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 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 513 400 471
Rank change year-on-year -113 +71 -47
Contract jobs citing Groovy 66 76 60
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.31% 0.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.61% 0.93% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 50 39
10th Percentile £356 £374 £405
25th Percentile £413 £502 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £538
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +11.63% -17.31%
75th Percentile £541 £688 £631
90th Percentile £625 £775 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £583 £538
% change year-on-year -22.75% +8.37% -14.82%

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 10,881 8,206 10,885
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.51% 33.73% 29.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,185 5,697 7,901
10th Percentile £355 £363 £350
25th Percentile £415 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -2.48%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £656
90th Percentile £720 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £530
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.89% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 525 210 446
10th Percentile £41.25 £26.31 £37.59
25th Percentile £55.00 £37.65 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.10 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.25 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.42% -0.40% +1.46%

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 19 May 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 19 May 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 -79 32 £500 -20.00% 4
North of England -58 22 £425 -28.57% 14
Yorkshire -49 15 £450 -24.37% 10
North East -19 6 £425 -34.62%
West Midlands -57 5 £524 -
Midlands -63 5 £524 - 1
South West -24 2 - - 2
East of England -28 2 £450 +38.46% 5
North West -41 1 £350 - 4
South East - 1 - - 3
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 9 (13.64%) Confluence
2 1 (1.52%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.52%) Mule
2 1 (1.52%) Oracle Application Server
Business Applications
1 4 (6.06%) SAP HCM
2 1 (1.52%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.52%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 28 (42.42%) AWS
2 19 (28.79%) GCP
3 14 (21.21%) Azure
4 8 (12.12%) GitHub
5 7 (10.61%) Amazon S3
6 6 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (9.09%) Apigee
6 6 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 6 (9.09%) Serverless
6 6 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (7.58%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (7.58%) OCI
8 4 (6.06%) AWS KMS
8 4 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (4.55%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 3 (4.55%) Azure AKS
9 3 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (4.55%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.06%) Firewall
2 3 (4.55%) DNS
2 3 (4.55%) OpenLDAP
3 2 (3.03%) HTTP
3 2 (3.03%) SSL
4 1 (1.52%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.64%) Metadata
1 9 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (12.12%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (10.61%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (4.55%) Data Mart
4 3 (4.55%) Redis
4 3 (4.55%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (3.03%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (3.03%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.52%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.52%) DataStage
6 1 (1.52%) DB2
6 1 (1.52%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.52%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.52%) OLAP
6 1 (1.52%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.52%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 36 (54.55%) Jenkins
2 15 (22.73%) Git
3 10 (15.15%) JIRA
3 10 (15.15%) Maven
4 9 (13.64%) SonarQube
5 6 (9.09%) GitLab
6 4 (6.06%) ScriptRunner
7 3 (4.55%) Cucumber
8 2 (3.03%) JUnit
8 2 (3.03%) Postman
8 2 (3.03%) Selenium
9 1 (1.52%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.52%) JMeter
9 1 (1.52%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (1.52%) LoadRunner
9 1 (1.52%) SoapUI
9 1 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 7 (10.61%) Finance
3 5 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (7.58%) Banking
3 5 (7.58%) Public Sector
3 5 (7.58%) Publishing
4 4 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.03%) Back Office
6 1 (1.52%) Front Office
6 1 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (36.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (13.64%) Developer
3 7 (10.61%) Consultant
4 6 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (7.58%) AWS DevOps
5 5 (7.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 5 (7.58%) GCP Engineer
5 5 (7.58%) Python Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) Analyst
6 4 (6.06%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) Murex Analyst
6 4 (6.06%) Payroll Consultant
6 4 (6.06%) SAP Consultant
6 4 (6.06%) SAP HCM Consultant
6 4 (6.06%) SAP Payroll Consultant
6 4 (6.06%) Senior
7 3 (4.55%) Administrator
7 3 (4.55%) Murex Support
7 3 (4.55%) Murex Support Analyst
7 3 (4.55%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (19.70%) JSON
1 13 (19.70%) REST
2 9 (13.64%) YAML
3 8 (12.12%) SLSA
4 6 (9.09%) LDAP
4 6 (9.09%) Node.js
5 5 (7.58%) SAML
5 5 (7.58%) SOAP
6 4 (6.06%) Kafka
6 4 (6.06%) OAuth
6 4 (6.06%) OpenID
6 4 (6.06%) SAP PI
6 4 (6.06%) XML
7 3 (4.55%) AngularJS
7 3 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (4.55%) J2EE
7 3 (4.55%) Keycloak
7 3 (4.55%) OpenAPI
7 3 (4.55%) Swagger
7 3 (4.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.15%) Replication
2 2 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (3.03%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.52%) AI Agents
3 1 (1.52%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.52%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.52%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.52%) Reference Data
3 1 (1.52%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.61%) Linux
2 4 (6.06%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (1.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (62.12%) DevOps
2 31 (46.97%) CI/CD
3 20 (30.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (27.27%) Agile
5 17 (25.76%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (22.73%) Performance Tuning
7 13 (19.70%) Observability
8 12 (18.18%) Test Automation
9 10 (15.15%) DevSecOps
10 9 (13.64%) High Availability
10 9 (13.64%) Root Cause Analysis
10 9 (13.64%) SBOM
11 8 (12.12%) API Management
11 8 (12.12%) Change Management
11 8 (12.12%) ITIL
11 8 (12.12%) Release Automation
11 8 (12.12%) Static Application Security Testing
12 7 (10.61%) Containerisation
12 7 (10.61%) Platform Engineering
12 7 (10.61%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 42 (63.64%) Python
2 27 (40.91%) Java
3 17 (25.76%) Bash
4 15 (22.73%) JavaScript
5 11 (16.67%) PowerShell
6 9 (13.64%) SQL
7 5 (7.58%) Shell Script
8 4 (6.06%) ABAP
8 4 (6.06%) Perl
9 2 (3.03%) C#
9 2 (3.03%) Go
10 1 (1.52%) DataWeave
10 1 (1.52%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.52%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.52%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 17 (25.76%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.55%) AWS Certification
3 3 (4.55%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.03%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.52%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (1.52%) ISO 20022
1 1 (1.52%) QA
1 1 (1.52%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (25.76%) Docker
2 5 (7.58%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.03%) OpenAM
3 2 (3.03%) OpenDJ
3 2 (3.03%) OpenIDM
4 1 (1.52%) Squid
4 1 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 35 (53.03%) Terraform
2 20 (30.30%) Kubernetes
3 11 (16.67%) Grafana
4 10 (15.15%) Prometheus
5 7 (10.61%) Ansible
6 4 (6.06%) Istio
6 4 (6.06%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (4.55%) Kustomize
7 3 (4.55%) Rancher
8 1 (1.52%) Consul
8 1 (1.52%) HP Fortify
8 1 (1.52%) Packer
8 1 (1.52%) Podman
8 1 (1.52%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 10 (15.15%) Oracle
2 9 (13.64%) Dynatrace
3 8 (12.12%) ServiceNow
3 8 (12.12%) Sonatype
4 7 (10.61%) Google
5 5 (7.58%) SAP
6 4 (6.06%) Atlassian
6 4 (6.06%) Murex
7 3 (4.55%) ForgeRock
7 3 (4.55%) Microsoft
8 1 (1.52%) Anaplan
8 1 (1.52%) AppDynamics
8 1 (1.52%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.52%) Dell
8 1 (1.52%) IBM
8 1 (1.52%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.52%) New Relic
8 1 (1.52%) PagerDuty
8 1 (1.52%) Splunk
8 1 (1.52%) Trend Micro