The first table below looks at the demand for Groovy skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Groovy 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 Programming Languages category.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Groovy
Rank 594 557 679
Rank change year-on-year
-37 +122
Permanent jobs citing Groovy 273 356 195
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.251% 0.294% 0.160%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.472% 0.547% 0.304%
Number of salaries quoted 207 286 151
Average salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.00% +5.26%
90% offered a salary of more than £34,000 £37,500 £34,400
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £62,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £43,250 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+8.12% +6.66%
All Programming Languages
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
57786 65065 64151
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 53.20% 53.69% 52.57%
Number of salaries quoted 49711 57354 55628
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £63,500 £70,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%

Groovy
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Groovy Jobs Demand Trend

Groovy
Salary Trend

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

Groovy Salary Trend

Groovy
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Groovy over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 within the UK.

Groovy Salary Histogram

Groovy
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Groovy within the UK 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
England -58 263 £47,500 -5.00%
London -52 165 £50,000 -
South East +42 69 £45,000 -
City of London -28 34 £47,500 -7.31%
Berkshire +18 22 £37,500 -16.66%
East of England +13 17 £42,500 +8.97%
Hampshire +11 17 £45,000 +9.09%
Surrey - 13 £45,000 -
Maidenhead - 11 £32,500 -
Hertfordshire +11 10 £42,500 -
Middlesex +4 8 - -
Camberley - 8 - -
North West -39 7 £45,000 +28.57%
Oxfordshire - 7 £40,000 -
Slough +11 6 £45,600 +65.81%
Merseyside +2 6 £50,000 +42.85%
Liverpool -2 6 £50,000 +42.85%
Oxford - 6 £40,000 -
Brentford - 6 - -
Petersfield - 6 £44,750 -
Tring - 5 £42,500 -
Scotland -3 4 £37,500 -6.25%
Yorkshire -5 4 £32,500 +7.43%
Bury St Edmunds - 4 £32,500 -
Wakefield - 4 £32,500 -
Twickenham - 4 - -
Suffolk - 4 £32,500 -
West Yorkshire - 4 £32,500 -
Cambridgeshire +7 3 £37,500 -3.84%
Peterborough -2 3 £37,500 -1.31%

Groovy
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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.

1 590 (96.56%) Java
2 385 (63.01%) Spring
3 296 (48.45%) Hibernate
4 283 (46.32%) JavaScript
5 267 (43.70%) TDD
6 239 (39.12%) Agile Software Development
7 237 (38.79%) Grails
8 233 (38.13%) SQL
9 228 (37.32%) CSS
10 217 (35.52%) XML
10 217 (35.52%) HTML
11 206 (33.72%) Scrum
12 203 (33.22%) J2EE
13 169 (27.66%) Continuous Integration
14 168 (27.50%) Oracle
15 162 (26.51%) Maven
16 153 (25.04%) Linux
17 151 (24.71%) MVC
18 147 (24.06%) Ruby
19 146 (23.90%) Scala
20 145 (23.73%) Tomcat
21 133 (21.77%) Open Source
22 130 (21.28%) Web Services
23 129 (21.11%) OO
23 129 (21.11%) JUnit
24 120 (19.64%) MySQL
25 114 (18.66%) jQuery
26 109 (17.84%) Degree
26 109 (17.84%) UNIX
26 109 (17.84%) E-Commerce

Groovy
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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
1 385 (63.01%) Spring
2 296 (48.45%) Hibernate
3 237 (38.79%) Grails
4 228 (37.32%) CSS
5 217 (35.52%) XML
5 217 (35.52%) HTML
6 203 (33.22%) J2EE
7 130 (21.28%) Web Services
8 114 (18.66%) jQuery
9 92 (15.06%) Java EE
10 89 (14.57%) RESTful
10 89 (14.57%) HTML5
11 73 (11.95%) XSLT
12 72 (11.78%) JSON
13 66 (10.80%) CSS3
14 62 (10.15%) JMS
15 60 (9.820%) Spring MVC
15 60 (9.820%) Ajax
16 56 (9.165%) JSP
17 55 (9.002%) REST
Application Platforms
1 145 (23.73%) Tomcat
2 87 (14.24%) Apache
3 59 (9.656%) WebLogic
4 41 (6.710%) ESB
5 35 (5.728%) CMS
6 24 (3.928%) RabbitMQ
7 21 (3.437%) Apache Solr
8 17 (2.782%) IIS
8 17 (2.782%) Confluence
9 15 (2.455%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 13 (2.128%) Jetty
11 12 (1.964%) Force.com
11 12 (1.964%) Sitecore CMS
11 12 (1.964%) Umbraco
12 10 (1.637%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 9 (1.473%) Liferay
13 9 (1.473%) Alfresco
14 6 (0.982%) Mule
14 6 (0.982%) SharePoint
14 6 (0.982%) LiveLink
Applications
1 10 (1.637%) MS Excel
2 4 (0.655%) ZBrush
2 4 (0.655%) Photoshop
2 4 (0.655%) 3ds Max
3 3 (0.491%) MS Office
4 1 (0.164%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (0.164%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 1 (0.164%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 1 (0.164%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (0.164%) Kiodex
Communications & Networking
1 87 (14.24%) Internet
2 57 (9.329%) HTTP
3 27 (4.419%) TCP/IP
4 15 (2.455%) Firewall
4 15 (2.455%) DNS
5 14 (2.291%) Intranet
6 12 (1.964%) Extranet
7 6 (0.982%) Broadband
8 3 (0.491%) SAN
8 3 (0.491%) LDAP
8 3 (0.491%) NAS
9 2 (0.327%) AMQP
10 1 (0.164%) DSL
10 1 (0.164%) FTP
10 1 (0.164%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (19.64%) MySQL
2 89 (14.57%) SQL Server
3 88 (14.40%) NoSQL
4 64 (10.47%) MongoDB
5 49 (8.020%) Big Data
6 44 (7.201%) Apache Cassandra
7 41 (6.710%) RDBMS
8 32 (5.237%) CouchDB
9 23 (3.764%) PostgreSQL
10 21 (3.437%) Hadoop
11 19 (3.110%) MarkLogic
12 16 (2.619%) Jackrabbit
13 10 (1.637%) Couchbase
13 10 (1.637%) Oracle 11g
14 9 (1.473%) DB2
15 8 (1.309%) TOAD
16 6 (0.982%) Redis
16 6 (0.982%) OLAP
16 6 (0.982%) OLTP
17 5 (0.818%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 162 (26.51%) Maven
2 129 (21.11%) JUnit
3 105 (17.18%) Subversion
4 96 (15.71%) Selenium
5 85 (13.91%) Jenkins
6 77 (12.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 77 (12.60%) JIRA
7 71 (11.62%) Hudson
8 58 (9.493%) Eclipse
9 56 (9.165%) Cucumber
10 53 (8.674%) Git (software)
11 51 (8.347%) Ant
12 32 (5.237%) FitNesse
13 29 (4.746%) JMeter
14 28 (4.583%) Jasmine
14 28 (4.583%) IntelliJ
15 25 (4.092%) Mockito
16 24 (3.928%) GitHub
17 23 (3.764%) Mercurial
17 23 (3.764%) QUnit
General
1 64 (10.47%) Finance
2 42 (6.874%) Telecoms
3 37 (6.056%) Publishing
4 33 (5.401%) Games
5 31 (5.074%) Online Betting
6 29 (4.746%) Banking
7 10 (1.637%) Financial Institution
8 9 (1.473%) Investment Banking
8 9 (1.473%) Marketing
9 8 (1.309%) Advertising
10 5 (0.818%) Retail
11 4 (0.655%) Billing
11 4 (0.655%) Back Office
11 4 (0.655%) Automotive
12 3 (0.491%) Law
13 2 (0.327%) Legal
14 1 (0.164%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.164%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 415 (67.92%) Developer
2 324 (53.03%) Java Developer
3 124 (20.29%) Senior Developer
4 100 (16.37%) Senior Java Developer
5 55 (9.002%) Analyst
6 53 (8.674%) Software Engineer
7 43 (7.038%) Java/J2EE Developer
8 38 (6.219%) Web Developer
8 38 (6.219%) Applications Support
9 36 (5.892%) Support Analyst
10 35 (5.728%) Agile Java Developer
10 35 (5.728%) Software Developer
11 29 (4.746%) Applications Support Analyst
12 24 (3.928%) Java Web Developer
13 21 (3.437%) Support Engineer
14 20 (3.273%) Consultant
14 20 (3.273%) J2EE Developer
15 18 (2.946%) Programmer
15 18 (2.946%) QA Engineer
16 17 (2.782%) Front-End Developer
Miscellaneous
1 133 (21.77%) Open Source
2 57 (9.329%) Computer Science
3 36 (5.892%) Mobile App
4 33 (5.401%) Web 2.0
5 29 (4.746%) Digital Media
6 27 (4.419%) Cloud Computing
7 24 (3.928%) Mathematics
8 19 (3.110%) MHEG
8 19 (3.110%) BBC
9 18 (2.946%) Enterprise Software
10 15 (2.455%) N-Tier
11 13 (2.128%) Linked Data
12 12 (1.964%) Social Media
12 12 (1.964%) Mobile Banking
12 12 (1.964%) Physics
13 10 (1.637%) Inversion of Control
13 10 (1.637%) Blog
13 10 (1.637%) Data Integration
13 10 (1.637%) Client/Server
14 9 (1.473%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 153 (25.04%) Linux
2 109 (17.84%) UNIX
3 52 (8.511%) Windows
4 47 (7.692%) Solaris
5 21 (3.437%) Ubuntu
6 16 (2.619%) Mac OS
7 13 (2.128%) Android
8 12 (1.964%) Apple iOS
9 7 (1.146%) Mac OS X
9 7 (1.146%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.491%) CentOS
11 1 (0.164%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (43.70%) TDD
2 239 (39.12%) Agile Software Development
3 206 (33.72%) Scrum
4 169 (27.66%) Continuous Integration
5 151 (24.71%) MVC
6 129 (21.11%) OO
7 109 (17.84%) E-Commerce
8 99 (16.20%) BDD
9 94 (15.38%) Pair Programming
10 84 (13.75%) Kanban
11 78 (12.77%) SOA
12 64 (10.47%) Unit Testing
13 41 (6.710%) Multithreading
14 36 (5.892%) Extreme Programming
14 36 (5.892%) Data Modelling
15 35 (5.728%) Continuous Improvement
15 35 (5.728%) Content Management
16 34 (5.565%) Software Engineering
17 33 (5.401%) Test Automation
18 31 (5.074%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 590 (96.56%) Java
2 283 (46.32%) JavaScript
3 233 (38.13%) SQL
4 147 (24.06%) Ruby
5 146 (23.90%) Scala
6 73 (11.95%) Python
7 67 (10.97%) Shell Script
8 52 (8.511%) C++
9 50 (8.183%) Perl
10 46 (7.529%) C#
11 41 (6.710%) PL/SQL
12 36 (5.892%) Bash shell
13 35 (5.728%) PHP
14 27 (4.419%) Clojure
15 25 (4.092%) T-SQL
15 25 (4.092%) XPath
16 19 (3.110%) SPARQL
16 19 (3.110%) ActionScript
17 12 (1.964%) Objective-C
17 12 (1.964%) C
Qualifications
1 109 (17.84%) Degree
2 1 (0.164%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (0.164%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (7.856%) QA
2 11 (1.800%) SLA
2 11 (1.800%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.164%) ISO 8583
Systems Management
1 34 (5.565%) Puppet
2 13 (2.128%) OSSEC
3 5 (0.818%) MOM
Vendors
1 168 (27.50%) Oracle
2 61 (9.984%) JBoss
3 22 (3.601%) Google
4 19 (3.110%) Microsoft
5 16 (2.619%) Salesforce.com
6 14 (2.291%) Atlassian
7 12 (1.964%) Telerik
7 12 (1.964%) Sitecore
7 12 (1.964%) EPiServer
8 11 (1.800%) GigaSpaces
9 10 (1.637%) Red Hat
10 9 (1.473%) AccuRev
11 6 (0.982%) Sybase
11 6 (0.982%) Cognizant
11 6 (0.982%) Perforce
12 5 (0.818%) StatPro
13 3 (0.491%) TIBCO
13 3 (0.491%) Sun
13 3 (0.491%) Zend
13 3 (0.491%) Azul
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Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum + Benefits + Bonus
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