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 6 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 66 96
Rank change year-on-year +6 +30 +24
Contract jobs citing Groovy 6 8 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.92% 0.97% 0.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.94% 4.40% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 6
10th Percentile £466 £514 £491
25th Percentile £472 £520 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £540 £520
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% +3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £547 £634 £536
90th Percentile £564 - £563
Scotland median daily rate £500 £531 £513
% change year-on-year -5.84% +3.61% -2.38%

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 204 182 379
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 31.34% 21.95% 32.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 114 275
10th Percentile £406 £363 £394
25th Percentile £450 £400 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.95% -1.04% -2.04%
75th Percentile £528 £538 £529
90th Percentile £569 £600 £575
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +5.56% -6.25% -1.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 4
10th Percentile £55.63 - £39.68
25th Percentile £58.44 - £40.69
Median hourly rate £62.50 £38.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.47% -20.00% +82.69%
75th Percentile £66.88 - £55.94
90th Percentile £70.25 - £59.88
Scotland median hourly rate £58.75 £53.75 £57.50
% change year-on-year +9.30% -6.52% +27.78%

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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
2 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (16.67%) AWS CodeBuild
2 1 (16.67%) AWS CodeDeploy
2 1 (16.67%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (16.67%) CloudFront
2 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
2 1 (16.67%) PaaS
2 1 (16.67%) Route 53
2 1 (16.67%) SaaS
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (16.67%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Artifactory
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Consultant
2 3 (50.00%) Oracle Consultant
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Consultant
3 2 (33.33%) Java Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Consultant
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Software Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) IAM Consultant
4 1 (16.67%) Java Consultant
4 1 (16.67%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) OAuth
2 1 (16.67%) AWS CDK
2 1 (16.67%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Budgeting
2 2 (33.33%) Data Management
2 2 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) OCP
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (16.67%) Ansible
3 1 (16.67%) Grafana
3 1 (16.67%) Kibana
3 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (33.33%) ForgeRock