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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 129 151
Rank change year-on-year +15 +22 +31
Contract jobs citing Groovy 5 1 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.28% 0.048% 0.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.77% 0.13% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £588 - £668
25th Percentile £606 - £750
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £800
Median % change year-on-year - - +33.33%
75th Percentile £681 - £875
90th Percentile £693 - -
Central London median daily rate £379 - £800
% change year-on-year - - +33.33%

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 653 747 1,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 37.04% 35.61% 37.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 456 504 749
10th Percentile £390 £406 £408
25th Percentile £463 £487 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £590 £608
Median % change year-on-year +1.78% -2.96% +1.25%
75th Percentile £688 £708 £731
90th Percentile £775 £823 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £605
% change year-on-year - -4.96% +2.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 1
10th Percentile £22.05 - -
25th Percentile £26.00 £36.75 £12.25
Median hourly rate £34.00 £38.50 £12.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% +208.00% -76.19%
75th Percentile £63.75 £40.25 £12.75
90th Percentile £73.75 - -
Central London median hourly rate £42.72 £41.50 £12.50
% change year-on-year +2.94% +232.00% -76.19%

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
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 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 4 (80.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) IaaS
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) JIRA
1 4 (80.00%) ScriptRunner
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) Zephyr
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Developer
1 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) GCP DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) GCP Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA Developer
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA Specialist
1 1 (20.00%) Senior
1 1 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 3 (60.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (20.00%) API Integration
4 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
4 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (20.00%) ITSM
4 1 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
4 1 (20.00%) Kanban
4 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
4 1 (20.00%) RBAC
4 1 (20.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) SDLC
4 1 (20.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Istio
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Opsgenie
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (20.00%) Google