Groovy Contracts in the City of London

Apache Groovy
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Groovy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Groovy over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 125 164
Rank change year-on-year +16 +39 +1
Contract jobs citing Groovy 10 1 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.57% 0.046% 0.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.41% 0.13% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 6
10th Percentile £478 - £425
25th Percentile £517 £575 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £600 £620
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -3.26% +18.14%
75th Percentile £691 £625 £947
90th Percentile £723 - £1,050
Central London median daily rate £573 £600 £620
% change year-on-year -4.58% -3.26% +18.14%

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 707 750 1,578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.24% 34.14% 43.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 468 534 1,034
10th Percentile £413 £400 £425
25th Percentile £464 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £577 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +0.26% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £695 £688 £738
90th Percentile £796 £788 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £565 £620
% change year-on-year +1.77% -8.87% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 8
10th Percentile - - £35.00
25th Percentile - £46.75 £47.19
Median hourly rate - £48.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - -15.65% -4.96%
75th Percentile - £50.25 £65.00
90th Percentile - - £84.13
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £48.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -40.06% -15.65% -4.96%

Groovy
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Groovy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Groovy in the City of London

Groovy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Groovy in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Groovy in the City of London

Groovy
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Groovy in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Groovy in the City of London

Groovy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 6 (60.00%) Confluence
2 2 (20.00%) Apache
2 2 (20.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) IaaS
3 2 (20.00%) Azure
3 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (10.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) HTTP
1 1 (10.00%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Power BI
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) JIRA
2 5 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (50.00%) ScriptRunner
3 2 (20.00%) Git
4 1 (10.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
4 1 (10.00%) Crucible
4 1 (10.00%) JIRA Agile
4 1 (10.00%) LoadRunner
4 1 (10.00%) Maven
4 1 (10.00%) Zephyr
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Developer
1 3 (30.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) JIRA Developer
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) GCP DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) JIRA Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) JIRA Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
1 1 (10.00%) JWT
1 1 (10.00%) LDAP
1 1 (10.00%) OAuth
1 1 (10.00%) REST
1 1 (10.00%) SAML
1 1 (10.00%) SOAP
1 1 (10.00%) XML
1 1 (10.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (30.00%) Migration
3 3 (30.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) High Availability
4 2 (20.00%) Incident Management
4 2 (20.00%) ITSM
4 2 (20.00%) Kanban
4 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) SDLC
4 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Kalman Filter
5 1 (10.00%) Network Virtualisation
5 1 (10.00%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) Java
3 2 (20.00%) Bash
3 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (10.00%) C#
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (10.00%) Perl
4 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) OpenAM
1 1 (10.00%) OpenDJ
1 1 (10.00%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
2 2 (20.00%) Ansible
3 1 (10.00%) Control-M
3 1 (10.00%) Istio
3 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (10.00%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (10.00%) Bloomberg
2 1 (10.00%) ForgeRock
2 1 (10.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) IBM
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft