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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 513 414 449
Rank change year-on-year -99 +35 -21
Contract jobs citing Groovy 98 90 85
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.22% 0.33% 0.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.82% 0.99% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 59 46
10th Percentile £363 £360 £400
25th Percentile £413 £450 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £503
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -0.50% -19.60%
75th Percentile £541 £638 £716
90th Percentile £650 £725 £775
UK median daily rate £450 £493 £521
% change year-on-year -8.69% -5.41% -16.64%

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 11,903 9,056 10,614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.37% 32.80% 31.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,713 6,248 7,619
10th Percentile £363 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £651
90th Percentile £738 £763 £800
UK median daily rate £513 £502 £525
% change year-on-year +2.14% -4.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 495 228 360
10th Percentile £33.70 £29.07 £30.00
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 £79.80 £83.42 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +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 4 August 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 4 August 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% 20
North of England -49 25 £425 -27.97% 9
Yorkshire -36 18 £413 -31.14% 7
North East -39 6 £425 -34.62%
South East -61 6 £500 +30.21% 11
South West -39 5 £452 -24.75% 5
Midlands -68 3 £468 -1.53% 2
West Midlands -73 3 £468 -1.53% 1
East of England - 3 £425 - 2
North West -55 1 £350 +5.26% 2
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 45 (45.92%) AWS
2 28 (28.57%) Azure
3 25 (25.51%) GCP
4 15 (15.31%) Boomi
5 14 (14.29%) AtomSphere
6 13 (13.27%) Amazon S3
6 13 (13.27%) GitHub
7 12 (12.24%) OCI
8 9 (9.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (9.18%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (9.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 8 (8.16%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (8.16%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (8.16%) Serverless
10 7 (7.14%) AWS KMS
11 5 (5.10%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (5.10%) Apigee
11 5 (5.10%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (5.10%) Datadog
12 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%) Oracle Reports
5 5 (5.10%) SQL Server
6 3 (3.06%) Data Mart
6 3 (3.06%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 3 (3.06%) Redis
6 3 (3.06%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.04%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.02%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.02%) OLAP
8 1 (1.02%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 47 (47.96%) Jenkins
2 21 (21.43%) Git
3 16 (16.33%) 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%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (1.02%) REST Assured
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 24 (24.49%) 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 5 (5.10%) AWS DevOps
7 5 (5.10%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 5 (5.10%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (5.10%) Python Engineer
7 5 (5.10%) Senior Architect
7 5 (5.10%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 5 (5.10%) Software Engineer
8 4 (4.08%) Analyst
8 4 (4.08%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (4.08%) Consultant
8 4 (4.08%) GCP Engineer
8 4 (4.08%) Java Engineer
8 4 (4.08%) Murex Analyst
9 3 (3.06%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (29.59%) JSON
2 27 (27.55%) 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%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (3.06%) Keycloak
11 3 (3.06%) Oracle Fusion
11 3 (3.06%) SAML
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%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.02%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.02%) Security Posture
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 53 (54.08%) CI/CD
2 48 (48.98%) DevOps
3 37 (37.76%) Agile
4 25 (25.51%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (23.47%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (21.43%) API Management
6 21 (21.43%) Observability
7 20 (20.41%) Performance Tuning
8 18 (18.37%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (16.33%) Test Automation
10 15 (15.31%) Cloud Security
11 14 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
11 14 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
12 12 (12.24%) Release Automation
12 12 (12.24%) Static Application Security Testing
13 10 (10.20%) DevSecOps
13 10 (10.20%) High Availability
13 10 (10.20%) ITIL
13 10 (10.20%) SBOM
14 9 (9.18%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 50 (51.02%) 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 40 (40.82%) Security Cleared
2 35 (35.71%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.14%) 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 46 (46.94%) 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%) Kustomize
7 3 (3.06%) Istio
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 27 (27.55%) Oracle
2 15 (15.31%) Dynatrace
3 14 (14.29%) Google
4 12 (12.24%) ServiceNow
5 11 (11.22%) Salesforce
6 10 (10.20%) Sonatype
7 4 (4.08%) Atlassian
7 4 (4.08%) Murex
8 3 (3.06%) Microsoft
8 3 (3.06%) PagerDuty
8 3 (3.06%) Splunk
8 3 (3.06%) Trend Micro
9 2 (2.04%) Baan
9 2 (2.04%) Dell
9 2 (2.04%) Infor
9 2 (2.04%) ION Trading
9 2 (2.04%) MuleSoft
9 2 (2.04%) Red Hat
10 1 (1.02%) CheckPoint
10 1 (1.02%) IBM