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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 539 402 454
Rank change year-on-year -137 +52 0
Contract jobs citing Groovy 97 115 74
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.21% 0.41% 0.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.81% 1.26% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 78 39
10th Percentile £360 £359 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.32% -18.00%
75th Percentile £542 £623 £738
90th Percentile £650 £691 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £516
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.99% -17.40%

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 12,008 9,125 10,558
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 25.93% 32.83% 32.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,763 6,191 7,318
10th Percentile £363 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £520 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 502 264 302
10th Percentile £28.50 £31.25 £30.58
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.25 £50.66
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.12% -14.62% +3.17%
75th Percentile £70.88 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £80.00 £79.92
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +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 10 September 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 10 September 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 -93 55 £500 -1.23% 22
North of England -68 24 £425 -8.11% 6
Yorkshire -37 18 £425 -28.93% 1
North East -45 6 £425 -34.62%
South West -38 5 £452 -24.75% 5
South East -61 5 £500 +30.21% 9
West Midlands -70 3 £511 +7.47% 2
Midlands -81 3 £511 +7.47% 2
East of England - 3 £425 - 1
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 16 (16.49%) Confluence
2 3 (3.09%) Apache
2 3 (3.09%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 11 (11.34%) NetSuite
1 11 (11.34%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (3.09%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (2.06%) Infor LN
4 1 (1.03%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 49 (50.52%) AWS
2 30 (30.93%) Azure
3 23 (23.71%) GCP
4 18 (18.56%) Amazon S3
5 15 (15.46%) Boomi
6 14 (14.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 14 (14.43%) AtomSphere
6 14 (14.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 12 (12.37%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (12.37%) OCI
8 11 (11.34%) AWS KMS
9 10 (10.31%) GitHub
10 9 (9.28%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (9.28%) Serverless
11 8 (8.25%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (7.22%) Datadog
13 6 (6.19%) Amazon SQS
14 5 (5.15%) Amazon ECS
15 4 (4.12%) AWS Step Functions
15 4 (4.12%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 13 (13.40%) Firewall
2 8 (8.25%) DNS
2 8 (8.25%) SSL
3 6 (6.19%) HTTP
3 6 (6.19%) OpenLDAP
4 3 (3.09%) Internet
5 2 (2.06%) FTP
5 2 (2.06%) HTTPS
5 2 (2.06%) IMAP
5 2 (2.06%) SMTP
5 2 (2.06%) SSH
5 2 (2.06%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.06%) WAN
6 1 (1.03%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (17.53%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (14.43%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (13.40%) Metadata
4 12 (12.37%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (5.15%) Couchbase
5 5 (5.15%) NoSQL
5 5 (5.15%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (3.09%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 3 (3.09%) Redis
6 3 (3.09%) Relational Database
6 3 (3.09%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.06%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.03%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.03%) OLAP
8 1 (1.03%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 54 (55.67%) Jenkins
2 26 (26.80%) Git
3 20 (20.62%) JIRA
4 13 (13.40%) Maven
4 13 (13.40%) SonarQube
5 8 (8.25%) GitLab
6 6 (6.19%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (4.12%) ScriptRunner
8 3 (3.09%) Cucumber
9 2 (2.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (2.06%) Bitbucket
9 2 (2.06%) JUnit
9 2 (2.06%) Vagrant
9 2 (2.06%) Zephyr
10 1 (1.03%) Cypress.io
10 1 (1.03%) JMeter
10 1 (1.03%) LoadRunner
10 1 (1.03%) NeoLoad
10 1 (1.03%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (1.03%) REST Assured
General
1 24 (24.74%) Public Sector
2 21 (21.65%) Social Skills
3 12 (12.37%) Finance
4 9 (9.28%) Publishing
5 6 (6.19%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (5.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (5.15%) Retail
7 4 (4.12%) Banking
8 3 (3.09%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.06%) Back Office
10 1 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.03%) Local Government
10 1 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (34.02%) DevOps Engineer
2 18 (18.56%) Developer
2 18 (18.56%) Senior
3 11 (11.34%) Architect
3 11 (11.34%) AWS Engineer
4 8 (8.25%) AWS DevOps
4 8 (8.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 6 (6.19%) Python Engineer
5 6 (6.19%) Senior Developer
6 5 (5.15%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (5.15%) Security Architect
6 5 (5.15%) Senior Architect
6 5 (5.15%) Software Engineer
7 4 (4.12%) Consultant
7 4 (4.12%) DBA
7 4 (4.12%) Java Engineer
8 3 (3.09%) Administrator
8 3 (3.09%) Java Developer
8 3 (3.09%) Java Software Engineer
8 3 (3.09%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (51.55%) Terraform
2 28 (28.87%) JSON
3 24 (24.74%) REST
4 19 (19.59%) SOAP
5 18 (18.56%) XML
6 10 (10.31%) SLSA
6 10 (10.31%) YAML
7 9 (9.28%) Kafka
7 9 (9.28%) Node.js
8 6 (6.19%) Web Services
9 5 (5.15%) LDAP
9 5 (5.15%) RxJava
9 5 (5.15%) Vert.x
10 3 (3.09%) AngularJS
10 3 (3.09%) Apache NiFi
10 3 (3.09%) Keycloak
10 3 (3.09%) OAuth
10 3 (3.09%) OAuth2
10 3 (3.09%) Oracle Fusion
10 3 (3.09%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.49%) Replication
2 6 (6.19%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (5.15%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.12%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.12%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (4.12%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.09%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.09%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.09%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (3.09%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.06%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.03%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.03%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.03%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.03%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.03%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.03%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.03%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 22 (22.68%) Linux
2 9 (9.28%) Amazon Linux
3 7 (7.22%) Windows
4 4 (4.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (4.12%) Unix
5 3 (3.09%) VMS
6 2 (2.06%) Ubuntu
6 2 (2.06%) Windows Server
7 1 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (60.82%) CI/CD
2 54 (55.67%) DevOps
3 42 (43.30%) Agile
4 27 (27.84%) Infrastructure as Code
5 24 (24.74%) Performance Tuning
6 23 (23.71%) Observability
6 23 (23.71%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (19.59%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (18.56%) API Management
9 16 (16.49%) Cloud Security
9 16 (16.49%) Test Automation
10 13 (13.40%) Platform Engineering
10 13 (13.40%) Release Automation
10 13 (13.40%) Root Cause Analysis
11 12 (12.37%) DevSecOps
11 12 (12.37%) High Availability
11 12 (12.37%) Static Application Security Testing
12 11 (11.34%) Change Management
13 10 (10.31%) SBOM
13 10 (10.31%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 51 (52.58%) Python
2 38 (39.18%) Java
3 22 (22.68%) JavaScript
4 21 (21.65%) Bash
5 20 (20.62%) PowerShell
6 15 (15.46%) SQL
7 11 (11.34%) Shell Script
8 9 (9.28%) Perl
9 4 (4.12%) Go
9 4 (4.12%) PL/SQL
10 3 (3.09%) C#
11 1 (1.03%) Bicep
11 1 (1.03%) C
11 1 (1.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 46 (47.42%) Security Cleared
2 41 (42.27%) SC Cleared
3 9 (9.28%) AWS Certification
4 8 (8.25%) Azure Certification
5 7 (7.22%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.06%) Degree
7 1 (1.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.03%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.12%) QA
2 2 (2.06%) NCSC
3 1 (1.03%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 33 (34.02%) Docker
2 8 (8.25%) Active Directory
3 5 (5.15%) Squid
4 4 (4.12%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.06%) DFS Replication
5 2 (2.06%) Dovecot
5 2 (2.06%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 40 (41.24%) Kubernetes
2 21 (21.65%) Grafana
3 19 (19.59%) Prometheus
4 10 (10.31%) Ansible
5 5 (5.15%) Packer
6 4 (4.12%) Kustomize
7 3 (3.09%) Rancher
8 2 (2.06%) Consul
8 2 (2.06%) Nessus
8 2 (2.06%) Proxmox
8 2 (2.06%) Puppet
8 2 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (2.06%) ZABBIX
9 1 (1.03%) Argo
9 1 (1.03%) HP Fortify
9 1 (1.03%) Kibana
9 1 (1.03%) Podman
9 1 (1.03%) WSUS
Vendors
1 21 (21.65%) Oracle
2 16 (16.49%) ServiceNow
3 14 (14.43%) Dynatrace
4 13 (13.40%) Google
5 11 (11.34%) Salesforce
6 10 (10.31%) Sonatype
7 4 (4.12%) Atlassian
7 4 (4.12%) Splunk
8 3 (3.09%) Microsoft
8 3 (3.09%) PagerDuty
8 3 (3.09%) Trend Micro
9 2 (2.06%) AppDynamics
9 2 (2.06%) Baan
9 2 (2.06%) Checkmarx
9 2 (2.06%) Infor
9 2 (2.06%) ION Trading
9 2 (2.06%) Jaspersoft
9 2 (2.06%) Red Hat
10 1 (1.03%) Anaplan
10 1 (1.03%) CyberArk