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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 307 356
Rank change year-on-year -76 +49 -43
Contract jobs citing Groovy 48 56 46
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.24% 0.41% 0.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.78% 1.06% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 32 22
10th Percentile £404 £359 £450
25th Percentile £425 £444 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £588 £569
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% +3.30% -12.50%
75th Percentile £613 £659 £750
90th Percentile £657 £798 £773
England median daily rate £450 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -14.29% -2.33% -15.69%

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 6,143 5,266 6,743
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.09% 38.83% 38.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,097 3,686 5,115
10th Percentile £379 £374 £375
25th Percentile £450 £431 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -3.51% -5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £520 £520 £540
% change year-on-year - -3.70% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 49 50
10th Percentile £33.21 £27.18 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £34.82
Median hourly rate £55.00 £43.50 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.44% -9.38% -20.28%
75th Percentile £75.00 £62.50 £60.45
90th Percentile £89.00 £86.25 £71.94
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +4.00%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 -6 7 £500 -
Central London -30 2 £550 +22.28%
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 9 (18.75%) Confluence
2 1 (2.08%) Anypoint
2 1 (2.08%) Apache
2 1 (2.08%) Mule
2 1 (2.08%) Oracle Application Server
Business Applications
1 7 (14.58%) NetSuite
1 7 (14.58%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (4.17%) Infor LN
2 2 (4.17%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (2.08%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (2.08%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 19 (39.58%) AWS
2 13 (27.08%) Azure
3 9 (18.75%) AtomSphere
3 9 (18.75%) Boomi
4 8 (16.67%) Amazon S3
5 6 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (12.50%) AWS KMS
5 6 (12.50%) GitHub
5 6 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 5 (10.42%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (6.25%) SaaS
8 2 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (4.17%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (4.17%) GCP
8 2 (4.17%) IaaS
8 2 (4.17%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.42%) Firewall
2 4 (8.33%) OpenLDAP
3 3 (6.25%) Internet
3 3 (6.25%) SSL
4 1 (2.08%) DNS
4 1 (2.08%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.58%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (10.42%) Amazon Aurora
2 5 (10.42%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (10.42%) Couchbase
2 5 (10.42%) NoSQL
3 4 (8.33%) SQL Server
4 3 (6.25%) Data Mart
4 3 (6.25%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (2.08%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.08%) Metadata
5 1 (2.08%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.08%) OLAP
5 1 (2.08%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (2.08%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (29.17%) Jenkins
2 9 (18.75%) Git
2 9 (18.75%) JIRA
3 3 (6.25%) ScriptRunner
4 1 (2.08%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.08%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.08%) GitLab
4 1 (2.08%) Maven
4 1 (2.08%) Postman
4 1 (2.08%) REST Assured
4 1 (2.08%) SonarQube
General
1 15 (31.25%) Public Sector
2 12 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (16.67%) Finance
4 5 (10.42%) Retail
5 4 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (6.25%) Banking
6 3 (6.25%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.08%) Front Office
7 1 (2.08%) Local Government
7 1 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (29.17%) Senior
2 13 (27.08%) Developer
3 9 (18.75%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (10.42%) Senior Developer
5 4 (8.33%) Analyst
5 4 (8.33%) Architect
5 4 (8.33%) Murex Analyst
6 3 (6.25%) Administrator
6 3 (6.25%) Java Developer
6 3 (6.25%) Java Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) JIRA Administrator
6 3 (6.25%) Murex Support
6 3 (6.25%) Murex Support Analyst
6 3 (6.25%) Senior Architect
6 3 (6.25%) Senior DevOps
6 3 (6.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Senior Java Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Senior Java Software Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Software Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (33.33%) REST
2 14 (29.17%) SOAP
3 13 (27.08%) JSON
4 12 (25.00%) XML
5 5 (10.42%) Kafka
5 5 (10.42%) RxJava
5 5 (10.42%) Vert.x
6 4 (8.33%) LDAP
6 4 (8.33%) OAuth
7 3 (6.25%) OAuth2
7 3 (6.25%) Web Services
8 2 (4.17%) EDI
8 2 (4.17%) EDIFACT
8 2 (4.17%) Middleware
8 2 (4.17%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (4.17%) RESTful
8 2 (4.17%) SAML
9 1 (2.08%) OpenID
9 1 (2.08%) XSLT
9 1 (2.08%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.75%) Replication
2 3 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.17%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.08%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.08%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.08%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.08%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (2.08%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 9 (18.75%) Linux
2 5 (10.42%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.08%) Windows
3 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (43.75%) Agile
2 19 (39.58%) DevOps
3 16 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 15 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (22.92%) API Management
5 11 (22.92%) Root Cause Analysis
6 10 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (18.75%) Performance Tuning
8 8 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (14.58%) Change Management
9 7 (14.58%) ITIL
9 7 (14.58%) Technical Leadership
10 6 (12.50%) BDD
10 6 (12.50%) RBAC
10 6 (12.50%) Test Automation
11 5 (10.42%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 5 (10.42%) High Availability
11 5 (10.42%) Product Requirements
11 5 (10.42%) Service Delivery
11 5 (10.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 21 (43.75%) Java
2 19 (39.58%) Python
3 18 (37.50%) JavaScript
4 16 (33.33%) SQL
5 7 (14.58%) PowerShell
6 5 (10.42%) Bash
6 5 (10.42%) Perl
7 4 (8.33%) Shell Script
8 2 (4.17%) PL/SQL
9 1 (2.08%) C
9 1 (2.08%) DataWeave
9 1 (2.08%) Go
9 1 (2.08%) T-SQL
9 1 (2.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 24 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 24 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.42%) AWS Certification
3 4 (8.33%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.17%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.08%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (2.08%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (2.08%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.17%) NCSC
2 1 (2.08%) ISO 20022
2 1 (2.08%) QA
2 1 (2.08%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (22.92%) Docker
2 4 (8.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.08%) Squid
3 1 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (43.75%) Terraform
2 12 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (10.42%) Grafana
3 5 (10.42%) Prometheus
4 4 (8.33%) Kustomize
5 3 (6.25%) Ansible
6 1 (2.08%) HP Fortify
6 1 (2.08%) Istio
6 1 (2.08%) Packer
6 1 (2.08%) Podman
6 1 (2.08%) Puppet
6 1 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (39.58%) Oracle
2 7 (14.58%) Salesforce
2 7 (14.58%) ServiceNow
3 4 (8.33%) Murex
4 3 (6.25%) Atlassian
5 2 (4.17%) Baan
5 2 (4.17%) Google
5 2 (4.17%) Infor
5 2 (4.17%) ION Trading
6 1 (2.08%) Anaplan
6 1 (2.08%) CheckPoint
6 1 (2.08%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.08%) ForgeRock
6 1 (2.08%) IBM
6 1 (2.08%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.08%) MuleSoft
6 1 (2.08%) PagerDuty
6 1 (2.08%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.08%) SAP
6 1 (2.08%) Workday