Groovy Contracts in England

Apache Groovy
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Groovy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Groovy over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 412 485 419
Rank change year-on-year +73 -66 +42
Contract jobs citing Groovy 73 57 246
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.30% 0.15% 0.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.89% 0.52% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 38 182
10th Percentile £371 £404 £482
25th Percentile £484 £428 £572
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £538 £650
Median % change year-on-year +11.63% -17.31% +11.02%
75th Percentile £688 £624 £700
90th Percentile £775 £675 £775
UK median daily rate £553 £538 £630
% change year-on-year +2.84% -14.68% +7.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £85.00
UK median hourly rate - - £85.00
% change year-on-year - - +6.25%

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 8,221 10,920 17,806
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.76% 29.36% 35.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,687 7,931 13,003
10th Percentile £363 £350 £388
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £565
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
75th Percentile £650 £652 £688
90th Percentile £788 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 441 430
10th Percentile £25.25 £35.52 £26.24
25th Percentile £37.65 £48.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
Median % change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

Groovy
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Groovy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Groovy in England

Groovy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Groovy in England.

Daily rate trend for Groovy in England

Groovy
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Groovy in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Groovy in England

Groovy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Groovy in England.

Hourly rate trend for Groovy in England

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 1 May 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 +58 50 £625 +13.64% 33
North of England +19 12 £600 -4.00% 22
Yorkshire +11 11 £600 -4.00% 13
Midlands +26 6 - - 22
West Midlands +18 6 - - 15
North East - 4 £650 - 2
North West +16 3 - - 8
East of England +25 2 £325 -20.73% 12
Groovy
UK

Groovy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 24 (32.88%) Confluence
2 7 (9.59%) Apache
2 7 (9.59%) nginx
3 4 (5.48%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.37%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.37%) JBoss
4 1 (1.37%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (4.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 25 (34.25%) AWS
2 14 (19.18%) IaaS
3 9 (12.33%) Azure
3 9 (12.33%) GitHub
4 8 (10.96%) GCP
5 4 (5.48%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (4.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (4.11%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.74%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.74%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.74%) CloudBees
7 2 (2.74%) OpenShift
7 2 (2.74%) Serverless
8 1 (1.37%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.37%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.37%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.37%) Datadog
8 1 (1.37%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (17.81%) HTTP
2 6 (8.22%) HTTPS
3 2 (2.74%) DNS
4 1 (1.37%) Firewall
4 1 (1.37%) VPN
4 1 (1.37%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.11%) BigQuery
1 3 (4.11%) Oracle Database
1 3 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (4.11%) Power BI
2 2 (2.74%) Data Lake
2 2 (2.74%) Hazelcast
2 2 (2.74%) MongoDB
2 2 (2.74%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.74%) Redis
2 2 (2.74%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.37%) Big Data
3 1 (1.37%) MySQL
3 1 (1.37%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.37%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 31 (42.47%) Jenkins
2 28 (38.36%) JIRA
3 23 (31.51%) ScriptRunner
4 12 (16.44%) Git
5 5 (6.85%) Maven
6 4 (5.48%) JMeter
7 3 (4.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (4.11%) Jaeger
7 3 (4.11%) JUnit
7 3 (4.11%) Postman
7 3 (4.11%) REST Assured
7 3 (4.11%) SoapUI
8 2 (2.74%) Artifactory
8 2 (2.74%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.74%) GitLab
8 2 (2.74%) LoadRunner
8 2 (2.74%) Mockito
8 2 (2.74%) SonarQube
8 2 (2.74%) Subversion
8 2 (2.74%) XCTest
General
1 19 (26.03%) Finance
2 14 (19.18%) Social Skills
3 9 (12.33%) Banking
3 9 (12.33%) Public Sector
4 5 (6.85%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.48%) Electronics
5 4 (5.48%) Manufacturing
5 4 (5.48%) Marketing
5 4 (5.48%) Telecoms
6 3 (4.11%) Military
6 3 (4.11%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.74%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.37%) Front Office
8 1 (1.37%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (23.29%) Developer
2 13 (17.81%) Senior
3 10 (13.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (13.70%) JIRA Engineer
4 9 (12.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (10.96%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (8.22%) Lead
7 5 (6.85%) Automation Engineer
7 5 (6.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 5 (6.85%) Unix Engineer
8 4 (5.48%) JIRA Specialist
8 4 (5.48%) Site Engineer
9 3 (4.11%) Architect
9 3 (4.11%) Consultant
9 3 (4.11%) Developer in Test
9 3 (4.11%) Integration Developer
9 3 (4.11%) JIRA Developer
9 3 (4.11%) Python Developer
9 3 (4.11%) SAP Developer
10 2 (2.74%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (24.66%) REST
2 15 (20.55%) SOAP
3 8 (10.96%) Kafka
4 7 (9.59%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (9.59%) OAuth
5 6 (8.22%) JWT
5 6 (8.22%) SAML
6 5 (6.85%) EDI
6 5 (6.85%) IDoc
6 5 (6.85%) J2EE
6 5 (6.85%) LDAP
6 5 (6.85%) Spring
6 5 (6.85%) XSLT
7 4 (5.48%) Web Services
7 4 (5.48%) XML
8 3 (4.11%) JDBC
8 3 (4.11%) JSON
8 3 (4.11%) Spring Boot
9 2 (2.74%) AngularJS
9 2 (2.74%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.59%) Cloud Native
1 7 (9.59%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (4.11%) Virtual Team
3 2 (2.74%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.37%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.37%) Equities
4 1 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.37%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.37%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.37%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.37%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 16 (21.92%) Linux
2 11 (15.07%) Unix
3 4 (5.48%) Windows
4 3 (4.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.74%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (46.58%) Agile
2 25 (34.25%) CI/CD
3 22 (30.14%) Migration
4 20 (27.40%) DevOps
5 16 (21.92%) Performance Tuning
6 15 (20.55%) Incident Management
7 13 (17.81%) Test Automation
7 13 (17.81%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 12 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (15.07%) High Availability
10 10 (13.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 10 (13.70%) SDLC
11 8 (10.96%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 7 (9.59%) Business Intelligence
13 6 (8.22%) Continuous Improvement
13 6 (8.22%) Infrastructure Automation
13 6 (8.22%) Microservices
13 6 (8.22%) Project Management
13 6 (8.22%) Software Testing
13 6 (8.22%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 30 (41.10%) Python
2 25 (34.25%) Java
3 16 (21.92%) JavaScript
4 12 (16.44%) Shell Script
5 9 (12.33%) SQL
6 8 (10.96%) Bash
7 6 (8.22%) ABAP
8 4 (5.48%) C++
9 3 (4.11%) Kotlin
10 2 (2.74%) COBOL
10 2 (2.74%) Go
10 2 (2.74%) Perl
11 1 (1.37%) C#
11 1 (1.37%) JCL
11 1 (1.37%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.37%) Ruby
11 1 (1.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (23.29%) Security Cleared
2 15 (20.55%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.48%) Degree
4 3 (4.11%) SAP Certification
5 2 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.37%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.37%) CEH
6 1 (1.37%) CISSP
6 1 (1.37%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.48%) QA
2 1 (1.37%) GDPR
2 1 (1.37%) IFRS
2 1 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (13.70%) Docker
2 6 (8.22%) OpenAM
2 6 (8.22%) OpenDJ
2 6 (8.22%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 17 (23.29%) Kubernetes
2 13 (17.81%) Terraform
3 12 (16.44%) Ansible
4 6 (8.22%) Grafana
5 4 (5.48%) Istio
5 4 (5.48%) Prometheus
6 3 (4.11%) Control-M
7 2 (2.74%) Kiali
8 1 (1.37%) Opsgenie
8 1 (1.37%) Podman
8 1 (1.37%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.37%) Puppet
8 1 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (31.51%) Atlassian
2 11 (15.07%) SAP
3 10 (13.70%) Splunk
4 8 (10.96%) Oracle
5 7 (9.59%) AppDynamics
5 7 (9.59%) Dynatrace
6 6 (8.22%) ForgeRock
7 5 (6.85%) Google
7 5 (6.85%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.74%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (2.74%) HP
8 2 (2.74%) Microsoft
8 2 (2.74%) StreamSets
8 2 (2.74%) xMatters
9 1 (1.37%) Bloomberg
9 1 (1.37%) CyberArk
9 1 (1.37%) Databricks
9 1 (1.37%) IBM
9 1 (1.37%) Ping Identity
9 1 (1.37%) Red Hat