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 23 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 25 -
Rank change year-on-year -3 - -
Contract jobs citing Groovy 10 7 0
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 6.85% 8.54% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.18% 14.58% -
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 55 48 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 37.67% 58.54% 44.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 27 28
10th Percentile £456 £452 £400
25th Percentile £500 £474 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% +6.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £630 £538
90th Percentile £575 £726 £567
South London median daily rate £535 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -2.73% +7.32% -6.82%

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 9 (90.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) AWS
2 6 (60.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 6 (60.00%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (60.00%) Amazon S3
2 6 (60.00%) AWS KMS
2 6 (60.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 5 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 6 (60.00%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (90.00%) JIRA
2 7 (70.00%) Jenkins
3 6 (60.00%) Git
4 3 (30.00%) ScriptRunner
5 1 (10.00%) GitLab
General
1 5 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) DBA
3 3 (30.00%) Administrator
3 3 (30.00%) JIRA Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (70.00%) Terraform
2 3 (30.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Amazon Linux
1 6 (60.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (90.00%) Agile
3 6 (60.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 6 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (60.00%) Performance Tuning
3 6 (60.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 6 (60.00%) Servant Leadership
4 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (40.00%) High Availability
5 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (40.00%) Observability
5 4 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (30.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 3 (30.00%) ITIL
6 3 (30.00%) ITSM
6 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (30.00%) Service Delivery
6 3 (30.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Python
2 6 (60.00%) Java
2 6 (60.00%) Perl
2 6 (60.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (90.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (90.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 5 (50.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Docker
2 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Grafana
1 6 (60.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (10.00%) Argo
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Packer
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) ServiceNow
2 3 (30.00%) Atlassian