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 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 471 434 512
Rank change year-on-year -37 +78 -40
Contract jobs citing Groovy 83 53 48
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.20% 0.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.82% 0.60% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 29 37
10th Percentile £355 £313 £400
25th Percentile £426 £500 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £545 £538
Median % change year-on-year -12.84% +1.40% -17.31%
75th Percentile £500 £675 £650
90th Percentile £558 £775 £680
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% -12.00%

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 10,072 8,797 11,060
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.15% 33.47% 29.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,701 5,622 7,985
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £620 £650 £656
90th Percentile £726 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 428 206 482
10th Percentile £41.25 £25.26 £36.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £42.63 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.59% +4.58% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £69.62
90th Percentile £76.48 £85.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 5 February 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 5 February 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 -18 47 £500 -14.57% 7
North of England -40 26 £453 -16.88% 10
West Midlands -28 15 £475 - 3
Midlands -43 15 £475 - 4
Yorkshire -46 13 £463 -15.14% 6
North West -18 11 £450 - 4
South East -27 2 - - 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 10 (12.05%) Confluence
2 9 (10.84%) Apache
2 9 (10.84%) IIS
2 9 (10.84%) JBoss
2 9 (10.84%) WebSphere
3 8 (9.64%) iPlanet
3 8 (9.64%) WebSphere Application Server
4 7 (8.43%) nginx
5 6 (7.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (7.23%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (1.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 7 (8.43%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 6 (7.23%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (4.82%) SAP HCM
3 1 (1.20%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (1.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 34 (40.96%) AWS
2 19 (22.89%) Azure
3 13 (15.66%) GCP
4 12 (14.46%) OpenShift
5 11 (13.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 11 (13.25%) Amazon S3
6 10 (12.05%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (12.05%) Amazon ELB
6 10 (12.05%) AWS KMS
6 10 (12.05%) GitHub
6 10 (12.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 9 (10.84%) Amazon ECS
7 9 (10.84%) SaaS
8 8 (9.64%) Route 53
9 7 (8.43%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (8.43%) OCI
10 6 (7.23%) AtomSphere
10 6 (7.23%) Boomi
10 6 (7.23%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (6.02%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 10 (12.05%) DNS
1 10 (12.05%) Firewall
1 10 (12.05%) FTP
1 10 (12.05%) HTTP
1 10 (12.05%) SMTP
1 10 (12.05%) SSH
2 8 (9.64%) Kerberos
3 7 (8.43%) IMAP
3 7 (8.43%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (20.48%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (18.07%) Amazon RDS
3 14 (16.87%) Oracle Reports
4 11 (13.25%) Amazon Aurora
5 10 (12.05%) Oracle Database
6 6 (7.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 6 (7.23%) Redis
7 5 (6.02%) Metadata
8 4 (4.82%) BigQuery
9 2 (2.41%) DataStage
9 2 (2.41%) DB2
9 2 (2.41%) Power BI
9 2 (2.41%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.20%) DynamoDB
10 1 (1.20%) Essbase
Development Applications
1 45 (54.22%) Jenkins
2 31 (37.35%) Git
3 16 (19.28%) JIRA
4 10 (12.05%) Vagrant
5 9 (10.84%) Bitbucket Server
5 9 (10.84%) CA Release Automation
5 9 (10.84%) Maven
5 9 (10.84%) Sonatype Nexus
6 7 (8.43%) GitLab
6 7 (8.43%) SonarQube
7 3 (3.61%) Artifactory
7 3 (3.61%) REST Assured
8 2 (2.41%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.41%) Cucumber
8 2 (2.41%) Gradle
8 2 (2.41%) Mockito
8 2 (2.41%) Postman
8 2 (2.41%) SoapUI
8 2 (2.41%) Spinnaker
8 2 (2.41%) XCTest
General
1 29 (34.94%) Social Skills
2 28 (33.73%) Finance
3 12 (14.46%) Public Sector
4 9 (10.84%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (8.43%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (4.82%) Banking
7 3 (3.61%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.61%) Billing
8 1 (1.20%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.20%) Law
8 1 (1.20%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 26 (31.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 22 (26.51%) Developer
3 17 (20.48%) Consultant
4 13 (15.66%) AWS DevOps
5 12 (14.46%) AWS Engineer
5 12 (14.46%) Platform Engineer
6 11 (13.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 10 (12.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 9 (10.84%) Oracle Consultant
9 8 (9.64%) SAP Consultant
10 7 (8.43%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 7 (8.43%) Integration Developer
11 6 (7.23%) Oracle Developer
11 6 (7.23%) SAP HCM Consultant
11 6 (7.23%) Senior
12 5 (6.02%) DevOps Platform Engineer
13 4 (4.82%) Automation Engineer
13 4 (4.82%) Payroll Consultant
13 4 (4.82%) SAP Payroll Consultant
14 3 (3.61%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (25.30%) REST
2 18 (21.69%) LDAP
3 16 (19.28%) SOAP
4 14 (16.87%) OAuth
4 14 (16.87%) SAML
5 13 (15.66%) OpenID
5 13 (15.66%) Oracle Fusion
6 10 (12.05%) JSON
7 8 (9.64%) SAP PI
8 7 (8.43%) AngularJS
8 7 (8.43%) XML
9 6 (7.23%) Kafka
9 6 (7.23%) Spring
9 6 (7.23%) Web Services
10 5 (6.02%) CSS
10 5 (6.02%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (6.02%) HTML
11 4 (4.82%) Bootstrap
11 4 (4.82%) J2EE
11 4 (4.82%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.87%) Replication
2 3 (3.61%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.41%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.41%) Life Science
3 2 (2.41%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.20%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.20%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.20%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 24 (28.92%) Linux
2 19 (22.89%) Windows
3 10 (12.05%) Amazon Linux
3 10 (12.05%) VMS
4 9 (10.84%) Unix
5 7 (8.43%) Ubuntu
5 7 (8.43%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (56.63%) DevOps
2 41 (49.40%) CI/CD
3 25 (30.12%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (26.51%) Agile
5 17 (20.48%) Validation
6 16 (19.28%) Change Management
7 13 (15.66%) Infrastructure as Code
8 12 (14.46%) Platform Engineering
8 12 (14.46%) Test Automation
9 11 (13.25%) Cloud Security
9 11 (13.25%) Configuration Management
9 11 (13.25%) Performance Tuning
10 10 (12.05%) Containerisation
10 10 (12.05%) Identity Access Management
10 10 (12.05%) Observability
10 10 (12.05%) Patch Management
11 9 (10.84%) Deployment Automation
11 9 (10.84%) Mentoring
11 9 (10.84%) Translating Business Requirements
11 9 (10.84%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 31 (37.35%) Python
2 27 (32.53%) Java
3 22 (26.51%) JavaScript
4 20 (24.10%) SQL
5 16 (19.28%) PowerShell
6 14 (16.87%) Bash
7 9 (10.84%) Shell Script
8 8 (9.64%) ABAP
9 6 (7.23%) C#
9 6 (7.23%) PL/SQL
9 6 (7.23%) T-SQL
10 3 (3.61%) Perl
10 3 (3.61%) TypeScript
11 2 (2.41%) Go
12 1 (1.20%) Kotlin
12 1 (1.20%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (20.48%) Security Cleared
2 14 (16.87%) SC Cleared
3 12 (14.46%) AWS Certification
4 10 (12.05%) Degree
5 7 (8.43%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.20%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.20%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.20%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.20%) GAAP
1 1 (1.20%) IFRS
1 1 (1.20%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (43.37%) Docker
2 13 (15.66%) Active Directory
3 10 (12.05%) DFS Replication
4 7 (8.43%) Dovecot
4 7 (8.43%) Postfix
4 7 (8.43%) Squid
4 7 (8.43%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 2 (2.41%) OpenAM
5 2 (2.41%) OpenDJ
5 2 (2.41%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 30 (36.14%) Terraform
2 19 (22.89%) Prometheus
3 18 (21.69%) Grafana
3 18 (21.69%) Kubernetes
4 9 (10.84%) CA Single Sign-On
4 9 (10.84%) Progress Chef
5 8 (9.64%) Ansible
5 8 (9.64%) CA Wily
5 8 (9.64%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (8.43%) Nessus
6 7 (8.43%) Proxmox
6 7 (8.43%) Tivoli
7 4 (4.82%) Istio
7 4 (4.82%) Rancher
8 2 (2.41%) Argo
8 2 (2.41%) Puppet
9 1 (1.20%) HP Fortify
9 1 (1.20%) Podman
Vendors
1 27 (32.53%) Oracle
2 15 (18.07%) ServiceNow
3 12 (14.46%) Splunk
4 9 (10.84%) AppDynamics
4 9 (10.84%) Broadcom
4 9 (10.84%) Microsoft
5 8 (9.64%) IBM
5 8 (9.64%) SAP
6 7 (8.43%) Dynatrace
6 7 (8.43%) Jaspersoft
7 3 (3.61%) ForgeRock
7 3 (3.61%) Google
7 3 (3.61%) Sonatype
8 2 (2.41%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (2.41%) Informatica
9 1 (1.20%) Ariba
9 1 (1.20%) Ping Identity
9 1 (1.20%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.20%) Snow
9 1 (1.20%) Workday