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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 398 456 443
Rank change year-on-year +58 -13 +23
Contract jobs citing Groovy 114 72 147
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.41% 0.22% 0.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.25% 0.67% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 37 110
10th Percentile £359 £400 £513
25th Percentile £427 £438 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £625
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% -18.00% +2.25%
75th Percentile £615 £688 £700
90th Percentile £665 £760 £775
UK median daily rate £475 £513 £625
% change year-on-year -7.32% -18.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
UK median hourly rate - - £75.00

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 9,106 10,710 13,562
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.77% 32.52% 32.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,161 7,340 9,801
10th Percentile £350 £351 £374
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £548 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.39% -0.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.29% -4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 307 411
10th Percentile £31.25 £30.95 £35.00
25th Percentile £42.81 £50.69 £48.32
Median hourly rate £56.25 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £71.70
90th Percentile £80.00 £79.50 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £63.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +3.17% +12.50%

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
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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +47 67 £500 -2.44% 12
West Midlands +16 30 £475 -5.94% 2
Midlands +6 30 £475 -5.94% 4
North of England 0 24 £463 +15.63% 4
North West -8 14 £446 +11.50% 2
Yorkshire -7 11 £598 +44.97% 2
North East - 5 £650 -
South East +11 1 £384 -40.92% 2
South West - 1 £600 - 3
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 44 (38.60%) Confluence
2 13 (11.40%) Apache
2 13 (11.40%) JBoss
2 13 (11.40%) nginx
3 12 (10.53%) WebSphere
4 11 (9.65%) IIS
5 10 (8.77%) iPlanet
5 10 (8.77%) WebSphere Application Server
6 6 (5.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (5.26%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (2.63%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.88%) CICS
Applications
1 12 (10.53%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 6 (5.26%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.75%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.88%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 68 (59.65%) AWS
2 32 (28.07%) Azure
3 28 (24.56%) Amazon S3
4 26 (22.81%) Amazon EC2
5 25 (21.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 25 (21.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 24 (21.05%) Amazon ELB
6 24 (21.05%) AWS KMS
7 22 (19.30%) GCP
7 22 (19.30%) GitHub
8 16 (14.04%) Amazon ECS
9 15 (13.16%) GitHub Actions
10 14 (12.28%) IaaS
11 13 (11.40%) Microsoft 365
11 13 (11.40%) Route 53
12 12 (10.53%) Amazon Glacier
12 12 (10.53%) OpenShift
13 11 (9.65%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (6.14%) SaaS
15 6 (5.26%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 25 (21.93%) DNS
1 25 (21.93%) SSH
2 24 (21.05%) HTTP
2 24 (21.05%) SMTP
3 23 (20.18%) Firewall
4 22 (19.30%) FTP
5 12 (10.53%) IMAP
5 12 (10.53%) OpenLDAP
6 10 (8.77%) Kerberos
7 3 (2.63%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.75%) HTTPS
8 2 (1.75%) SSL
9 1 (0.88%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (22.81%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (21.05%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (14.04%) Oracle Database
4 13 (11.40%) Amazon Aurora
5 7 (6.14%) Oracle Reports
5 7 (6.14%) Redis
6 6 (5.26%) BigQuery
6 6 (5.26%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 3 (2.63%) Big Data
7 3 (2.63%) Delta Lake
7 3 (2.63%) Hadoop
7 3 (2.63%) NoSQL
7 3 (2.63%) Parquet
8 2 (1.75%) Hazelcast
8 2 (1.75%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.88%) DB2
9 1 (0.88%) Essbase
9 1 (0.88%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 70 (61.40%) Jenkins
2 61 (53.51%) Git
3 54 (47.37%) JIRA
4 24 (21.05%) Vagrant
5 20 (17.54%) ScriptRunner
6 14 (12.28%) SonarQube
6 14 (12.28%) Sonatype Nexus
7 11 (9.65%) Artifactory
7 11 (9.65%) Bitbucket Server
7 11 (9.65%) CA Release Automation
8 8 (7.02%) Maven
9 7 (6.14%) REST Assured
9 7 (6.14%) Subversion
10 6 (5.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 6 (5.26%) JUnit
10 6 (5.26%) Mockito
10 6 (5.26%) Postman
10 6 (5.26%) SoapUI
10 6 (5.26%) Xcode
10 6 (5.26%) XCTest
General
1 30 (26.32%) Finance
2 28 (24.56%) Public Sector
3 27 (23.68%) Social Skills
4 10 (8.77%) Banking
4 10 (8.77%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (4.39%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.63%) Billing
6 3 (2.63%) Military
7 2 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.88%) German Language
8 1 (0.88%) Law
8 1 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (34.21%) DevOps Engineer
2 22 (19.30%) Platform Engineer
3 21 (18.42%) AWS DevOps
3 21 (18.42%) AWS Engineer
4 19 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 19 (16.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 16 (14.04%) Senior
6 14 (12.28%) Developer
7 13 (11.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (10.53%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 11 (9.65%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (8.77%) DevOps Platform Engineer
11 9 (7.89%) JIRA Engineer
12 7 (6.14%) Architect
13 6 (5.26%) Oracle Developer
14 4 (3.51%) Data Engineer
14 4 (3.51%) GCP DevOps
14 4 (3.51%) GCP DevOps Engineer
14 4 (3.51%) GCP Engineer
14 4 (3.51%) JIRA Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (20.18%) LDAP
2 21 (18.42%) REST
3 18 (15.79%) SOAP
4 15 (13.16%) OAuth
4 15 (13.16%) SAML
5 13 (11.40%) OpenID
6 11 (9.65%) Spring
7 10 (8.77%) AngularJS
7 10 (8.77%) Kafka
7 10 (8.77%) Web Services
8 9 (7.89%) CSS
8 9 (7.89%) HTML
9 8 (7.02%) Bootstrap
10 7 (6.14%) CSS3
10 7 (6.14%) HTML5
10 7 (6.14%) J2EE
10 7 (6.14%) Spring Boot
11 6 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
11 6 (5.26%) Spring Cloud
11 6 (5.26%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 25 (21.93%) Replication
2 7 (6.14%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.51%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.75%) Life Science
5 2 (1.75%) Mainframe
5 2 (1.75%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.88%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.88%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 47 (41.23%) Linux
2 33 (28.95%) Windows
3 24 (21.05%) Amazon Linux
3 24 (21.05%) VMS
4 17 (14.91%) Unix
5 10 (8.77%) Ubuntu
6 9 (7.89%) Windows Server
7 2 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (50.88%) DevOps
2 51 (44.74%) CI/CD
3 43 (37.72%) Agile
4 30 (26.32%) Configuration Management
4 30 (26.32%) Performance Tuning
5 29 (25.44%) Migration
6 28 (24.56%) Platform Engineering
7 26 (22.81%) Change Management
8 24 (21.05%) Cloud Security
9 22 (19.30%) Patch Management
10 17 (14.91%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (14.04%) Containerisation
12 15 (13.16%) Incident Management
13 14 (12.28%) Microservices
13 14 (12.28%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 13 (11.40%) Infrastructure as Code
14 13 (11.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 12 (10.53%) Deployment Automation
16 11 (9.65%) Identity Access Management
16 11 (9.65%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 55 (48.25%) Python
2 35 (30.70%) PowerShell
3 34 (29.82%) Java
4 31 (27.19%) SQL
5 24 (21.05%) JavaScript
6 20 (17.54%) Bash
7 16 (14.04%) Shell Script
8 12 (10.53%) Perl
9 10 (8.77%) Go
10 6 (5.26%) PL/SQL
11 5 (4.39%) ABAP
11 5 (4.39%) C#
11 5 (4.39%) C++
12 3 (2.63%) Kotlin
13 2 (1.75%) COBOL
13 2 (1.75%) JCL
13 2 (1.75%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.88%) Scala
Qualifications
1 43 (37.72%) Security Cleared
2 41 (35.96%) SC Cleared
3 17 (14.91%) AWS Certification
4 13 (11.40%) Degree
5 10 (8.77%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.88%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.88%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.75%) GDPR
1 2 (1.75%) IFRS
1 2 (1.75%) QA
2 1 (0.88%) GAAP
System Software
1 57 (50.00%) Docker
2 23 (20.18%) Active Directory
3 22 (19.30%) DFS Replication
4 12 (10.53%) Dovecot
4 12 (10.53%) Postfix
4 12 (10.53%) Squid
5 8 (7.02%) Tivoli Directory Server
6 2 (1.75%) OpenAM
6 2 (1.75%) OpenDJ
6 2 (1.75%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 45 (39.47%) Terraform
2 31 (27.19%) Grafana
3 30 (26.32%) Kubernetes
4 28 (24.56%) Prometheus
5 15 (13.16%) Ansible
6 12 (10.53%) Nessus
7 11 (9.65%) CA Single Sign-On
8 10 (8.77%) CA Wily
8 10 (8.77%) Istio
8 10 (8.77%) Proxmox
9 9 (7.89%) Progress Chef
9 9 (7.89%) Puppet
10 8 (7.02%) Tivoli
11 6 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (3.51%) Control-M
13 3 (2.63%) Argo
13 3 (2.63%) Kiali
14 2 (1.75%) Podman
15 1 (0.88%) Opsgenie
15 1 (0.88%) Rancher
Vendors
1 30 (26.32%) ServiceNow
2 26 (22.81%) Oracle
3 20 (17.54%) Atlassian
4 19 (16.67%) Splunk
5 13 (11.40%) AppDynamics
5 13 (11.40%) Microsoft
6 12 (10.53%) Jaspersoft
7 11 (9.65%) Broadcom
8 10 (8.77%) IBM
9 8 (7.02%) Dynatrace
10 6 (5.26%) CA Agile Central
10 6 (5.26%) Google
10 6 (5.26%) SAP
11 3 (2.63%) Cloudera
11 3 (2.63%) ForgeRock
11 3 (2.63%) Red Hat
11 3 (2.63%) xMatters
12 1 (0.88%) Databricks
12 1 (0.88%) Ping Identity
12 1 (0.88%) Workday