The first table below looks at the demand for Grails skills in IT jobs advertised for the York region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Grails over the 3 months to 23 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 York region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Grails
Rank - 57 36
Permanent jobs citing Grails 0 4 19
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in York - 0.964% 4.513%
As % of the Application Development category - 1.509% 10.73%
Number of salaries quoted 0 4 19
Average salary - £30,250 £42,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -27.97%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Application Development
York
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
176 265 177
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in York 42.51% 63.86% 42.04%
Number of salaries quoted 147 206 159
Average salary £33,500 £32,500 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.07% -12.16%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £26,000 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £45,000 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Grails
North Yorkshire

Grails
Jobs Demand Trend

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

York 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 York region.

York Grails Salary Trend

Grails
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the York 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 12 (100.00%) HTML
1 12 (100.00%) Java
1 12 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 12 (100.00%) SQL
1 12 (100.00%) J2EE
1 12 (100.00%) Oracle
1 12 (100.00%) CSS
1 12 (100.00%) Web Services
1 12 (100.00%) N-Tier
1 12 (100.00%) TDD
1 12 (100.00%) Spring
1 12 (100.00%) Java EE
1 12 (100.00%) jQuery
1 12 (100.00%) Groovy
1 12 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 12 (100.00%) Hibernate
2 6 (50.00%) Finance

Grails
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the York 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 12 (100.00%) HTML
1 12 (100.00%) J2EE
1 12 (100.00%) CSS
1 12 (100.00%) Web Services
1 12 (100.00%) Spring
1 12 (100.00%) Java EE
1 12 (100.00%) jQuery
1 12 (100.00%) Hibernate
General
1 6 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (100.00%) Developer
1 12 (100.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
1 12 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 6 (50.00%) J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (100.00%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) TDD
1 12 (100.00%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) Java
1 12 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 12 (100.00%) SQL
1 12 (100.00%) Groovy
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Oracle