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 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 437 437 481
Rank change year-on-year 0 +44 -25
Contract jobs citing Groovy 100 74 80
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.32% 0.24% 0.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.03% 0.75% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 39 57
10th Percentile £359 £400 £400
25th Percentile £413 £438 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% -10.87% -8.00%
75th Percentile £500 £706 £650
90th Percentile £540 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £475 £516 £575
% change year-on-year -7.99% -10.22% -6.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
UK median hourly rate - - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - -11.76%

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 9,748 9,900 11,825
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.55% 32.52% 30.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,483 6,428 8,577
10th Percentile £344 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £656 £669
90th Percentile £738 £780 £775
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.29% -4.55% -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 313 256 399
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £32.26
25th Percentile £50.00 £45.00 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year - +4.84% -0.80%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £82.50 £78.15
UK median hourly rate £64.25 £63.00 £60.36
% change year-on-year +1.98% +4.38% -3.43%

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 3 December 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 3 December 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 +5 55 £475 -24.00% 5
West Midlands 0 28 £475 -7.68%
Midlands -3 28 £475 -7.68% 1
North of England -36 23 £452 +12.88% 4
North West -20 13 £446 +11.50% 1
Yorkshire -29 7 £537 +30.06% 3
South East -7 3 £384 -39.76% 5
North East - 3 £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 24 (24.00%) Confluence
2 13 (13.00%) nginx
3 11 (11.00%) Apache
3 11 (11.00%) IIS
3 11 (11.00%) JBoss
3 11 (11.00%) WebSphere
4 10 (10.00%) iPlanet
4 10 (10.00%) WebSphere Application Server
5 6 (6.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (6.00%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (3.00%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (3.00%) Apache Spark
7 1 (1.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (1.00%) CICS
Applications
1 12 (12.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 6 (6.00%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (2.00%) SAP HCM
3 1 (1.00%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 46 (46.00%) AWS
2 27 (27.00%) Amazon S3
3 24 (24.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 24 (24.00%) Amazon EC2
3 24 (24.00%) Azure
4 23 (23.00%) Amazon ELB
4 23 (23.00%) AWS KMS
4 23 (23.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 16 (16.00%) Amazon ECS
6 15 (15.00%) GitHub
7 13 (13.00%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (13.00%) Route 53
8 11 (11.00%) Amazon Glacier
8 11 (11.00%) GCP
8 11 (11.00%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (11.00%) OpenShift
9 10 (10.00%) SaaS
10 6 (6.00%) AtomSphere
10 6 (6.00%) Boomi
10 6 (6.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 24 (24.00%) SSH
2 23 (23.00%) DNS
2 23 (23.00%) SMTP
3 21 (21.00%) Firewall
3 21 (21.00%) FTP
3 21 (21.00%) HTTP
4 12 (12.00%) IMAP
4 12 (12.00%) OpenLDAP
5 10 (10.00%) Kerberos
6 3 (3.00%) TCP/IP
7 2 (2.00%) SSL
8 1 (1.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (28.00%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (27.00%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (16.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 15 (15.00%) Oracle Database
5 14 (14.00%) Oracle Reports
6 9 (9.00%) Redis
7 6 (6.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 3 (3.00%) Big Data
8 3 (3.00%) BigQuery
8 3 (3.00%) Delta Lake
8 3 (3.00%) Hadoop
8 3 (3.00%) NoSQL
8 3 (3.00%) Parquet
9 2 (2.00%) DB2
9 2 (2.00%) Power BI
9 2 (2.00%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.00%) DataStage
10 1 (1.00%) DynamoDB
10 1 (1.00%) Essbase
10 1 (1.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 62 (62.00%) Jenkins
2 53 (53.00%) Git
3 33 (33.00%) JIRA
4 23 (23.00%) Vagrant
5 14 (14.00%) Sonatype Nexus
6 13 (13.00%) SonarQube
7 11 (11.00%) Bitbucket Server
7 11 (11.00%) CA Release Automation
8 8 (8.00%) Maven
9 6 (6.00%) Artifactory
9 6 (6.00%) REST Assured
10 5 (5.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (5.00%) GitLab
10 5 (5.00%) JUnit
10 5 (5.00%) Mockito
10 5 (5.00%) Postman
10 5 (5.00%) SoapUI
10 5 (5.00%) Subversion
10 5 (5.00%) Xcode
10 5 (5.00%) XCTest
General
1 32 (32.00%) Finance
1 32 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 24 (24.00%) Public Sector
3 11 (11.00%) Presentation Skills
4 7 (7.00%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (5.00%) Banking
6 3 (3.00%) Billing
7 2 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.00%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.00%) German Language
8 1 (1.00%) Law
8 1 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (35.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 24 (24.00%) Developer
3 22 (22.00%) AWS DevOps
4 21 (21.00%) AWS Engineer
4 21 (21.00%) Platform Engineer
5 19 (19.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 19 (19.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 16 (16.00%) Consultant
7 12 (12.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 10 (10.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 9 (9.00%) Oracle Consultant
10 7 (7.00%) Integration Developer
10 7 (7.00%) SAP Consultant
10 7 (7.00%) Senior
11 6 (6.00%) Oracle Developer
12 4 (4.00%) Data Engineer
12 4 (4.00%) SAP HCM Consultant
13 3 (3.00%) Automation Engineer
13 3 (3.00%) ERP Developer
13 3 (3.00%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (25.00%) LDAP
2 24 (24.00%) REST
3 20 (20.00%) SOAP
4 15 (15.00%) OAuth
4 15 (15.00%) OpenID
4 15 (15.00%) SAML
5 13 (13.00%) Oracle Fusion
6 10 (10.00%) AngularJS
6 10 (10.00%) Spring
7 9 (9.00%) Kafka
8 8 (8.00%) CSS
8 8 (8.00%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (8.00%) HTML
8 8 (8.00%) J2EE
8 8 (8.00%) Web Services
9 7 (7.00%) Bootstrap
9 7 (7.00%) SAP PI
9 7 (7.00%) Spring Boot
9 7 (7.00%) XML
10 6 (6.00%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 25 (25.00%) Replication
2 5 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.00%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.00%) Life Science
5 1 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.00%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.00%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.00%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.00%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 44 (44.00%) Linux
2 32 (32.00%) Windows
3 23 (23.00%) Amazon Linux
3 23 (23.00%) VMS
4 13 (13.00%) Unix
5 10 (10.00%) Ubuntu
6 9 (9.00%) Windows Server
7 1 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (59.00%) DevOps
2 46 (46.00%) CI/CD
3 30 (30.00%) Agile
4 28 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (27.00%) Change Management
6 25 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
7 24 (24.00%) Configuration Management
8 23 (23.00%) Cloud Security
9 21 (21.00%) Patch Management
10 15 (15.00%) Validation
11 14 (14.00%) Performance Tuning
12 13 (13.00%) Containerisation
13 11 (11.00%) Identity Access Management
13 11 (11.00%) Integration Patterns
14 10 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
14 10 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
14 10 (10.00%) Mentoring
14 10 (10.00%) Test Automation
15 9 (9.00%) Data Integration
15 9 (9.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 44 (44.00%) Python
2 38 (38.00%) Java
3 29 (29.00%) PowerShell
3 29 (29.00%) SQL
4 25 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 18 (18.00%) Bash
6 13 (13.00%) Shell Script
7 11 (11.00%) Perl
8 8 (8.00%) C#
9 7 (7.00%) ABAP
10 6 (6.00%) PL/SQL
10 6 (6.00%) T-SQL
11 4 (4.00%) Go
12 3 (3.00%) TypeScript
13 2 (2.00%) C++
13 2 (2.00%) Kotlin
13 2 (2.00%) Scala
14 1 (1.00%) COBOL
14 1 (1.00%) JCL
Qualifications
1 30 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 28 (28.00%) SC Cleared
3 17 (17.00%) AWS Certification
4 12 (12.00%) Degree
5 10 (10.00%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.00%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (1.00%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.00%) GAAP
1 1 (1.00%) IFRS
System Software
1 58 (58.00%) Docker
2 23 (23.00%) Active Directory
3 21 (21.00%) DFS Replication
4 12 (12.00%) Dovecot
4 12 (12.00%) Postfix
4 12 (12.00%) Squid
5 8 (8.00%) Tivoli Directory Server
6 2 (2.00%) OpenAM
6 2 (2.00%) OpenDJ
6 2 (2.00%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 39 (39.00%) Terraform
2 30 (30.00%) Prometheus
3 29 (29.00%) Grafana
4 24 (24.00%) Kubernetes
5 12 (12.00%) Nessus
6 11 (11.00%) CA Single Sign-On
7 10 (10.00%) Ansible
7 10 (10.00%) CA Wily
7 10 (10.00%) Progress Chef
7 10 (10.00%) Proxmox
8 8 (8.00%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (8.00%) Tivoli
9 6 (6.00%) Istio
10 5 (5.00%) Argo
11 4 (4.00%) Puppet
11 4 (4.00%) Rancher
12 1 (1.00%) Control-M
12 1 (1.00%) HP Fortify
12 1 (1.00%) Opsgenie
12 1 (1.00%) Packer
Vendors
1 31 (31.00%) Oracle
2 27 (27.00%) ServiceNow
3 17 (17.00%) Splunk
4 14 (14.00%) Microsoft
5 12 (12.00%) Jaspersoft
6 11 (11.00%) AppDynamics
6 11 (11.00%) Broadcom
7 10 (10.00%) Dynatrace
7 10 (10.00%) IBM
8 8 (8.00%) SAP
9 5 (5.00%) CA Agile Central
10 4 (4.00%) Red Hat
11 3 (3.00%) Cloudera
11 3 (3.00%) ForgeRock
11 3 (3.00%) Google
12 2 (2.00%) Ariba
13 1 (1.00%) Adobe
13 1 (1.00%) Atlassian
13 1 (1.00%) Informatica
13 1 (1.00%) Salesforce