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

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 - 33
Rank change year-on-year - - +17
Contract jobs citing Groovy 10 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 12.66% - 1.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.39% - 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.04%
South London median daily rate £475 - £500
% change year-on-year - - -1.48%

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 41 25 64
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 51.90% 27.17% 42.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 18 51
10th Percentile £465 £400 £363
25th Percentile £500 £434 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £494 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.59% -5.95% -8.70%
75th Percentile £608 £516 £631
90th Percentile £633 £538 £663
South London median daily rate £533 £500 £544
% change year-on-year +6.50% -8.05% -1.14%

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 10 (100.00%) Confluence
1 10 (100.00%) nginx
Applications
1 10 (100.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon ELB
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
1 10 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 10 (100.00%) Route 53
1 10 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (100.00%) DNS
1 10 (100.00%) Firewall
1 10 (100.00%) FTP
1 10 (100.00%) HTTP
1 10 (100.00%) IMAP
1 10 (100.00%) OpenLDAP
1 10 (100.00%) SMTP
1 10 (100.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (100.00%) Git
1 10 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 10 (100.00%) JIRA
1 10 (100.00%) Vagrant
General
1 10 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 10 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (90.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 10 (100.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 10 (100.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 10 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
2 8 (80.00%) AWS DevOps
2 8 (80.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 8 (80.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (80.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (100.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon Linux
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
1 10 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 10 (100.00%) VMS
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Change Management
1 10 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 10 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 10 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
1 10 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 10 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 10 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (10.00%) Agile
2 1 (10.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (10.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (10.00%) Servant Leadership
2 1 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 10 (100.00%) Python
1 10 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 10 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 10 (100.00%) Degree
2 9 (90.00%) SC Cleared
2 9 (90.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) DFS Replication
1 10 (100.00%) Docker
1 10 (100.00%) Dovecot
1 10 (100.00%) Postfix
1 10 (100.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) Grafana
1 10 (100.00%) Nessus
1 10 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 10 (100.00%) Proxmox
1 10 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Jaspersoft
1 10 (100.00%) ServiceNow