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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 444 439 483
Rank change year-on-year -5 +44 -16
Contract jobs citing Groovy 100 70 94
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.23% 0.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.03% 0.71% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 33 65
10th Percentile £359 £400 £400
25th Percentile £413 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% -10.87% -8.00%
75th Percentile £500 £675 £675
90th Percentile £598 £770 £760
UK median daily rate £475 £513 £575
% change year-on-year -7.32% -10.87% -5.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
UK median hourly rate - - £75.00

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 9,718 9,922 12,398
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.26% 32.34% 31.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,482 6,454 9,010
10th Percentile £350 £354 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.74% -2.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 305 247 417
10th Percentile £31.25 £27.00 £32.32
25th Percentile £49.25 £46.18 £47.50
Median hourly rate £63.00 £65.00 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% +4.84% -0.80%
75th Percentile £67.84 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £60.36
% change year-on-year - +3.55% +0.59%

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 18 November 2025.

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 18 November 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 +27 55 £488 -4.88% 17
West Midlands -1 29 £475 -7.68%
Midlands -10 29 £475 -7.68%
North of England -26 22 £452 +12.88% 8
North West -14 13 £446 +11.50% 1
Yorkshire -36 6 £537 +30.06% 7
South East -5 3 £384 -39.76% 3
North East - 3 £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 25 (25.00%) Confluence
2 13 (13.00%) nginx
3 12 (12.00%) Apache
3 12 (12.00%) JBoss
3 12 (12.00%) WebSphere
4 11 (11.00%) IIS
5 10 (10.00%) iPlanet
5 10 (10.00%) WebSphere Application Server
6 6 (6.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (6.00%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (3.00%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (3.00%) Apache Spark
8 1 (1.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (1.00%) CICS
Applications
1 12 (12.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 6 (6.00%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (2.00%) SAP HR
3 1 (1.00%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 50 (50.00%) AWS
2 29 (29.00%) Azure
3 27 (27.00%) Amazon S3
4 25 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 25 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
5 24 (24.00%) Amazon ELB
5 24 (24.00%) AWS KMS
5 24 (24.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 19 (19.00%) GitHub
7 15 (15.00%) Amazon ECS
7 15 (15.00%) GCP
7 15 (15.00%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (13.00%) Microsoft 365
8 13 (13.00%) Route 53
9 12 (12.00%) Amazon Glacier
9 12 (12.00%) OpenShift
10 11 (11.00%) SaaS
11 6 (6.00%) AtomSphere
11 6 (6.00%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (6.00%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 25 (25.00%) SSH
2 24 (24.00%) DNS
2 24 (24.00%) SMTP
3 22 (22.00%) Firewall
3 22 (22.00%) FTP
3 22 (22.00%) HTTP
4 12 (12.00%) IMAP
4 12 (12.00%) OpenLDAP
5 10 (10.00%) Kerberos
6 3 (3.00%) TCP/IP
7 2 (2.00%) SSL
8 1 (1.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (28.00%) Amazon RDS
2 26 (26.00%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (15.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 15 (15.00%) Oracle Database
4 12 (12.00%) Oracle Reports
5 8 (8.00%) Redis
6 6 (6.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 3 (3.00%) Big Data
7 3 (3.00%) BigQuery
7 3 (3.00%) Delta Lake
7 3 (3.00%) Hadoop
7 3 (3.00%) NoSQL
7 3 (3.00%) Parquet
8 2 (2.00%) DB2
8 2 (2.00%) Power BI
8 2 (2.00%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.00%) DataStage
9 1 (1.00%) Essbase
9 1 (1.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 65 (65.00%) Jenkins
2 58 (58.00%) Git
3 35 (35.00%) JIRA
4 24 (24.00%) Vagrant
5 15 (15.00%) Sonatype Nexus
6 12 (12.00%) SonarQube
7 11 (11.00%) Artifactory
7 11 (11.00%) Bitbucket Server
7 11 (11.00%) CA Release Automation
8 8 (8.00%) Maven
9 6 (6.00%) REST Assured
9 6 (6.00%) Subversion
10 5 (5.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (5.00%) JUnit
10 5 (5.00%) Mockito
10 5 (5.00%) Postman
10 5 (5.00%) SoapUI
10 5 (5.00%) Xcode
10 5 (5.00%) XCTest
11 4 (4.00%) GitLab
General
1 32 (32.00%) Finance
2 28 (28.00%) Social Skills
3 25 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 11 (11.00%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (6.00%) Banking
6 5 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (3.00%) Billing
9 1 (1.00%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.00%) German Language
9 1 (1.00%) Law
9 1 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (37.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 22 (22.00%) AWS DevOps
3 21 (21.00%) AWS Engineer
3 21 (21.00%) Developer
3 21 (21.00%) Platform Engineer
4 19 (19.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 19 (19.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 12 (12.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 12 (12.00%) Consultant
6 10 (10.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 7 (7.00%) Integration Developer
7 7 (7.00%) Oracle Consultant
8 6 (6.00%) Oracle Developer
8 6 (6.00%) Senior
9 5 (5.00%) SAP Consultant
10 4 (4.00%) Data Engineer
11 3 (3.00%) Automation Engineer
11 3 (3.00%) ERP Developer
11 3 (3.00%) Linux Engineer
11 3 (3.00%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (24.00%) REST
2 23 (23.00%) LDAP
3 20 (20.00%) SOAP
4 13 (13.00%) OAuth
4 13 (13.00%) OpenID
4 13 (13.00%) SAML
5 11 (11.00%) Oracle Fusion
6 10 (10.00%) Web Services
7 9 (9.00%) AngularJS
7 9 (9.00%) Kafka
7 9 (9.00%) Spring
8 8 (8.00%) CSS
8 8 (8.00%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (8.00%) HTML
9 7 (7.00%) Bootstrap
9 7 (7.00%) XML
10 6 (6.00%) CSS3
10 6 (6.00%) HTML5
10 6 (6.00%) J2EE
10 6 (6.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 27 (27.00%) Replication
2 5 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.00%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.00%) Life Science
4 2 (2.00%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.00%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.00%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.00%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.00%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.00%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 46 (46.00%) Linux
2 33 (33.00%) Windows
3 24 (24.00%) Amazon Linux
3 24 (24.00%) VMS
4 13 (13.00%) Unix
5 10 (10.00%) Ubuntu
6 9 (9.00%) Windows Server
7 2 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (60.00%) DevOps
2 50 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 31 (31.00%) Agile
4 29 (29.00%) Configuration Management
5 27 (27.00%) Change Management
6 26 (26.00%) Platform Engineering
6 26 (26.00%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (24.00%) Cloud Security
8 22 (22.00%) Patch Management
9 14 (14.00%) Containerisation
9 14 (14.00%) Performance Tuning
10 11 (11.00%) Deployment Automation
10 11 (11.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (11.00%) Integration Patterns
10 11 (11.00%) Validation
11 10 (10.00%) Migration
12 9 (9.00%) Identity Access Management
12 9 (9.00%) SDLC
12 9 (9.00%) Test Automation
12 9 (9.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 49 (49.00%) Python
2 36 (36.00%) Java
3 34 (34.00%) PowerShell
4 29 (29.00%) SQL
5 26 (26.00%) JavaScript
6 17 (17.00%) Bash
7 13 (13.00%) Shell Script
8 12 (12.00%) Perl
9 11 (11.00%) C#
10 7 (7.00%) ABAP
10 7 (7.00%) Go
11 6 (6.00%) PL/SQL
11 6 (6.00%) T-SQL
12 5 (5.00%) C++
13 2 (2.00%) Scala
13 2 (2.00%) TypeScript
14 1 (1.00%) COBOL
14 1 (1.00%) JCL
14 1 (1.00%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 29 (29.00%) Security Cleared
2 27 (27.00%) SC Cleared
3 17 (17.00%) AWS Certification
4 12 (12.00%) Degree
5 10 (10.00%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.00%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (1.00%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.00%) GDPR
2 1 (1.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.00%) GAAP
2 1 (1.00%) IFRS
System Software
1 58 (58.00%) Docker
2 23 (23.00%) Active Directory
3 22 (22.00%) DFS Replication
4 12 (12.00%) Dovecot
4 12 (12.00%) Postfix
4 12 (12.00%) Squid
5 8 (8.00%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 42 (42.00%) Terraform
2 30 (30.00%) Prometheus
3 29 (29.00%) Grafana
4 26 (26.00%) Kubernetes
5 15 (15.00%) Ansible
6 12 (12.00%) Nessus
7 11 (11.00%) CA Single Sign-On
8 10 (10.00%) CA Wily
8 10 (10.00%) Progress Chef
8 10 (10.00%) Proxmox
9 9 (9.00%) Puppet
10 8 (8.00%) Tivoli
11 6 (6.00%) Istio
11 6 (6.00%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (5.00%) Argo
13 3 (3.00%) Rancher
14 2 (2.00%) Podman
15 1 (1.00%) Control-M
15 1 (1.00%) Opsgenie
15 1 (1.00%) Packer
Vendors
1 30 (30.00%) Oracle
2 27 (27.00%) ServiceNow
3 17 (17.00%) Splunk
4 13 (13.00%) Microsoft
5 12 (12.00%) Jaspersoft
6 11 (11.00%) AppDynamics
6 11 (11.00%) Broadcom
7 10 (10.00%) IBM
8 9 (9.00%) Dynatrace
9 8 (8.00%) SAP
10 5 (5.00%) CA Agile Central
11 4 (4.00%) Red Hat
12 3 (3.00%) Cloudera
12 3 (3.00%) Google
13 2 (2.00%) Ariba
14 1 (1.00%) Adobe
14 1 (1.00%) Atlassian
14 1 (1.00%) ForgeRock
14 1 (1.00%) Informatica
14 1 (1.00%) Salesforce