Groovy Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Apache Groovy
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring Groovy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 18 -
Rank change year-on-year -9 - -
Contract jobs citing Groovy 9 10 0
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 6.57% 12.20% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.31% 20.83% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £503 - -
25th Percentile £506 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% - -
75th Percentile £519 - -
90th Percentile £523 - -
South London median daily rate £513 £475 -
% change year-on-year +7.89% - -

All Programming Languages
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 52 48 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 37.96% 58.54% 29.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 27 20
10th Percentile £481 £468 £400
25th Percentile £509 £506 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £494
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +11.39% -5.95%
75th Percentile £550 £632 £528
90th Percentile £587 £726 £562
South London median daily rate £550 £558 £500
% change year-on-year -1.38% +11.54% -8.05%

Groovy
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Groovy relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Groovy job vacancy trend in Croydon

Groovy
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Groovy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Groovy

Groovy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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 8 (88.89%) Confluence
2 2 (22.22%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (88.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 8 (88.89%) Amazon EC2
2 8 (88.89%) Amazon S3
2 8 (88.89%) AWS KMS
2 8 (88.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 7 (77.78%) Azure
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon ELB
4 2 (22.22%) Route 53
5 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (77.78%) Firewall
2 2 (22.22%) DNS
2 2 (22.22%) FTP
2 2 (22.22%) HTTP
2 2 (22.22%) IMAP
2 2 (22.22%) OpenLDAP
2 2 (22.22%) SMTP
2 2 (22.22%) SSH
3 1 (11.11%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (88.89%) Amazon Aurora
1 8 (88.89%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (88.89%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (88.89%) Git
2 8 (88.89%) JIRA
3 2 (22.22%) Vagrant
4 1 (11.11%) GitLab
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (55.56%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) DBA
3 3 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 3 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (88.89%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Amazon Linux
1 8 (88.89%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Ubuntu
2 2 (22.22%) Windows
3 1 (11.11%) VMS
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (88.89%) Performance Tuning
3 7 (77.78%) Agile
3 7 (77.78%) CI/CD
3 7 (77.78%) Servant Leadership
4 6 (66.67%) Collaborative Culture
4 6 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (55.56%) Observability
5 5 (55.56%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (44.44%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (44.44%) High Availability
6 4 (44.44%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
8 2 (22.22%) Change Management
8 2 (22.22%) Cloud Security
8 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
8 2 (22.22%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 2 (22.22%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) PowerShell
1 7 (77.78%) Python
2 6 (66.67%) Java
2 6 (66.67%) Perl
3 2 (22.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (77.78%) AWS Certification
1 7 (77.78%) Azure Certification
1 7 (77.78%) SC Cleared
1 7 (77.78%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
System Software
1 8 (88.89%) Docker
2 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
3 2 (22.22%) DFS Replication
3 2 (22.22%) Dovecot
3 2 (22.22%) Postfix
3 2 (22.22%) Squid
4 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (88.89%) Grafana
1 8 (88.89%) Prometheus
2 2 (22.22%) Nessus
2 2 (22.22%) Proxmox
3 1 (11.11%) Argo
3 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 1 (11.11%) Packer
3 1 (11.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) ServiceNow
2 2 (22.22%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft