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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Groovy 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.21% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.07% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £421 - -
25th Percentile £453 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - -
75th Percentile £519 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £500 £475 £509
% change year-on-year +5.26% -6.63% -18.60%

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 468 392 355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 19.50% 29.39% 23.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 174 157
10th Percentile £348 £328 £299
25th Percentile £410 £450 £333
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £420
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% +25.00% -16.00%
75th Percentile £590 £575 £550
90th Percentile £638 £658 £593
England median daily rate £525 £515 £543
% change year-on-year +1.94% -5.07% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 72 74
10th Percentile £55.25 £31.60 £51.25
25th Percentile £65.00 £50.25 £60.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -5.80%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.69 £65.75
90th Percentile £83.20 £79.63 £83.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +3.17%

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 5 October 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
Cambridgeshire - 3 £513 - 1
Norfolk - 2 £400 -
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Confluence
2 1 (20.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 1 (20.00%) AWS KMS
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (20.00%) Collibra
1 1 (20.00%) Datadog
1 1 (20.00%) Serverless
1 1 (20.00%) Snowflake
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Reverse Proxy
1 2 (40.00%) SSL
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) Kerberos
2 1 (20.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (40.00%) InfluxDB
3 1 (20.00%) Metadata
3 1 (20.00%) MySQL
3 1 (20.00%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (20.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
2 2 (40.00%) Gerrit
3 1 (20.00%) Artifactory
3 1 (20.00%) ERwin
3 1 (20.00%) ScriptRunner
3 1 (20.00%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Migration Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Jolokia
2 1 (20.00%) LAMP
2 1 (20.00%) LAPP Stack
2 1 (20.00%) LDAP
2 1 (20.00%) SAML
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (20.00%) Replication
1 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Rocky
2 2 (40.00%) Ubuntu
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) BPMN
3 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Metadata Management
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Security Patching
3 1 (20.00%) SIEM
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Use Case
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
3 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) Bash
3 2 (40.00%) SQL
4 1 (20.00%) Java
4 1 (20.00%) MATLAB
4 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Puppet
2 2 (40.00%) Grafana
2 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (20.00%) Ansible
3 1 (20.00%) HAProxy
3 1 (20.00%) Packer
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (20.00%) Coverity
1 1 (20.00%) PagerDuty
1 1 (20.00%) Perforce
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (20.00%) Trend Micro