Groovy Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Apache Groovy
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Groovy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 62 -
Rank change year-on-year +4 - -
Contract jobs citing Groovy 16 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 2.05% 0.32% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.33% 1.14% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £475 - -

All Programming Languages
Birmingham

Groovy falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 192 176 169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 24.62% 27.94% 24.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 112 128
10th Percentile £323 £350 £271
25th Percentile £413 £422 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% +16.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £648 £638
90th Percentile £640 £729 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £514 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.70% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £36.00 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -34.55% - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £50.00 £23.87 £18.50
% change year-on-year +109.47% +29.03% -15.91%

Groovy
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Groovy relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Groovy job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Groovy
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Groovy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Groovy

Groovy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Application Platforms
1 14 (87.50%) Confluence
2 8 (50.00%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (50.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 15 (93.75%) AWS
2 14 (87.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 14 (87.50%) Amazon EC2
2 14 (87.50%) Amazon ELB
2 14 (87.50%) Amazon S3
2 14 (87.50%) AWS KMS
2 14 (87.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 9 (56.25%) Azure
4 8 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
4 8 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (50.00%) Route 53
5 6 (37.50%) Amazon Glacier
6 1 (6.25%) GCP
6 1 (6.25%) GitHub
6 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (6.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 14 (87.50%) DNS
1 14 (87.50%) Firewall
1 14 (87.50%) FTP
1 14 (87.50%) HTTP
1 14 (87.50%) SMTP
1 14 (87.50%) SSH
2 8 (50.00%) IMAP
2 8 (50.00%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (87.50%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 8 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (100.00%) Git
1 16 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 14 (87.50%) JIRA
2 14 (87.50%) Vagrant
3 1 (6.25%) Poetry
3 1 (6.25%) PyCharm
3 1 (6.25%) SonarQube
3 1 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (6.25%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 14 (87.50%) Public Sector
2 8 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
2 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
Job Titles
1 14 (87.50%) AWS Engineer
1 14 (87.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 14 (87.50%) DevOps Engineer
1 14 (87.50%) Platform Engineer
2 13 (81.25%) AWS DevOps
2 13 (81.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 8 (50.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 7 (43.75%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Data Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (50.00%) LDAP
2 1 (6.25%) .NET
2 1 (6.25%) Flask
2 1 (6.25%) NumPy
2 1 (6.25%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (6.25%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 14 (87.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (93.75%) Linux
2 14 (87.50%) Amazon Linux
2 14 (87.50%) VMS
2 14 (87.50%) Windows
3 8 (50.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) DevOps
2 14 (87.50%) Change Management
2 14 (87.50%) Cloud Security
2 14 (87.50%) Configuration Management
2 14 (87.50%) Patch Management
2 14 (87.50%) Platform Engineering
3 10 (62.50%) CI/CD
4 8 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (12.50%) Dependency Management
6 1 (6.25%) Auto-Scaling
6 1 (6.25%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (6.25%) DevSecOps
6 1 (6.25%) High Availability
6 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (6.25%) Observability
6 1 (6.25%) RBAC
6 1 (6.25%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (6.25%) Secrets Management
6 1 (6.25%) Test Automation
6 1 (6.25%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) Python
2 14 (87.50%) PowerShell
3 8 (50.00%) SQL
4 6 (37.50%) Java
4 6 (37.50%) Perl
5 1 (6.25%) Bash
Qualifications
1 14 (87.50%) SC Cleared
1 14 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 8 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 8 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 8 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 15 (93.75%) Docker
2 14 (87.50%) DFS Replication
3 8 (50.00%) Dovecot
3 8 (50.00%) Postfix
3 8 (50.00%) Squid
4 6 (37.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (93.75%) Grafana
1 15 (93.75%) Prometheus
1 15 (93.75%) Terraform
2 8 (50.00%) Nessus
2 8 (50.00%) Proxmox
3 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (87.50%) ServiceNow
2 8 (50.00%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (6.25%) Red Hat