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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 474 424 502
Rank change year-on-year -50 +78 -47
Contract jobs citing Groovy 80 53 57
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.23% 0.21% 0.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.78% 0.62% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 30 42
10th Percentile £363 £313 £400
25th Percentile £421 £445 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £573 £538
Median % change year-on-year -17.07% +6.56% -17.31%
75th Percentile £500 £684 £642
90th Percentile £548 £775 £674
UK median daily rate £475 £545 £538
% change year-on-year -12.84% +1.40% -11.89%

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 10,272 8,578 11,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.95% 33.46% 29.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,836 5,533 7,991
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £663
90th Percentile £726 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -5.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 433 201 477
10th Percentile £41.25 £25.26 £36.27
25th Percentile £52.50 £42.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +4.13% -6.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.40 £85.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.14
% change year-on-year +4.00% +3.92% -7.48%

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 17 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 17 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 -17 43 £500 -20.00% 2
North of England -38 28 £450 -17.43% 4
Yorkshire -39 16 £450 -17.43% 3
West Midlands -40 11 £488 - 4
Midlands -47 11 £488 - 5
North West -20 10 £452 - 1
South East -26 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 7 (8.75%) Apache
1 7 (8.75%) IIS
1 7 (8.75%) iPlanet
1 7 (8.75%) JBoss
1 7 (8.75%) WebSphere
1 7 (8.75%) WebSphere Application Server
2 6 (7.50%) Confluence
2 6 (7.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (7.50%) Oracle Workflow
3 4 (5.00%) nginx
4 1 (1.25%) Anypoint
4 1 (1.25%) Mule
4 1 (1.25%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 4 (5.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 6 (7.50%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (5.00%) SAP HCM
3 1 (1.25%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 28 (35.00%) AWS
2 15 (18.75%) Azure
2 15 (18.75%) GCP
3 12 (15.00%) GitHub
4 10 (12.50%) OpenShift
5 9 (11.25%) SaaS
6 8 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (10.00%) OCI
7 7 (8.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (8.75%) Amazon S3
7 7 (8.75%) AtomSphere
7 7 (8.75%) Boomi
8 6 (7.50%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (7.50%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (7.50%) Amazon ELB
8 6 (7.50%) AWS KMS
8 6 (7.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 6 (7.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (6.25%) Route 53
10 4 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.75%) Kerberos
2 6 (7.50%) DNS
2 6 (7.50%) Firewall
2 6 (7.50%) FTP
2 6 (7.50%) HTTP
2 6 (7.50%) SMTP
2 6 (7.50%) SSH
3 4 (5.00%) IMAP
3 4 (5.00%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.25%) Oracle Reports
2 12 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (10.00%) Oracle Database
5 7 (8.75%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (7.50%) Metadata
6 6 (7.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 4 (5.00%) BigQuery
7 4 (5.00%) Redis
8 2 (2.50%) Data Mart
8 2 (2.50%) DataStage
8 2 (2.50%) DB2
8 2 (2.50%) Power BI
8 2 (2.50%) Relational Database
8 2 (2.50%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.25%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 39 (48.75%) Jenkins
2 22 (27.50%) Git
3 11 (13.75%) JIRA
4 9 (11.25%) Maven
5 8 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
6 7 (8.75%) Bitbucket Server
6 7 (8.75%) CA Release Automation
6 7 (8.75%) GitLab
6 7 (8.75%) SonarQube
7 6 (7.50%) Vagrant
8 3 (3.75%) Artifactory
9 2 (2.50%) Bitbucket
9 2 (2.50%) Cucumber
9 2 (2.50%) Eclipse
9 2 (2.50%) Gradle
9 2 (2.50%) Postman
9 2 (2.50%) REST Assured
9 2 (2.50%) Selenium
9 2 (2.50%) SoapUI
9 2 (2.50%) Spinnaker
General
1 25 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 24 (30.00%) Finance
3 8 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
3 8 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 6 (7.50%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (3.75%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.75%) Banking
5 3 (3.75%) Billing
6 2 (2.50%) Publishing
7 1 (1.25%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.25%) Law
Job Titles
1 23 (28.75%) Developer
1 23 (28.75%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (20.00%) Consultant
3 10 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
4 9 (11.25%) AWS DevOps
4 9 (11.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 8 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
5 8 (10.00%) Oracle Consultant
5 8 (10.00%) SAP Consultant
6 7 (8.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 7 (8.75%) Integration Developer
7 6 (7.50%) Oracle Developer
7 6 (7.50%) SAP HCM Consultant
7 6 (7.50%) Senior
8 5 (6.25%) GCP Engineer
9 4 (5.00%) Automation Engineer
9 4 (5.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 4 (5.00%) Payroll Consultant
9 4 (5.00%) SAP Payroll Consultant
10 3 (3.75%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (30.00%) REST
2 17 (21.25%) SOAP
3 14 (17.50%) LDAP
4 13 (16.25%) Oracle Fusion
5 12 (15.00%) JSON
5 12 (15.00%) OAuth
5 12 (15.00%) SAML
6 11 (13.75%) OpenID
7 8 (10.00%) SAP PI
7 8 (10.00%) XML
8 6 (7.50%) Web Services
9 5 (6.25%) AngularJS
9 5 (6.25%) Spring
10 4 (5.00%) CSS
10 4 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (5.00%) HTML
10 4 (5.00%) Kafka
10 4 (5.00%) SLSA
10 4 (5.00%) Swagger
10 4 (5.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.25%) Replication
2 3 (3.75%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.50%) Life Science
3 2 (2.50%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.25%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.25%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.25%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.25%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 18 (22.50%) Linux
2 13 (16.25%) Windows
3 7 (8.75%) Unix
4 6 (7.50%) Amazon Linux
4 6 (7.50%) VMS
5 5 (6.25%) Windows Server
6 4 (5.00%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (51.25%) DevOps
2 38 (47.50%) CI/CD
3 25 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (25.00%) Agile
5 17 (21.25%) Validation
6 14 (17.50%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (13.75%) Change Management
7 11 (13.75%) Observability
8 10 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
8 10 (12.50%) Test Automation
8 10 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
9 9 (11.25%) Cloud Security
9 9 (11.25%) Deployment Automation
9 9 (11.25%) Identity Access Management
9 9 (11.25%) Performance Tuning
9 9 (11.25%) Workshop Facilitation
10 8 (10.00%) AI
10 8 (10.00%) Data Integration
10 8 (10.00%) Mentoring
10 8 (10.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 28 (35.00%) Python
2 27 (33.75%) Java
3 22 (27.50%) JavaScript
4 20 (25.00%) SQL
5 15 (18.75%) Bash
6 14 (17.50%) PowerShell
7 9 (11.25%) Shell Script
8 8 (10.00%) ABAP
9 7 (8.75%) PL/SQL
9 7 (8.75%) T-SQL
10 6 (7.50%) C#
11 3 (3.75%) TypeScript
12 2 (2.50%) Go
12 2 (2.50%) Perl
13 1 (1.25%) DataWeave
13 1 (1.25%) Kotlin
13 1 (1.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (16.25%) Security Cleared
2 10 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.00%) Degree
4 7 (8.75%) AWS Certification
5 4 (5.00%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.25%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.25%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (33.75%) Docker
2 11 (13.75%) Active Directory
3 6 (7.50%) DFS Replication
3 6 (7.50%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 4 (5.00%) Dovecot
4 4 (5.00%) Postfix
4 4 (5.00%) Squid
5 2 (2.50%) OpenAM
5 2 (2.50%) OpenDJ
5 2 (2.50%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 28 (35.00%) Terraform
2 17 (21.25%) Kubernetes
3 14 (17.50%) Prometheus
4 13 (16.25%) Grafana
5 8 (10.00%) Ansible
5 8 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (8.75%) CA Single Sign-On
6 7 (8.75%) CA Wily
6 7 (8.75%) Progress Chef
7 6 (7.50%) Istio
7 6 (7.50%) Tivoli
8 4 (5.00%) Nessus
8 4 (5.00%) Proxmox
9 3 (3.75%) Rancher
10 2 (2.50%) Argo
10 2 (2.50%) Puppet
11 1 (1.25%) HP Fortify
11 1 (1.25%) Podman
Vendors
1 28 (35.00%) Oracle
2 10 (12.50%) ServiceNow
2 10 (12.50%) Splunk
3 9 (11.25%) Microsoft
4 8 (10.00%) AppDynamics
4 8 (10.00%) SAP
5 7 (8.75%) Broadcom
5 7 (8.75%) Dynatrace
5 7 (8.75%) IBM
6 5 (6.25%) Google
7 4 (5.00%) Jaspersoft
7 4 (5.00%) Sonatype
8 3 (3.75%) ForgeRock
9 2 (2.50%) Informatica
9 2 (2.50%) Murex
10 1 (1.25%) Ariba
10 1 (1.25%) Dell
10 1 (1.25%) Red Hat
10 1 (1.25%) Snow
10 1 (1.25%) Workday