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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 511 404 478
Rank change year-on-year -107 +74 -59
Contract jobs citing Groovy 63 72 58
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.29% 0.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.58% 0.87% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 47 39
10th Percentile £354 £370 £400
25th Percentile £413 £496 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £538
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +11.63% -17.31%
75th Percentile £500 £688 £631
90th Percentile £591 £775 £675
UK median daily rate £450 £568 £538
% change year-on-year -20.70% +5.58% -14.48%

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 10,940 8,305 10,869
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 27.44% 33.78% 29.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,274 5,736 7,900
10th Percentile £352 £363 £350
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.48% -2.78% -4.42%
75th Percentile £608 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 523 215 436
10th Percentile £41.94 £25.25 £35.50
25th Percentile £55.00 £38.68 £47.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.43
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +0.12% -0.12%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -1.92%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -83 30 £500 -20.00% 7
North of England -59 22 £425 -29.17% 7
Yorkshire -55 15 £450 -25.00% 4
North East -16 6 £425 -34.62%
West Midlands -58 5 £524 -
Midlands -59 5 £524 - 1
South West -40 2 - - 1
East of England -40 1 £450 +38.46% 3
North West -41 1 £350 - 3
South East - 1 - - 4
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 (9.52%) Confluence
2 1 (1.59%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.59%) Mule
2 1 (1.59%) Oracle Application Server
Business Applications
1 4 (6.35%) SAP HCM
2 1 (1.59%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.59%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 27 (42.86%) AWS
2 19 (30.16%) GCP
3 13 (20.63%) Azure
4 8 (12.70%) GitHub
5 7 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (11.11%) Serverless
6 6 (9.52%) Amazon S3
6 6 (9.52%) Apigee
6 6 (9.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 5 (7.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (7.94%) OCI
7 5 (7.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (6.35%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (6.35%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (6.35%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 4 (6.35%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (4.76%) AWS KMS
9 3 (4.76%) Azure AKS
9 3 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (4.76%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.76%) DNS
1 3 (4.76%) Firewall
2 2 (3.17%) HTTP
2 2 (3.17%) OpenLDAP
2 2 (3.17%) SSL
3 1 (1.59%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.29%) Metadata
2 8 (12.70%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (12.70%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (6.35%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (6.35%) Redis
5 3 (4.76%) Data Mart
6 2 (3.17%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (3.17%) Relational Database
6 2 (3.17%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.59%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.59%) DataStage
7 1 (1.59%) DB2
7 1 (1.59%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.59%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.59%) OLAP
7 1 (1.59%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 34 (53.97%) Jenkins
2 14 (22.22%) Git
3 10 (15.87%) Maven
4 9 (14.29%) SonarQube
5 7 (11.11%) JIRA
6 6 (9.52%) GitLab
7 3 (4.76%) Cucumber
7 3 (4.76%) ScriptRunner
8 2 (3.17%) JUnit
8 2 (3.17%) Postman
8 2 (3.17%) Selenium
9 1 (1.59%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.59%) JMeter
9 1 (1.59%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (1.59%) LoadRunner
9 1 (1.59%) SoapUI
9 1 (1.59%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (25.40%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.70%) Finance
3 6 (9.52%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (7.94%) Publishing
5 4 (6.35%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.35%) Banking
5 4 (6.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (6.35%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.17%) Back Office
7 1 (1.59%) Front Office
7 1 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (34.92%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (14.29%) Developer
3 8 (12.70%) Consultant
4 7 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
5 6 (9.52%) AWS DevOps
5 6 (9.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 5 (7.94%) GCP Engineer
6 5 (7.94%) Python Engineer
7 4 (6.35%) Analyst
7 4 (6.35%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (6.35%) Murex Analyst
7 4 (6.35%) Oracle Consultant
7 4 (6.35%) Payroll Consultant
7 4 (6.35%) SAP Consultant
7 4 (6.35%) SAP HCM Consultant
7 4 (6.35%) SAP Payroll Consultant
8 3 (4.76%) Administrator
8 3 (4.76%) Murex Support
8 3 (4.76%) Murex Support Analyst
8 3 (4.76%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (19.05%) REST
2 11 (17.46%) JSON
3 9 (14.29%) YAML
4 8 (12.70%) SLSA
5 6 (9.52%) LDAP
5 6 (9.52%) Node.js
6 5 (7.94%) Kafka
6 5 (7.94%) SAML
7 4 (6.35%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (6.35%) Keycloak
7 4 (6.35%) OAuth
7 4 (6.35%) OpenID
7 4 (6.35%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (6.35%) SAP PI
7 4 (6.35%) SOAP
8 3 (4.76%) AngularJS
8 3 (4.76%) J2EE
8 3 (4.76%) OpenAPI
8 3 (4.76%) Swagger
8 3 (4.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.29%) Replication
2 2 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.59%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.59%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.59%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.59%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.94%) Linux
2 3 (4.76%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (1.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (61.90%) DevOps
2 29 (46.03%) CI/CD
3 20 (31.75%) Agile
4 19 (30.16%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (20.63%) Observability
6 13 (20.63%) Test Automation
7 12 (19.05%) Performance Tuning
8 10 (15.87%) DevSecOps
9 9 (14.29%) Change Management
9 9 (14.29%) ITIL
9 9 (14.29%) SBOM
10 8 (12.70%) API Management
10 8 (12.70%) High Availability
10 8 (12.70%) Release Automation
10 8 (12.70%) Static Application Security Testing
10 8 (12.70%) Validation
11 7 (11.11%) Containerisation
11 7 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
11 7 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 38 (60.32%) Python
2 23 (36.51%) Java
3 17 (26.98%) Bash
4 13 (20.63%) JavaScript
5 10 (15.87%) PowerShell
6 8 (12.70%) SQL
7 5 (7.94%) Shell Script
8 4 (6.35%) ABAP
9 3 (4.76%) Perl
10 2 (3.17%) C#
10 2 (3.17%) Go
11 1 (1.59%) DataWeave
11 1 (1.59%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.59%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.59%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.59%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (25.40%) Security Cleared
2 15 (23.81%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.17%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.17%) Azure Certification
3 2 (3.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.59%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (1.59%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (23.81%) Docker
2 4 (6.35%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.17%) OpenAM
3 2 (3.17%) OpenDJ
3 2 (3.17%) OpenIDM
4 1 (1.59%) Squid
Systems Management
1 33 (52.38%) Terraform
2 19 (30.16%) Kubernetes
3 11 (17.46%) Grafana
4 10 (15.87%) Prometheus
5 6 (9.52%) Ansible
6 4 (6.35%) Istio
6 4 (6.35%) Rancher
6 4 (6.35%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (3.17%) Kustomize
8 1 (1.59%) Consul
8 1 (1.59%) HP Fortify
8 1 (1.59%) Packer
8 1 (1.59%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 11 (17.46%) Oracle
2 10 (15.87%) Dynatrace
3 8 (12.70%) ServiceNow
3 8 (12.70%) Sonatype
4 7 (11.11%) Google
5 5 (7.94%) SAP
6 4 (6.35%) Murex
7 3 (4.76%) Atlassian
7 3 (4.76%) ForgeRock
7 3 (4.76%) Microsoft
8 1 (1.59%) Anaplan
8 1 (1.59%) AppDynamics
8 1 (1.59%) Dell
8 1 (1.59%) Informatica
8 1 (1.59%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.59%) PagerDuty
8 1 (1.59%) Snow
8 1 (1.59%) Splunk
8 1 (1.59%) Trend Micro
8 1 (1.59%) Workday