Grails Job Trends

Grails
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Grails skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 659 - 743
Rank change year-on-year - - +398
Permanent jobs citing Grails 2 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.004% - 0.002%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.026% - 0.007%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 - -
75th Percentile £58,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Grails falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,654 13,943 15,066
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.51% 20.31% 27.14%
Number of salaries quoted 4,869 8,471 12,292
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,250 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -0.54% +0.54%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +3.60% -3.48% +3.60%

Grails
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Grails relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Grails job vacancy trend in the UK

Grails
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Grails.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Grails

Grails
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Grails within the UK over the 6 months to 25 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London - 2 £57,500 - 1
North of England - 1 £57,500 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £57,500 - 1
England - 1 £57,500 - 3
Work from Home - 1 £57,500 - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

Grails
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Gradle
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Maven
2 1 (50.00%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) Bootstrap
2 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (50.00%) Micronaut
2 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) RxJava
2 1 (50.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) Build Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Programming
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Groovy
2 1 (50.00%) R
2 1 (50.00%) Ruby
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes