
Rank 720 718 734
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +16
Permanent jobs citing Grails 138 181 137
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.128% 0.150% 0.111%
As % of the Application Development category 0.315% 0.359% 0.277%
Number of salaries quoted 114 147 111
Average salary £47,500 £47,500 £42,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +13.09%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £32,500 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £57,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,750 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-6.43% +6.87%
All Application Development
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
43800 50483 49443
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 40.63% 41.74% 40.05%
Number of salaries quoted 38094 44930 43658
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £28,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%

Grails
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Grails Jobs Demand Trend

Grails
Salary Trend

This 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

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Grails over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 within the UK.

Grails Salary Histogram

Grails
Top 30 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 17 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
England -13 133 £47,500 -
London +4 87 £50,000 -
City of London +21 25 £47,500 +8.57%
South East +12 19 £45,000 -
East of England +11 14 £31,250 -
Suffolk - 11 £30,000 -
North West -3 9 £42,500 +13.33%
Manchester -25 9 £42,500 +13.33%
Middlesex +12 8 - -
Hampshire 0 6 £45,000 +11.11%
Bury St Edmunds - 4 £32,500 -
Twickenham - 4 - -
Hertfordshire +3 3 £72,500 -
St Albans - 3 £72,500 -
South West +2 2 £35,000 +11.11%
Winchester -5 2 £45,000 -
Buckinghamshire -6 2 £37,750 -31.36%
Oxfordshire - 2 £42,500 -
South Wales - 2 £26,738 -
Cardiff - 2 £26,738 -
Amersham - 2 £37,750 -
Wales - 2 £26,738 -
Scotland - 2 £37,500 -
Bristol -4 1 £35,000 +11.11%
East Midlands -5 1 £38,500 -26.66%
West Midlands -25 1 £40,000 -11.11%
Warwickshire - 1 £40,000 -
Surrey - 1 - -
Nottinghamshire - 1 £38,500 -
Dorset - 1 - -

Grails
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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.

1 342 (96.07%) Java
2 236 (66.29%) Groovy
3 228 (64.04%) Spring
4 190 (53.37%) Hibernate
5 187 (52.53%) Scrum
6 182 (51.12%) TDD
7 174 (48.88%) CSS
8 162 (45.51%) HTML
9 158 (44.38%) Agile Software Development
10 146 (41.01%) JavaScript
11 145 (40.73%) SQL
12 139 (39.04%) XML
13 135 (37.92%) Oracle
14 123 (34.55%) J2EE
15 101 (28.37%) Web Services
16 98 (27.53%) Ruby
17 90 (25.28%) jQuery
18 89 (25.00%) MVC
19 78 (21.91%) JUnit
19 78 (21.91%) Kanban
20 77 (21.63%) OO
21 74 (20.79%) HTML5
22 73 (20.51%) Continuous Integration
22 73 (20.51%) MySQL
23 65 (18.26%) Linux
23 65 (18.26%) Java EE
24 63 (17.70%) CSS3
25 58 (16.29%) BDD
26 57 (16.01%) SOA
27 55 (15.45%) Spring MVC

Grails
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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.

Application Development
1 228 (64.04%) Spring
2 190 (53.37%) Hibernate
3 174 (48.88%) CSS
4 162 (45.51%) HTML
5 139 (39.04%) XML
6 123 (34.55%) J2EE
7 101 (28.37%) Web Services
8 90 (25.28%) jQuery
9 74 (20.79%) HTML5
10 65 (18.26%) Java EE
11 63 (17.70%) CSS3
12 55 (15.45%) Spring MVC
13 51 (14.33%) RESTful
14 49 (13.76%) JSON
15 47 (13.20%) REST
16 38 (10.67%) Ruby on Rails
17 37 (10.39%) JSP
18 35 (9.831%) SOAP
19 33 (9.270%) Ajax
20 27 (7.584%) Servlets
Application Platforms
1 45 (12.64%) WebLogic
2 41 (11.52%) Tomcat
3 33 (9.270%) Apache
4 16 (4.494%) GlassFish
5 15 (4.213%) CICS
6 14 (3.933%) IIS
6 14 (3.933%) Mule
7 12 (3.371%) Force.com
8 10 (2.809%) ESB
8 10 (2.809%) Confluence
9 9 (2.528%) RabbitMQ
9 9 (2.528%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 9 (2.528%) Jetty
10 8 (2.247%) Apache Solr
10 8 (2.247%) Amazon AWS
11 6 (1.685%) SharePoint
11 6 (1.685%) LiveLink
12 5 (1.404%) CMS
13 4 (1.124%) Adobe CQ
13 4 (1.124%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 3 (0.843%) MS Excel
2 2 (0.562%) Google Apps
2 2 (0.562%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.281%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 46 (12.92%) HTTP
2 45 (12.64%) Internet
3 9 (2.528%) AMQP
4 6 (1.685%) SSL
5 2 (0.562%) Firewall
5 2 (0.562%) DNS
5 2 (0.562%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (20.51%) MySQL
2 48 (13.48%) SQL Server
3 44 (12.36%) MongoDB
4 37 (10.39%) NoSQL
5 24 (6.742%) Apache Cassandra
6 23 (6.461%) RDBMS
7 20 (5.618%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (3.090%) Redis
8 11 (3.090%) Big Data
9 10 (2.809%) Oracle 11g
10 8 (2.247%) TOAD
10 8 (2.247%) CouchDB
11 6 (1.685%) OLTP
11 6 (1.685%) Hadoop
11 6 (1.685%) OLAP
12 5 (1.404%) DB2
12 5 (1.404%) Pentaho
13 4 (1.124%) MarkLogic
14 1 (0.281%) Riak
14 1 (0.281%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 78 (21.91%) JUnit
2 50 (14.04%) Selenium
3 42 (11.80%) Hudson
4 40 (11.24%) Subversion
5 37 (10.39%) Jenkins
6 35 (9.831%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 34 (9.551%) Maven
8 28 (7.865%) Git (software)
9 27 (7.584%) QUnit
10 26 (7.303%) Cucumber
11 25 (7.022%) Jasmine
11 25 (7.022%) JMeter
12 21 (5.899%) JIRA
13 19 (5.337%) Ant
14 17 (4.775%) Eclipse
15 15 (4.213%) Spring Roo
16 13 (3.652%) FitNesse
16 13 (3.652%) Mocha
17 12 (3.371%) jMock
18 8 (2.247%) Visual Studio
General
1 41 (11.52%) Finance
2 35 (9.831%) Telecoms
3 31 (8.708%) Online Betting
4 14 (3.933%) Retail
5 7 (1.966%) Games
5 7 (1.966%) Advertising
6 6 (1.685%) Financial Institution
6 6 (1.685%) Billing
7 4 (1.124%) Banking
7 4 (1.124%) Back Office
7 4 (1.124%) Automotive
8 2 (0.562%) Publishing
8 2 (0.562%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.281%) Marketing
9 1 (0.281%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 244 (68.54%) Developer
2 178 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 52 (14.61%) Senior Developer
4 47 (13.20%) Analyst
5 42 (11.80%) Senior Java Developer
6 39 (10.96%) Java/J2EE Developer
7 30 (8.427%) Software Engineer
8 26 (7.303%) Business Analyst
8 26 (7.303%) Agile Java Developer
9 24 (6.742%) Web Developer
10 22 (6.180%) Java Software Engineer
11 18 (5.056%) J2EE Developer
11 18 (5.056%) Front-End Developer
12 16 (4.494%) QA Engineer
12 16 (4.494%) Support Analyst
13 14 (3.933%) Applications Developer
13 14 (3.933%) Lead Developer
14 13 (3.652%) Front-End Web Developer
15 12 (3.371%) PHP Developer
15 12 (3.371%) Applications Support
Miscellaneous
1 55 (15.45%) Open Source
2 32 (8.989%) Computer Science
3 29 (8.146%) Cloud Computing
4 15 (4.213%) N-Tier
4 15 (4.213%) W3C
4 15 (4.213%) Mainframe
5 9 (2.528%) Web 2.0
5 9 (2.528%) Client/Server
5 9 (2.528%) Mathematics
6 6 (1.685%) Blog
7 5 (1.404%) iPhone
7 5 (1.404%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.404%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.404%) SaaS
8 4 (1.124%) iPad
8 4 (1.124%) Digital Media
9 3 (0.843%) Social Media
9 3 (0.843%) Inversion of Control
9 3 (0.843%) Online Games
9 3 (0.843%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 65 (18.26%) Linux
2 31 (8.708%) UNIX
3 11 (3.090%) Android
4 10 (2.809%) Apple iOS
5 8 (2.247%) Windows
6 7 (1.966%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (1.404%) Mac OS X
7 5 (1.404%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.281%) Windows 8
8 1 (0.281%) zOS
8 1 (0.281%) Debian
8 1 (0.281%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (52.53%) Scrum
2 182 (51.12%) TDD
3 158 (44.38%) Agile Software Development
4 89 (25.00%) MVC
5 78 (21.91%) Kanban
6 77 (21.63%) OO
7 73 (20.51%) Continuous Integration
8 58 (16.29%) BDD
9 57 (16.01%) SOA
10 53 (14.89%) E-Commerce
11 36 (10.11%) Pair Programming
12 34 (9.551%) Data Modelling
13 33 (9.270%) Software Engineering
14 31 (8.708%) ITIL
15 28 (7.865%) Service Delivery
16 26 (7.303%) Business Analysis
16 26 (7.303%) Continuous Improvement
16 26 (7.303%) Unit Testing
17 25 (7.022%) Web Development
17 25 (7.022%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 342 (96.07%) Java
2 236 (66.29%) Groovy
3 146 (41.01%) JavaScript
4 145 (40.73%) SQL
5 98 (27.53%) Ruby
6 38 (10.67%) PL/SQL
7 31 (8.708%) Scala
7 31 (8.708%) PHP
8 28 (7.865%) Python
9 25 (7.022%) T-SQL
10 21 (5.899%) Perl
11 16 (4.494%) XPath
12 14 (3.933%) COBOL
13 11 (3.090%) Bash shell
14 8 (2.247%) Shell Script
15 6 (1.685%) VBScript
15 6 (1.685%) C#
16 5 (1.404%) Apex Code
17 3 (0.843%) PowerShell
17 3 (0.843%) VB
Qualifications
1 46 (12.92%) Degree
2 1 (0.281%) Postgraduate
2 1 (0.281%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.461%) QA
2 1 (0.281%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.281%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.281%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 14 (3.933%) Puppet
Vendors
1 135 (37.92%) Oracle
2 30 (8.427%) Microsoft
3 20 (5.618%) JBoss
4 16 (4.494%) Salesforce.com
5 9 (2.528%) AccuRev
6 8 (2.247%) Red Hat
7 6 (1.685%) Google
8 5 (1.404%) Atlassian
8 5 (1.404%) Twitter
9 3 (0.843%) Facebook
9 3 (0.843%) Adobe
10 2 (0.562%) Apple
10 2 (0.562%) Zend
10 2 (0.562%) ATG
10 2 (0.562%) hybris
10 2 (0.562%) Akamai
10 2 (0.562%) Venda
10 2 (0.562%) Demandware
11 1 (0.281%) TIBCO
11 1 (0.281%) BT
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