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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 - 164
Rank change year-on-year - - +18
Contract jobs citing Groovy 9 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.51% - 0.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.28% - 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £463 - £626
25th Percentile £506 - £647
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 - £713
Median % change year-on-year - - +29.55%
75th Percentile £681 - £797
90th Percentile £738 - £829
Central London median daily rate £500 - £713
% change year-on-year - - +29.55%

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 701 780 1,408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.40% 36.60% 40.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 471 545 902
10th Percentile £404 £406 £423
25th Percentile £463 £475 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £700 £690 £738
90th Percentile £775 £808 £838
Central London median daily rate £575 £565 £625
% change year-on-year +1.77% -9.60% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 4
10th Percentile £19.28 - £23.95
25th Percentile £23.44 £46.75 £41.50
Median hourly rate £44.50 £48.50 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.25% -26.79% +26.19%
75th Percentile £70.00 £50.25 £84.06
90th Percentile £81.25 - £84.63
Central London median hourly rate £40.26 £48.50 £66.25
% change year-on-year -17.00% -26.79% +26.19%

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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

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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

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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 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Groovy in the City of London

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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 7 (77.78%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) IaaS
2 3 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 2 (22.22%) Azure
4 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (11.11%) GCP
4 1 (11.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) HTTP
1 1 (11.11%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Power BI
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (77.78%) JIRA
2 6 (66.67%) ScriptRunner
3 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
4 2 (22.22%) Git
4 2 (22.22%) Zephyr
5 1 (11.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
5 1 (11.11%) Crucible
5 1 (11.11%) JIRA Agile
5 1 (11.11%) LoadRunner
5 1 (11.11%) Maven
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Front Office
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) JIRA Developer
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) GCP DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) JIRA Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) JIRA Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
1 1 (11.11%) JWT
1 1 (11.11%) LDAP
1 1 (11.11%) OAuth
1 1 (11.11%) REST
1 1 (11.11%) SAML
1 1 (11.11%) SOAP
1 1 (11.11%) XML
1 1 (11.11%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Equities
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) Migration
3 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (33.33%) ITSM
3 3 (33.33%) Kanban
3 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (33.33%) SDLC
3 3 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 2 (22.22%) Asset Management
4 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 2 (22.22%) Clean Code
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Incident Management
4 2 (22.22%) Kalman Filter
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
4 2 (22.22%) Scrum
4 2 (22.22%) Service Management
5 1 (11.11%) Project Management
5 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Python
2 4 (44.44%) Java
3 2 (22.22%) Bash
4 1 (11.11%) C#
4 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 1 (11.11%) Perl
4 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) OpenAM
1 1 (11.11%) OpenDJ
1 1 (11.11%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Opsgenie
2 1 (11.11%) Control-M
2 1 (11.11%) Istio
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Atlassian
2 1 (11.11%) Bloomberg
2 1 (11.11%) ForgeRock
2 1 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) IBM
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft