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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 542 388 461
Rank change year-on-year -154 +73 -7
Contract jobs citing Groovy 100 114 72
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.22% 0.41% 0.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.84% 1.26% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 77 37
10th Percentile £366 £359 £400
25th Percentile £425 £427 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.32% -18.00%
75th Percentile £538 £615 £688
90th Percentile £640 £665 £760
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £513
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.32% -18.00%

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 11,959 9,070 10,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 25.94% 32.67% 32.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,738 6,143 7,288
10th Percentile £363 £345 £353
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £520 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 501 260 304
10th Percentile £28.50 £31.25 £30.73
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.25 £50.94
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.12% -14.62% +0.78%
75th Percentile £70.50 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £80.00 £79.75
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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -99 57 £500 - 35
North of England -77 23 £425 -8.11% 8
Yorkshire -38 18 £425 -28.93% 1
South East -63 6 £500 +30.21% 12
North East -39 5 £425 -34.62%
South West -42 5 £452 -24.75% 9
East of England - 5 £481 - 2
Midlands -70 3 £511 +7.47% 6
West Midlands -78 3 £511 +7.47% 6
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 17 (17.00%) Confluence
2 4 (4.00%) Apache
2 4 (4.00%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 12 (12.00%) NetSuite
1 12 (12.00%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (3.00%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (2.00%) Infor LN
4 1 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 51 (51.00%) AWS
2 29 (29.00%) Azure
3 22 (22.00%) GCP
4 18 (18.00%) Amazon S3
5 16 (16.00%) Boomi
6 15 (15.00%) AtomSphere
7 14 (14.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 14 (14.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 13 (13.00%) Amazon EC2
9 12 (12.00%) OCI
10 11 (11.00%) AWS KMS
11 10 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (10.00%) GitHub
11 10 (10.00%) Serverless
12 8 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (7.00%) Datadog
14 6 (6.00%) Amazon SQS
15 5 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
16 4 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
16 4 (4.00%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 13 (13.00%) Firewall
2 9 (9.00%) SSL
3 7 (7.00%) DNS
4 6 (6.00%) HTTP
4 6 (6.00%) OpenLDAP
5 3 (3.00%) Internet
6 2 (2.00%) FTP
6 2 (2.00%) HTTPS
6 2 (2.00%) IMAP
6 2 (2.00%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (2.00%) SMTP
6 2 (2.00%) SSH
6 2 (2.00%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.00%) VPN
6 2 (2.00%) WAN
7 1 (1.00%) Kerberos
7 1 (1.00%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (21.00%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (16.00%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (13.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 13 (13.00%) Metadata
4 5 (5.00%) Couchbase
4 5 (5.00%) NoSQL
4 5 (5.00%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (4.00%) Redis
6 3 (3.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 3 (3.00%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.00%) InfluxDB
7 2 (2.00%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.00%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.00%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.00%) MySQL
8 1 (1.00%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 58 (58.00%) Jenkins
2 28 (28.00%) Git
3 21 (21.00%) JIRA
4 13 (13.00%) Maven
4 13 (13.00%) SonarQube
5 10 (10.00%) GitLab
6 6 (6.00%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (4.00%) ScriptRunner
8 2 (2.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (2.00%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.00%) Cucumber
8 2 (2.00%) Gerrit
8 2 (2.00%) Vagrant
8 2 (2.00%) Zephyr
9 1 (1.00%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.00%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.00%) JMeter
9 1 (1.00%) JUnit
9 1 (1.00%) NeoLoad
9 1 (1.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 25 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 22 (22.00%) Social Skills
3 11 (11.00%) Finance
4 9 (9.00%) Publishing
5 7 (7.00%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (5.00%) Retail
8 3 (3.00%) Banking
8 3 (3.00%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.00%) Back Office
9 1 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.00%) Local Government
9 1 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (38.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (19.00%) Developer
2 19 (19.00%) Senior
3 12 (12.00%) AWS Engineer
4 11 (11.00%) Architect
5 9 (9.00%) AWS DevOps
5 9 (9.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 6 (6.00%) Python Engineer
6 6 (6.00%) Senior Developer
7 5 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (5.00%) Security Architect
7 5 (5.00%) Senior Architect
8 4 (4.00%) Consultant
8 4 (4.00%) DBA
8 4 (4.00%) Java Engineer
8 4 (4.00%) Senior DevOps
8 4 (4.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.00%) Software Engineer
9 3 (3.00%) JIRA Administrator
9 3 (3.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (52.00%) Terraform
2 29 (29.00%) JSON
3 25 (25.00%) REST
4 20 (20.00%) SOAP
5 19 (19.00%) XML
6 10 (10.00%) Kafka
6 10 (10.00%) SLSA
6 10 (10.00%) YAML
7 9 (9.00%) Node.js
8 7 (7.00%) Web Services
9 5 (5.00%) LDAP
9 5 (5.00%) RxJava
9 5 (5.00%) Vert.x
10 4 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (4.00%) Keycloak
10 4 (4.00%) SAML
11 3 (3.00%) Apache NiFi
11 3 (3.00%) OAuth
11 3 (3.00%) OAuth2
11 3 (3.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 18 (18.00%) Replication
2 6 (6.00%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (5.00%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (4.00%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.00%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (3.00%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.00%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.00%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.00%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.00%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.00%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.00%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 25 (25.00%) Linux
2 9 (9.00%) Amazon Linux
2 9 (9.00%) Windows
3 6 (6.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (4.00%) Ubuntu
4 4 (4.00%) Unix
5 3 (3.00%) VMS
6 2 (2.00%) Rocky
6 2 (2.00%) Windows Server
7 1 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (63.00%) CI/CD
2 57 (57.00%) DevOps
3 42 (42.00%) Agile
4 29 (29.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 25 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (24.00%) Observability
6 24 (24.00%) Performance Tuning
7 19 (19.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (18.00%) API Management
9 16 (16.00%) Cloud Security
9 16 (16.00%) Test Automation
10 15 (15.00%) Platform Engineering
10 15 (15.00%) Root Cause Analysis
11 13 (13.00%) Release Automation
12 12 (12.00%) Change Management
12 12 (12.00%) Containerisation
12 12 (12.00%) DevSecOps
12 12 (12.00%) High Availability
12 12 (12.00%) Static Application Security Testing
13 10 (10.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 53 (53.00%) Python
2 36 (36.00%) Java
3 23 (23.00%) Bash
3 23 (23.00%) JavaScript
4 20 (20.00%) PowerShell
5 17 (17.00%) SQL
6 11 (11.00%) Shell Script
7 9 (9.00%) Perl
8 4 (4.00%) Go
8 4 (4.00%) PL/SQL
9 3 (3.00%) C#
10 1 (1.00%) Bicep
10 1 (1.00%) C
10 1 (1.00%) MATLAB
10 1 (1.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 49 (49.00%) Security Cleared
2 44 (44.00%) SC Cleared
3 9 (9.00%) AWS Certification
4 8 (8.00%) Azure Certification
5 7 (7.00%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.00%) Degree
7 1 (1.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.00%) QA
2 2 (2.00%) NCSC
3 1 (1.00%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 37 (37.00%) Docker
2 7 (7.00%) Active Directory
3 5 (5.00%) Squid
4 4 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.00%) DFS Replication
5 2 (2.00%) Dovecot
5 2 (2.00%) Postfix
6 1 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 43 (43.00%) Kubernetes
2 24 (24.00%) Grafana
3 22 (22.00%) Prometheus
4 10 (10.00%) Ansible
5 6 (6.00%) Packer
6 4 (4.00%) Kustomize
6 4 (4.00%) Puppet
6 4 (4.00%) Rancher
7 2 (2.00%) Argo
7 2 (2.00%) Consul
7 2 (2.00%) Kibana
7 2 (2.00%) Nessus
7 2 (2.00%) Proxmox
7 2 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (2.00%) ZABBIX
8 1 (1.00%) HAProxy
8 1 (1.00%) HP Fortify
8 1 (1.00%) Podman
8 1 (1.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 22 (22.00%) Oracle
2 17 (17.00%) ServiceNow
3 15 (15.00%) Dynatrace
4 12 (12.00%) Google
4 12 (12.00%) Salesforce
5 10 (10.00%) Sonatype
6 4 (4.00%) Atlassian
6 4 (4.00%) Splunk
7 3 (3.00%) Microsoft
7 3 (3.00%) PagerDuty
7 3 (3.00%) Trend Micro
8 2 (2.00%) AppDynamics
8 2 (2.00%) Baan
8 2 (2.00%) Checkmarx
8 2 (2.00%) Infor
8 2 (2.00%) ION Trading
8 2 (2.00%) Jaspersoft
8 2 (2.00%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.00%) Coverity
9 1 (1.00%) Perforce