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 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 518 429 498
Rank change year-on-year -89 +69 -81
Contract jobs citing Groovy 65 55 56
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.17% 0.23% 0.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.59% 0.67% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 37 41
10th Percentile £350 £343 £400
25th Percentile £413 £425 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £538
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +11.63% -17.31%
75th Percentile £531 £700 £638
90th Percentile £600 £775 £675
UK median daily rate £450 £546 £538
% change year-on-year -17.51% +1.49% -14.00%

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 10,959 8,232 10,809
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 28.01% 33.82% 28.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,310 5,666 7,852
10th Percentile £352 £360 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -4.78%
75th Percentile £606 £650 £656
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 516 211 425
10th Percentile £41.94 £25.26 £35.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £39.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.63 £68.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.00%

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 11 April 2026.

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 11 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
London -79 29 £488 -21.21% 4
North of England -46 25 £438 -27.08% 7
Yorkshire -38 18 £450 -25.00% 4
West Midlands -60 5 £524 - 1
Midlands -62 5 £524 - 2
North East - 4 £425 -
South East -53 3 - - 9
North West - 3 £350 - 3
East of England -31 1 £450 +38.46% 2
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 3 (4.62%) Confluence
2 1 (1.54%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.54%) Mule
2 1 (1.54%) Oracle Application Server
Business Applications
1 4 (6.15%) SAP HCM
2 1 (1.54%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (1.54%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 22 (33.85%) AWS
2 18 (27.69%) GCP
3 12 (18.46%) Azure
4 9 (13.85%) GitHub
5 7 (10.77%) AtomSphere
5 7 (10.77%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (10.77%) Boomi
5 7 (10.77%) SaaS
5 7 (10.77%) Serverless
6 5 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (7.69%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 5 (7.69%) OCI
7 4 (6.15%) Apigee
7 4 (6.15%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (6.15%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (6.15%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 4 (6.15%) OpenShift
8 2 (3.08%) Amazon S3
8 2 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (3.08%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.08%) DNS
2 1 (1.54%) Firewall
2 1 (1.54%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.85%) Metadata
2 6 (9.23%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (7.69%) Oracle Reports
3 5 (7.69%) Redis
4 3 (4.62%) Data Mart
5 2 (3.08%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (3.08%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.08%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.54%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.54%) DataStage
6 1 (1.54%) DB2
6 1 (1.54%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.54%) OLAP
6 1 (1.54%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 30 (46.15%) Jenkins
2 11 (16.92%) Git
3 10 (15.38%) Maven
4 9 (13.85%) SonarQube
5 6 (9.23%) GitLab
6 5 (7.69%) JIRA
7 3 (4.62%) Cucumber
7 3 (4.62%) ScriptRunner
8 2 (3.08%) Artifactory
8 2 (3.08%) JUnit
8 2 (3.08%) Postman
8 2 (3.08%) Selenium
9 1 (1.54%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.54%) CMake
9 1 (1.54%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.54%) Gradle
9 1 (1.54%) JMeter
9 1 (1.54%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (1.54%) LoadRunner
9 1 (1.54%) SoapUI
General
1 14 (21.54%) Social Skills
2 9 (13.85%) Finance
3 7 (10.77%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (7.69%) Publishing
5 4 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.15%) Banking
6 2 (3.08%) Back Office
6 2 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.54%) Front Office
7 1 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.54%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (24.62%) DevOps Engineer
2 15 (23.08%) Developer
3 10 (15.38%) Consultant
4 7 (10.77%) Integration Developer
5 5 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
5 5 (7.69%) Oracle Consultant
5 5 (7.69%) Python Engineer
5 5 (7.69%) SAP Consultant
6 4 (6.15%) Analyst
6 4 (6.15%) Automation Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) GCP Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Murex Analyst
6 4 (6.15%) Payroll Consultant
6 4 (6.15%) SAP HCM Consultant
6 4 (6.15%) SAP Payroll Consultant
7 3 (4.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) JIRA Administrator
7 3 (4.62%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (27.69%) REST
2 17 (26.15%) JSON
3 9 (13.85%) SOAP
3 9 (13.85%) YAML
4 8 (12.31%) SLSA
4 8 (12.31%) XML
5 6 (9.23%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (9.23%) Node.js
6 5 (7.69%) Kafka
6 5 (7.69%) Keycloak
6 5 (7.69%) Oracle Fusion
6 5 (7.69%) SAP PI
7 4 (6.15%) LDAP
7 4 (6.15%) OAuth
7 4 (6.15%) SAML
8 3 (4.62%) AngularJS
8 3 (4.62%) J2EE
8 3 (4.62%) OpenAPI
8 3 (4.62%) OpenID
8 3 (4.62%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.69%) Replication
2 4 (6.15%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.54%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.54%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.54%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.54%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.62%) Linux
2 1 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (61.54%) DevOps
2 32 (49.23%) CI/CD
3 25 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (35.38%) Agile
5 16 (24.62%) Infrastructure as Code
6 15 (23.08%) Validation
7 12 (18.46%) Observability
7 12 (18.46%) Test Automation
8 11 (16.92%) DevSecOps
9 10 (15.38%) Change Management
9 10 (15.38%) ITIL
10 9 (13.85%) SBOM
10 9 (13.85%) Static Application Security Testing
11 7 (10.77%) Performance Tuning
11 7 (10.77%) Roadmaps
11 7 (10.77%) Translating Business Requirements
12 6 (9.23%) Actionable Insight
12 6 (9.23%) AI
12 6 (9.23%) Customer Engagement
12 6 (9.23%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (50.77%) Python
2 27 (41.54%) Java
3 20 (30.77%) JavaScript
4 17 (26.15%) Bash
5 8 (12.31%) C#
5 8 (12.31%) SQL
6 7 (10.77%) T-SQL
7 5 (7.69%) ABAP
7 5 (7.69%) PowerShell
8 4 (6.15%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.54%) DataWeave
9 1 (1.54%) Go
9 1 (1.54%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.54%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.54%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (13.85%) Security Cleared
2 8 (12.31%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.08%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.54%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (1.54%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (18.46%) Docker
2 4 (6.15%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.08%) OpenAM
3 2 (3.08%) OpenDJ
3 2 (3.08%) OpenIDM
4 1 (1.54%) Squid
Systems Management
1 27 (41.54%) Terraform
2 18 (27.69%) Kubernetes
3 9 (13.85%) Grafana
4 8 (12.31%) Prometheus
5 7 (10.77%) Ansible
6 5 (7.69%) Istio
6 5 (7.69%) Rancher
7 3 (4.62%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.54%) Argo
8 1 (1.54%) HP Fortify
8 1 (1.54%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (18.46%) Oracle
2 8 (12.31%) Dynatrace
2 8 (12.31%) Sonatype
3 6 (9.23%) ServiceNow
4 5 (7.69%) Google
4 5 (7.69%) SAP
5 4 (6.15%) Murex
6 3 (4.62%) Atlassian
6 3 (4.62%) ForgeRock
6 3 (4.62%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.54%) Anaplan
7 1 (1.54%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.54%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.54%) IBM
7 1 (1.54%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.54%) New Relic
7 1 (1.54%) PagerDuty
7 1 (1.54%) Snow
7 1 (1.54%) Trend Micro
7 1 (1.54%) Workday