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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 454 420 488
Rank change year-on-year -34 +68 -23
Contract jobs citing Groovy 87 58 55
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.28% 0.22% 0.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.91% 0.67% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 32 39
10th Percentile £346 £319 £393
25th Percentile £413 £475 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £514 £588
Median % change year-on-year -7.63% -12.47% -9.62%
75th Percentile £500 £688 £650
90th Percentile £541 £775 £678
UK median daily rate £475 £518 £550
% change year-on-year -8.30% -5.82% -9.84%

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 9,526 8,720 10,953
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.72% 32.64% 30.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,330 5,601 7,929
10th Percentile £350 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -3.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 359 207 399
10th Percentile £39.58 £25.26 £35.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £45.59 £46.32
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -3.85%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -0.79%

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 12 January 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 12 January 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 +6 50 £488 -22.77% 4
North of England -33 24 £452 +12.88% 7
West Midlands -19 18 £475 - 1
Midlands -30 18 £475 +18.75% 2
North West -24 13 £446 +11.50% 2
Yorkshire -32 9 £475 - 5
South East -15 3 £384 -39.76% 7
North East - 2 £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 15 (17.24%) Confluence
2 11 (12.64%) Apache
2 11 (12.64%) IIS
2 11 (12.64%) JBoss
2 11 (12.64%) WebSphere
3 10 (11.49%) iPlanet
3 10 (11.49%) WebSphere Application Server
4 9 (10.34%) nginx
5 6 (6.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (6.90%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (1.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (1.15%) Apache Spark
6 1 (1.15%) CICS
Applications
1 9 (10.34%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 6 (6.90%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (4.60%) SAP HCM
3 1 (1.15%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 39 (44.83%) AWS
2 21 (24.14%) Azure
3 17 (19.54%) Amazon S3
4 16 (18.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 15 (17.24%) Amazon EC2
5 15 (17.24%) Amazon ELB
5 15 (17.24%) AWS KMS
5 15 (17.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 13 (14.94%) OpenShift
7 12 (13.79%) Amazon ECS
8 11 (12.64%) GCP
8 11 (12.64%) GitHub
9 10 (11.49%) Route 53
10 9 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (10.34%) SaaS
11 6 (6.90%) Amazon Glacier
11 6 (6.90%) AtomSphere
11 6 (6.90%) Boomi
11 6 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (6.90%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 16 (18.39%) DNS
1 16 (18.39%) SSH
2 15 (17.24%) Firewall
2 15 (17.24%) FTP
2 15 (17.24%) HTTP
2 15 (17.24%) SMTP
3 10 (11.49%) Kerberos
4 9 (10.34%) IMAP
4 9 (10.34%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (1.15%) Broadband
5 1 (1.15%) SSL
5 1 (1.15%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (24.14%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (22.99%) Amazon RDS
3 14 (16.09%) Oracle Reports
4 13 (14.94%) Amazon Aurora
4 13 (14.94%) Oracle Database
5 7 (8.05%) Redis
6 6 (6.90%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 4 (4.60%) BigQuery
8 3 (3.45%) DB2
9 2 (2.30%) DataStage
9 2 (2.30%) Metadata
9 2 (2.30%) Power BI
9 2 (2.30%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.15%) Big Data
10 1 (1.15%) Delta Lake
10 1 (1.15%) DynamoDB
10 1 (1.15%) Essbase
10 1 (1.15%) Hadoop
10 1 (1.15%) NoSQL
10 1 (1.15%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 49 (56.32%) Jenkins
2 40 (45.98%) Git
3 22 (25.29%) JIRA
4 15 (17.24%) Vagrant
5 11 (12.64%) Bitbucket Server
5 11 (12.64%) CA Release Automation
5 11 (12.64%) Sonatype Nexus
6 7 (8.05%) GitLab
6 7 (8.05%) Maven
6 7 (8.05%) SonarQube
7 4 (4.60%) REST Assured
8 3 (3.45%) Artifactory
8 3 (3.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (3.45%) JUnit
8 3 (3.45%) Mockito
8 3 (3.45%) Postman
8 3 (3.45%) SoapUI
8 3 (3.45%) Subversion
8 3 (3.45%) Xcode
8 3 (3.45%) XCTest
General
1 31 (35.63%) Social Skills
2 29 (33.33%) Finance
3 17 (19.54%) Public Sector
4 11 (12.64%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (8.05%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (4.60%) Banking
7 3 (3.45%) Billing
8 2 (2.30%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.15%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.15%) Law
9 1 (1.15%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 22 (25.29%) Developer
3 18 (20.69%) AWS DevOps
4 17 (19.54%) AWS Engineer
4 17 (19.54%) Consultant
4 17 (19.54%) Platform Engineer
5 15 (17.24%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 15 (17.24%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 9 (10.34%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 9 (10.34%) Oracle Consultant
7 8 (9.20%) SAP Consultant
8 7 (8.05%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 7 (8.05%) Senior
9 6 (6.90%) Integration Developer
9 6 (6.90%) Oracle Developer
9 6 (6.90%) SAP HCM Consultant
10 4 (4.60%) Automation Engineer
10 4 (4.60%) Payroll Consultant
10 4 (4.60%) SAP Payroll Consultant
11 3 (3.45%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (25.29%) LDAP
2 21 (24.14%) REST
3 16 (18.39%) SOAP
4 15 (17.24%) OAuth
4 15 (17.24%) OpenID
4 15 (17.24%) SAML
5 13 (14.94%) Oracle Fusion
6 8 (9.20%) AngularJS
6 8 (9.20%) SAP PI
6 8 (9.20%) Spring
7 7 (8.05%) Kafka
8 6 (6.90%) CSS
8 6 (6.90%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (6.90%) HTML
8 6 (6.90%) JSON
8 6 (6.90%) Web Services
8 6 (6.90%) XML
9 5 (5.75%) Bootstrap
9 5 (5.75%) J2EE
10 4 (4.60%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 19 (21.84%) Replication
2 3 (3.45%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.30%) Life Science
3 2 (2.30%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.15%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.15%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.15%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.15%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.15%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.15%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 34 (39.08%) Linux
2 26 (29.89%) Windows
3 15 (17.24%) Amazon Linux
3 15 (17.24%) VMS
4 11 (12.64%) Unix
5 9 (10.34%) Ubuntu
5 9 (10.34%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (57.47%) DevOps
2 39 (44.83%) CI/CD
3 25 (28.74%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (27.59%) Agile
5 20 (22.99%) Change Management
6 17 (19.54%) Platform Engineering
7 16 (18.39%) Configuration Management
8 15 (17.24%) Cloud Security
8 15 (17.24%) Patch Management
8 15 (17.24%) Validation
9 11 (12.64%) Containerisation
9 11 (12.64%) Identity Access Management
9 11 (12.64%) Performance Tuning
9 11 (12.64%) Test Automation
10 10 (11.49%) Infrastructure as Code
11 9 (10.34%) Data Integration
11 9 (10.34%) Deployment Automation
11 9 (10.34%) Integration Patterns
11 9 (10.34%) Translating Business Requirements
11 9 (10.34%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 32 (36.78%) Python
2 30 (34.48%) Java
3 23 (26.44%) SQL
4 22 (25.29%) JavaScript
5 20 (22.99%) PowerShell
6 16 (18.39%) Bash
7 11 (12.64%) Shell Script
8 8 (9.20%) ABAP
9 6 (6.90%) C#
9 6 (6.90%) Perl
9 6 (6.90%) PL/SQL
9 6 (6.90%) T-SQL
10 3 (3.45%) TypeScript
11 2 (2.30%) Go
11 2 (2.30%) Kotlin
11 2 (2.30%) Scala
12 1 (1.15%) COBOL
12 1 (1.15%) JCL
Qualifications
1 22 (25.29%) Security Cleared
2 19 (21.84%) SC Cleared
3 16 (18.39%) AWS Certification
4 12 (13.79%) Degree
5 9 (10.34%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.15%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.15%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.15%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.15%) GAAP
1 1 (1.15%) IFRS
System Software
1 44 (50.57%) Docker
2 18 (20.69%) Active Directory
3 15 (17.24%) DFS Replication
4 9 (10.34%) Dovecot
4 9 (10.34%) Postfix
4 9 (10.34%) Squid
5 8 (9.20%) Tivoli Directory Server
6 2 (2.30%) OpenAM
6 2 (2.30%) OpenDJ
6 2 (2.30%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 29 (33.33%) Terraform
2 23 (26.44%) Prometheus
3 22 (25.29%) Grafana
4 19 (21.84%) Kubernetes
5 11 (12.64%) CA Single Sign-On
6 10 (11.49%) CA Wily
6 10 (11.49%) Progress Chef
7 9 (10.34%) Nessus
7 9 (10.34%) Proxmox
8 8 (9.20%) Ansible
8 8 (9.20%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (9.20%) Tivoli
9 4 (4.60%) Istio
9 4 (4.60%) Rancher
10 3 (3.45%) Argo
11 2 (2.30%) Puppet
12 1 (1.15%) Control-M
12 1 (1.15%) HP Fortify
12 1 (1.15%) Podman
Vendors
1 30 (34.48%) Oracle
2 20 (22.99%) ServiceNow
3 15 (17.24%) Splunk
4 12 (13.79%) Microsoft
5 11 (12.64%) AppDynamics
5 11 (12.64%) Broadcom
6 10 (11.49%) IBM
7 9 (10.34%) Jaspersoft
8 8 (9.20%) SAP
9 7 (8.05%) Dynatrace
10 3 (3.45%) CA Agile Central
10 3 (3.45%) ForgeRock
10 3 (3.45%) Google
10 3 (3.45%) Red Hat
11 2 (2.30%) Informatica
12 1 (1.15%) Adobe
12 1 (1.15%) Ariba
12 1 (1.15%) Cloudera
12 1 (1.15%) Ping Identity
12 1 (1.15%) Snow