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 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 312 346
Rank change year-on-year -75 +34 -38
Contract jobs citing Groovy 57 61 45
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.28% 0.46% 0.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.90% 1.19% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 33 23
10th Percentile £425 £359 £450
25th Percentile £450 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -1.82% -12.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £750
90th Percentile £653 £775 £770
England median daily rate £494 £475 £518
% change year-on-year +3.95% -8.35% -17.08%

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 6,325 5,110 6,430
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.54% 38.54% 39.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,248 3,553 4,718
10th Percentile £381 £375 £370
25th Percentile £450 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £660 £688 £705
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 64 41
10th Percentile £26.52 £26.64 £25.25
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £40.06
Median hourly rate £52.50 £44.70 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.46% -9.70% -17.79%
75th Percentile £73.00 £63.38 £61.43
90th Percentile £88.75 £87.13 £78.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%

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 3 September 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 3 September 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
South London -9 12 £513 +7.89% 1
Central London -29 1 £600 +56.86% 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 15 (26.32%) Confluence
2 3 (5.26%) nginx
3 1 (1.75%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 11 (19.30%) NetSuite
1 11 (19.30%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (3.51%) Infor LN
2 2 (3.51%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.75%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (1.75%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 27 (47.37%) AWS
2 17 (29.82%) Azure
3 13 (22.81%) AtomSphere
3 13 (22.81%) Boomi
4 12 (21.05%) Amazon S3
5 10 (17.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 10 (17.54%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (17.54%) AWS KMS
5 10 (17.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 6 (10.53%) GitHub
7 5 (8.77%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (7.02%) GCP
9 3 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (5.26%) Datadog
9 3 (5.26%) IaaS
9 3 (5.26%) OCI
9 3 (5.26%) PaaS
9 3 (5.26%) SaaS
9 3 (5.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (15.79%) Firewall
2 6 (10.53%) OpenLDAP
3 4 (7.02%) SSL
4 3 (5.26%) DNS
4 3 (5.26%) Internet
5 2 (3.51%) FTP
5 2 (3.51%) HTTP
5 2 (3.51%) IMAP
5 2 (3.51%) SMTP
5 2 (3.51%) SSH
6 1 (1.75%) HTTPS
6 1 (1.75%) VPN
6 1 (1.75%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (22.81%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (17.54%) Amazon Aurora
2 10 (17.54%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (8.77%) Couchbase
3 5 (8.77%) NoSQL
4 4 (7.02%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (5.26%) SQL Server
6 2 (3.51%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (1.75%) Data Mart
7 1 (1.75%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.75%) Metadata
7 1 (1.75%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.75%) OLAP
7 1 (1.75%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.75%) Redis
7 1 (1.75%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 23 (40.35%) Jenkins
2 17 (29.82%) Git
3 15 (26.32%) JIRA
4 5 (8.77%) GitLab
5 3 (5.26%) ScriptRunner
6 2 (3.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (3.51%) Bitbucket
6 2 (3.51%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (3.51%) Vagrant
6 2 (3.51%) Zephyr
7 1 (1.75%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.75%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.75%) Maven
7 1 (1.75%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.75%) SonarQube
General
1 21 (36.84%) Public Sector
2 18 (31.58%) Social Skills
3 10 (17.54%) Finance
4 5 (8.77%) Retail
5 4 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.26%) Banking
6 3 (5.26%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.75%) Front Office
7 1 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.75%) Local Government
7 1 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (29.82%) Senior
2 16 (28.07%) DevOps Engineer
3 14 (24.56%) Developer
4 6 (10.53%) Architect
4 6 (10.53%) Senior Developer
5 5 (8.77%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) Senior Architect
6 4 (7.02%) AWS DevOps
6 4 (7.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) DBA
6 4 (7.02%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Administrator
7 3 (5.26%) Java Developer
7 3 (5.26%) Java Software Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) JIRA Administrator
7 3 (5.26%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (5.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Senior Software Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (47.37%) Terraform
2 20 (35.09%) REST
3 17 (29.82%) JSON
3 17 (29.82%) SOAP
4 16 (28.07%) XML
5 6 (10.53%) Kafka
6 5 (8.77%) RxJava
6 5 (8.77%) Vert.x
7 4 (7.02%) LDAP
8 3 (5.26%) OAuth
8 3 (5.26%) OAuth2
8 3 (5.26%) Oracle Fusion
8 3 (5.26%) Web Services
9 2 (3.51%) EDI
9 2 (3.51%) EDIFACT
9 2 (3.51%) Middleware
10 1 (1.75%) .NET
10 1 (1.75%) SAML
10 1 (1.75%) Spring
10 1 (1.75%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 14 (24.56%) Replication
2 4 (7.02%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.26%) Data Structures
3 3 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (5.26%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.75%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.75%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.75%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.75%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 16 (28.07%) Linux
2 9 (15.79%) Amazon Linux
3 6 (10.53%) Windows
4 3 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.51%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.75%) VMS
6 1 (1.75%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.75%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (47.37%) Agile
1 27 (47.37%) DevOps
2 25 (43.86%) CI/CD
3 19 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (28.07%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (24.56%) API Management
6 14 (24.56%) Performance Tuning
7 13 (22.81%) Root Cause Analysis
8 9 (15.79%) Change Management
8 9 (15.79%) Observability
8 9 (15.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 9 (15.79%) Technical Leadership
9 7 (12.28%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 7 (12.28%) High Availability
9 7 (12.28%) ITIL
9 7 (12.28%) Servant Leadership
9 7 (12.28%) Test Automation
10 6 (10.53%) BDD
10 6 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (45.61%) Python
2 21 (36.84%) Java
3 20 (35.09%) JavaScript
4 15 (26.32%) SQL
5 12 (21.05%) PowerShell
6 9 (15.79%) Perl
7 8 (14.04%) Bash
8 3 (5.26%) Go
9 2 (3.51%) PL/SQL
9 2 (3.51%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.75%) C
10 1 (1.75%) C#
10 1 (1.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 34 (59.65%) Security Cleared
2 33 (57.89%) SC Cleared
3 9 (15.79%) AWS Certification
4 8 (14.04%) Azure Certification
5 3 (5.26%) DV Cleared
6 2 (3.51%) Degree
7 1 (1.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.75%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (1.75%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.26%) QA
2 2 (3.51%) NCSC
3 1 (1.75%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 19 (33.33%) Docker
2 5 (8.77%) Active Directory
3 3 (5.26%) Squid
4 2 (3.51%) DFS Replication
4 2 (3.51%) Dovecot
4 2 (3.51%) Postfix
4 2 (3.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (28.07%) Kubernetes
2 12 (21.05%) Grafana
2 12 (21.05%) Prometheus
3 4 (7.02%) Ansible
3 4 (7.02%) Kustomize
4 2 (3.51%) Nessus
4 2 (3.51%) Packer
4 2 (3.51%) Proxmox
5 1 (1.75%) Argo
5 1 (1.75%) HP Fortify
5 1 (1.75%) Istio
5 1 (1.75%) Kibana
5 1 (1.75%) Podman
5 1 (1.75%) Puppet
5 1 (1.75%) Rancher
5 1 (1.75%) WSUS
Vendors
1 21 (36.84%) Oracle
2 12 (21.05%) ServiceNow
3 11 (19.30%) Salesforce
4 4 (7.02%) Dynatrace
4 4 (7.02%) Google
5 3 (5.26%) Atlassian
6 2 (3.51%) Baan
6 2 (3.51%) Infor
6 2 (3.51%) ION Trading
6 2 (3.51%) Jaspersoft
6 2 (3.51%) Murex
6 2 (3.51%) Splunk
7 1 (1.75%) Anaplan
7 1 (1.75%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.75%) IBM
7 1 (1.75%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.75%) PagerDuty
7 1 (1.75%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.75%) SAP
7 1 (1.75%) Trend Micro