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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 327 371
Rank change year-on-year -32 +44 -13
Contract jobs citing Groovy 32 29 26
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.20% 0.22% 0.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.57% 0.57% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 19 18
10th Percentile £352 £423 £450
25th Percentile £430 £510 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £638 £538
Median % change year-on-year -21.57% +18.60% -20.37%
75th Percentile £531 £775 £634
90th Percentile £548 - £675
England median daily rate £475 £600 £538
% change year-on-year -20.83% +11.63% -17.31%

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 5,586 5,111 6,397
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 34.83% 39.15% 34.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,790 3,492 4,842
10th Percentile £363 £375 £388
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £555 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% -3.48% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £699 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £506 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.71% -2.78% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 35 66
10th Percentile £18.81 £30.74 £26.02
25th Percentile £39.42 £37.43 £40.09
Median hourly rate £55.00 £45.00 £51.13
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -11.98% -11.09%
75th Percentile £66.50 £62.38 £62.31
90th Percentile £73.50 £93.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 9 March 2026.

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 9 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
Central London -14 1 £501 -17.95% 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 1 (3.13%) Anypoint
1 1 (3.13%) Mule
1 1 (3.13%) Oracle Application Server
1 1 (3.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (3.13%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 4 (12.50%) SAP HCM
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (3.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.50%) AWS
2 3 (9.38%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (9.38%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 3 (9.38%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (9.38%) Azure
2 3 (9.38%) GCP
2 3 (9.38%) Serverless
3 2 (6.25%) Anthos
3 2 (6.25%) GitHub
3 2 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (6.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (3.13%) Azure API Management
4 1 (3.13%) CloudBees
4 1 (3.13%) OCI
4 1 (3.13%) SaaS
4 1 (3.13%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (12.50%) Redis
3 3 (9.38%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (9.38%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (6.25%) BigQuery
4 2 (6.25%) Data Mart
5 1 (3.13%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (3.13%) Oracle Database
5 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (15.63%) Git
3 2 (6.25%) Maven
3 2 (6.25%) Postman
3 2 (6.25%) Spinnaker
4 1 (3.13%) Artifactory
4 1 (3.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (3.13%) CMake
4 1 (3.13%) Gradle
4 1 (3.13%) JIRA
4 1 (3.13%) JUnit
4 1 (3.13%) Mockito
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (3.13%) REST Assured
4 1 (3.13%) SoapUI
4 1 (3.13%) SonarQube
4 1 (3.13%) Subversion
4 1 (3.13%) Xcode
4 1 (3.13%) XCTest
General
1 14 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 12 (37.50%) Finance
3 7 (21.88%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Banking
5 1 (3.13%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 16 (50.00%) Consultant
2 8 (25.00%) Oracle Consultant
2 8 (25.00%) SAP Consultant
3 6 (18.75%) Developer
3 6 (18.75%) SAP HCM Consultant
4 4 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Payroll Consultant
4 4 (12.50%) SAP Payroll Consultant
5 3 (9.38%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (6.25%) Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) ForgeRock Developer
6 2 (6.25%) GCP DevOps
6 2 (6.25%) GCP DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) GCP Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Murex Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Murex Support
6 2 (6.25%) Murex Support Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Senior
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (25.00%) Oracle Fusion
1 8 (25.00%) SAP PI
2 5 (15.63%) SOAP
3 4 (12.50%) Kafka
3 4 (12.50%) OAuth
3 4 (12.50%) SAML
4 3 (9.38%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (9.38%) J2EE
4 3 (9.38%) Keycloak
4 3 (9.38%) LDAP
4 3 (9.38%) OpenID
4 3 (9.38%) REST
5 2 (6.25%) CSS
5 2 (6.25%) HTML
5 2 (6.25%) RESTful
5 2 (6.25%) Web Services
6 1 (3.13%) CSS3
6 1 (3.13%) JPA
6 1 (3.13%) JSON
6 1 (3.13%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) Replication
2 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.13%) Hedge funds
2 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (37.50%) Agile
1 12 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (31.25%) Validation
3 9 (28.13%) DevOps
4 8 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
4 8 (25.00%) AI
4 8 (25.00%) Data Integration
4 8 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 8 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
5 7 (21.88%) AOP
5 7 (21.88%) CI/CD
5 7 (21.88%) Cost Management
5 7 (21.88%) Cost Optimisation
5 7 (21.88%) Data Management
5 7 (21.88%) Visualisation
5 7 (21.88%) Waterfall
6 6 (18.75%) Mentoring
6 6 (18.75%) Performance Management
6 6 (18.75%) Time Management
7 4 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (34.38%) JavaScript
2 10 (31.25%) Java
3 8 (25.00%) ABAP
4 7 (21.88%) Python
5 6 (18.75%) Bash
5 6 (18.75%) SQL
6 3 (9.38%) Shell Script
7 2 (6.25%) Go
7 2 (6.25%) PL/SQL
7 2 (6.25%) PowerShell
8 1 (3.13%) DataWeave
8 1 (3.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (9.38%) SC Cleared
1 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (21.88%) Docker
2 2 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.25%) OpenAM
2 2 (6.25%) OpenDJ
2 2 (6.25%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 8 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (18.75%) Terraform
3 4 (12.50%) Grafana
3 4 (12.50%) Prometheus
4 3 (9.38%) Rancher
4 3 (9.38%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (6.25%) Istio
6 1 (3.13%) Ansible
6 1 (3.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (40.63%) Oracle
2 8 (25.00%) SAP
3 4 (12.50%) Dynatrace
4 3 (9.38%) ForgeRock
4 3 (9.38%) ServiceNow
5 2 (6.25%) Google
5 2 (6.25%) Microsoft
5 2 (6.25%) Murex
6 1 (3.13%) Ariba
6 1 (3.13%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (3.13%) MuleSoft
6 1 (3.13%) Splunk
6 1 (3.13%) Workday