Apache Groovy
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 525 444 458
Rank change year-on-year -81 +14 -39
Contract jobs citing Groovy 73 290 452
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.48% 0.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.57% 1.38% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 221 322
10th Percentile £405 £450 £440
25th Percentile £441 £525 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £630 £586
Median % change year-on-year -14.68% +7.51% +11.62%
75th Percentile £634 £688 £688
90th Percentile £653 £775 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £516 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.67% - +8.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - - £64.45
25th Percentile - - £68.40
Median hourly rate - £85.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% -
75th Percentile - - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £63.62

All Programming Languages
UK

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 with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,747 20,965 32,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.44% 35.05% 36.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,054 15,147 23,495
10th Percentile £350 £400 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £783 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £485
% change year-on-year -2.20% +3.09% +14.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 480 477 511
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.39 £19.91
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.07 £60.70 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% +21.40% +13.64%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.88 £77.00 £67.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £49.25
% change year-on-year - +26.90% +15.88%

Groovy
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Groovy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Groovy in the UK

Groovy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Groovy.

Daily rate trend for Groovy in the UK

Groovy
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Groovy over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Groovy in the UK

Groovy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Groovy.

Hourly rate trend for Groovy in the UK

Groovy
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England -54 56 £538 -17.31% 32
UK excluding London +38 40 £516 -1.67% 20
London -46 29 £563 -16.67% 14
Work from Home +25 21 £538 -14.00% 26
Scotland +36 15 £531 +11.79% 3
North of England +27 12 £625 +8.70% 5
Yorkshire +26 8 £625 +25.00%
East of England +17 7 £410 -29.67% 1
South East +13 5 £538 +2.38% 6
North West +7 4 - - 4
West Midlands +23 2 £450 -12.20% 3
Midlands +16 2 £450 -12.20% 4

Groovy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 15 (20.55%) Confluence
2 5 (6.85%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (4.11%) Jupyter
3 3 (4.11%) nginx
4 2 (2.74%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (1.37%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (1.37%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.37%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Hyperion Planning
1 1 (1.37%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.37%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 28 (38.36%) AWS
2 20 (27.40%) OpenShift
3 12 (16.44%) Amazon EKS
4 11 (15.07%) GCP
5 10 (13.70%) Azure
6 7 (9.59%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (9.59%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (9.59%) Amazon S3
6 7 (9.59%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (9.59%) CloudBees
6 7 (9.59%) Collibra
6 7 (9.59%) Serverless
7 6 (8.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 6 (8.22%) Power Platform
8 5 (6.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 5 (6.85%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (6.85%) AWS Fargate
9 4 (5.48%) Azure AKS
10 2 (2.74%) Apigee
10 2 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (12.33%) Firewall
2 4 (5.48%) HTTP
3 2 (2.74%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.37%) DNS
4 1 (1.37%) FTP
4 1 (1.37%) Internet
4 1 (1.37%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.37%) SNMP
4 1 (1.37%) SSH
4 1 (1.37%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (24.66%) MongoDB
2 9 (12.33%) NoSQL
3 8 (10.96%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (9.59%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (8.22%) Apache Cassandra
5 6 (8.22%) Metadata
5 6 (8.22%) Power BI
5 6 (8.22%) SQL Server
6 3 (4.11%) Apache Hive
6 3 (4.11%) ClickHouse
6 3 (4.11%) Hadoop
6 3 (4.11%) InfluxDB
6 3 (4.11%) MySQL
6 3 (4.11%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.74%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (2.74%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.74%) MariaDB
7 2 (2.74%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.37%) DataStax
8 1 (1.37%) DB2
Development Applications
1 41 (56.16%) Jenkins
2 19 (26.03%) JIRA
3 14 (19.18%) Git
4 12 (16.44%) Maven
5 8 (10.96%) GitLab
6 7 (9.59%) Bitbucket
6 7 (9.59%) Eclipse
6 7 (9.59%) Gradle
6 7 (9.59%) PyCharm
7 6 (8.22%) Artifactory
8 5 (6.85%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (5.48%) Cucumber
9 4 (5.48%) Gatling
9 4 (5.48%) JMeter
9 4 (5.48%) Selenium
9 4 (5.48%) WebDriver
10 2 (2.74%) NWDI
10 2 (2.74%) NWDS
10 2 (2.74%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (2.74%) TeamCity
General
1 12 (16.44%) Finance
2 9 (12.33%) Banking
3 7 (9.59%) Social Skills
4 6 (8.22%) Pharmaceutical
4 6 (8.22%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.85%) Manufacturing
6 4 (5.48%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (4.11%) Front Office
8 2 (2.74%) Aviation
8 2 (2.74%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.37%) Advertising
9 1 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.37%) Military
Job Titles
1 18 (24.66%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (13.70%) Developer
3 9 (12.33%) AWS Engineer
4 8 (10.96%) AWS DevOps
5 7 (9.59%) Analyst
5 7 (9.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 7 (9.59%) Business Analyst
6 6 (8.22%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 6 (8.22%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (6.85%) Administrator
7 5 (6.85%) Consultant
7 5 (6.85%) JIRA Administrator
7 5 (6.85%) Senior
7 5 (6.85%) Site Manager
7 5 (6.85%) Site Reliability Manager
8 4 (5.48%) Data Analyst
8 4 (5.48%) Product Analyst
8 4 (5.48%) SAP Consultant
8 4 (5.48%) Senior Test Engineer
8 4 (5.48%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (26.03%) Kafka
2 9 (12.33%) REST
3 5 (6.85%) ActiveMQ
3 5 (6.85%) AWS CDK
4 4 (5.48%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (5.48%) JSON
4 4 (5.48%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (5.48%) SOAP
4 4 (5.48%) Web Services
4 4 (5.48%) XSLT
5 3 (4.11%) Apache Beam
5 3 (4.11%) IDoc
5 3 (4.11%) JWT
5 3 (4.11%) Keycloak
5 3 (4.11%) OAuth
5 3 (4.11%) SAML
6 2 (2.74%) FastAPI
6 2 (2.74%) React
6 2 (2.74%) Swagger
6 2 (2.74%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.96%) Product Ownership
2 6 (8.22%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.48%) Public Cloud
4 3 (4.11%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.74%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.37%) CBDC
6 1 (1.37%) Derivative
6 1 (1.37%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.37%) Life Science
6 1 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.37%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 24 (32.88%) Linux
2 12 (16.44%) Unix
3 9 (12.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (9.59%) Windows
5 5 (6.85%) Ubuntu
6 4 (5.48%) Mac OS X
7 1 (1.37%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (46.58%) CI/CD
2 29 (39.73%) DevOps
3 27 (36.99%) Agile
4 17 (23.29%) Continuous Integration
5 16 (21.92%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (20.55%) Test Automation
7 14 (19.18%) Containerisation
7 14 (19.18%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (15.07%) TDD
9 10 (13.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 9 (12.33%) Continuous Delivery
11 8 (10.96%) Configuration Management
11 8 (10.96%) Deployment Automation
11 8 (10.96%) Root Cause Analysis
11 8 (10.96%) Workflow
12 7 (9.59%) Data Governance
12 7 (9.59%) Lean Six Sigma
12 7 (9.59%) Microservices
12 7 (9.59%) Migration
12 7 (9.59%) Six Sigma
Programming Languages
1 42 (57.53%) Python
2 37 (50.68%) Java
3 24 (32.88%) JavaScript
4 19 (26.03%) Bash
5 15 (20.55%) Ruby
6 14 (19.18%) Shell Script
6 14 (19.18%) SQL
7 10 (13.70%) Scala
8 7 (9.59%) Go
9 4 (5.48%) PowerShell
10 3 (4.11%) PL/SQL
10 3 (4.11%) TypeScript
11 2 (2.74%) ABAP
11 2 (2.74%) C#
12 1 (1.37%) Clojure
12 1 (1.37%) Korn
12 1 (1.37%) PHP
12 1 (1.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (5.48%) SC Cleared
1 4 (5.48%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.11%) Degree
3 1 (1.37%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.37%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.37%) CISSP
3 1 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.37%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.59%) GDPR
1 7 (9.59%) Good Clinical Practice
1 7 (9.59%) GxP
2 1 (1.37%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.37%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.37%) MiFID
System Software
1 23 (31.51%) Docker
2 4 (5.48%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (1.37%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.37%) HDFS
3 1 (1.37%) KVM
3 1 (1.37%) OpenAM
3 1 (1.37%) OpenDJ
3 1 (1.37%) OpenIDM
3 1 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (36.99%) Kubernetes
2 26 (35.62%) Ansible
3 24 (32.88%) Terraform
4 16 (21.92%) Grafana
5 7 (9.59%) Prometheus
6 6 (8.22%) Kibana
7 3 (4.11%) Progress Chef
8 2 (2.74%) Podman
8 2 (2.74%) Puppet
9 1 (1.37%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (1.37%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (1.37%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (1.37%) logstash
9 1 (1.37%) Packer
9 1 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (10.96%) Oracle
1 8 (10.96%) Splunk
2 7 (9.59%) SAP
3 5 (6.85%) Atlassian
3 5 (6.85%) Google
4 3 (4.11%) Avaloq
4 3 (4.11%) Confluent
4 3 (4.11%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.74%) AppDynamics
5 2 (2.74%) CyberArk
5 2 (2.74%) ForgeRock
5 2 (2.74%) IBM
5 2 (2.74%) Informatica
5 2 (2.74%) Okta
5 2 (2.74%) StreamSets
6 1 (1.37%) Ariba
6 1 (1.37%) BMC
6 1 (1.37%) Hyperion
6 1 (1.37%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.37%) ServiceNow