Groovy Contracts in Edinburgh

Apache Groovy
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Groovy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Groovy over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 60 105
Rank change year-on-year -2 +45 +18
Contract jobs citing Groovy 5 12 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.80% 1.47% 0.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.49% 6.03% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 6
10th Percentile - £432 £363
25th Percentile £513 £513 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £581 £497
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +16.89% -9.59%
75th Percentile £549 £634 £528
90th Percentile £556 - £533
Scotland median daily rate £525 £531 £488
% change year-on-year -1.13% +8.92% -7.14%

All Programming Languages
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 201 199 488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 32.16% 24.42% 37.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 144 384
10th Percentile £400 £400 £404
25th Percentile £425 £420 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £482 £480
Median % change year-on-year -0.31% +0.31% +1.05%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £536
90th Percentile £550 £631 £589
Scotland median daily rate £470 £484 £493
% change year-on-year -2.79% -1.98% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 4
10th Percentile - £33.20 £42.68
25th Percentile £21.00 £38.00 £48.19
Median hourly rate £23.77 £60.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -60.71% +15.24% +15.23%
75th Percentile £40.72 £60.75 £57.19
90th Percentile £63.00 - £63.38
Scotland median hourly rate £23.77 £57.50 £59.79
% change year-on-year -58.67% -3.83% +27.21%

Groovy
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Groovy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Groovy in Edinburgh

Groovy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Groovy in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Groovy in Edinburgh

Groovy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon EC2
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 4 (80.00%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (80.00%) OpenShift
1 4 (80.00%) Serverless
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 3 (60.00%) AWS CodeBuild
2 3 (60.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
2 3 (60.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 3 (60.00%) AWS Fargate
2 3 (60.00%) Route 53
3 2 (40.00%) PaaS
3 2 (40.00%) SaaS
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (20.00%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (40.00%) InfluxDB
3 1 (20.00%) Apache Hive
3 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (60.00%) Artifactory
3 2 (40.00%) Git
3 2 (40.00%) GitLab
4 1 (20.00%) JMeter
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) AWS Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Developer
3 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation Specialist
3 1 (20.00%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) Loki
2 1 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (60.00%) Kanban
2 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Software Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) Human-Centred Design
4 1 (20.00%) Inclusive Design
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) Observability
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Bash
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) OCP
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Ansible
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (60.00%) Grafana
2 3 (60.00%) Kibana
3 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Confluent
1 1 (20.00%) IBM
1 1 (20.00%) Imperva
1 1 (20.00%) Informatica
1 1 (20.00%) StreamSets