Groovy Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Apache Groovy
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Groovy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 76 -
Rank change year-on-year -21 - -
Contract jobs citing Groovy 4 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.34% 0.67% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.00% 1.28% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile - £493 -
25th Percentile £420 £496 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £508 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.30% - -
75th Percentile £460 £534 -
90th Percentile - £541 -
Scotland median daily rate £440 £504 £520
% change year-on-year -12.66% -3.13% -

All Programming Languages
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 402 390 229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 33.78% 52.21% 33.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 202 166
10th Percentile £311 £313 £337
25th Percentile £325 £407 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £440
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +7.95% -12.00%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £500
90th Percentile £588 £613 £602
Scotland median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 3
10th Percentile - £30.05 £17.45
25th Percentile - £52.50 £18.26
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +180.76% -65.74%
75th Percentile - £62.50 -
90th Percentile - £63.60 -
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £60.00 £19.59
% change year-on-year -41.67% +206.28% -66.81%

Groovy
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Groovy relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Groovy job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Groovy
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Groovy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Groovy

Groovy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) JBoss
1 1 (25.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (75.00%) MariaDB
1 3 (75.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (100.00%) Maven
2 3 (75.00%) Gradle
2 3 (75.00%) webpack
3 1 (25.00%) Ant
3 1 (25.00%) Artifactory
3 1 (25.00%) Git
3 1 (25.00%) JIRA
3 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Linux DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Scripter
2 1 (25.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Windows DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (75.00%) Jest
1 3 (75.00%) Node.js
1 3 (75.00%) React
1 3 (75.00%) Redux
1 3 (75.00%) RESTful
1 3 (75.00%) Spring
1 3 (75.00%) Spring Boot
1 3 (75.00%) Vue
2 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Clean Code
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (75.00%) Design Patterns
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) Service Management
2 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) SOLID
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Coaching
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
3 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Release Management
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Bash
2 3 (75.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) Shell Script
2 3 (75.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Podman
1 1 (25.00%) Puppet