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 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 120 120
Rank change year-on-year -15 0 +34
Contract jobs citing Groovy 2 7 1
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.084% 0.37% 0.048%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.31% 0.97% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile £505 £523 -
25th Percentile £513 £556 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.35% - -
75th Percentile £613 £719 -
90th Percentile £635 £753 -
Central London median daily rate £550 £390 -
% change year-on-year +41.09% - -

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 650 724 750
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 27.19% 38.76% 36.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 447 489 515
10th Percentile £366 £400 £403
25th Percentile £456 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £668 £696 £710
90th Percentile £768 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 0
10th Percentile £26.32 £21.13 -
25th Percentile £32.39 £25.88 -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - -
75th Percentile £56.11 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £65.83 £76.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £52.49 £40.26 £41.50
% change year-on-year +30.39% -3.00% -37.36%

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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Workday HCM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Process Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Workday Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
1 2 (100.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) OAuth
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) SAML
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (50.00%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 1 (50.00%) API Development
1 1 (50.00%) API Integration
1 1 (50.00%) API Testing
1 1 (50.00%) BPMN
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
1 1 (50.00%) CRM
1 1 (50.00%) Data Mapping
1 1 (50.00%) Data Security
1 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (50.00%) ERP
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Product Management
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
1 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Workday