Apache Groovy
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Groovy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Groovy over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 756 580 587
Rank change year-on-year -176 +7 0
Permanent jobs citing Groovy 129 463 817
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.45% 0.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.39% 1.03% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 66 312 302
10th Percentile £41,029 £42,874 £45,000
25th Percentile £59,500 £50,000 £54,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,576 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.58% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £92,237 £100,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,576 £59,526 £56,500
% change year-on-year +18.56% +5.36% -5.83%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,221 45,157 83,877
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.78% 43.42% 53.83%
Number of salaries quoted 25,021 28,803 44,133
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £55,000 £53,750
% change year-on-year -2.73% +2.33% +7.50%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Groovy.

Salary trend for Groovy in the UK

Groovy
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Groovy over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Groovy in the UK

Groovy
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Groovy within the UK over the 6 months to 29 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London -127 107 £70,576 +18.56% 22
Work from Home -98 73 £70,576 +17.63% 26
England -203 70 £70,576 +6.93% 34
Scotland -32 49 £70,576 +22.08% 3
London -51 20 £84,000 +12.00% 14
North of England -88 20 £70,576 +22.08% 5
South East 0 18 £77,500 -6.06% 8
Yorkshire -1 16 £70,576 +22.08%
Wales +17 9 £70,576 -
East of England +10 6 - - 1
Midlands +13 4 £60,000 +50.00% 4
East Midlands -14 4 £60,000 +60.00% 1
North West -20 3 £70,576 +29.28% 4
South West -47 2 £55,000 -7.60%
North East -8 1 - - 1

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 21 (16.28%) GemFire
2 5 (3.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (6.98%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 59 (45.74%) AWS
2 46 (35.66%) Azure
3 29 (22.48%) GCP
4 20 (15.50%) OpenShift
5 18 (13.95%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (8.53%) Pulumi
7 10 (7.75%) Azure AKS
8 9 (6.98%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (6.98%) Azure Monitor
8 9 (6.98%) Serverless
9 8 (6.20%) Amazon S3
9 8 (6.20%) Datadog
10 7 (5.43%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (5.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 4 (3.10%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (3.10%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (3.10%) SaaS
12 3 (2.33%) GitHub
13 2 (1.55%) Amazon ECS
13 2 (1.55%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.88%) VPN
2 4 (3.10%) Internet
3 3 (2.33%) FTP
4 2 (1.55%) SNMP
5 1 (0.78%) Firewall
5 1 (0.78%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.78%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (20.16%) NoSQL
2 22 (17.05%) MySQL
3 21 (16.28%) Apache Cassandra
3 21 (16.28%) CockroachDB
3 21 (16.28%) Hazelcast
4 15 (11.63%) Relational Database
5 13 (10.08%) MongoDB
6 11 (8.53%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (5.43%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (5.43%) MariaDB
7 7 (5.43%) Redis
8 4 (3.10%) DynamoDB
9 3 (2.33%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.78%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.78%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.78%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 45 (34.88%) Jenkins
2 21 (16.28%) Jaeger
3 18 (13.95%) IBM UrbanCode
3 18 (13.95%) Maven
4 17 (13.18%) Git
5 9 (6.98%) JIRA
6 8 (6.20%) Team Foundation Server
7 6 (4.65%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (3.10%) Bitbucket
8 4 (3.10%) Katalon Studio
8 4 (3.10%) Postman
9 3 (2.33%) Artifactory
9 3 (2.33%) Gradle
9 3 (2.33%) Spinnaker
10 2 (1.55%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.55%) GitLab
10 2 (1.55%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.78%) JUnit
11 1 (0.78%) Selenium
11 1 (0.78%) Spock
General
1 61 (47.29%) Finance
2 57 (44.19%) Banking
3 37 (28.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 37 (28.68%) Law
4 36 (27.91%) Investment Banking
5 23 (17.83%) Social Skills
6 17 (13.18%) Presentation Skills
7 15 (11.63%) Publishing
8 11 (8.53%) Retail
9 5 (3.88%) Games
10 4 (3.10%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (2.33%) Front Office
12 2 (1.55%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.78%) Analytical Skills
13 1 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.78%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 49 (37.98%) DevOps Engineer
2 42 (32.56%) Software Engineer
3 28 (21.71%) Senior
4 25 (19.38%) Lead
5 23 (17.83%) Lead Software Engineer
6 22 (17.05%) Java Engineer
6 22 (17.05%) Java Software Engineer
6 22 (17.05%) Lead Java Engineer
7 18 (13.95%) Senior DevOps
7 18 (13.95%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 17 (13.18%) Senior Support Engineer
8 17 (13.18%) Support Engineer
9 14 (10.85%) Developer
10 12 (9.30%) AWS Engineer
11 11 (8.53%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 11 (8.53%) Platform Engineer
11 11 (8.53%) Research Engineer
11 11 (8.53%) Research Software Engineer
12 10 (7.75%) Java Developer
13 9 (6.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (31.01%) Spring
1 40 (31.01%) Spring Boot
2 31 (24.03%) REST
3 27 (20.93%) Kafka
4 22 (17.05%) React
5 21 (16.28%) JPA
5 21 (16.28%) OpenTelemetry
6 11 (8.53%) HTML
7 10 (7.75%) JSON
8 9 (6.98%) ARM Templates
9 8 (6.20%) Web Services
9 8 (6.20%) XML
9 8 (6.20%) XSLT
10 7 (5.43%) AngularJS
10 7 (5.43%) CSS
11 6 (4.65%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (4.65%) Regular Expression
12 5 (3.88%) Elastic Stack
12 5 (3.88%) Middleware
12 5 (3.88%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 39 (30.23%) Cloud Native
2 25 (19.38%) Product Ownership
3 21 (16.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 21 (16.28%) Replication
4 20 (15.50%) Public Cloud
5 15 (11.63%) Distributed Applications
6 8 (6.20%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (3.10%) NHS
8 3 (2.33%) Embedded Systems
8 3 (2.33%) Hedge funds
9 2 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.78%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.78%) Digital Currency
10 1 (0.78%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 44 (34.11%) Linux
2 19 (14.73%) Windows
3 4 (3.10%) Unix
4 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.78%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (77.52%) Agile
2 70 (54.26%) DevOps
3 57 (44.19%) CI/CD
4 46 (35.66%) Software Engineering
5 38 (29.46%) SDLC
6 36 (27.91%) Infrastructure as Code
7 31 (24.03%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (20.93%) Continuous Delivery
8 27 (20.93%) Microservices
9 23 (17.83%) Software Testing
10 22 (17.05%) Architectural Design
10 22 (17.05%) Community of Practice
10 22 (17.05%) Containerisation
10 22 (17.05%) Information Architecture
10 22 (17.05%) Mentoring
10 22 (17.05%) Migration
10 22 (17.05%) OO
10 22 (17.05%) Operational Stability
11 21 (16.28%) Customer Service
11 21 (16.28%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 80 (62.02%) SQL
2 63 (48.84%) Java
3 48 (37.21%) Python
4 38 (29.46%) JavaScript
5 16 (12.40%) PowerShell
6 15 (11.63%) C#
6 15 (11.63%) T-SQL
7 14 (10.85%) Bash
8 13 (10.08%) C++
8 13 (10.08%) Ruby
9 10 (7.75%) Go
10 9 (6.98%) Scala
11 7 (5.43%) PHP
11 7 (5.43%) TypeScript
12 5 (3.88%) Shell Script
13 4 (3.10%) Kotlin
13 4 (3.10%) Perl
13 4 (3.10%) Rust
13 4 (3.10%) VB
13 4 (3.10%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 19 (14.73%) Security Cleared
2 16 (12.40%) SC Cleared
3 15 (11.63%) Degree
4 13 (10.08%) AWS Certification
5 8 (6.20%) Azure Certification
6 5 (3.88%) Numerate Degree
7 4 (3.10%) CIPD
7 4 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (3.10%) DBS Check
8 3 (2.33%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.78%) CISSP
9 1 (0.78%) OCP
9 1 (0.78%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.78%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.10%) MISRA
1 4 (3.10%) QA
2 3 (2.33%) MiFID
2 3 (2.33%) MISRA C
3 1 (0.78%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.78%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.78%) SEPA
System Software
1 36 (27.91%) Docker
2 4 (3.10%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (3.10%) VMware Server
3 3 (2.33%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (2.33%) Firmware
4 1 (0.78%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.78%) OpenAM
4 1 (0.78%) OpenDJ
Systems Management
1 71 (55.04%) Terraform
2 43 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 34 (26.36%) Ansible
4 32 (24.81%) Prometheus
5 31 (24.03%) Grafana
6 26 (20.16%) Progress Chef
7 22 (17.05%) Kibana
8 21 (16.28%) HAProxy
8 21 (16.28%) ITRS Geneos
8 21 (16.28%) Zipkin
9 9 (6.98%) Puppet
10 5 (3.88%) Packer
11 4 (3.10%) Istio
12 3 (2.33%) Consul
13 1 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (20.16%) Dynatrace
2 23 (17.83%) Google
3 21 (16.28%) Splunk
4 19 (14.73%) IBM
5 10 (7.75%) Microsoft
6 9 (6.98%) SaltStack
7 8 (6.20%) New Relic
8 5 (3.88%) ForgeRock
9 4 (3.10%) Computacenter
9 4 (3.10%) SAP
9 4 (3.10%) VMware
10 3 (2.33%) Atlassian
10 3 (2.33%) Bloomberg
10 3 (2.33%) Reuters
11 2 (1.55%) AppDynamics
11 2 (1.55%) Oracle
12 1 (0.78%) Adobe
12 1 (0.78%) BMC
12 1 (0.78%) Red Hat
12 1 (0.78%) Remedy