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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 530 420 463
Rank change year-on-year -110 +43 -50
Contract jobs citing Groovy 89 90 78
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.20% 0.33% 0.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.75% 1.00% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 59 41
10th Percentile £363 £373 £405
25th Percentile £413 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -2.33% -15.69%
75th Percentile £561 £638 £725
90th Percentile £650 £725 £775
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £539
% change year-on-year -10.00% -7.19% -13.80%

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 11,913 9,012 11,277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.62% 33.15% 30.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,754 6,201 8,125
10th Percentile £361 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £520 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -3.70% -1.82%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £513 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 500 233 456
10th Percentile £34.01 £28.23 £35.61
25th Percentile £54.28 £37.50 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.25 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £82.37 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +14.54% -9.20% -

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 16 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 16 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 -76 48 £500 -14.89% 9
North of England -72 25 £425 -28.45% 6
Yorkshire -47 18 £450 -24.75% 5
North East -37 6 £425 -34.62%
South West -25 4 £452 -24.75% 3
South East -57 4 £470 +22.40% 3
West Midlands -68 4 £524 +10.21% 1
Midlands -72 4 £524 +10.21% 1
East of England - 3 £425 -
North West -53 1 £350 - 1
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 10 (11.24%) Confluence
2 3 (3.37%) Apache
3 1 (1.12%) Anypoint
3 1 (1.12%) Mule
3 1 (1.12%) Oracle Application Server
Business Applications
1 7 (7.87%) NetSuite
1 7 (7.87%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.25%) Infor LN
2 2 (2.25%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.12%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.12%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 42 (47.19%) AWS
2 24 (26.97%) Azure
3 22 (24.72%) GCP
4 14 (15.73%) GitHub
5 13 (14.61%) Amazon S3
6 11 (12.36%) Boomi
7 10 (11.24%) AtomSphere
7 10 (11.24%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (10.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (10.11%) OCI
8 9 (10.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 8 (8.99%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (8.99%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (8.99%) Serverless
10 7 (7.87%) AWS KMS
11 6 (6.74%) Apigee
12 5 (5.62%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (5.62%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 4 (4.49%) AWS Step Functions
13 4 (4.49%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.87%) Firewall
2 6 (6.74%) SSL
3 5 (5.62%) DNS
4 4 (4.49%) OpenLDAP
5 3 (3.37%) HTTP
5 3 (3.37%) Internet
6 2 (2.25%) WAN
7 1 (1.12%) HTTPS
7 1 (1.12%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (14.61%) Metadata
2 12 (13.48%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (10.11%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (8.99%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (5.62%) Couchbase
5 5 (5.62%) NoSQL
5 5 (5.62%) SQL Server
6 3 (3.37%) Data Mart
6 3 (3.37%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (3.37%) Redis
6 3 (3.37%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.25%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.12%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.12%) OLAP
8 1 (1.12%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (1.12%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 44 (49.44%) Jenkins
2 18 (20.22%) Git
3 12 (13.48%) JIRA
4 11 (12.36%) Maven
4 11 (12.36%) SonarQube
5 4 (4.49%) GitLab
5 4 (4.49%) ScriptRunner
6 3 (3.37%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.25%) JMeter
7 2 (2.25%) JUnit
7 2 (2.25%) LoadRunner
7 2 (2.25%) Postman
8 1 (1.12%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.12%) Katalon Studio
8 1 (1.12%) NeoLoad
8 1 (1.12%) REST Assured
8 1 (1.12%) Selenium
8 1 (1.12%) SoapUI
8 1 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (19.10%) Social Skills
2 16 (17.98%) Public Sector
3 9 (10.11%) Finance
4 7 (7.87%) Publishing
5 6 (6.74%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (5.62%) Retail
7 4 (4.49%) Banking
7 4 (4.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (3.37%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.25%) Back Office
9 2 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.12%) Front Office
10 1 (1.12%) Local Government
10 1 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (26.97%) DevOps Engineer
2 18 (20.22%) Developer
3 15 (16.85%) Senior
4 8 (8.99%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (5.62%) Architect
5 5 (5.62%) AWS DevOps
5 5 (5.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 5 (5.62%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (5.62%) GCP Engineer
5 5 (5.62%) Senior Developer
5 5 (5.62%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 5 (5.62%) Software Engineer
6 4 (4.49%) Analyst
6 4 (4.49%) Java Engineer
6 4 (4.49%) Murex Analyst
6 4 (4.49%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (3.37%) JIRA Administrator
7 3 (3.37%) Python Engineer
7 3 (3.37%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (3.37%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (28.09%) JSON
2 23 (25.84%) REST
3 16 (17.98%) SOAP
4 14 (15.73%) XML
5 11 (12.36%) YAML
6 10 (11.24%) SLSA
7 9 (10.11%) Kafka
8 6 (6.74%) Node.js
9 5 (5.62%) LDAP
9 5 (5.62%) RxJava
9 5 (5.62%) Vert.x
9 5 (5.62%) Web Services
10 4 (4.49%) OAuth
11 3 (3.37%) AngularJS
11 3 (3.37%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (3.37%) OAuth2
11 3 (3.37%) OpenAPI
11 3 (3.37%) RESTful
11 3 (3.37%) SAML
11 3 (3.37%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.48%) Replication
2 4 (4.49%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.37%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.37%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.37%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.25%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.25%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.25%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.12%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.12%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.12%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.12%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.12%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.12%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.12%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 13 (14.61%) Linux
2 5 (5.62%) Amazon Linux
3 2 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.25%) Windows
4 1 (1.12%) Unix
4 1 (1.12%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (55.06%) CI/CD
2 47 (52.81%) DevOps
3 34 (38.20%) Agile
4 22 (24.72%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (23.60%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (21.35%) Observability
7 18 (20.22%) API Management
7 18 (20.22%) Performance Tuning
8 15 (16.85%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (16.85%) Test Automation
9 14 (15.73%) Root Cause Analysis
10 13 (14.61%) Cloud Security
11 11 (12.36%) DevSecOps
11 11 (12.36%) High Availability
12 10 (11.24%) Change Management
12 10 (11.24%) ITIL
12 10 (11.24%) Platform Engineering
12 10 (11.24%) Release Automation
12 10 (11.24%) SBOM
12 10 (11.24%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 49 (55.06%) Python
2 36 (40.45%) Java
3 20 (22.47%) Bash
3 20 (22.47%) JavaScript
4 18 (20.22%) SQL
5 17 (19.10%) PowerShell
6 8 (8.99%) Shell Script
7 5 (5.62%) Perl
8 4 (4.49%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.25%) C#
9 2 (2.25%) Go
10 1 (1.12%) Bicep
10 1 (1.12%) C
10 1 (1.12%) DataWeave
10 1 (1.12%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.12%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 33 (37.08%) Security Cleared
2 31 (34.83%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.62%) AWS Certification
4 4 (4.49%) Azure Certification
4 4 (4.49%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.12%) Degree
5 1 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.12%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.25%) NCSC
1 2 (2.25%) QA
2 1 (1.12%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.12%) ISO 20022
2 1 (1.12%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (22.47%) Docker
2 7 (7.87%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.37%) Squid
4 1 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 47 (52.81%) Terraform
2 30 (33.71%) Kubernetes
3 13 (14.61%) Grafana
4 12 (13.48%) Prometheus
5 7 (7.87%) Ansible
6 4 (4.49%) Istio
6 4 (4.49%) Kustomize
7 3 (3.37%) Packer
7 3 (3.37%) Rancher
8 2 (2.25%) Puppet
8 2 (2.25%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.12%) Consul
9 1 (1.12%) HP Fortify
9 1 (1.12%) Podman
9 1 (1.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 20 (22.47%) Oracle
2 13 (14.61%) Dynatrace
2 13 (14.61%) Google
3 10 (11.24%) ServiceNow
3 10 (11.24%) Sonatype
4 7 (7.87%) Salesforce
5 4 (4.49%) Atlassian
5 4 (4.49%) Murex
6 3 (3.37%) Microsoft
6 3 (3.37%) PagerDuty
6 3 (3.37%) Trend Micro
7 2 (2.25%) Baan
7 2 (2.25%) Dell
7 2 (2.25%) Infor
7 2 (2.25%) ION Trading
7 2 (2.25%) MuleSoft
7 2 (2.25%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.12%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.12%) IBM
8 1 (1.12%) SAP