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 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 121 142
Rank change year-on-year +5 +21 +47
Contract jobs citing Groovy 1 1 6
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.060% 0.048% 0.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.17% 0.14% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £750
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £825
Median % change year-on-year - - +37.50%
75th Percentile - - £875
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £368 - £825
% change year-on-year - - +37.50%

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 604 732 1,008
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 36.00% 34.97% 35.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 444 466 685
10th Percentile £385 £400 £400
25th Percentile £463 £475 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £591 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.62% -1.58% -
75th Percentile £688 £708 £725
90th Percentile £775 £825 £836
Central London median daily rate £575 £580 £600
% change year-on-year -0.86% -3.33% +0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 2
10th Percentile £23.90 £51.80 £15.65
25th Percentile £26.25 £74.38 £20.75
Median hourly rate £34.00 £112.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -69.64% +273.33% -42.86%
75th Percentile £63.75 - £39.75
90th Percentile £68.75 - £45.15
Central London median hourly rate £39.50 £41.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -4.82% +38.33% -42.86%

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) ScriptRunner
1 1 (100.00%) Zephyr
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian