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 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 498 428 497
Rank change year-on-year -70 +69 -50
Contract jobs citing Groovy 68 51 58
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.19% 0.21% 0.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.64% 0.61% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 31 42
10th Percentile £350 £313 £400
25th Percentile £402 £419 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £452 £600 £538
Median % change year-on-year -24.75% +11.63% -17.31%
75th Percentile £500 £688 £624
90th Percentile £568 £775 £649
UK median daily rate £450 £560 £538
% change year-on-year -19.64% +4.19% -14.00%

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 10,624 8,346 10,986
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.08% 33.83% 28.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,070 5,588 7,910
10th Percentile £352 £359 £350
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -2.42% -6.43%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £656
90th Percentile £725 £775 £768
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -5.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 454 213 460
10th Percentile £41.94 £25.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £41.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £77.35 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -6.80%

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 13 March 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 13 March 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 -43 33 £488 -23.53% 3
North of England -41 26 £450 -21.40% 4
Yorkshire -41 18 £450 -21.40% 2
West Midlands -58 6 £500 - 4
Midlands -62 6 £500 - 4
North East - 4 £600 - 1
North West - 4 £402 - 1
South East -53 3 - - 6
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 1 (1.47%) Anypoint
1 1 (1.47%) Apache
1 1 (1.47%) IIS
1 1 (1.47%) iPlanet
1 1 (1.47%) JBoss
1 1 (1.47%) Mule
1 1 (1.47%) Oracle Application Server
1 1 (1.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (1.47%) Oracle Workflow
1 1 (1.47%) WebSphere
1 1 (1.47%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 4 (5.88%) SAP HCM
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.47%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 20 (29.41%) AWS
2 17 (25.00%) GCP
3 15 (22.06%) Azure
4 11 (16.18%) GitHub
5 8 (11.76%) SaaS
6 7 (10.29%) AtomSphere
6 7 (10.29%) Boomi
7 6 (8.82%) OpenShift
8 5 (7.35%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (7.35%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (7.35%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (7.35%) Serverless
9 4 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (5.88%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 4 (5.88%) Apigee
9 4 (5.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 4 (5.88%) OCI
10 2 (2.94%) Collibra
10 2 (2.94%) Power Platform
11 1 (1.47%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.47%) DNS
1 1 (1.47%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.76%) Oracle Reports
2 7 (10.29%) Metadata
2 7 (10.29%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (7.35%) Redis
4 4 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (4.41%) Data Mart
6 2 (2.94%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.94%) DataStage
6 2 (2.94%) DB2
6 2 (2.94%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.94%) Power BI
6 2 (2.94%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.47%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.47%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 28 (41.18%) Jenkins
2 9 (13.24%) Git
2 9 (13.24%) Maven
3 7 (10.29%) GitLab
3 7 (10.29%) SonarQube
4 3 (4.41%) JIRA
4 3 (4.41%) Postman
4 3 (4.41%) Selenium
4 3 (4.41%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (2.94%) Artifactory
5 2 (2.94%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.94%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.94%) Gradle
5 2 (2.94%) REST Assured
5 2 (2.94%) SoapUI
6 1 (1.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.47%) CMake
6 1 (1.47%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.47%) Mockito
6 1 (1.47%) Subversion
General
1 20 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 14 (20.59%) Finance
3 9 (13.24%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (4.41%) Banking
4 3 (4.41%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.41%) Publishing
5 2 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.47%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.47%) Front Office
6 1 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 18 (26.47%) Developer
2 16 (23.53%) Consultant
3 15 (22.06%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (11.76%) Oracle Consultant
4 8 (11.76%) SAP Consultant
5 7 (10.29%) Integration Developer
6 6 (8.82%) SAP HCM Consultant
7 5 (7.35%) Automation Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) Analyst
8 4 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
8 4 (5.88%) DevOps Automation Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) GCP Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) Murex Analyst
8 4 (5.88%) Payroll Consultant
8 4 (5.88%) SAP Payroll Consultant
9 3 (4.41%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (4.41%) Murex Support
9 3 (4.41%) Murex Support Analyst
9 3 (4.41%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (4.41%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (25.00%) REST
2 14 (20.59%) JSON
3 12 (17.65%) SOAP
4 8 (11.76%) Oracle Fusion
4 8 (11.76%) SAP PI
4 8 (11.76%) XML
5 6 (8.82%) LDAP
5 6 (8.82%) OAuth
5 6 (8.82%) SAML
5 6 (8.82%) YAML
6 5 (7.35%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (7.35%) Kafka
6 5 (7.35%) OpenID
6 5 (7.35%) SLSA
7 4 (5.88%) J2EE
7 4 (5.88%) Keycloak
7 4 (5.88%) RESTful
7 4 (5.88%) Swagger
7 4 (5.88%) Web Services
8 3 (4.41%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.88%) Replication
2 3 (4.41%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.94%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.47%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.47%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.47%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.47%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.35%) Linux
2 2 (2.94%) Unix
3 1 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.47%) Windows
3 1 (1.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (48.53%) DevOps
2 31 (45.59%) CI/CD
3 26 (38.24%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (30.88%) Agile
5 17 (25.00%) Validation
6 16 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (17.65%) Observability
7 12 (17.65%) Test Automation
8 9 (13.24%) Actionable Insight
8 9 (13.24%) DevSecOps
9 8 (11.76%) AI
9 8 (11.76%) Data Integration
9 8 (11.76%) Knowledge Transfer
9 8 (11.76%) Mentoring
9 8 (11.76%) Translating Business Requirements
9 8 (11.76%) Workshop Facilitation
10 7 (10.29%) AOP
10 7 (10.29%) Data Management
10 7 (10.29%) Visualisation
10 7 (10.29%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 27 (39.71%) Java
2 26 (38.24%) Python
3 20 (29.41%) JavaScript
4 16 (23.53%) Bash
5 11 (16.18%) SQL
6 8 (11.76%) ABAP
7 7 (10.29%) T-SQL
8 6 (8.82%) C#
8 6 (8.82%) Shell Script
9 5 (7.35%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.94%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.47%) DataWeave
11 1 (1.47%) Go
11 1 (1.47%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.47%) Scala
11 1 (1.47%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (13.24%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.82%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.94%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.47%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.47%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (1.47%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (22.06%) Docker
2 5 (7.35%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.94%) OpenAM
3 2 (2.94%) OpenDJ
3 2 (2.94%) OpenIDM
4 1 (1.47%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 25 (36.76%) Terraform
2 18 (26.47%) Kubernetes
3 10 (14.71%) Ansible
4 9 (13.24%) Grafana
4 9 (13.24%) Prometheus
5 5 (7.35%) Istio
5 5 (7.35%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (5.88%) Rancher
7 2 (2.94%) Argo
7 2 (2.94%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.94%) Puppet
8 1 (1.47%) CA Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.47%) CA Wily
8 1 (1.47%) HP Fortify
8 1 (1.47%) Podman
8 1 (1.47%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 19 (27.94%) Oracle
2 8 (11.76%) Dynatrace
2 8 (11.76%) SAP
3 5 (7.35%) Google
3 5 (7.35%) ServiceNow
3 5 (7.35%) Sonatype
4 4 (5.88%) ForgeRock
4 4 (5.88%) Murex
4 4 (5.88%) Splunk
5 3 (4.41%) AppDynamics
5 3 (4.41%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.94%) Informatica
7 1 (1.47%) Ariba
7 1 (1.47%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (1.47%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.47%) Dell
7 1 (1.47%) IBM
7 1 (1.47%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.47%) New Relic
7 1 (1.47%) Red Hat