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

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Grails
Rank - 167 -
Permanent jobs citing Grails 0 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Yorkshire - 0.031% -
As % of the Application Development category - 0.067% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 0
Average salary - £32,500 -
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-1.85% +1.25%
All Application Development
West Yorkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1470 1485 1259
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 39.82% 45.96% 42.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1197 1339 1129
Average salary £34,000 £33,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.03% +1.53%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Grails
Yorkshire

Grails
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire Grails Salary Trend

Grails
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 11 (100.00%) Java
1 11 (100.00%) JUnit
1 11 (100.00%) Web Services
1 11 (100.00%) XML
1 11 (100.00%) Apache
1 11 (100.00%) WSDL
1 11 (100.00%) XML Schema
1 11 (100.00%) JAXB
1 11 (100.00%) CICS
1 11 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 11 (100.00%) W3C
1 11 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 11 (100.00%) TDD
1 11 (100.00%) Spring
1 11 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 11 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 11 (100.00%) GlassFish
2 10 (90.91%) Feature Driven Development
2 10 (90.91%) User Stories
2 10 (90.91%) Kanban
2 10 (90.91%) Agile Software Development
2 10 (90.91%) Scrum
2 10 (90.91%) Project Management
2 10 (90.91%) ETL
2 10 (90.91%) SQL
2 10 (90.91%) Oracle
2 10 (90.91%) PRINCE2
2 10 (90.91%) COBOL
3 8 (72.73%) Unit Testing
4 1 (9.091%) Ruby

Grails
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 11 (100.00%) Web Services
1 11 (100.00%) XML
1 11 (100.00%) WSDL
1 11 (100.00%) XML Schema
1 11 (100.00%) JAXB
1 11 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 11 (100.00%) Spring
1 11 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (9.091%) HTML
2 1 (9.091%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 11 (100.00%) Apache
1 11 (100.00%) CICS
1 11 (100.00%) GlassFish
Development Applications
1 11 (100.00%) JUnit
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Software Engineer
1 8 (72.73%) Java Software Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Technical Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Team Leader
2 2 (18.18%) Technical Team Leader
2 2 (18.18%) Java Team Leader
2 2 (18.18%) Technical Leader
2 2 (18.18%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Lead Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Java Developer
3 1 (9.091%) Java Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Senior Java Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 11 (100.00%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.091%) Solaris
1 1 (9.091%) Linux
1 1 (9.091%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) TDD
1 11 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
2 10 (90.91%) Feature Driven Development
2 10 (90.91%) User Stories
2 10 (90.91%) Kanban
2 10 (90.91%) Agile Software Development
2 10 (90.91%) Scrum
2 10 (90.91%) Project Management
2 10 (90.91%) ETL
2 10 (90.91%) PRINCE2
3 8 (72.73%) Unit Testing
4 1 (9.091%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Java
2 10 (90.91%) SQL
2 10 (90.91%) COBOL
3 1 (9.091%) Ruby
3 1 (9.091%) JavaScript
3 1 (9.091%) Perl
3 1 (9.091%) C#
Vendors
1 10 (90.91%) Oracle