Groovy Contract Job Trends in London

Apache Groovy
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Groovy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 296 342 353
Rank change year-on-year +46 +11 +40
Contract jobs citing Groovy 71 40 83
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.53% 0.25% 0.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.38% 0.63% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 20 58
10th Percentile £359 £446 £500
25th Percentile £450 £500 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £635
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -19.29% -1.36%
75th Percentile £638 £731 £738
90th Percentile £759 £750 £775
England median daily rate £475 £509 £625
% change year-on-year -6.63% -18.60% +2.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
England median hourly rate - - £75.00

All Programming Languages
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,150 6,366 7,801
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.49% 39.59% 37.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,489 4,440 5,891
10th Percentile £375 £370 £400
25th Percentile £431 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -5.83% -
75th Percentile £676 £700 £713
90th Percentile £800 £850 £825
England median daily rate £513 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -5.53% -1.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 45 71
10th Percentile £25.58 £27.79 £25.75
25th Percentile £33.06 £38.50 £40.33
Median hourly rate £44.20 £49.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% -13.91% -
75th Percentile £63.38 £71.88 £69.38
90th Percentile £87.50 £97.50 £85.00
England median hourly rate £56.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -13.08% +4.00% +4.17%

Groovy
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Groovy job vacancy trend in London

Groovy
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Groovy

Groovy
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Groovy in London over the 6 months to 15 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Groovy in London

Groovy
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Groovy.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Groovy

Groovy
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Groovy within the London region over the 6 months to 15 October 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
South London - 10 £475 -
Central London +15 9 £368 - 2
West London -3 1 £300 -33.33%
East London - 1 £540 - 1
Groovy
England

Groovy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 22 (30.99%) Confluence
2 11 (15.49%) nginx
3 6 (8.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (8.45%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (2.82%) Apache
4 2 (2.82%) JBoss
5 1 (1.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (1.41%) CICS
5 1 (1.41%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (14.08%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 6 (8.45%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (2.82%) SAP HR
3 1 (1.41%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 33 (46.48%) AWS
2 28 (39.44%) Azure
3 14 (19.72%) GCP
4 12 (16.90%) Amazon ECS
4 12 (16.90%) GitHub
5 11 (15.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 11 (15.49%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (15.49%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (15.49%) Route 53
5 11 (15.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 10 (14.08%) Amazon ELB
6 10 (14.08%) Amazon S3
6 10 (14.08%) AWS KMS
6 10 (14.08%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (12.68%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (11.27%) IaaS
9 6 (8.45%) OCI
9 6 (8.45%) SaaS
10 3 (4.23%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (4.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 11 (15.49%) HTTP
2 10 (14.08%) DNS
2 10 (14.08%) Firewall
2 10 (14.08%) FTP
2 10 (14.08%) IMAP
2 10 (14.08%) OpenLDAP
2 10 (14.08%) SMTP
2 10 (14.08%) SSH
3 1 (1.41%) Broadband
3 1 (1.41%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (28.17%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (18.31%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (16.90%) Amazon Aurora
4 9 (12.68%) Oracle Reports
5 8 (11.27%) Redis
6 6 (8.45%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 6 (8.45%) Oracle Database
7 2 (2.82%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.82%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.41%) DB2
8 1 (1.41%) Essbase
8 1 (1.41%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.41%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 33 (46.48%) Git
1 33 (46.48%) Jenkins
2 32 (45.07%) JIRA
3 12 (16.90%) Artifactory
3 12 (16.90%) ScriptRunner
4 10 (14.08%) Vagrant
5 8 (11.27%) Maven
5 8 (11.27%) SonarQube
6 7 (9.86%) REST Assured
6 7 (9.86%) Subversion
7 6 (8.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 6 (8.45%) JUnit
7 6 (8.45%) Mockito
7 6 (8.45%) Postman
7 6 (8.45%) SoapUI
7 6 (8.45%) Xcode
7 6 (8.45%) XCTest
8 2 (2.82%) Eclipse
8 2 (2.82%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (2.82%) Spinnaker
General
1 29 (40.85%) Social Skills
2 22 (30.99%) Finance
3 12 (16.90%) Public Sector
4 10 (14.08%) Presentation Skills
5 9 (12.68%) Banking
6 4 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (4.23%) Billing
8 2 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.82%) Military
9 1 (1.41%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.41%) German Language
9 1 (1.41%) Law
9 1 (1.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (21.13%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (18.31%) AWS DevOps
2 13 (18.31%) Developer
3 12 (16.90%) AWS Engineer
4 10 (14.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 10 (14.08%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 10 (14.08%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 10 (14.08%) Platform Engineer
5 8 (11.27%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 7 (9.86%) Consultant
7 6 (8.45%) Architect
7 6 (8.45%) Oracle Developer
8 5 (7.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (7.04%) JIRA Engineer
8 5 (7.04%) Senior
9 4 (5.63%) Oracle Consultant
9 4 (5.63%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (4.23%) ERP Developer
10 3 (4.23%) Migration Engineer
10 3 (4.23%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (26.76%) REST
2 17 (23.94%) SOAP
3 11 (15.49%) Spring
4 10 (14.08%) AngularJS
4 10 (14.08%) LDAP
4 10 (14.08%) Web Services
5 9 (12.68%) CSS
5 9 (12.68%) HTML
5 9 (12.68%) Kafka
6 8 (11.27%) Bootstrap
6 8 (11.27%) Oracle Fusion
7 7 (9.86%) CSS3
7 7 (9.86%) HTML5
7 7 (9.86%) J2EE
7 7 (9.86%) Spring Boot
8 6 (8.45%) Hibernate
8 6 (8.45%) JPA
8 6 (8.45%) Spring Cloud
8 6 (8.45%) Spring MVC
8 6 (8.45%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 14 (19.72%) Replication
2 6 (8.45%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (5.63%) Public Cloud
4 3 (4.23%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.82%) Life Science
5 2 (2.82%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.41%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.41%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.41%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 15 (21.13%) Linux
2 10 (14.08%) Amazon Linux
2 10 (14.08%) Ubuntu
2 10 (14.08%) VMS
2 10 (14.08%) Windows
3 6 (8.45%) Unix
4 2 (2.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (45.07%) Agile
2 29 (40.85%) CI/CD
3 22 (30.99%) DevOps
4 21 (29.58%) Performance Tuning
5 19 (26.76%) Migration
6 16 (22.54%) Configuration Management
7 13 (18.31%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (16.90%) Change Management
9 10 (14.08%) Cloud Security
9 10 (14.08%) Microservices
9 10 (14.08%) Patch Management
9 10 (14.08%) Platform Engineering
9 10 (14.08%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 9 (12.68%) Incident Management
10 9 (12.68%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (12.68%) Kanban
10 9 (12.68%) Scrum
10 9 (12.68%) SDLC
11 8 (11.27%) Infrastructure Automation
12 7 (9.86%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 31 (43.66%) Python
2 24 (33.80%) SQL
3 21 (29.58%) JavaScript
3 21 (29.58%) PowerShell
4 16 (22.54%) Java
5 11 (15.49%) Bash
6 9 (12.68%) Go
7 8 (11.27%) ABAP
8 6 (8.45%) PL/SQL
8 6 (8.45%) Shell Script
9 5 (7.04%) C#
9 5 (7.04%) C++
10 2 (2.82%) TypeScript
11 1 (1.41%) COBOL
11 1 (1.41%) JCL
11 1 (1.41%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.41%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (23.94%) SC Cleared
1 17 (23.94%) Security Cleared
2 12 (16.90%) Degree
3 11 (15.49%) AWS Certification
4 10 (14.08%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.41%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.41%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.82%) GDPR
1 2 (2.82%) IFRS
2 1 (1.41%) GAAP
2 1 (1.41%) QA
System Software
1 28 (39.44%) Docker
2 10 (14.08%) DFS Replication
2 10 (14.08%) Dovecot
2 10 (14.08%) Postfix
2 10 (14.08%) Squid
3 1 (1.41%) OpenAM
3 1 (1.41%) OpenDJ
3 1 (1.41%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 26 (36.62%) Terraform
2 21 (29.58%) Kubernetes
3 12 (16.90%) Grafana
3 12 (16.90%) Prometheus
4 11 (15.49%) Ansible
5 10 (14.08%) Nessus
5 10 (14.08%) Proxmox
5 10 (14.08%) Puppet
6 3 (4.23%) Istio
7 2 (2.82%) Podman
7 2 (2.82%) Rancher
8 1 (1.41%) Control-M
8 1 (1.41%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 19 (26.76%) Oracle
2 14 (19.72%) ServiceNow
3 12 (16.90%) Atlassian
4 10 (14.08%) Jaspersoft
5 9 (12.68%) Dynatrace
6 8 (11.27%) SAP
7 6 (8.45%) CA Agile Central
7 6 (8.45%) Splunk
8 4 (5.63%) Google
9 2 (2.82%) Ariba
10 1 (1.41%) Adobe
10 1 (1.41%) ForgeRock
10 1 (1.41%) Microsoft