Groovy Contract Job Trends in England

Apache Groovy
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Groovy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 416 451 489
Rank change year-on-year +35 +38 -35
Contract jobs citing Groovy 108 72 104
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.38% 0.23% 0.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.16% 0.70% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 36 71
10th Percentile £359 £400 £413
25th Percentile £414 £450 £554
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £613
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% -16.33% -
75th Percentile £500 £697 £687
90th Percentile £612 £763 £775
UK median daily rate £475 £516 £575
% change year-on-year -7.99% -10.22% -4.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
UK median hourly rate - - £75.00

All Programming Languages
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 9,272 10,235 12,972
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.51% 32.51% 31.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,172 6,734 9,440
10th Percentile £344 £355 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.74% -2.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £507 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.43% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 277 273 412
10th Percentile £31.13 £30.10 £32.51
25th Percentile £42.50 £46.25 £47.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.00 £75.00 £82.25
UK median hourly rate £58.50 £64.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -8.59% +2.40% +4.17%

Groovy
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Groovy job vacancy trend in England

Groovy
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Groovy

Groovy
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Groovy in England over the 6 months to 25 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Groovy in England

Groovy
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Groovy

Groovy
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 25 October 2025. 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
London +24 60 £488 -4.88% 13
West Midlands +4 29 £475 -7.68% 2
Midlands -8 29 £475 -7.68% 5
North of England -20 23 £453 +13.25% 12
North West -14 13 £446 +11.50% 2
Yorkshire -20 7 £590 +43.03% 10
South East 0 3 £384 -39.76% 12
North East - 3 £600 -
South West +8 1 £600 -7.69% 8
Groovy
UK

Groovy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 25 (23.15%) Confluence
2 13 (12.04%) Apache
2 13 (12.04%) JBoss
2 13 (12.04%) nginx
3 12 (11.11%) WebSphere
4 11 (10.19%) IIS
5 10 (9.26%) iPlanet
5 10 (9.26%) WebSphere Application Server
6 6 (5.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (5.56%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (2.78%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.93%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.93%) CICS
Applications
1 12 (11.11%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 6 (5.56%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.85%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.93%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 54 (50.00%) AWS
2 34 (31.48%) Azure
3 27 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 26 (24.07%) Amazon EC2
5 25 (23.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 25 (23.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 24 (22.22%) Amazon ELB
6 24 (22.22%) AWS KMS
7 22 (20.37%) GitHub
8 19 (17.59%) GCP
9 17 (15.74%) GitHub Actions
10 15 (13.89%) Amazon ECS
11 14 (12.96%) OpenShift
11 14 (12.96%) SaaS
12 13 (12.04%) Microsoft 365
12 13 (12.04%) Route 53
13 12 (11.11%) Amazon Glacier
14 10 (9.26%) AWS CloudFormation
15 6 (5.56%) AtomSphere
15 6 (5.56%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 25 (23.15%) SSH
2 24 (22.22%) DNS
2 24 (22.22%) SMTP
3 23 (21.30%) HTTP
4 22 (20.37%) Firewall
4 22 (20.37%) FTP
5 12 (11.11%) IMAP
5 12 (11.11%) OpenLDAP
6 10 (9.26%) Kerberos
7 3 (2.78%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.85%) SSL
9 1 (0.93%) Broadband
9 1 (0.93%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (25.93%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (14.81%) Oracle Database
4 15 (13.89%) Amazon Aurora
5 10 (9.26%) Oracle Reports
6 9 (8.33%) Redis
7 6 (5.56%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 4 (3.70%) BigQuery
9 3 (2.78%) Big Data
9 3 (2.78%) Delta Lake
9 3 (2.78%) Hadoop
9 3 (2.78%) NoSQL
9 3 (2.78%) Parquet
10 2 (1.85%) DB2
10 2 (1.85%) Power BI
10 2 (1.85%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.93%) DataStage
11 1 (0.93%) Essbase
11 1 (0.93%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 68 (62.96%) Jenkins
2 62 (57.41%) Git
3 37 (34.26%) JIRA
4 24 (22.22%) Vagrant
5 16 (14.81%) Sonatype Nexus
6 14 (12.96%) SonarQube
7 13 (12.04%) Artifactory
8 11 (10.19%) Bitbucket Server
8 11 (10.19%) CA Release Automation
9 9 (8.33%) Maven
10 7 (6.48%) REST Assured
10 7 (6.48%) Subversion
11 6 (5.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 6 (5.56%) JUnit
11 6 (5.56%) Mockito
11 6 (5.56%) Postman
11 6 (5.56%) SoapUI
11 6 (5.56%) Xcode
11 6 (5.56%) XCTest
12 4 (3.70%) GitLab
General
1 32 (29.63%) Finance
2 30 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 25 (23.15%) Public Sector
4 11 (10.19%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (6.48%) Banking
6 5 (4.63%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.78%) Billing
7 3 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.93%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.93%) German Language
8 1 (0.93%) Law
8 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (34.26%) DevOps Engineer
2 23 (21.30%) AWS DevOps
2 23 (21.30%) Developer
3 21 (19.44%) AWS Engineer
3 21 (19.44%) Platform Engineer
4 19 (17.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 19 (17.59%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 12 (11.11%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 10 (9.26%) Consultant
6 10 (9.26%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 8 (7.41%) Integration Developer
8 6 (5.56%) Oracle Developer
8 6 (5.56%) Senior
9 5 (4.63%) Architect
9 5 (4.63%) Oracle Consultant
9 5 (4.63%) SAP Consultant
10 4 (3.70%) Data Engineer
11 3 (2.78%) ERP Developer
11 3 (2.78%) Senior DevOps
11 3 (2.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (25.93%) REST
2 24 (22.22%) LDAP
2 24 (22.22%) SOAP
3 15 (13.89%) OAuth
3 15 (13.89%) SAML
4 14 (12.96%) OpenID
5 11 (10.19%) Web Services
6 10 (9.26%) AngularJS
6 10 (9.26%) Kafka
6 10 (9.26%) Spring
7 9 (8.33%) CSS
7 9 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
7 9 (8.33%) HTML
7 9 (8.33%) Oracle Fusion
7 9 (8.33%) XML
8 8 (7.41%) Bootstrap
8 8 (7.41%) JSON
9 7 (6.48%) CSS3
9 7 (6.48%) HTML5
9 7 (6.48%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 27 (25.00%) Replication
2 6 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.70%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (3.70%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.85%) Life Science
4 2 (1.85%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.85%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.93%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.93%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.93%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.93%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 48 (44.44%) Linux
2 33 (30.56%) Windows
3 24 (22.22%) Amazon Linux
3 24 (22.22%) VMS
4 15 (13.89%) Unix
5 10 (9.26%) Ubuntu
6 9 (8.33%) Windows Server
7 3 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (57.41%) DevOps
2 56 (51.85%) CI/CD
3 34 (31.48%) Agile
4 31 (28.70%) Configuration Management
5 28 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (25.00%) Change Management
6 27 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
7 24 (22.22%) Cloud Security
8 22 (20.37%) Patch Management
9 16 (14.81%) Containerisation
10 15 (13.89%) Infrastructure as Code
11 14 (12.96%) Performance Tuning
12 13 (12.04%) Deployment Automation
13 12 (11.11%) Integration Patterns
14 11 (10.19%) Identity Access Management
14 11 (10.19%) Microservices
15 10 (9.26%) Migration
15 10 (9.26%) Scrum
15 10 (9.26%) SDLC
15 10 (9.26%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 54 (50.00%) Python
2 40 (37.04%) Java
3 36 (33.33%) PowerShell
4 31 (28.70%) JavaScript
5 30 (27.78%) SQL
6 20 (18.52%) Bash
7 14 (12.96%) Shell Script
8 12 (11.11%) Perl
9 11 (10.19%) C#
10 9 (8.33%) ABAP
10 9 (8.33%) Go
11 6 (5.56%) PL/SQL
11 6 (5.56%) T-SQL
12 5 (4.63%) C++
13 2 (1.85%) Scala
13 2 (1.85%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.93%) COBOL
14 1 (0.93%) JCL
14 1 (0.93%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 31 (28.70%) Security Cleared
2 29 (26.85%) SC Cleared
3 17 (15.74%) AWS Certification
4 12 (11.11%) Degree
5 10 (9.26%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.93%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.93%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.85%) GDPR
2 1 (0.93%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.93%) GAAP
2 1 (0.93%) IFRS
2 1 (0.93%) QA
System Software
1 60 (55.56%) Docker
2 24 (22.22%) Active Directory
3 22 (20.37%) DFS Replication
4 12 (11.11%) Dovecot
4 12 (11.11%) Postfix
4 12 (11.11%) Squid
5 8 (7.41%) Tivoli Directory Server
6 1 (0.93%) OpenAM
6 1 (0.93%) OpenDJ
6 1 (0.93%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 47 (43.52%) Terraform
2 31 (28.70%) Grafana
2 31 (28.70%) Prometheus
3 30 (27.78%) Kubernetes
4 20 (18.52%) Ansible
5 12 (11.11%) Nessus
6 11 (10.19%) CA Single Sign-On
6 11 (10.19%) Puppet
7 10 (9.26%) CA Wily
7 10 (9.26%) Progress Chef
7 10 (9.26%) Proxmox
8 8 (7.41%) Tivoli
9 7 (6.48%) Istio
9 7 (6.48%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (4.63%) Argo
11 3 (2.78%) Podman
11 3 (2.78%) Rancher
12 2 (1.85%) Control-M
13 1 (0.93%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.93%) Packer
Vendors
1 29 (26.85%) Oracle
2 27 (25.00%) ServiceNow
3 19 (17.59%) Splunk
4 13 (12.04%) Microsoft
5 12 (11.11%) AppDynamics
5 12 (11.11%) Jaspersoft
6 11 (10.19%) Broadcom
7 10 (9.26%) Dynatrace
7 10 (9.26%) IBM
7 10 (9.26%) SAP
8 6 (5.56%) CA Agile Central
9 4 (3.70%) Red Hat
10 3 (2.78%) Cloudera
10 3 (2.78%) ForgeRock
10 3 (2.78%) Google
11 2 (1.85%) Ariba
11 2 (1.85%) Ping Identity
12 1 (0.93%) Adobe
12 1 (0.93%) Atlassian
12 1 (0.93%) Informatica