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 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 432 442 497
Rank change year-on-year +10 +55 -53
Contract jobs citing Groovy 103 79 89
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.25% 0.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.05% 0.78% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 40 62
10th Percentile £359 £400 £400
25th Percentile £413 £421 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% -10.87% -8.00%
75th Percentile £500 £697 £650
90th Percentile £549 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £475 £513 £575
% change year-on-year -7.32% -10.87% -5.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
UK median hourly rate - - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - -11.76%

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 9,837 10,125 11,954
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.99% 32.44% 31.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,541 6,551 8,684
10th Percentile £350 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.53% -1.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £672
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 310 275 405
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £32.32
25th Percentile £50.00 £44.75 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.84
Median % change year-on-year - +5.11% -1.06%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.00 £78.45
UK median hourly rate £63.50 £62.75 £60.14
% change year-on-year +1.20% +4.34% +0.23%

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 27 November 2025.

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 27 November 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 +11 58 £475 -16.48% 9
West Midlands -2 28 £475 -7.68%
Midlands -3 28 £475 -7.68% 1
North of England -25 23 £452 +12.88% 3
North West -15 13 £446 +11.50%
Yorkshire -36 7 £537 +30.06% 3
South East -12 3 £384 -39.76% 6
North East - 3 £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 24 (23.30%) Confluence
2 13 (12.62%) nginx
3 12 (11.65%) Apache
3 12 (11.65%) JBoss
3 12 (11.65%) WebSphere
4 11 (10.68%) IIS
5 10 (9.71%) iPlanet
5 10 (9.71%) WebSphere Application Server
6 6 (5.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (5.83%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (2.91%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (2.91%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.97%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.97%) CICS
Applications
1 12 (11.65%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 6 (5.83%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.94%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.97%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.97%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 50 (48.54%) AWS
2 28 (27.18%) Azure
3 27 (26.21%) Amazon S3
4 24 (23.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 24 (23.30%) Amazon EC2
5 23 (22.33%) Amazon ELB
5 23 (22.33%) AWS KMS
5 23 (22.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 18 (17.48%) GitHub
7 16 (15.53%) Amazon ECS
8 14 (13.59%) GCP
8 14 (13.59%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (12.62%) Microsoft 365
9 13 (12.62%) Route 53
10 12 (11.65%) OpenShift
11 11 (10.68%) Amazon Glacier
12 10 (9.71%) SaaS
13 6 (5.83%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (5.83%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (5.83%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 24 (23.30%) SSH
2 23 (22.33%) DNS
2 23 (22.33%) SMTP
3 21 (20.39%) Firewall
3 21 (20.39%) FTP
3 21 (20.39%) HTTP
4 12 (11.65%) IMAP
4 12 (11.65%) OpenLDAP
5 10 (9.71%) Kerberos
6 3 (2.91%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.94%) SSL
8 1 (0.97%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (27.18%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (26.21%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (15.53%) Amazon Aurora
4 15 (14.56%) Oracle Database
5 12 (11.65%) Oracle Reports
6 9 (8.74%) Redis
7 6 (5.83%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 3 (2.91%) Big Data
8 3 (2.91%) BigQuery
8 3 (2.91%) Delta Lake
8 3 (2.91%) Hadoop
8 3 (2.91%) NoSQL
8 3 (2.91%) Parquet
9 2 (1.94%) DB2
9 2 (1.94%) Power BI
9 2 (1.94%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.97%) DataStage
10 1 (0.97%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.97%) Essbase
10 1 (0.97%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 66 (64.08%) Jenkins
2 57 (55.34%) Git
3 34 (33.01%) JIRA
4 23 (22.33%) Vagrant
5 15 (14.56%) Sonatype Nexus
6 13 (12.62%) SonarQube
7 11 (10.68%) Bitbucket Server
7 11 (10.68%) CA Release Automation
8 10 (9.71%) Artifactory
9 9 (8.74%) Maven
10 6 (5.83%) REST Assured
10 6 (5.83%) Subversion
11 5 (4.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (4.85%) GitLab
11 5 (4.85%) JUnit
11 5 (4.85%) Mockito
11 5 (4.85%) Postman
11 5 (4.85%) SoapUI
11 5 (4.85%) Xcode
11 5 (4.85%) XCTest
General
1 32 (31.07%) Finance
2 30 (29.13%) Social Skills
3 24 (23.30%) Public Sector
4 11 (10.68%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (5.83%) Banking
6 5 (4.85%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.88%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.91%) Billing
9 1 (0.97%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.97%) German Language
9 1 (0.97%) Law
9 1 (0.97%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (35.92%) DevOps Engineer
2 24 (23.30%) Developer
3 23 (22.33%) AWS DevOps
4 22 (21.36%) AWS Engineer
5 21 (20.39%) Platform Engineer
6 20 (19.42%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 19 (18.45%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 13 (12.62%) Consultant
9 12 (11.65%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 10 (9.71%) DevOps Platform Engineer
11 7 (6.80%) Integration Developer
11 7 (6.80%) Oracle Consultant
11 7 (6.80%) Senior
12 6 (5.83%) Oracle Developer
12 6 (5.83%) SAP Consultant
13 4 (3.88%) Data Engineer
14 3 (2.91%) Automation Engineer
14 3 (2.91%) ERP Developer
14 3 (2.91%) Senior DevOps
14 3 (2.91%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (24.27%) LDAP
2 24 (23.30%) REST
3 20 (19.42%) SOAP
4 15 (14.56%) OAuth
4 15 (14.56%) OpenID
4 15 (14.56%) SAML
5 11 (10.68%) Oracle Fusion
6 10 (9.71%) AngularJS
6 10 (9.71%) Kafka
6 10 (9.71%) Spring
6 10 (9.71%) Web Services
7 9 (8.74%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (7.77%) CSS
8 8 (7.77%) HTML
8 8 (7.77%) J2EE
9 7 (6.80%) Bootstrap
9 7 (6.80%) Spring Boot
9 7 (6.80%) XML
10 6 (5.83%) CSS3
10 6 (5.83%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 27 (26.21%) Replication
2 5 (4.85%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.91%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.91%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.94%) Life Science
5 1 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.97%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.97%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.97%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.97%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.97%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.97%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.97%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.97%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 45 (43.69%) Linux
2 32 (31.07%) Windows
3 23 (22.33%) Amazon Linux
3 23 (22.33%) VMS
4 13 (12.62%) Unix
5 10 (9.71%) Ubuntu
6 9 (8.74%) Windows Server
7 2 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (60.19%) DevOps
2 50 (48.54%) CI/CD
3 31 (30.10%) Agile
4 28 (27.18%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (26.21%) Change Management
5 27 (26.21%) Configuration Management
6 25 (24.27%) Platform Engineering
7 23 (22.33%) Cloud Security
8 21 (20.39%) Patch Management
9 14 (13.59%) Containerisation
9 14 (13.59%) Performance Tuning
10 13 (12.62%) Validation
11 12 (11.65%) Infrastructure as Code
12 11 (10.68%) Deployment Automation
12 11 (10.68%) Identity Access Management
12 11 (10.68%) Integration Patterns
13 10 (9.71%) Migration
13 10 (9.71%) Test Automation
14 9 (8.74%) SDLC
14 9 (8.74%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 48 (46.60%) Python
2 38 (36.89%) Java
3 32 (31.07%) PowerShell
4 29 (28.16%) SQL
5 27 (26.21%) JavaScript
6 19 (18.45%) Bash
7 13 (12.62%) Shell Script
8 11 (10.68%) C#
8 11 (10.68%) Perl
9 8 (7.77%) ABAP
10 6 (5.83%) Go
10 6 (5.83%) PL/SQL
10 6 (5.83%) T-SQL
11 5 (4.85%) C++
12 3 (2.91%) TypeScript
13 2 (1.94%) Kotlin
13 2 (1.94%) Scala
14 1 (0.97%) COBOL
14 1 (0.97%) JCL
Qualifications
1 30 (29.13%) Security Cleared
2 28 (27.18%) SC Cleared
3 17 (16.50%) AWS Certification
4 12 (11.65%) Degree
5 10 (9.71%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.97%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.97%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.97%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.94%) GDPR
2 1 (0.97%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.97%) GAAP
2 1 (0.97%) IFRS
System Software
1 59 (57.28%) Docker
2 23 (22.33%) Active Directory
3 21 (20.39%) DFS Replication
4 12 (11.65%) Dovecot
4 12 (11.65%) Postfix
4 12 (11.65%) Squid
5 8 (7.77%) Tivoli Directory Server
6 2 (1.94%) OpenAM
6 2 (1.94%) OpenDJ
6 2 (1.94%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 42 (40.78%) Terraform
2 30 (29.13%) Prometheus
3 29 (28.16%) Grafana
4 27 (26.21%) Kubernetes
5 14 (13.59%) Ansible
6 12 (11.65%) Nessus
7 11 (10.68%) CA Single Sign-On
8 10 (9.71%) CA Wily
8 10 (9.71%) Progress Chef
8 10 (9.71%) Proxmox
9 8 (7.77%) Puppet
9 8 (7.77%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (7.77%) Tivoli
10 6 (5.83%) Istio
11 5 (4.85%) Argo
12 4 (3.88%) Rancher
13 2 (1.94%) Podman
14 1 (0.97%) HP Fortify
14 1 (0.97%) Opsgenie
14 1 (0.97%) Packer
Vendors
1 30 (29.13%) Oracle
2 27 (26.21%) ServiceNow
3 17 (16.50%) Splunk
4 14 (13.59%) Microsoft
5 12 (11.65%) Jaspersoft
6 11 (10.68%) AppDynamics
6 11 (10.68%) Broadcom
7 10 (9.71%) Dynatrace
7 10 (9.71%) IBM
8 9 (8.74%) SAP
9 5 (4.85%) CA Agile Central
10 4 (3.88%) Red Hat
11 3 (2.91%) Cloudera
11 3 (2.91%) ForgeRock
11 3 (2.91%) Google
12 2 (1.94%) Ariba
13 1 (0.97%) Adobe
13 1 (0.97%) Atlassian
13 1 (0.97%) Informatica
13 1 (0.97%) Salesforce