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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 327 342 357
Rank change year-on-year +15 +15 +35
Contract jobs citing Groovy 56 39 67
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.40% 0.25% 0.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.03% 0.64% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 20 46
10th Percentile £358 £409 £444
25th Percentile £394 £500 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £594
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% -13.68% -8.65%
75th Percentile £531 £673 £722
90th Percentile £668 £750 £775
England median daily rate £475 £513 £575
% change year-on-year -7.32% -10.87% -8.00%
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 5,423 6,080 7,337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.49% 38.98% 36.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,654 4,141 5,509
10th Percentile £368 £365 £394
25th Percentile £426 £460 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £570 £580
Median % change year-on-year -4.39% -1.72% -3.33%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £800 £825 £813
England median daily rate £513 £539 £550
% change year-on-year -4.96% -1.95% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 41 73
10th Percentile £22.99 £35.00 £25.88
25th Percentile £31.83 £40.06 £36.28
Median hourly rate £45.50 £47.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £63.63 £61.50 £65.11
90th Percentile £87.50 £97.50 £77.00
England median hourly rate £63.32 £65.00 £62.25
% change year-on-year -2.59% +4.42% -0.40%

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 19 November 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 19 November 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 0 5 £368 - 5
West London -12 1 £300 -29.41%
East London - 1 £540 - 2
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 11 (19.64%) Confluence
1 11 (19.64%) nginx
2 6 (10.71%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (10.71%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.79%) Apache
3 1 (1.79%) CICS
3 1 (1.79%) JBoss
3 1 (1.79%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (17.86%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 6 (10.71%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (3.57%) SAP HR
3 1 (1.79%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 24 (42.86%) AWS
1 24 (42.86%) Azure
2 12 (21.43%) Amazon ECS
3 11 (19.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 11 (19.64%) GCP
3 11 (19.64%) Route 53
4 10 (17.86%) Amazon EC2
4 10 (17.86%) Amazon ELB
4 10 (17.86%) Amazon S3
4 10 (17.86%) AWS KMS
4 10 (17.86%) GitHub
4 10 (17.86%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (17.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 9 (16.07%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (10.71%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (10.71%) OCI
7 4 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (7.14%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 4 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (7.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (17.86%) DNS
1 10 (17.86%) Firewall
1 10 (17.86%) FTP
1 10 (17.86%) HTTP
1 10 (17.86%) IMAP
1 10 (17.86%) OpenLDAP
1 10 (17.86%) SMTP
1 10 (17.86%) SSH
2 1 (1.79%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (26.79%) Amazon RDS
3 14 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 12 (21.43%) Oracle Reports
5 9 (16.07%) Redis
6 6 (10.71%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 5 (8.93%) Oracle Database
8 2 (3.57%) BigQuery
8 2 (3.57%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.79%) DB2
9 1 (1.79%) Essbase
9 1 (1.79%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 31 (55.36%) Git
1 31 (55.36%) Jenkins
2 19 (33.93%) JIRA
3 10 (17.86%) Artifactory
3 10 (17.86%) Vagrant
4 7 (12.50%) Maven
4 7 (12.50%) SonarQube
5 6 (10.71%) Subversion
6 5 (8.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (8.93%) JUnit
6 5 (8.93%) Mockito
6 5 (8.93%) Postman
6 5 (8.93%) REST Assured
6 5 (8.93%) SoapUI
6 5 (8.93%) Xcode
6 5 (8.93%) XCTest
7 2 (3.57%) Eclipse
7 2 (3.57%) Spinnaker
8 1 (1.79%) Ant
8 1 (1.79%) Oracle Forms
General
1 27 (48.21%) Social Skills
2 22 (39.29%) Finance
3 10 (17.86%) Presentation Skills
3 10 (17.86%) Public Sector
4 6 (10.71%) Banking
5 5 (8.93%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (5.36%) Billing
8 1 (1.79%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.79%) German Language
8 1 (1.79%) Law
8 1 (1.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (26.79%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
3 13 (23.21%) AWS Engineer
4 12 (21.43%) Developer
5 11 (19.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 11 (19.64%) Consultant
6 10 (17.86%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 10 (17.86%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 10 (17.86%) Platform Engineer
7 8 (14.29%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 7 (12.50%) Oracle Consultant
9 6 (10.71%) Oracle Developer
10 4 (7.14%) SAP Consultant
11 3 (5.36%) ERP Developer
12 2 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
12 2 (3.57%) Java Developer
12 2 (3.57%) Migration Engineer
12 2 (3.57%) Principal Developer
12 2 (3.57%) SAP HCM Consultant
12 2 (3.57%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (25.00%) REST
2 13 (23.21%) SOAP
3 11 (19.64%) Oracle Fusion
4 10 (17.86%) Kafka
4 10 (17.86%) LDAP
5 9 (16.07%) AngularJS
5 9 (16.07%) Spring
5 9 (16.07%) Web Services
6 8 (14.29%) CSS
6 8 (14.29%) HTML
7 7 (12.50%) Bootstrap
8 6 (10.71%) CSS3
8 6 (10.71%) HTML5
8 6 (10.71%) J2EE
8 6 (10.71%) Spring Boot
9 5 (8.93%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (8.93%) Hibernate
9 5 (8.93%) JPA
9 5 (8.93%) Spring MVC
9 5 (8.93%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 16 (28.57%) Replication
2 5 (8.93%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (5.36%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.57%) Life Science
4 2 (3.57%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.79%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.79%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.79%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.79%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 14 (25.00%) Linux
2 10 (17.86%) Amazon Linux
2 10 (17.86%) Ubuntu
2 10 (17.86%) VMS
2 10 (17.86%) Windows
3 5 (8.93%) Unix
4 1 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (46.43%) CI/CD
2 23 (41.07%) Agile
3 21 (37.50%) DevOps
4 14 (25.00%) Change Management
4 14 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 14 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (21.43%) Performance Tuning
6 10 (17.86%) Cloud Security
6 10 (17.86%) Patch Management
6 10 (17.86%) Platform Engineering
7 9 (16.07%) Migration
8 8 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (14.29%) SDLC
9 7 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
9 7 (12.50%) Data Integration
9 7 (12.50%) Kanban
9 7 (12.50%) Microservices
9 7 (12.50%) Scrum
9 7 (12.50%) Workshop Facilitation
10 6 (10.71%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 28 (50.00%) Python
2 23 (41.07%) SQL
3 19 (33.93%) PowerShell
4 18 (32.14%) JavaScript
5 14 (25.00%) Java
6 11 (19.64%) Bash
7 7 (12.50%) ABAP
7 7 (12.50%) Go
8 6 (10.71%) PL/SQL
9 5 (8.93%) C#
9 5 (8.93%) C++
9 5 (8.93%) Shell Script
10 2 (3.57%) TypeScript
11 1 (1.79%) COBOL
11 1 (1.79%) JCL
11 1 (1.79%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.79%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (21.43%) Degree
2 11 (19.64%) AWS Certification
2 11 (19.64%) SC Cleared
2 11 (19.64%) Security Cleared
3 10 (17.86%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.57%) GDPR
2 1 (1.79%) GAAP
2 1 (1.79%) IFRS
System Software
1 29 (51.79%) Docker
2 10 (17.86%) DFS Replication
2 10 (17.86%) Dovecot
2 10 (17.86%) Postfix
2 10 (17.86%) Squid
Systems Management
1 24 (42.86%) Terraform
2 20 (35.71%) Kubernetes
3 14 (25.00%) Grafana
3 14 (25.00%) Prometheus
4 10 (17.86%) Nessus
4 10 (17.86%) Proxmox
5 8 (14.29%) Ansible
5 8 (14.29%) Puppet
6 4 (7.14%) Rancher
7 2 (3.57%) Istio
8 1 (1.79%) Control-M
8 1 (1.79%) Opsgenie
8 1 (1.79%) Podman
Vendors
1 19 (33.93%) Oracle
2 14 (25.00%) ServiceNow
3 10 (17.86%) Dynatrace
3 10 (17.86%) Jaspersoft
4 7 (12.50%) SAP
5 5 (8.93%) CA Agile Central
5 5 (8.93%) Splunk
6 3 (5.36%) Google
7 2 (3.57%) Ariba
8 1 (1.79%) Adobe
8 1 (1.79%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.79%) Microsoft