Groovy Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Apache Groovy
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Groovy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 80 102
Rank change year-on-year -32 +22 +15
Contract jobs citing Groovy 1 2 11
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.048% 0.21% 0.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.23% 0.83% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 10
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £313 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £325 £410
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% -20.73% -29.67%
75th Percentile - £338 £415
90th Percentile - - £431
England median daily rate £475 £600 £538
% change year-on-year -20.83% +11.63% -17.31%

All Programming Languages
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 436 240 435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 20.92% 25.29% 23.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 132 200
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £411 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.74% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £563
90th Percentile £688 £675 £639
England median daily rate £503 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.29% -2.33% -4.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 58 138
10th Percentile £55.00 £33.99 £52.50
25th Percentile £62.97 £59.00 £59.06
Median hourly rate £68.21 £66.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.19% +2.69% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.33 £91.50 £90.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -4.00%

Groovy
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Groovy job vacancy trend in the East of England

Groovy
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Groovy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Groovy

Groovy
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Groovy.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Groovy

Groovy
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Groovy within the East of England region over the 6 months to 8 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Norfolk - 1 £450 - 1
Groovy
England

Groovy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Control Tower
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Squid
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) PagerDuty
1 1 (100.00%) Trend Micro