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 3 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 490 428 486
Rank change year-on-year -62 +58 -33
Contract jobs citing Groovy 74 50 57
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.21% 0.20% 0.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.70% 0.59% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 30 43
10th Percentile £350 £313 £400
25th Percentile £421 £445 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £573 £538
Median % change year-on-year -17.07% +6.56% -17.31%
75th Percentile £500 £684 £631
90th Percentile £552 £775 £650
UK median daily rate £475 £545 £538
% change year-on-year -12.84% +1.40% -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 10,524 8,433 11,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.57% 33.70% 29.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,023 5,555 7,931
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £414 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £614 £650 £663
90th Percentile £727 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 447 208 473
10th Percentile £41.45 £25.25 £35.50
25th Percentile £55.00 £40.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £69.62
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £77.31
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -6.98%

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 3 March 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 3 March 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 -31 39 £500 -19.19% 3
North of England -38 26 £453 -20.87% 4
Yorkshire -50 16 £450 -21.40% 4
North West - 8 £453 -
West Midlands -47 7 £500 - 4
Midlands -51 7 £500 - 4
South East -28 3 - - 3
North East - 2 £600 -
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 6 (8.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 6 (8.11%) Oracle Workflow
2 5 (6.76%) Apache
2 5 (6.76%) IIS
2 5 (6.76%) iPlanet
2 5 (6.76%) JBoss
2 5 (6.76%) WebSphere
2 5 (6.76%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (2.70%) Confluence
4 1 (1.35%) Anypoint
4 1 (1.35%) Mule
4 1 (1.35%) nginx
4 1 (1.35%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 6 (8.11%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (5.41%) SAP HCM
3 1 (1.35%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 22 (29.73%) AWS
2 15 (20.27%) GCP
3 13 (17.57%) Azure
4 12 (16.22%) GitHub
5 9 (12.16%) OpenShift
6 8 (10.81%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (10.81%) OCI
6 8 (10.81%) SaaS
7 7 (9.46%) AtomSphere
7 7 (9.46%) Boomi
8 6 (8.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 4 (5.41%) Apigee
9 4 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (5.41%) Serverless
10 3 (4.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (4.05%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (4.05%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (4.05%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 3 (4.05%) Amazon S3
10 3 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.76%) Kerberos
2 2 (2.70%) DNS
2 2 (2.70%) Firewall
2 2 (2.70%) FTP
2 2 (2.70%) HTTP
2 2 (2.70%) SMTP
2 2 (2.70%) SSH
3 1 (1.35%) IMAP
3 1 (1.35%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (17.57%) Oracle Reports
2 7 (9.46%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (8.11%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (8.11%) Metadata
3 6 (8.11%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 6 (8.11%) Oracle Database
4 4 (5.41%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (5.41%) BigQuery
4 4 (5.41%) Redis
5 2 (2.70%) Data Mart
5 2 (2.70%) DataStage
5 2 (2.70%) DB2
5 2 (2.70%) Power BI
5 2 (2.70%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.35%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 33 (44.59%) Jenkins
2 14 (18.92%) Git
3 9 (12.16%) Maven
4 7 (9.46%) GitLab
4 7 (9.46%) SonarQube
4 7 (9.46%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (6.76%) Bitbucket Server
5 5 (6.76%) CA Release Automation
5 5 (6.76%) JIRA
6 3 (4.05%) Artifactory
6 3 (4.05%) Postman
6 3 (4.05%) Selenium
7 2 (2.70%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.70%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.70%) Gradle
7 2 (2.70%) REST Assured
7 2 (2.70%) SoapUI
7 2 (2.70%) Spinnaker
7 2 (2.70%) Vagrant
8 1 (1.35%) Mockito
General
1 22 (29.73%) Finance
1 22 (29.73%) Social Skills
2 8 (10.81%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (6.76%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.05%) Banking
4 3 (4.05%) Billing
4 3 (4.05%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.70%) Publishing
6 1 (1.35%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.35%) Law
Job Titles
1 22 (29.73%) Developer
2 20 (27.03%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (21.62%) Consultant
4 8 (10.81%) Oracle Consultant
4 8 (10.81%) SAP Consultant
5 7 (9.46%) Integration Developer
5 7 (9.46%) Senior
6 6 (8.11%) AWS DevOps
6 6 (8.11%) Oracle Developer
6 6 (8.11%) SAP HCM Consultant
7 5 (6.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 5 (6.76%) GCP Engineer
7 5 (6.76%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (5.41%) Automation Engineer
8 4 (5.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 4 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (5.41%) Payroll Consultant
8 4 (5.41%) SAP Payroll Consultant
9 3 (4.05%) Python Engineer
9 3 (4.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (29.73%) REST
2 17 (22.97%) SOAP
3 13 (17.57%) Oracle Fusion
4 12 (16.22%) JSON
5 11 (14.86%) OAuth
5 11 (14.86%) SAML
6 10 (13.51%) LDAP
6 10 (13.51%) OpenID
7 8 (10.81%) SAP PI
7 8 (10.81%) XML
8 4 (5.41%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (5.41%) Kafka
8 4 (5.41%) RESTful
8 4 (5.41%) SLSA
8 4 (5.41%) Swagger
8 4 (5.41%) Web Services
8 4 (5.41%) YAML
9 3 (4.05%) Keycloak
9 3 (4.05%) OpenAPI
9 3 (4.05%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.76%) Replication
2 3 (4.05%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.70%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.35%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.35%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.35%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.35%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (13.51%) Linux
2 7 (9.46%) Windows
3 6 (8.11%) Unix
4 3 (4.05%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.70%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (2.70%) VMS
6 1 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.35%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (50.00%) DevOps
2 36 (48.65%) CI/CD
3 25 (33.78%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (27.03%) Agile
5 17 (22.97%) Validation
6 14 (18.92%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (14.86%) Observability
7 11 (14.86%) Test Automation
8 9 (12.16%) Deployment Automation
8 9 (12.16%) Identity Access Management
9 8 (10.81%) Actionable Insight
9 8 (10.81%) AI
9 8 (10.81%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (10.81%) Data Integration
9 8 (10.81%) DevSecOps
9 8 (10.81%) Knowledge Transfer
9 8 (10.81%) Mentoring
9 8 (10.81%) Translating Business Requirements
9 8 (10.81%) Workflow
9 8 (10.81%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 26 (35.14%) Java
2 24 (32.43%) Python
3 21 (28.38%) JavaScript
4 15 (20.27%) Bash
4 15 (20.27%) SQL
5 10 (13.51%) PowerShell
6 8 (10.81%) ABAP
6 8 (10.81%) Shell Script
7 7 (9.46%) PL/SQL
7 7 (9.46%) T-SQL
8 6 (8.11%) C#
9 2 (2.70%) Go
10 1 (1.35%) DataWeave
10 1 (1.35%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.35%) Perl
10 1 (1.35%) Scala
10 1 (1.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (13.51%) Security Cleared
2 7 (9.46%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.05%) Degree
4 2 (2.70%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.35%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.35%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (1.35%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.35%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.35%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (29.73%) Docker
2 9 (12.16%) Active Directory
3 5 (6.76%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 2 (2.70%) DFS Replication
4 2 (2.70%) OpenAM
4 2 (2.70%) OpenDJ
4 2 (2.70%) OpenIDM
5 1 (1.35%) Dovecot
5 1 (1.35%) Postfix
5 1 (1.35%) Squid
Systems Management
1 25 (33.78%) Terraform
2 17 (22.97%) Kubernetes
3 10 (13.51%) Prometheus
4 9 (12.16%) Ansible
4 9 (12.16%) Grafana
4 9 (12.16%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (8.11%) Istio
5 6 (8.11%) Progress Chef
6 5 (6.76%) CA Single Sign-On
6 5 (6.76%) CA Wily
6 5 (6.76%) Tivoli
7 3 (4.05%) Rancher
8 2 (2.70%) Argo
8 2 (2.70%) Puppet
9 1 (1.35%) HP Fortify
9 1 (1.35%) Nessus
9 1 (1.35%) Podman
9 1 (1.35%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 26 (35.14%) Oracle
2 8 (10.81%) SAP
2 8 (10.81%) Splunk
3 7 (9.46%) Dynatrace
3 7 (9.46%) Microsoft
4 6 (8.11%) AppDynamics
4 6 (8.11%) ServiceNow
5 5 (6.76%) Broadcom
5 5 (6.76%) Google
5 5 (6.76%) IBM
6 4 (5.41%) ForgeRock
6 4 (5.41%) Sonatype
7 2 (2.70%) Informatica
7 2 (2.70%) Murex
8 1 (1.35%) Ariba
8 1 (1.35%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (1.35%) Dell
8 1 (1.35%) Jaspersoft
8 1 (1.35%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.35%) Red Hat