Groovy Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Apache Groovy
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Groovy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 120 127
Rank change year-on-year -22 +7 +33
Contract jobs citing Groovy 1 7 1
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.043% 0.39% 0.048%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.15% 1.03% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - £523 -
25th Percentile £550 £556 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -
75th Percentile £650 £719 -
90th Percentile - £753 -
Central London median daily rate £600 £383 -
% change year-on-year +56.86% - -

All Programming Languages
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 672 681 746
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 28.98% 37.83% 35.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 476 472 509
10th Percentile £400 £393 £400
25th Percentile £459 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £593
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +1.27% -1.33%
75th Percentile £668 £690 £710
90th Percentile £775 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £577 £575
% change year-on-year -4.60% +0.26% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 0
10th Percentile £25.14 £22.05 -
25th Percentile £31.71 £26.00 -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% - -
75th Percentile £49.68 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £63.75 £73.75 -
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £42.72 £41.50
% change year-on-year +5.33% +2.94% -10.27%

Groovy
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Groovy job vacancy trend in the City of London

Groovy
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Groovy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Groovy

Groovy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Process Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (100.00%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) BPMN
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle