Groovy Contracts in the UK excluding London

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UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Groovy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Groovy over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 355 387 395
Rank change year-on-year +32 +8 -38
Contract jobs citing Groovy 41 60 118
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.26% 0.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.86% 0.88% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 46 86
10th Percentile £404 £382 £382
25th Percentile £405 £425 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.38% -0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £634 £611 £600
90th Percentile £655 £700 £631
UK median daily rate £538 £631 £585
% change year-on-year -14.82% +7.86% +7.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.81
Median hourly rate - - £63.62
75th Percentile - - £65.42
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £85.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year - +6.25% -

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

Groovy is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,787 6,816 8,773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.37% 29.05% 28.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,225 4,837 6,106
10th Percentile £316 £350 £335
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +2.56% +14.71%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £575
90th Percentile £650 £678 £644
UK median daily rate £528 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 402 340 327
10th Percentile £38.00 £22.50 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £49.92 £26.98
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +1.07% +24.30% +19.88%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £76.00 £65.10
UK median hourly rate £62.18 £60.94 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.03% +21.88% +14.94%

Groovy
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Groovy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Groovy in the UK excluding London

Groovy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Groovy in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Groovy in the UK excluding London

Groovy
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Groovy in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Groovy in the UK excluding London

Groovy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Groovy in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Groovy in the UK excluding London

Groovy
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Groovy within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Scotland +45 16 £540 +9.37% 3
North of England +24 12 £625 +8.70% 5
Yorkshire +25 8 £625 +25.00%
South East +17 6 £538 +2.38% 7
East of England +8 6 £410 -20.62% 1
North West +6 4 - - 5
Midlands +28 2 £450 -12.20% 4
West Midlands +15 2 £450 -12.20% 3
Groovy
UK

Groovy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (21.95%) Confluence
2 4 (9.76%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (7.32%) Jupyter
3 3 (7.32%) nginx
4 1 (2.44%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (2.44%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Hyperion Planning
1 1 (2.44%) NetSuite
1 1 (2.44%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 16 (39.02%) AWS
2 12 (29.27%) OpenShift
3 9 (21.95%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (14.63%) Amazon S3
4 6 (14.63%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (14.63%) CloudBees
4 6 (14.63%) Collibra
4 6 (14.63%) Power Platform
4 6 (14.63%) Serverless
5 5 (12.20%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (12.20%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (12.20%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 5 (12.20%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (12.20%) AWS Fargate
5 5 (12.20%) GCP
6 3 (7.32%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (4.88%) Google Compute Engine
8 1 (2.44%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.44%) Boomi
8 1 (2.44%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 9 (21.95%) Firewall
2 4 (9.76%) HTTP
3 1 (2.44%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (24.39%) MongoDB
2 6 (14.63%) Metadata
2 6 (14.63%) Power BI
3 5 (12.20%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (12.20%) NoSQL
3 5 (12.20%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (9.76%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (7.32%) ClickHouse
5 3 (7.32%) InfluxDB
6 2 (4.88%) Apache Hive
6 2 (4.88%) BigQuery
6 2 (4.88%) Hadoop
6 2 (4.88%) MySQL
6 2 (4.88%) Relational Database
7 1 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (2.44%) DB2
7 1 (2.44%) Essbase
7 1 (2.44%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (2.44%) RDBMS
7 1 (2.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 25 (60.98%) Jenkins
2 14 (34.15%) JIRA
3 11 (26.83%) Git
4 8 (19.51%) Maven
5 7 (17.07%) Gradle
6 6 (14.63%) Eclipse
6 6 (14.63%) GitLab
6 6 (14.63%) PyCharm
7 5 (12.20%) Artifactory
8 4 (9.76%) Cucumber
8 4 (9.76%) Gatling
8 4 (9.76%) JMeter
8 4 (9.76%) Selenium
8 4 (9.76%) WebDriver
9 3 (7.32%) Bitbucket
10 2 (4.88%) Bitbucket Server
11 1 (2.44%) CircleCI
11 1 (2.44%) gulp
11 1 (2.44%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (2.44%) Travis CI
General
1 6 (14.63%) Pharmaceutical
2 5 (12.20%) Finance
2 5 (12.20%) Manufacturing
2 5 (12.20%) Public Sector
2 5 (12.20%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.88%) Banking
4 1 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (21.95%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (19.51%) AWS Engineer
3 7 (17.07%) AWS DevOps
3 7 (17.07%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 6 (14.63%) Analyst
4 6 (14.63%) Business Analyst
5 5 (12.20%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) Platform Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) Senior
5 5 (12.20%) Site Manager
5 5 (12.20%) Site Reliability Manager
6 4 (9.76%) Data Analyst
6 4 (9.76%) Data Business Analyst
6 4 (9.76%) Data Product Analyst
6 4 (9.76%) Developer
6 4 (9.76%) Product Analyst
6 4 (9.76%) Product Business Analyst
6 4 (9.76%) Product Owner
6 4 (9.76%) Senior Test Engineer
6 4 (9.76%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (24.39%) Kafka
2 5 (12.20%) AWS CDK
3 4 (9.76%) ActiveMQ
3 4 (9.76%) Web Services
4 3 (7.32%) Apache Beam
4 3 (7.32%) Keycloak
4 3 (7.32%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (4.88%) REST
5 2 (4.88%) SOAP
5 2 (4.88%) XSLT
6 1 (2.44%) ARM Templates
6 1 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (2.44%) IDoc
6 1 (2.44%) JSON
6 1 (2.44%) Regular Expression
6 1 (2.44%) WSDL
6 1 (2.44%) XML
6 1 (2.44%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.51%) Product Ownership
2 5 (12.20%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.44%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.44%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.44%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (36.59%) Linux
2 11 (26.83%) Unix
3 7 (17.07%) Windows
4 5 (12.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (12.20%) Ubuntu
5 4 (9.76%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (53.66%) CI/CD
2 17 (41.46%) DevOps
3 15 (36.59%) Agile
3 15 (36.59%) Continuous Integration
4 11 (26.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (24.39%) Containerisation
5 10 (24.39%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (24.39%) Test Automation
6 8 (19.51%) Deployment Automation
6 8 (19.51%) Root Cause Analysis
7 7 (17.07%) Configuration Management
7 7 (17.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 7 (17.07%) TDD
7 7 (17.07%) Workflow
8 6 (14.63%) BDD
8 6 (14.63%) Data Governance
8 6 (14.63%) Lean Six Sigma
8 6 (14.63%) OWASP
8 6 (14.63%) Service-Level Objective
8 6 (14.63%) Six Sigma
Programming Languages
1 28 (68.29%) Python
2 20 (48.78%) Java
3 14 (34.15%) JavaScript
4 13 (31.71%) Bash
4 13 (31.71%) Shell Script
5 12 (29.27%) Ruby
6 8 (19.51%) Scala
7 5 (12.20%) Go
8 4 (9.76%) SQL
9 3 (7.32%) PowerShell
10 2 (4.88%) TypeScript
11 1 (2.44%) ABAP
11 1 (2.44%) C#
11 1 (2.44%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (4.88%) SC Cleared
1 2 (4.88%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.44%) Degree
2 1 (2.44%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.63%) GDPR
1 6 (14.63%) Good Clinical Practice
1 6 (14.63%) GxP
2 1 (2.44%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 11 (26.83%) Docker
2 4 (9.76%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (2.44%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 20 (48.78%) Ansible
2 18 (43.90%) Kubernetes
2 18 (43.90%) Terraform
3 9 (21.95%) Grafana
4 5 (12.20%) Kibana
5 1 (2.44%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (2.44%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (2.44%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.44%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (7.32%) Atlassian
1 3 (7.32%) SAP
2 2 (4.88%) Google
2 2 (4.88%) Oracle
3 1 (2.44%) BMC
3 1 (2.44%) Confluent
3 1 (2.44%) Hyperion
3 1 (2.44%) IBM
3 1 (2.44%) Informatica
3 1 (2.44%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.44%) Remedy
3 1 (2.44%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.44%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.44%) Splunk
3 1 (2.44%) StreamSets