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 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 512 416 451
Rank change year-on-year -96 +35 -33
Contract jobs citing Groovy 102 92 82
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.22% 0.33% 0.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.85% 1.02% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 60 44
10th Percentile £350 £359 £400
25th Percentile £413 £444 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £484 £503
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% -3.70% -19.60%
75th Percentile £539 £638 £731
90th Percentile £635 £718 £775
UK median daily rate £466 £475 £521
% change year-on-year -1.84% -8.83% -16.64%

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 11,996 9,042 10,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.32% 32.67% 31.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,794 6,213 7,552
10th Percentile £363 £345 £356
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £654
90th Percentile £738 £763 £788
UK median daily rate £513 £505 £530
% change year-on-year +1.49% -4.72% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 494 237 360
10th Percentile £33.70 £29.07 £30.00
25th Percentile £53.13 £36.48 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £84.70 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +16.07% -13.85% +8.33%

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 12 August 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 12 August 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 -68 54 £500 -18.37% 27
North of England -62 28 £425 -19.05% 8
Yorkshire -35 20 £375 -37.40% 3
North East -40 7 £425 -34.62% 1
South East -62 6 £500 +30.21% 12
South West -37 5 £452 -24.75% 4
West Midlands -64 4 £468 -1.53% 4
Midlands -69 4 £468 -1.53% 4
East of England - 3 £425 - 4
North West -52 1 £350 +14.29% 4
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 13 (12.75%) Confluence
2 3 (2.94%) Apache
Business Applications
1 11 (10.78%) NetSuite
1 11 (10.78%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (2.94%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (1.96%) Infor LN
4 1 (0.98%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 48 (47.06%) AWS
2 30 (29.41%) Azure
3 26 (25.49%) GCP
4 15 (14.71%) Amazon S3
4 15 (14.71%) Boomi
5 14 (13.73%) AtomSphere
5 14 (13.73%) GitHub
6 13 (12.75%) OCI
7 11 (10.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (10.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 10 (9.80%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (8.82%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (8.82%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (8.82%) Serverless
10 8 (7.84%) AWS KMS
11 6 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (4.90%) Apigee
12 5 (4.90%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (4.90%) Datadog
13 4 (3.92%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.84%) Firewall
1 8 (7.84%) SSL
2 6 (5.88%) DNS
3 4 (3.92%) HTTP
3 4 (3.92%) OpenLDAP
4 3 (2.94%) Internet
5 2 (1.96%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.96%) WAN
6 1 (0.98%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (13.73%) Metadata
2 13 (12.75%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (10.78%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (8.82%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (4.90%) Couchbase
5 5 (4.90%) NoSQL
5 5 (4.90%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (3.92%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.94%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 3 (2.94%) Redis
7 3 (2.94%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.96%) Data Mart
8 2 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.96%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.98%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.98%) OLAP
9 1 (0.98%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 53 (51.96%) Jenkins
2 22 (21.57%) Git
3 17 (16.67%) JIRA
4 12 (11.76%) Maven
4 12 (11.76%) SonarQube
5 8 (7.84%) GitLab
6 4 (3.92%) ScriptRunner
6 4 (3.92%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (2.94%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (1.96%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.96%) JMeter
8 2 (1.96%) JUnit
8 2 (1.96%) LoadRunner
8 2 (1.96%) Postman
8 2 (1.96%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.98%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (0.98%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.98%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.98%) Selenium
General
1 23 (22.55%) Public Sector
2 20 (19.61%) Social Skills
3 12 (11.76%) Finance
4 10 (9.80%) Publishing
5 7 (6.86%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.90%) Retail
7 4 (3.92%) Banking
8 3 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.94%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.96%) Back Office
10 1 (0.98%) Front Office
10 1 (0.98%) Local Government
10 1 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (27.45%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (19.61%) Developer
3 19 (18.63%) Senior
4 11 (10.78%) Architect
5 9 (8.82%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (6.86%) Senior Developer
7 6 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
7 6 (5.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 6 (5.88%) Python Engineer
8 5 (4.90%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (4.90%) Security Architect
8 5 (4.90%) Senior Architect
8 5 (4.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 5 (4.90%) Software Engineer
9 4 (3.92%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (3.92%) Consultant
9 4 (3.92%) GCP Engineer
9 4 (3.92%) Java Engineer
10 3 (2.94%) JIRA Administrator
10 3 (2.94%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (29.41%) JSON
2 26 (25.49%) REST
3 19 (18.63%) SOAP
4 18 (17.65%) XML
5 12 (11.76%) YAML
6 11 (10.78%) SLSA
7 9 (8.82%) Kafka
7 9 (8.82%) Node.js
8 5 (4.90%) LDAP
8 5 (4.90%) RxJava
8 5 (4.90%) Vert.x
8 5 (4.90%) Web Services
9 4 (3.92%) OAuth
9 4 (3.92%) OAuth2
9 4 (3.92%) SAML
10 3 (2.94%) AngularJS
10 3 (2.94%) Apache NiFi
10 3 (2.94%) Keycloak
10 3 (2.94%) OpenID
10 3 (2.94%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.75%) Replication
2 6 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.94%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.94%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.94%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.96%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.98%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.98%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.98%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.98%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.98%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.98%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (0.98%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (16.67%) Linux
2 6 (5.88%) Amazon Linux
3 4 (3.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (3.92%) Windows
4 2 (1.96%) Unix
5 1 (0.98%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.98%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (57.84%) CI/CD
2 52 (50.98%) DevOps
3 38 (37.25%) Agile
4 25 (24.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (24.51%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (22.55%) Observability
6 22 (21.57%) Performance Tuning
7 20 (19.61%) API Management
8 18 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (16.67%) Cloud Security
9 17 (16.67%) Test Automation
10 15 (14.71%) Root Cause Analysis
11 14 (13.73%) Platform Engineering
11 14 (13.73%) Release Automation
12 13 (12.75%) Static Application Security Testing
13 12 (11.76%) High Availability
14 11 (10.78%) DevSecOps
14 11 (10.78%) SBOM
15 10 (9.80%) Attestation
15 10 (9.80%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 53 (51.96%) Python
2 40 (39.22%) Java
3 23 (22.55%) Bash
3 23 (22.55%) JavaScript
4 20 (19.61%) PowerShell
5 16 (15.69%) SQL
6 12 (11.76%) Shell Script
7 8 (7.84%) Perl
8 5 (4.90%) Go
9 4 (3.92%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.96%) C#
11 1 (0.98%) Bicep
11 1 (0.98%) C
11 1 (0.98%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 43 (42.16%) Security Cleared
2 38 (37.25%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.86%) DV Cleared
4 6 (5.88%) AWS Certification
5 5 (4.90%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.96%) Degree
7 1 (0.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.98%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.98%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.98%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.92%) QA
2 2 (1.96%) NCSC
3 1 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.98%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 28 (27.45%) Docker
2 8 (7.84%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.94%) Squid
4 1 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 50 (49.02%) Terraform
2 42 (41.18%) Kubernetes
3 17 (16.67%) Grafana
4 16 (15.69%) Prometheus
5 10 (9.80%) Ansible
6 5 (4.90%) Packer
7 4 (3.92%) Kustomize
8 3 (2.94%) Istio
8 3 (2.94%) Rancher
8 3 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.96%) Consul
9 2 (1.96%) Puppet
9 2 (1.96%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.98%) Argo
10 1 (0.98%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.98%) Podman
Vendors
1 25 (24.51%) Oracle
2 16 (15.69%) Dynatrace
3 14 (13.73%) Google
4 13 (12.75%) ServiceNow
5 11 (10.78%) Salesforce
5 11 (10.78%) Sonatype
6 4 (3.92%) Atlassian
6 4 (3.92%) Splunk
7 3 (2.94%) Murex
7 3 (2.94%) PagerDuty
7 3 (2.94%) Trend Micro
8 2 (1.96%) Baan
8 2 (1.96%) Dell
8 2 (1.96%) Infor
8 2 (1.96%) ION Trading
8 2 (1.96%) Microsoft
8 2 (1.96%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.98%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.98%) ForgeRock
9 1 (0.98%) New Relic