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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 522 421 453
Rank change year-on-year -101 +32 -27
Contract jobs citing Groovy 98 85 82
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.22% 0.31% 0.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.83% 0.94% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 55 45
10th Percentile £350 £369 £402
25th Percentile £413 £453 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £524
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +0.19% -16.49%
75th Percentile £541 £638 £725
90th Percentile £650 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.67% -16.08%

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 11,838 9,030 10,715
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.40% 32.83% 31.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,679 6,226 7,721
10th Percentile £363 £345 £353
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -6.45% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £653
90th Percentile £738 £772 £800
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 485 226 373
10th Percentile £34.01 £29.07 £31.25
25th Percentile £53.53 £40.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.12 £83.73 £77.90
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.13 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.79% -12.12% +8.33%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 -60 54 £500 -16.67% 8
North of England -60 27 £425 -28.93% 6
Yorkshire -36 20 £375 -37.40% 4
North East -45 6 £425 -34.62% 1
South East -62 5 £485 +26.30% 8
South West -35 4 £452 -24.75% 4
West Midlands -74 3 £468 -1.53% 2
Midlands -74 3 £468 -1.53% 2
East of England - 3 £425 - 1
North West -51 1 £350 - 1
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 12 (12.24%) Confluence
2 3 (3.06%) Apache
3 1 (1.02%) Anypoint
3 1 (1.02%) Mule
3 1 (1.02%) Oracle Application Server
Business Applications
1 11 (11.22%) NetSuite
1 11 (11.22%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (3.06%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (2.04%) Infor LN
4 1 (1.02%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 46 (46.94%) AWS
2 28 (28.57%) Azure
3 26 (26.53%) GCP
4 15 (15.31%) Boomi
5 14 (14.29%) AtomSphere
5 14 (14.29%) GitHub
6 13 (13.27%) Amazon S3
7 12 (12.24%) OCI
8 10 (10.20%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (9.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 9 (9.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 8 (8.16%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (8.16%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (8.16%) Serverless
11 7 (7.14%) AWS KMS
12 6 (6.12%) Apigee
13 5 (5.10%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (5.10%) Datadog
13 5 (5.10%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 4 (4.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.14%) Firewall
1 7 (7.14%) SSL
2 5 (5.10%) DNS
3 4 (4.08%) OpenLDAP
4 3 (3.06%) HTTP
4 3 (3.06%) Internet
5 2 (2.04%) WAN
6 1 (1.02%) HTTPS
6 1 (1.02%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.27%) Metadata
2 12 (12.24%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (9.18%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (8.16%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (5.10%) Couchbase
5 5 (5.10%) NoSQL
5 5 (5.10%) SQL Server
6 4 (4.08%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (3.06%) Data Mart
7 3 (3.06%) Redis
7 3 (3.06%) Relational Database
8 2 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (2.04%) MongoDB
8 2 (2.04%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (1.02%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.02%) OLAP
9 1 (1.02%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 48 (48.98%) Jenkins
2 21 (21.43%) Git
3 15 (15.31%) JIRA
4 11 (11.22%) Maven
4 11 (11.22%) SonarQube
5 6 (6.12%) GitLab
6 4 (4.08%) ScriptRunner
7 3 (3.06%) Cucumber
7 3 (3.06%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (2.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (2.04%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.04%) JMeter
8 2 (2.04%) JUnit
8 2 (2.04%) LoadRunner
8 2 (2.04%) Postman
8 2 (2.04%) Zephyr
9 1 (1.02%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.02%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (1.02%) REST Assured
9 1 (1.02%) Selenium
General
1 21 (21.43%) Public Sector
2 19 (19.39%) Social Skills
3 12 (12.24%) Finance
4 9 (9.18%) Publishing
5 7 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (5.10%) Retail
7 4 (4.08%) Banking
7 4 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.06%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.04%) Back Office
10 1 (1.02%) Front Office
10 1 (1.02%) Local Government
10 1 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (25.51%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (20.41%) Developer
3 19 (19.39%) Senior
4 9 (9.18%) Architect
5 8 (8.16%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (7.14%) Senior Developer
7 6 (6.12%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (5.10%) AWS DevOps
8 5 (5.10%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 5 (5.10%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (5.10%) GCP Engineer
8 5 (5.10%) Python Engineer
8 5 (5.10%) Senior Architect
8 5 (5.10%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 5 (5.10%) Software Engineer
9 4 (4.08%) Analyst
9 4 (4.08%) Java Engineer
9 4 (4.08%) Murex Analyst
10 3 (3.06%) Murex Support
10 3 (3.06%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (29.59%) JSON
2 28 (28.57%) REST
3 20 (20.41%) SOAP
4 18 (18.37%) XML
5 11 (11.22%) YAML
6 10 (10.20%) SLSA
7 9 (9.18%) Kafka
8 7 (7.14%) Node.js
9 5 (5.10%) LDAP
9 5 (5.10%) RxJava
9 5 (5.10%) Vert.x
9 5 (5.10%) Web Services
10 4 (4.08%) OAuth
10 4 (4.08%) OAuth2
11 3 (3.06%) AngularJS
11 3 (3.06%) Apache NiFi
11 3 (3.06%) Keycloak
11 3 (3.06%) Oracle Fusion
11 3 (3.06%) SAML
11 3 (3.06%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.24%) Replication
2 5 (5.10%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.06%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.06%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.06%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.04%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.02%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.02%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.02%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.02%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.02%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.02%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.02%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 15 (15.31%) Linux
2 5 (5.10%) Amazon Linux
3 4 (4.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (4.08%) Windows
4 1 (1.02%) Unix
4 1 (1.02%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (55.10%) CI/CD
2 49 (50.00%) DevOps
3 36 (36.73%) Agile
4 25 (25.51%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (24.49%) Infrastructure as Code
6 22 (22.45%) API Management
7 21 (21.43%) Observability
7 21 (21.43%) Performance Tuning
8 19 (19.39%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (15.31%) Cloud Security
9 15 (15.31%) Platform Engineering
9 15 (15.31%) Test Automation
10 14 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
11 12 (12.24%) Release Automation
11 12 (12.24%) Static Application Security Testing
12 11 (11.22%) DevSecOps
12 11 (11.22%) High Availability
13 10 (10.20%) GitOps
13 10 (10.20%) ITIL
13 10 (10.20%) SBOM
Programming Languages
1 51 (52.04%) Python
2 39 (39.80%) Java
3 24 (24.49%) JavaScript
4 22 (22.45%) Bash
5 19 (19.39%) PowerShell
6 18 (18.37%) SQL
7 10 (10.20%) Shell Script
8 7 (7.14%) Perl
9 5 (5.10%) PL/SQL
10 4 (4.08%) Go
11 2 (2.04%) C#
12 1 (1.02%) Bicep
12 1 (1.02%) C
12 1 (1.02%) DataWeave
12 1 (1.02%) T-SQL
12 1 (1.02%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 39 (39.80%) Security Cleared
2 35 (35.71%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.12%) DV Cleared
4 5 (5.10%) AWS Certification
5 4 (4.08%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.04%) Degree
7 1 (1.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.02%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.08%) QA
2 2 (2.04%) NCSC
3 1 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.02%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 24 (24.49%) Docker
2 7 (7.14%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.06%) Squid
4 1 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 47 (47.96%) Terraform
2 37 (37.76%) Kubernetes
3 15 (15.31%) Grafana
4 14 (14.29%) Prometheus
5 9 (9.18%) Ansible
6 4 (4.08%) Istio
6 4 (4.08%) Kustomize
7 3 (3.06%) Packer
7 3 (3.06%) Rancher
8 2 (2.04%) Puppet
8 2 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.02%) Consul
9 1 (1.02%) HP Fortify
9 1 (1.02%) Podman
9 1 (1.02%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 26 (26.53%) Oracle
2 15 (15.31%) Dynatrace
2 15 (15.31%) Google
3 11 (11.22%) Salesforce
3 11 (11.22%) ServiceNow
4 10 (10.20%) Sonatype
5 4 (4.08%) Atlassian
5 4 (4.08%) Murex
6 3 (3.06%) Microsoft
6 3 (3.06%) PagerDuty
6 3 (3.06%) Splunk
6 3 (3.06%) Trend Micro
7 2 (2.04%) Baan
7 2 (2.04%) Dell
7 2 (2.04%) Infor
7 2 (2.04%) ION Trading
7 2 (2.04%) MuleSoft
7 2 (2.04%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.02%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.02%) New Relic