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 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 542 399 452
Rank change year-on-year -143 +53 +10
Contract jobs citing Groovy 102 120 72
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.22% 0.43% 0.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.84% 1.30% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 77 36
10th Percentile £366 £359 £400
25th Percentile £425 £427 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.32% -18.00%
75th Percentile £542 £615 £697
90th Percentile £640 £665 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £513
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.32% -16.33%

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 12,074 9,210 10,603
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 25.95% 32.87% 32.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,812 6,183 7,103
10th Percentile £363 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £543
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -5.16% -1.27%
75th Percentile £634 £635 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £507 £525
% change year-on-year +3.65% -3.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 513 265 298
10th Percentile £26.51 £31.25 £30.35
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.25 £48.38
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +3.17%
75th Percentile £71.00 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £77.75 £80.00
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 3 October 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 3 October 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 63 £500 - 33
North of England -79 20 £425 -8.11% 7
Yorkshire -33 16 £350 -41.47% 1
South East -56 6 £500 +30.21% 13
South West -33 5 £452 -24.75% 7
East of England - 5 £513 - 4
North East -46 4 £425 -34.62%
West Midlands -67 3 £511 +7.47% 4
Midlands -76 3 £511 +7.47% 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 16 (15.69%) Confluence
2 4 (3.92%) Apache
2 4 (3.92%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.98%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 13 (12.75%) NetSuite
1 13 (12.75%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (2.94%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (2.94%) SAP HCM
3 2 (1.96%) Infor LN
4 1 (0.98%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 50 (49.02%) AWS
2 31 (30.39%) Azure
3 23 (22.55%) GCP
4 17 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 17 (16.67%) Boomi
5 16 (15.69%) AtomSphere
6 13 (12.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 13 (12.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 12 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (10.78%) AWS KMS
9 10 (9.80%) GitHub
9 10 (9.80%) OCI
10 9 (8.82%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (8.82%) Datadog
10 9 (8.82%) Serverless
11 8 (7.84%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (4.90%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (4.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 4 (3.92%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (12.75%) Firewall
2 8 (7.84%) SSL
3 6 (5.88%) DNS
3 6 (5.88%) HTTP
3 6 (5.88%) OpenLDAP
4 3 (2.94%) Internet
5 2 (1.96%) FTP
5 2 (1.96%) HTTPS
5 2 (1.96%) IMAP
5 2 (1.96%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (1.96%) SMTP
5 2 (1.96%) SSH
5 2 (1.96%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.96%) VPN
5 2 (1.96%) WAN
6 1 (0.98%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.98%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (21.57%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (15.69%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (12.75%) Amazon Aurora
4 12 (11.76%) Metadata
5 5 (4.90%) Couchbase
5 5 (4.90%) NoSQL
5 5 (4.90%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (3.92%) Redis
7 3 (2.94%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 3 (2.94%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.96%) InfluxDB
8 2 (1.96%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.98%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.98%) MySQL
9 1 (0.98%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.98%) Qlik Sense
9 1 (0.98%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.98%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 58 (56.86%) Jenkins
2 29 (28.43%) Git
3 19 (18.63%) JIRA
4 12 (11.76%) GitLab
4 12 (11.76%) Maven
4 12 (11.76%) SonarQube
5 9 (8.82%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (3.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (3.92%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.92%) Zephyr
7 2 (1.96%) Gerrit
7 2 (1.96%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.98%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.98%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.98%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.98%) JMeter
8 1 (0.98%) NeoLoad
8 1 (0.98%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.98%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (0.98%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 26 (25.49%) Public Sector
2 25 (24.51%) Social Skills
3 11 (10.78%) Finance
4 9 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.86%) Publishing
6 6 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (4.90%) Retail
8 3 (2.94%) Banking
8 3 (2.94%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.98%) Local Government
9 1 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (35.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (19.61%) Senior
3 19 (18.63%) Developer
4 11 (10.78%) Architect
4 11 (10.78%) AWS Engineer
5 9 (8.82%) AWS DevOps
5 9 (8.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 7 (6.86%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (5.88%) Senior Developer
8 5 (4.90%) Consultant
8 5 (4.90%) Security Architect
8 5 (4.90%) Senior Architect
8 5 (4.90%) Senior DevOps
9 4 (3.92%) DBA
9 4 (3.92%) Java Engineer
9 4 (3.92%) Python Engineer
9 4 (3.92%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 3 (2.94%) Java Software Engineer
10 3 (2.94%) Senior Software Engineer
10 3 (2.94%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (50.98%) Terraform
2 28 (27.45%) JSON
3 22 (21.57%) REST
4 21 (20.59%) SOAP
5 20 (19.61%) XML
6 10 (9.80%) Kafka
6 10 (9.80%) Web Services
7 8 (7.84%) SLSA
7 8 (7.84%) YAML
8 7 (6.86%) Node.js
9 5 (4.90%) LDAP
9 5 (4.90%) RxJava
9 5 (4.90%) Vert.x
10 4 (3.92%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (3.92%) Keycloak
10 4 (3.92%) SAML
11 3 (2.94%) OAuth
11 3 (2.94%) OAuth2
11 3 (2.94%) SAP PI
11 3 (2.94%) Web Dynpro
Miscellaneous
1 19 (18.63%) Replication
2 6 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.90%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.90%) Public Cloud
4 4 (3.92%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.92%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.92%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.94%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.98%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.98%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.98%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.98%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.98%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.98%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.98%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 28 (27.45%) Linux
2 11 (10.78%) Windows
3 9 (8.82%) Amazon Linux
4 8 (7.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (4.90%) Unix
6 4 (3.92%) Ubuntu
6 4 (3.92%) VMS
7 2 (1.96%) Rocky
7 2 (1.96%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.98%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (62.75%) CI/CD
2 51 (50.00%) DevOps
3 38 (37.25%) Agile
4 31 (30.39%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (25.49%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (24.51%) Observability
7 23 (22.55%) Performance Tuning
8 18 (17.65%) API Management
8 18 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (15.69%) Cloud Security
9 16 (15.69%) Platform Engineering
9 16 (15.69%) Test Automation
10 15 (14.71%) Containerisation
10 15 (14.71%) Root Cause Analysis
11 12 (11.76%) Static Application Security Testing
12 11 (10.78%) AI
12 11 (10.78%) DevSecOps
12 11 (10.78%) High Availability
12 11 (10.78%) Release Automation
12 11 (10.78%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 51 (50.00%) Python
2 36 (35.29%) Java
3 25 (24.51%) Bash
4 24 (23.53%) JavaScript
5 21 (20.59%) PowerShell
6 17 (16.67%) SQL
7 12 (11.76%) Shell Script
8 10 (9.80%) Perl
9 6 (5.88%) Go
10 4 (3.92%) ABAP
10 4 (3.92%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.96%) C#
12 1 (0.98%) Bicep
12 1 (0.98%) C
12 1 (0.98%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.98%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 49 (48.04%) Security Cleared
2 43 (42.16%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.82%) AWS Certification
4 8 (7.84%) Azure Certification
5 7 (6.86%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.96%) Degree
7 1 (0.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.98%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.98%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.98%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.88%) QA
2 2 (1.96%) NCSC
3 1 (0.98%) GDPR
3 1 (0.98%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 40 (39.22%) Docker
2 6 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 5 (4.90%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (3.92%) Squid
5 2 (1.96%) DFS Replication
5 2 (1.96%) Dovecot
5 2 (1.96%) Postfix
6 1 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 45 (44.12%) Kubernetes
2 27 (26.47%) Grafana
3 24 (23.53%) Prometheus
4 13 (12.75%) Ansible
5 6 (5.88%) Packer
6 4 (3.92%) Kustomize
6 4 (3.92%) Puppet
6 4 (3.92%) Rancher
7 2 (1.96%) Argo
7 2 (1.96%) Consul
7 2 (1.96%) Kibana
7 2 (1.96%) Nessus
7 2 (1.96%) Proxmox
7 2 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.96%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.98%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.98%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.98%) Podman
8 1 (0.98%) WSUS
Vendors
1 23 (22.55%) Oracle
2 17 (16.67%) Dynatrace
2 17 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 15 (14.71%) Google
4 13 (12.75%) Salesforce
5 8 (7.84%) Sonatype
6 6 (5.88%) Splunk
7 5 (4.90%) SAP
8 3 (2.94%) AppDynamics
8 3 (2.94%) Checkmarx
8 3 (2.94%) Microsoft
9 2 (1.96%) Baan
9 2 (1.96%) Infor
9 2 (1.96%) ION Trading
9 2 (1.96%) Jaspersoft
9 2 (1.96%) PagerDuty
9 2 (1.96%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.96%) Trend Micro
10 1 (0.98%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.98%) Coverity