Groovy Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Apache Groovy
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Groovy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 52 -
Rank change year-on-year -11 - -
Contract jobs citing Groovy 9 7 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 1.33% 1.30% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.02% 5.69% -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 0
10th Percentile £305 £378 -
25th Percentile £305 £386 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.50% - -
75th Percentile £480 - -
90th Percentile £482 - -
North West median daily rate £446 £400 £700
% change year-on-year +11.50% -42.86% +7.69%

All Programming Languages
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 224 123 103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 33.09% 22.91% 26.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 86 70
10th Percentile £312 £327 £399
25th Percentile £357 £357 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £435 £498
Median % change year-on-year -7.48% -12.66% +8.15%
75th Percentile £486 £538 £586
90th Percentile £537 £608 £599
North West median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £40.73 - -
25th Percentile £56.81 £82.50 -
Median hourly rate £66.50 £85.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.76% +13.33% +158.62%
75th Percentile £74.75 £87.50 -
90th Percentile £88.25 - -
North West median hourly rate £66.50 £49.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +35.71% +6.11% -20.00%

Groovy
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Groovy job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Groovy
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Groovy

Groovy
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Groovy in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Groovy in Cheshire

Groovy
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Groovy within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford -16 9 £446 +11.50% 1
Groovy
North West

Groovy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 9 (100.00%) Apache
1 9 (100.00%) IIS
1 9 (100.00%) JBoss
1 9 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 8 (88.89%) iPlanet
2 8 (88.89%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (88.89%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (88.89%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (88.89%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 9 (100.00%) Bitbucket Server
1 9 (100.00%) CA Release Automation
1 9 (100.00%) Git
1 9 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (77.78%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Senior
3 3 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (100.00%) OAuth
1 9 (100.00%) OpenID
1 9 (100.00%) SAML
2 8 (88.89%) LDAP
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
2 8 (88.89%) Windows Server
3 7 (77.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) DevOps
2 7 (77.78%) CI/CD
2 7 (77.78%) Identity Access Management
3 4 (44.44%) Deployment Automation
3 4 (44.44%) Task Automation
4 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 3 (33.33%) Problem Management
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 8 (88.89%) Active Directory
1 8 (88.89%) Docker
2 7 (77.78%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) CA Single Sign-On
2 8 (88.89%) CA Wily
2 8 (88.89%) Progress Chef
3 7 (77.78%) Tivoli
4 4 (44.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Broadcom
2 8 (88.89%) AppDynamics
2 8 (88.89%) IBM
2 8 (88.89%) Microsoft
2 8 (88.89%) Oracle
2 8 (88.89%) Splunk