Groovy Contracts in England

Apache Groovy
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Groovy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Groovy over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 482 417 452
Rank change year-on-year -65 +35 +8
Contract jobs citing Groovy 60 232 358
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.47% 0.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.56% 1.34% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 173 266
10th Percentile £405 £482 £434
25th Percentile £444 £571 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £650 £585
Median % change year-on-year -17.31% +11.11% +11.43%
75th Percentile £631 £700 £702
90th Percentile £678 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £538 £629 £585
% change year-on-year -14.48% +7.44% +7.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - - £64.45
25th Percentile - - £68.40
Median hourly rate - £85.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% -
75th Percentile - - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £85.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year - +6.25% -

All Programming Languages
England

Groovy is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,784 17,251 25,963
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.48% 35.12% 36.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,845 12,598 19,160
10th Percentile £350 £385 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.28% +2.33% +10.00%
75th Percentile £660 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £794 £763
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 439 419 446
10th Percentile £37.61 £26.01 £20.00
25th Percentile £49.25 £49.84 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.18 £50.10
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% +22.11% +15.84%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £78.00 £70.68
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £60.63 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.27% +21.25% +14.94%

Groovy
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Groovy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Groovy in England

Groovy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Groovy in England.

Daily rate trend for Groovy in England

Groovy
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Groovy in England over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Groovy in England

Groovy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Groovy in England.

Hourly rate trend for Groovy in England

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 7 May 2024. 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 -44 33 £556 -17.59% 15
North of England +20 12 £625 +8.70% 6
Yorkshire +32 8 £625 +25.00%
South East +11 6 £538 +2.38% 5
East of England +4 6 £410 -20.62%
North West +14 4 - - 6
Midlands +26 2 £450 -12.20% 4
West Midlands +18 2 £450 -12.20% 3
Groovy
UK

Groovy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (23.33%) Confluence
2 4 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (5.00%) Jupyter
3 3 (5.00%) nginx
4 2 (3.33%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (1.67%) Apache
5 1 (1.67%) JBoss
5 1 (1.67%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.67%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (1.67%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Hyperion Planning
1 1 (1.67%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 15 (25.00%) AWS
2 10 (16.67%) Azure
2 10 (16.67%) GCP
3 9 (15.00%) OpenShift
4 7 (11.67%) CloudBees
4 7 (11.67%) Collibra
5 6 (10.00%) Power Platform
6 5 (8.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 4 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (5.00%) Azure AKS
9 2 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (3.33%) Apigee
9 2 (3.33%) GitHub
9 2 (3.33%) Google Compute Engine
9 2 (3.33%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (1.67%) Amazon S3
10 1 (1.67%) PaaS
10 1 (1.67%) Route 53
10 1 (1.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.67%) HTTP
2 3 (5.00%) Firewall
3 2 (3.33%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.67%) DNS
4 1 (1.67%) FTP
4 1 (1.67%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.67%) SNMP
4 1 (1.67%) SSH
4 1 (1.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (26.67%) MongoDB
2 9 (15.00%) NoSQL
3 6 (10.00%) Apache Cassandra
3 6 (10.00%) Metadata
3 6 (10.00%) Power BI
4 5 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (8.33%) SQL Server
5 3 (5.00%) ClickHouse
6 2 (3.33%) BigQuery
6 2 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (3.33%) MySQL
6 2 (3.33%) RDBMS
6 2 (3.33%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.67%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.67%) Couchbase
7 1 (1.67%) DataStax
7 1 (1.67%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.67%) MariaDB
7 1 (1.67%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.67%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 28 (46.67%) Jenkins
2 20 (33.33%) JIRA
3 9 (15.00%) Git
4 7 (11.67%) Eclipse
4 7 (11.67%) PyCharm
5 6 (10.00%) Bitbucket
5 6 (10.00%) Maven
6 5 (8.33%) Bitbucket Server
6 5 (8.33%) JMeter
7 4 (6.67%) Cucumber
7 4 (6.67%) Gatling
7 4 (6.67%) Selenium
7 4 (6.67%) WebDriver
8 3 (5.00%) GitLab
9 2 (3.33%) Artifactory
9 2 (3.33%) Jaeger
9 2 (3.33%) NWDI
9 2 (3.33%) NWDS
9 2 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (1.67%) TestCafe
General
1 13 (21.67%) Finance
2 10 (16.67%) Banking
3 6 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 5 (8.33%) Manufacturing
5 4 (6.67%) Front Office
5 4 (6.67%) Social Skills
6 3 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.00%) Aviation
7 2 (3.33%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.67%) Advertising
8 1 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.67%) Military
8 1 (1.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (23.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (16.67%) Developer
3 7 (11.67%) Analyst
3 7 (11.67%) Business Analyst
4 6 (10.00%) Consultant
5 5 (8.33%) Administrator
5 5 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (8.33%) JIRA Administrator
5 5 (8.33%) Lead
5 5 (8.33%) SAP Consultant
5 5 (8.33%) Senior
6 4 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
6 4 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) Data Analyst
6 4 (6.67%) Data Business Analyst
6 4 (6.67%) Data Product Analyst
6 4 (6.67%) Lead DevOps
6 4 (6.67%) Product Business Analyst
6 4 (6.67%) Product Owner
6 4 (6.67%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (28.33%) Kafka
2 11 (18.33%) REST
3 5 (8.33%) ActiveMQ
3 5 (8.33%) JSON
3 5 (8.33%) SOAP
4 4 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (6.67%) IDoc
4 4 (6.67%) Web Services
4 4 (6.67%) XSLT
5 3 (5.00%) Apache Beam
5 3 (5.00%) Drools
5 3 (5.00%) JWT
5 3 (5.00%) Keycloak
5 3 (5.00%) SAP PI
5 3 (5.00%) Swagger
6 2 (3.33%) CSS
6 2 (3.33%) Node.js
6 2 (3.33%) OAuth
6 2 (3.33%) React
6 2 (3.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.67%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.67%) Public Cloud
3 2 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.67%) CBDC
4 1 (1.67%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.67%) Derivative
4 1 (1.67%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.67%) Life Science
4 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (21.67%) Linux
2 6 (10.00%) Unix
3 5 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (6.67%) Mac OS X
5 2 (3.33%) Windows
6 1 (1.67%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (36.67%) Agile
2 21 (35.00%) CI/CD
3 20 (33.33%) DevOps
4 11 (18.33%) TDD
5 10 (16.67%) Test Automation
6 9 (15.00%) Configuration Management
6 9 (15.00%) Containerisation
6 9 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
7 8 (13.33%) Migration
7 8 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (13.33%) Workflow
8 7 (11.67%) Data Governance
8 7 (11.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (11.67%) Lean Six Sigma
8 7 (11.67%) Six Sigma
9 6 (10.00%) BDD
9 6 (10.00%) Microservices
10 5 (8.33%) Continuous Delivery
10 5 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (8.33%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 35 (58.33%) Java
2 27 (45.00%) Python
3 22 (36.67%) JavaScript
4 15 (25.00%) SQL
5 10 (16.67%) Scala
6 7 (11.67%) Ruby
7 6 (10.00%) Bash
7 6 (10.00%) Go
7 6 (10.00%) Shell Script
8 4 (6.67%) PL/SQL
9 2 (3.33%) ABAP
9 2 (3.33%) PowerShell
9 2 (3.33%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.67%) C#
10 1 (1.67%) Clojure
10 1 (1.67%) Korn
10 1 (1.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (5.00%) Degree
1 3 (5.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (5.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.67%) CISSP
2 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.67%) GDPR
1 7 (11.67%) Good Clinical Practice
1 7 (11.67%) GxP
2 1 (1.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.67%) MiFID
System Software
1 18 (30.00%) Docker
2 3 (5.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (1.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.67%) KVM
3 1 (1.67%) OpenAM
3 1 (1.67%) OpenDJ
3 1 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 14 (23.33%) Ansible
3 12 (20.00%) Terraform
4 11 (18.33%) Grafana
5 6 (10.00%) Prometheus
6 4 (6.67%) Podman
7 3 (5.00%) Puppet
8 2 (3.33%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.67%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (1.67%) Kibana
9 1 (1.67%) logstash
9 1 (1.67%) Packer
9 1 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (13.33%) Splunk
2 7 (11.67%) Oracle
2 7 (11.67%) SAP
3 6 (10.00%) Atlassian
4 5 (8.33%) Google
5 3 (5.00%) Avaloq
5 3 (5.00%) Microsoft
6 2 (3.33%) AppDynamics
6 2 (3.33%) Confluent
6 2 (3.33%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.67%) Adobe
7 1 (1.67%) BMC
7 1 (1.67%) ForgeRock
7 1 (1.67%) Hyperion
7 1 (1.67%) IBM
7 1 (1.67%) Informatica
7 1 (1.67%) Okta
7 1 (1.67%) OneLogin
7 1 (1.67%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.67%) StreamSets