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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 531 431 453
Rank change year-on-year -100 +22 -38
Contract jobs citing Groovy 97 87 80
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.21% 0.32% 0.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.81% 0.96% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 55 42
10th Percentile £363 £369 £405
25th Percentile £413 £453 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -2.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £541 £638 £744
90th Percentile £650 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £450 £504 £545
% change year-on-year -10.67% -7.57% -12.80%

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 11,976 9,083 10,833
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.48% 32.93% 31.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,779 6,266 7,807
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.07% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £651
90th Percentile £738 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £513 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 484 227 388
10th Percentile £34.01 £29.07 £32.52
25th Percentile £53.53 £38.38 £52.50
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 £81.88 £83.58 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.38 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.30% -13.27% +7.22%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -71 53 £500 -16.67% 10
North of England -64 27 £425 -28.93% 7
Yorkshire -38 20 £425 -29.05% 5
North East -42 6 £425 -34.62%
South East -71 5 £485 +26.30% 5
South West -33 4 £452 -24.75% 4
Midlands -65 3 £468 -1.53% 2
West Midlands -68 3 £468 -1.53% 2
East of England - 3 £425 -
North West -49 1 £350 - 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 11 (11.34%) Confluence
2 3 (3.09%) Apache
3 1 (1.03%) Anypoint
3 1 (1.03%) Mule
3 1 (1.03%) Oracle Application Server
Business Applications
1 10 (10.31%) NetSuite
1 10 (10.31%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (3.09%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (2.06%) Infor LN
4 1 (1.03%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (1.03%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 45 (46.39%) AWS
2 26 (26.80%) Azure
3 25 (25.77%) GCP
4 14 (14.43%) Boomi
4 14 (14.43%) GitHub
5 13 (13.40%) Amazon S3
5 13 (13.40%) AtomSphere
6 12 (12.37%) OCI
7 10 (10.31%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (9.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (9.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 8 (8.25%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (8.25%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (8.25%) Serverless
10 7 (7.22%) AWS KMS
11 6 (6.19%) Apigee
12 5 (5.15%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (5.15%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 4 (4.12%) Azure AKS
13 4 (4.12%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.22%) Firewall
1 7 (7.22%) SSL
2 5 (5.15%) DNS
3 4 (4.12%) OpenLDAP
4 3 (3.09%) HTTP
4 3 (3.09%) Internet
5 2 (2.06%) WAN
6 1 (1.03%) HTTPS
6 1 (1.03%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (14.43%) Metadata
2 12 (12.37%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (9.28%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (8.25%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (5.15%) Couchbase
5 5 (5.15%) NoSQL
5 5 (5.15%) SQL Server
6 4 (4.12%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (3.09%) Data Mart
7 3 (3.09%) Redis
7 3 (3.09%) Relational Database
8 2 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (2.06%) MongoDB
8 2 (2.06%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (1.03%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.03%) OLAP
9 1 (1.03%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 47 (48.45%) Jenkins
2 20 (20.62%) Git
3 14 (14.43%) JIRA
4 12 (12.37%) Maven
4 12 (12.37%) SonarQube
5 5 (5.15%) GitLab
6 4 (4.12%) ScriptRunner
7 3 (3.09%) Cucumber
8 2 (2.06%) JMeter
8 2 (2.06%) JUnit
8 2 (2.06%) LoadRunner
8 2 (2.06%) Postman
8 2 (2.06%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (1.03%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.03%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (1.03%) NeoLoad
9 1 (1.03%) REST Assured
9 1 (1.03%) Selenium
9 1 (1.03%) SoapUI
9 1 (1.03%) Zephyr
General
1 20 (20.62%) Public Sector
1 20 (20.62%) Social Skills
2 11 (11.34%) Finance
3 9 (9.28%) Publishing
4 7 (7.22%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.15%) Retail
6 4 (4.12%) Banking
6 4 (4.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.09%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.09%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.06%) Back Office
9 1 (1.03%) Front Office
9 1 (1.03%) Local Government
9 1 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (26.80%) DevOps Engineer
2 21 (21.65%) Developer
3 18 (18.56%) Senior
4 8 (8.25%) AWS Engineer
5 7 (7.22%) Architect
5 7 (7.22%) Senior Developer
6 5 (5.15%) AWS DevOps
6 5 (5.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 5 (5.15%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (5.15%) GCP Engineer
6 5 (5.15%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (5.15%) Python Engineer
6 5 (5.15%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 5 (5.15%) Software Engineer
7 4 (4.12%) Analyst
7 4 (4.12%) Java Engineer
7 4 (4.12%) Murex Analyst
7 4 (4.12%) Senior Architect
8 3 (3.09%) Consultant
8 3 (3.09%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (30.93%) JSON
2 27 (27.84%) REST
3 20 (20.62%) SOAP
4 18 (18.56%) XML
5 12 (12.37%) YAML
6 11 (11.34%) SLSA
7 9 (9.28%) Kafka
8 8 (8.25%) Node.js
9 6 (6.19%) Web Services
10 5 (5.15%) LDAP
10 5 (5.15%) OAuth
10 5 (5.15%) RxJava
10 5 (5.15%) Vert.x
11 4 (4.12%) OAuth2
11 4 (4.12%) SAML
12 3 (3.09%) AngularJS
12 3 (3.09%) Elastic Stack
12 3 (3.09%) Oracle Fusion
12 3 (3.09%) RESTful
12 3 (3.09%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.37%) Replication
2 5 (5.15%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (4.12%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.12%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.09%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.09%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.09%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.09%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.06%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.06%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.03%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.03%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.03%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.03%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.03%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.03%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.03%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 14 (14.43%) Linux
2 5 (5.15%) Amazon Linux
3 3 (3.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (3.09%) Windows
4 1 (1.03%) Unix
4 1 (1.03%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (54.64%) CI/CD
2 49 (50.52%) DevOps
3 35 (36.08%) Agile
4 25 (25.77%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (23.71%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (21.65%) API Management
6 21 (21.65%) Performance Tuning
7 20 (20.62%) Observability
8 18 (18.56%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (15.46%) Test Automation
10 14 (14.43%) Cloud Security
10 14 (14.43%) Platform Engineering
10 14 (14.43%) Root Cause Analysis
11 12 (12.37%) DevSecOps
11 12 (12.37%) Release Automation
11 12 (12.37%) Static Application Security Testing
12 11 (11.34%) High Availability
12 11 (11.34%) SBOM
13 10 (10.31%) Change Management
13 10 (10.31%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 51 (52.58%) Python
2 39 (40.21%) Java
3 24 (24.74%) JavaScript
4 21 (21.65%) Bash
5 19 (19.59%) SQL
6 18 (18.56%) PowerShell
7 9 (9.28%) Shell Script
8 6 (6.19%) Perl
9 5 (5.15%) PL/SQL
10 3 (3.09%) Go
11 2 (2.06%) C#
12 1 (1.03%) Bicep
12 1 (1.03%) C
12 1 (1.03%) DataWeave
12 1 (1.03%) T-SQL
12 1 (1.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 38 (39.18%) Security Cleared
2 34 (35.05%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.19%) DV Cleared
4 5 (5.15%) AWS Certification
5 4 (4.12%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.06%) Degree
7 1 (1.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.03%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.09%) QA
2 2 (2.06%) NCSC
3 1 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.03%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.03%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (22.68%) Docker
2 7 (7.22%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.09%) Squid
4 1 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 48 (49.48%) Terraform
2 35 (36.08%) Kubernetes
3 14 (14.43%) Grafana
4 13 (13.40%) Prometheus
5 8 (8.25%) Ansible
6 4 (4.12%) Istio
6 4 (4.12%) Kustomize
7 3 (3.09%) Packer
7 3 (3.09%) Rancher
8 2 (2.06%) Puppet
8 2 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.03%) Consul
9 1 (1.03%) HP Fortify
9 1 (1.03%) Podman
9 1 (1.03%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 25 (25.77%) Oracle
2 14 (14.43%) Dynatrace
2 14 (14.43%) Google
3 11 (11.34%) ServiceNow
3 11 (11.34%) Sonatype
4 10 (10.31%) Salesforce
5 4 (4.12%) Atlassian
5 4 (4.12%) Murex
6 3 (3.09%) Microsoft
6 3 (3.09%) PagerDuty
6 3 (3.09%) Trend Micro
7 2 (2.06%) Baan
7 2 (2.06%) Dell
7 2 (2.06%) Infor
7 2 (2.06%) ION Trading
7 2 (2.06%) MuleSoft
7 2 (2.06%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.06%) Splunk
8 1 (1.03%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.03%) IBM