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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 504 412 481
Rank change year-on-year -92 +69 -38
Contract jobs citing Groovy 70 52 60
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.19% 0.21% 0.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.65% 0.63% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 33 45
10th Percentile £353 £323 £400
25th Percentile £413 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +6.98% -17.31%
75th Percentile £531 £688 £638
90th Percentile £600 £775 £661
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 10,748 8,204 10,908
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 28.54% 33.86% 28.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,138 5,613 7,886
10th Percentile £352 £360 £350
25th Percentile £414 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -5.61%
75th Percentile £613 £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 483 216 435
10th Percentile £41.25 £25.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £54.55 £40.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £68.38
90th Percentile £76.25 £85.00 £75.00
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 27 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 27 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 -68 31 £488 -18.75% 4
North of England -43 28 £450 -21.40% 7
Yorkshire -37 20 £450 -21.40% 4
West Midlands -55 6 £500 - 1
Midlands -63 6 £500 - 2
North East - 5 £513 -
South East -49 3 - - 9
North West - 3 £350 - 3
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 (4.29%) Confluence
2 1 (1.43%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.43%) Mule
2 1 (1.43%) Oracle Application Server
Business Applications
1 4 (5.71%) SAP HCM
2 1 (1.43%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (1.43%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 22 (31.43%) AWS
2 19 (27.14%) GCP
3 14 (20.00%) Azure
4 11 (15.71%) GitHub
5 8 (11.43%) SaaS
6 7 (10.00%) AtomSphere
6 7 (10.00%) Boomi
7 6 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (8.57%) Serverless
8 5 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (7.14%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 5 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (7.14%) OCI
8 5 (7.14%) OpenShift
9 4 (5.71%) Apigee
9 4 (5.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (2.86%) Collibra
10 2 (2.86%) Power Platform
11 1 (1.43%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.43%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.86%) Metadata
2 7 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (8.57%) Oracle Reports
4 5 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (7.14%) Redis
5 3 (4.29%) Data Mart
6 2 (2.86%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.86%) DataStage
6 2 (2.86%) DB2
6 2 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.86%) Power BI
6 2 (2.86%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.86%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.43%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.43%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 31 (44.29%) Jenkins
2 10 (14.29%) Git
2 10 (14.29%) Maven
3 8 (11.43%) SonarQube
4 7 (10.00%) GitLab
5 5 (7.14%) JIRA
6 4 (5.71%) Cucumber
7 3 (4.29%) ScriptRunner
7 3 (4.29%) Selenium
8 2 (2.86%) Artifactory
8 2 (2.86%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.86%) Gradle
8 2 (2.86%) JUnit
8 2 (2.86%) Postman
8 2 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (1.43%) CMake
9 1 (1.43%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.43%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (1.43%) REST Assured
9 1 (1.43%) SoapUI
General
1 17 (24.29%) Social Skills
2 11 (15.71%) Finance
3 8 (11.43%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (7.14%) Publishing
5 4 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.29%) Banking
6 3 (4.29%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.86%) Back Office
7 2 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.43%) Front Office
8 1 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (24.29%) Developer
1 17 (24.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (17.14%) Consultant
3 7 (10.00%) Integration Developer
4 6 (8.57%) Oracle Consultant
4 6 (8.57%) SAP Consultant
5 5 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
5 5 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
5 5 (7.14%) Python Engineer
5 5 (7.14%) SAP HCM Consultant
6 4 (5.71%) Analyst
6 4 (5.71%) DevOps Automation Engineer
6 4 (5.71%) GCP Engineer
6 4 (5.71%) Murex Analyst
6 4 (5.71%) Payroll Consultant
6 4 (5.71%) SAP Payroll Consultant
7 3 (4.29%) Administrator
7 3 (4.29%) Murex Support
7 3 (4.29%) Murex Support Analyst
7 3 (4.29%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (28.57%) REST
2 16 (22.86%) JSON
3 9 (12.86%) SOAP
4 8 (11.43%) XML
4 8 (11.43%) YAML
5 7 (10.00%) SLSA
6 6 (8.57%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (8.57%) Oracle Fusion
6 6 (8.57%) SAP PI
7 5 (7.14%) Kafka
7 5 (7.14%) Keycloak
7 5 (7.14%) LDAP
7 5 (7.14%) Node.js
7 5 (7.14%) OAuth
7 5 (7.14%) SAML
8 4 (5.71%) OpenID
8 4 (5.71%) RESTful
9 3 (4.29%) AngularJS
9 3 (4.29%) J2EE
9 3 (4.29%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
1 5 (7.14%) Replication
2 2 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (2.86%) Reference Data
3 1 (1.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (1.43%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.43%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.71%) Linux
2 1 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (57.14%) DevOps
2 33 (47.14%) CI/CD
3 27 (38.57%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (35.71%) Agile
5 17 (24.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 16 (22.86%) Validation
7 15 (21.43%) Test Automation
8 13 (18.57%) Observability
9 11 (15.71%) DevSecOps
10 10 (14.29%) Change Management
10 10 (14.29%) ITIL
11 9 (12.86%) Static Application Security Testing
12 8 (11.43%) SBOM
13 7 (10.00%) Actionable Insight
13 7 (10.00%) AI
13 7 (10.00%) Identity Management
13 7 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
13 7 (10.00%) Mentoring
13 7 (10.00%) Roadmaps
13 7 (10.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 33 (47.14%) Python
2 29 (41.43%) Java
3 22 (31.43%) JavaScript
4 17 (24.29%) Bash
5 9 (12.86%) SQL
6 8 (11.43%) C#
7 7 (10.00%) T-SQL
8 6 (8.57%) ABAP
9 5 (7.14%) PowerShell
10 4 (5.71%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.43%) DataWeave
11 1 (1.43%) Go
11 1 (1.43%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.43%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.43%) Scala
11 1 (1.43%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (17.14%) Security Cleared
2 9 (12.86%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.86%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.43%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.43%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (1.43%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (20.00%) Docker
2 4 (5.71%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.86%) OpenAM
3 2 (2.86%) OpenDJ
3 2 (2.86%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 28 (40.00%) Terraform
2 19 (27.14%) Kubernetes
3 10 (14.29%) Ansible
3 10 (14.29%) Grafana
3 10 (14.29%) Prometheus
4 5 (7.14%) Istio
4 5 (7.14%) Rancher
5 4 (5.71%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (2.86%) Argo
6 2 (2.86%) Puppet
7 1 (1.43%) HP Fortify
7 1 (1.43%) Podman
7 1 (1.43%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 14 (20.00%) Oracle
2 8 (11.43%) Dynatrace
3 7 (10.00%) Sonatype
4 6 (8.57%) SAP
4 6 (8.57%) ServiceNow
5 5 (7.14%) Google
6 4 (5.71%) ForgeRock
6 4 (5.71%) Murex
7 3 (4.29%) Atlassian
8 2 (2.86%) AppDynamics
8 2 (2.86%) Informatica
8 2 (2.86%) Microsoft
8 2 (2.86%) Splunk
9 1 (1.43%) Anaplan
9 1 (1.43%) CyberArk
9 1 (1.43%) IBM
9 1 (1.43%) MuleSoft
9 1 (1.43%) New Relic
9 1 (1.43%) Snow
9 1 (1.43%) Workday