Groovy Contracts in England

Apache Groovy
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Groovy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Groovy over the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 413 481 411
Rank change year-on-year +68 -70 +51
Contract jobs citing Groovy 90 79 224
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.33% 0.22% 0.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.00% 0.71% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 42 161
10th Percentile £373 £405 £500
25th Percentile £450 £425 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £531 £645
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% -17.64% +7.95%
75th Percentile £638 £716 £700
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £538 £625
% change year-on-year -6.98% -14.00% +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £76.00
25th Percentile - - £77.50
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
75th Percentile - - £82.50
90th Percentile - - £84.00
UK median hourly rate - - £80.00
% change year-on-year - - +25.76%

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 9,001 11,191 16,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.07% 30.94% 33.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,202 8,063 11,698
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% -1.82% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 227 438 414
10th Percentile £29.07 £35.37 £26.86
25th Percentile £39.25 £51.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £61.50 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +4.00% +15.74%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £83.58 £75.00 £80.96
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -8.00% - +18.99%

Groovy
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Groovy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Groovy in England

Groovy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Groovy in England.

Daily rate trend for Groovy in England

Groovy
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Groovy in England over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Groovy in England

Groovy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Groovy in England.

Hourly rate trend for Groovy in England

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 17 July 2025. 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 +42 56 £588 +4.44% 9
Midlands +12 16 £475 -7.68% 11
West Midlands +11 16 £475 -5.94% 9
North of England +12 15 £594 +11.81% 8
Yorkshire 0 13 £598 +12.56% 4
North East - 5 £650 -
North West +5 3 - - 4
South East +23 1 £384 -30.18% 2
South West - 1 £600 - 3
Groovy
UK

Groovy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 34 (37.78%) Confluence
2 4 (4.44%) nginx
3 3 (3.33%) Apache
3 3 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.33%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.33%) JBoss
4 2 (2.22%) WebSphere
5 1 (1.11%) CICS
Applications
1 3 (3.33%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (2.22%) SAP HR
2 1 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 43 (47.78%) AWS
2 25 (27.78%) Azure
3 23 (25.56%) GitHub
4 20 (22.22%) GCP
5 15 (16.67%) Amazon S3
6 14 (15.56%) IaaS
7 13 (14.44%) Amazon EC2
7 13 (14.44%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (12.22%) AWS CloudFormation
8 11 (12.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 10 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (11.11%) Amazon ELB
9 10 (11.11%) AWS KMS
10 7 (7.78%) Amazon Glacier
11 6 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (6.67%) SaaS
12 5 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (4.44%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (4.44%) OpenShift
13 4 (4.44%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (13.33%) DNS
1 12 (13.33%) HTTP
2 11 (12.22%) SSH
3 10 (11.11%) SMTP
4 9 (10.00%) Firewall
5 8 (8.89%) FTP
6 4 (4.44%) HTTPS
7 3 (3.33%) IMAP
7 3 (3.33%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (3.33%) TCP/IP
8 2 (2.22%) SSL
9 1 (1.11%) VPN
9 1 (1.11%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (14.44%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (7.78%) Oracle Database
4 6 (6.67%) Redis
5 4 (4.44%) Big Data
5 4 (4.44%) BigQuery
5 4 (4.44%) NoSQL
5 4 (4.44%) Power BI
6 3 (3.33%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (3.33%) Delta Lake
6 3 (3.33%) Hadoop
6 3 (3.33%) Parquet
7 2 (2.22%) Hazelcast
8 1 (1.11%) DB2
8 1 (1.11%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.11%) MySQL
8 1 (1.11%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.11%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.11%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 46 (51.11%) Jenkins
2 44 (48.89%) JIRA
3 37 (41.11%) Git
4 24 (26.67%) ScriptRunner
5 13 (14.44%) SonarQube
6 11 (12.22%) Artifactory
7 10 (11.11%) Vagrant
8 9 (10.00%) Maven
9 7 (7.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 7 (7.78%) JUnit
9 7 (7.78%) Postman
9 7 (7.78%) REST Assured
9 7 (7.78%) SoapUI
9 7 (7.78%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (7.78%) Subversion
10 6 (6.67%) Mockito
10 6 (6.67%) Xcode
10 6 (6.67%) XCTest
11 3 (3.33%) GitLab
11 3 (3.33%) Poetry
General
1 19 (21.11%) Finance
2 16 (17.78%) Social Skills
3 15 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 12 (13.33%) Banking
5 5 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.33%) Military
7 2 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.11%) Front Office
8 1 (1.11%) German Language
8 1 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (23.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (13.33%) Developer
3 11 (12.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (11.11%) JIRA Engineer
4 10 (11.11%) Senior
5 9 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (8.89%) AWS DevOps
7 7 (7.78%) Architect
7 7 (7.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 7 (7.78%) AWS Engineer
7 7 (7.78%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) Lead
9 4 (4.44%) Data Engineer
9 4 (4.44%) Java Developer
9 4 (4.44%) JIRA Developer
9 4 (4.44%) JIRA Specialist
10 3 (3.33%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 3 (3.33%) Consultant
10 3 (3.33%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (20.00%) REST
2 16 (17.78%) SOAP
3 10 (11.11%) Kafka
3 10 (11.11%) Web Services
4 9 (10.00%) Spring
5 8 (8.89%) Spring Boot
6 7 (7.78%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (7.78%) J2EE
7 6 (6.67%) AngularJS
7 6 (6.67%) CSS
7 6 (6.67%) CSS3
7 6 (6.67%) Hibernate
7 6 (6.67%) HTML
7 6 (6.67%) HTML5
7 6 (6.67%) JPA
7 6 (6.67%) LDAP
7 6 (6.67%) OAuth
7 6 (6.67%) Spring Cloud
7 6 (6.67%) Spring MVC
7 6 (6.67%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.11%) Replication
2 6 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.44%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.44%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.33%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.22%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.11%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.11%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.11%) Equities
6 1 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.11%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.11%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (1.11%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 25 (27.78%) Linux
2 10 (11.11%) Amazon Linux
2 10 (11.11%) VMS
3 9 (10.00%) Unix
4 8 (8.89%) Windows
5 4 (4.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (54.44%) Agile
2 37 (41.11%) CI/CD
3 35 (38.89%) DevOps
4 28 (31.11%) Migration
5 20 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (21.11%) Performance Tuning
7 17 (18.89%) Configuration Management
8 15 (16.67%) Incident Management
9 14 (15.56%) Scrum
10 13 (14.44%) Kanban
10 13 (14.44%) Microservices
10 13 (14.44%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 12 (13.33%) Containerisation
11 12 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
11 12 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
12 11 (12.22%) Change Management
12 11 (12.22%) Infrastructure Automation
12 11 (12.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 10 (11.11%) Mentoring
13 10 (11.11%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 46 (51.11%) Python
2 34 (37.78%) Java
3 25 (27.78%) JavaScript
4 19 (21.11%) Bash
4 19 (21.11%) PowerShell
5 18 (20.00%) SQL
6 9 (10.00%) Shell Script
7 8 (8.89%) Go
7 8 (8.89%) Perl
8 6 (6.67%) ABAP
8 6 (6.67%) C#
9 5 (5.56%) C++
10 3 (3.33%) Kotlin
11 2 (2.22%) COBOL
11 2 (2.22%) JCL
12 1 (1.11%) Scala
Qualifications
1 30 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 28 (31.11%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.33%) Degree
4 2 (2.22%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.11%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.11%) CEH
5 1 (1.11%) CISSP
5 1 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.11%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.11%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.44%) QA
2 3 (3.33%) GDPR
3 1 (1.11%) IFRS
3 1 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 29 (32.22%) Docker
2 8 (8.89%) Active Directory
2 8 (8.89%) DFS Replication
3 4 (4.44%) OpenAM
3 4 (4.44%) OpenDJ
3 4 (4.44%) OpenIDM
4 3 (3.33%) Dovecot
4 3 (3.33%) Postfix
4 3 (3.33%) Squid
Systems Management
1 28 (31.11%) Kubernetes
1 28 (31.11%) Terraform
2 18 (20.00%) Ansible
3 17 (18.89%) Grafana
4 14 (15.56%) Prometheus
5 10 (11.11%) Puppet
6 8 (8.89%) Istio
7 5 (5.56%) Control-M
8 3 (3.33%) Argo
8 3 (3.33%) Kiali
8 3 (3.33%) Nessus
8 3 (3.33%) Podman
9 2 (2.22%) Opsgenie
9 2 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (1.11%) Packer
10 1 (1.11%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 24 (26.67%) Atlassian
2 15 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 11 (12.22%) Oracle
4 10 (11.11%) Splunk
5 8 (8.89%) Dynatrace
5 8 (8.89%) SAP
6 6 (6.67%) CA Agile Central
7 5 (5.56%) ForgeRock
7 5 (5.56%) Google
8 4 (4.44%) Red Hat
9 3 (3.33%) AppDynamics
9 3 (3.33%) Cloudera
9 3 (3.33%) Jaspersoft
9 3 (3.33%) Microsoft
9 3 (3.33%) xMatters
10 2 (2.22%) Databricks
11 1 (1.11%) Ariba
11 1 (1.11%) Ping Identity
11 1 (1.11%) Salesforce
11 1 (1.11%) Workday