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

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 480 434 508
Rank change year-on-year -46 +74 -43
Contract jobs citing Groovy 80 54 50
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.24% 0.21% 0.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.80% 0.62% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 30 39
10th Percentile £373 £313 £400
25th Percentile £427 £500 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £545 £538
Median % change year-on-year -12.88% +1.44% -17.31%
75th Percentile £501 £670 £647
90th Percentile £563 £775 £678
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% -12.00%

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 10,011 8,756 11,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.06% 33.43% 29.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,664 5,611 8,137
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £528 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.32% -4.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £660
90th Percentile £725 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £536
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.05% -4.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 425 203 483
10th Percentile £41.25 £25.26 £36.26
25th Percentile £52.50 £42.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £69.81
90th Percentile £76.25 £85.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 7 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 7 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 -8 47 £500 -16.67% 6
North of England -44 24 £453 -16.88% 12
West Midlands -32 13 £475 - 3
Midlands -38 13 £475 - 4
Yorkshire -44 13 £463 -15.14% 6
North West -23 9 £453 - 6
South East -25 2 - - 2
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 8 (10.00%) Confluence
2 7 (8.75%) Apache
2 7 (8.75%) IIS
2 7 (8.75%) iPlanet
2 7 (8.75%) JBoss
2 7 (8.75%) WebSphere
2 7 (8.75%) WebSphere Application Server
3 6 (7.50%) nginx
3 6 (7.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (7.50%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (1.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.25%) Anypoint
4 1 (1.25%) Mule
4 1 (1.25%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 6 (7.50%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 6 (7.50%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (5.00%) SAP HCM
3 1 (1.25%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (1.25%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 31 (38.75%) AWS
2 19 (23.75%) Azure
3 13 (16.25%) GCP
4 10 (12.50%) GitHub
4 10 (12.50%) OpenShift
5 9 (11.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (11.25%) Amazon S3
5 9 (11.25%) SaaS
6 8 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (10.00%) Amazon ELB
6 8 (10.00%) AWS KMS
6 8 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 7 (8.75%) OCI
7 7 (8.75%) Route 53
8 6 (7.50%) AtomSphere
8 6 (7.50%) Boomi
8 6 (7.50%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (7.50%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.00%) DNS
1 8 (10.00%) Firewall
1 8 (10.00%) FTP
1 8 (10.00%) HTTP
1 8 (10.00%) SMTP
1 8 (10.00%) SSH
2 7 (8.75%) Kerberos
3 6 (7.50%) IMAP
3 6 (7.50%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (17.50%) Oracle Reports
3 13 (16.25%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
5 9 (11.25%) Oracle Database
6 6 (7.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 6 (7.50%) Redis
7 5 (6.25%) Metadata
8 4 (5.00%) BigQuery
9 2 (2.50%) DataStage
9 2 (2.50%) DB2
9 2 (2.50%) Power BI
9 2 (2.50%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.25%) DynamoDB
10 1 (1.25%) Essbase
10 1 (1.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 41 (51.25%) Jenkins
2 27 (33.75%) Git
3 14 (17.50%) JIRA
4 9 (11.25%) Maven
5 8 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
5 8 (10.00%) Vagrant
6 7 (8.75%) Bitbucket Server
6 7 (8.75%) CA Release Automation
6 7 (8.75%) GitLab
6 7 (8.75%) SonarQube
7 3 (3.75%) Artifactory
7 3 (3.75%) REST Assured
8 2 (2.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (2.50%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.50%) Cucumber
8 2 (2.50%) Gradle
8 2 (2.50%) Mockito
8 2 (2.50%) Selenium
8 2 (2.50%) SoapUI
8 2 (2.50%) Xcode
General
1 28 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 26 (32.50%) Finance
3 10 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 8 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (8.75%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (5.00%) Banking
7 3 (3.75%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.75%) Billing
8 1 (1.25%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.25%) Law
8 1 (1.25%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 23 (28.75%) DevOps Engineer
2 22 (27.50%) Developer
3 17 (21.25%) Consultant
4 11 (13.75%) AWS DevOps
5 10 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
5 10 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
6 9 (11.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 9 (11.25%) Oracle Consultant
7 8 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 8 (10.00%) SAP Consultant
8 7 (8.75%) Integration Developer
9 6 (7.50%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 6 (7.50%) Oracle Developer
9 6 (7.50%) SAP HCM Consultant
9 6 (7.50%) Senior
10 4 (5.00%) Automation Engineer
10 4 (5.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 4 (5.00%) Payroll Consultant
10 4 (5.00%) SAP Payroll Consultant
11 3 (3.75%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (27.50%) REST
2 17 (21.25%) SOAP
3 16 (20.00%) LDAP
4 13 (16.25%) Oracle Fusion
5 12 (15.00%) OAuth
5 12 (15.00%) SAML
6 11 (13.75%) OpenID
7 10 (12.50%) JSON
8 8 (10.00%) SAP PI
9 7 (8.75%) AngularJS
9 7 (8.75%) XML
10 6 (7.50%) CSS
10 6 (7.50%) HTML
10 6 (7.50%) Kafka
10 6 (7.50%) Spring
10 6 (7.50%) Web Services
11 5 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
12 4 (5.00%) Bootstrap
12 4 (5.00%) J2EE
12 4 (5.00%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.00%) Replication
2 3 (3.75%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.50%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.50%) Life Science
3 2 (2.50%) Reference Data
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 20 (25.00%) Linux
2 15 (18.75%) Windows
3 8 (10.00%) Amazon Linux
3 8 (10.00%) Unix
3 8 (10.00%) VMS
4 6 (7.50%) Ubuntu
5 5 (6.25%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (53.75%) DevOps
2 39 (48.75%) CI/CD
3 25 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (27.50%) Agile
5 17 (21.25%) Validation
6 14 (17.50%) Change Management
7 13 (16.25%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (13.75%) Test Automation
9 10 (12.50%) Observability
9 10 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
9 10 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
9 10 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
10 9 (11.25%) Cloud Security
10 9 (11.25%) Configuration Management
10 9 (11.25%) Containerisation
10 9 (11.25%) Data Integration
10 9 (11.25%) Deployment Automation
10 9 (11.25%) Identity Access Management
10 9 (11.25%) Mentoring
10 9 (11.25%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 29 (36.25%) Python
2 27 (33.75%) Java
3 23 (28.75%) JavaScript
4 20 (25.00%) SQL
5 14 (17.50%) Bash
5 14 (17.50%) PowerShell
6 8 (10.00%) ABAP
6 8 (10.00%) Shell Script
7 7 (8.75%) PL/SQL
7 7 (8.75%) T-SQL
8 6 (7.50%) C#
9 3 (3.75%) TypeScript
10 2 (2.50%) Go
10 2 (2.50%) Perl
11 1 (1.25%) DataWeave
11 1 (1.25%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 15 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 12 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 9 (11.25%) AWS Certification
3 9 (11.25%) Degree
4 6 (7.50%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.25%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.25%) GAAP
1 1 (1.25%) IFRS
1 1 (1.25%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (40.00%) Docker
2 11 (13.75%) Active Directory
3 8 (10.00%) DFS Replication
4 6 (7.50%) Dovecot
4 6 (7.50%) Postfix
4 6 (7.50%) Squid
4 6 (7.50%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 2 (2.50%) OpenAM
5 2 (2.50%) OpenDJ
5 2 (2.50%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 28 (35.00%) Terraform
2 18 (22.50%) Kubernetes
3 17 (21.25%) Prometheus
4 16 (20.00%) 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%) Nessus
7 6 (7.50%) Proxmox
7 6 (7.50%) Tivoli
8 4 (5.00%) Istio
8 4 (5.00%) Rancher
9 2 (2.50%) Argo
9 2 (2.50%) Puppet
10 1 (1.25%) HP Fortify
10 1 (1.25%) Podman
Vendors
1 27 (33.75%) Oracle
2 13 (16.25%) ServiceNow
3 11 (13.75%) Splunk
4 9 (11.25%) Microsoft
5 8 (10.00%) AppDynamics
5 8 (10.00%) SAP
6 7 (8.75%) Broadcom
6 7 (8.75%) Dynatrace
6 7 (8.75%) IBM
7 6 (7.50%) Jaspersoft
8 3 (3.75%) ForgeRock
8 3 (3.75%) Google
8 3 (3.75%) Sonatype
9 2 (2.50%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (2.50%) Informatica
10 1 (1.25%) Adobe
10 1 (1.25%) Ariba
10 1 (1.25%) MuleSoft
10 1 (1.25%) Red Hat
10 1 (1.25%) Workday