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 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 334 325 368
Rank change year-on-year -9 +43 +5
Contract jobs citing Groovy 47 30 25
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.32% 0.22% 0.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.88% 0.57% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 21 18
10th Percentile £384 £500 £493
25th Percentile £463 £506 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £546 £594
Median % change year-on-year -8.34% -8.13% -12.04%
75th Percentile £531 £688 £673
90th Percentile £548 £775 £805
England median daily rate £475 £545 £538
% change year-on-year -12.84% +1.40% -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 5,348 5,296 6,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.48% 38.73% 34.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,591 3,467 4,930
10th Percentile £363 £375 £388
25th Percentile £425 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £560 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.36% -2.61% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £689 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £513 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -4.21% -2.73% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 36 72
10th Percentile £23.38 £35.00 £27.16
25th Percentile £35.50 £38.44 £39.15
Median hourly rate £54.50 £50.00 £51.13
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% -2.20% -11.09%
75th Percentile £67.40 £66.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £87.50 £97.50 £72.45
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -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 2 February 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 2 February 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 - 7 £475 -
Central London -4 3 £475 -22.13% 4
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 7 (14.89%) Confluence
1 7 (14.89%) nginx
2 6 (12.77%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (12.77%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (2.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 7 (14.89%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 6 (12.77%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (8.51%) SAP HCM
3 1 (2.13%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (2.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 13 (27.66%) AWS
2 10 (21.28%) Azure
3 8 (17.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 8 (17.02%) Amazon ECS
3 8 (17.02%) Route 53
4 7 (14.89%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (14.89%) Amazon ELB
4 7 (14.89%) Amazon S3
4 7 (14.89%) AWS KMS
4 7 (14.89%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (14.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 6 (12.77%) OCI
6 4 (8.51%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (8.51%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 4 (8.51%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (8.51%) GCP
6 4 (8.51%) Serverless
7 3 (6.38%) GitHub
7 3 (6.38%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (4.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.89%) DNS
1 7 (14.89%) Firewall
1 7 (14.89%) FTP
1 7 (14.89%) HTTP
1 7 (14.89%) IMAP
1 7 (14.89%) OpenLDAP
1 7 (14.89%) SMTP
1 7 (14.89%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (31.91%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (29.79%) Oracle Reports
3 12 (25.53%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (23.40%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (12.77%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 6 (12.77%) Redis
6 2 (4.26%) BigQuery
6 2 (4.26%) Oracle Database
6 2 (4.26%) Relational Database
7 1 (2.13%) Essbase
Development Applications
1 19 (40.43%) Jenkins
2 18 (38.30%) Git
3 11 (23.40%) JIRA
4 7 (14.89%) Vagrant
5 4 (8.51%) Maven
6 3 (6.38%) SonarQube
7 2 (4.26%) Artifactory
7 2 (4.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (4.26%) Eclipse
7 2 (4.26%) JUnit
7 2 (4.26%) Mockito
7 2 (4.26%) Postman
7 2 (4.26%) REST Assured
7 2 (4.26%) SoapUI
7 2 (4.26%) Spinnaker
7 2 (4.26%) Subversion
7 2 (4.26%) Xcode
7 2 (4.26%) XCTest
8 1 (2.13%) CMake
8 1 (2.13%) Oracle Forms
General
1 25 (53.19%) Social Skills
2 19 (40.43%) Finance
3 7 (14.89%) Documentation Skills
3 7 (14.89%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (12.77%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.38%) Banking
5 3 (6.38%) Billing
6 1 (2.13%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.13%) Law
Job Titles
1 17 (36.17%) Consultant
2 12 (25.53%) Developer
3 10 (21.28%) AWS DevOps
3 10 (21.28%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (19.15%) AWS Engineer
4 9 (19.15%) Oracle Consultant
5 8 (17.02%) SAP Consultant
6 7 (14.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 7 (14.89%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 7 (14.89%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 7 (14.89%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (12.77%) Oracle Developer
7 6 (12.77%) SAP HCM Consultant
8 5 (10.64%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 4 (8.51%) Payroll Consultant
9 4 (8.51%) SAP Payroll Consultant
10 3 (6.38%) ERP Developer
11 2 (4.26%) GCP DevOps
11 2 (4.26%) GCP DevOps Engineer
11 2 (4.26%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (27.66%) Oracle Fusion
2 10 (21.28%) REST
2 10 (21.28%) SOAP
3 9 (19.15%) LDAP
4 8 (17.02%) SAP PI
5 6 (12.77%) AngularJS
5 6 (12.77%) Kafka
6 5 (10.64%) CSS
6 5 (10.64%) HTML
6 5 (10.64%) Spring
6 5 (10.64%) Web Services
7 4 (8.51%) Bootstrap
7 4 (8.51%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (8.51%) J2EE
7 4 (8.51%) Keycloak
7 4 (8.51%) OAuth
7 4 (8.51%) SAML
8 3 (6.38%) CSS3
8 3 (6.38%) HTML5
8 3 (6.38%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 11 (23.40%) Replication
2 2 (4.26%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (4.26%) Life Science
3 1 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.13%) Hedge funds
3 1 (2.13%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (19.15%) Linux
2 7 (14.89%) Amazon Linux
2 7 (14.89%) Ubuntu
2 7 (14.89%) VMS
2 7 (14.89%) Windows
3 2 (4.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (36.17%) DevOps
2 16 (34.04%) CI/CD
3 14 (29.79%) Agile
4 13 (27.66%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (25.53%) Change Management
6 10 (21.28%) Validation
7 9 (19.15%) Data Integration
7 9 (19.15%) Performance Tuning
7 9 (19.15%) Workshop Facilitation
8 8 (17.02%) Actionable Insight
8 8 (17.02%) AI
8 8 (17.02%) Data Management
8 8 (17.02%) Knowledge Transfer
8 8 (17.02%) Workflow
9 7 (14.89%) AOP
9 7 (14.89%) Configuration Management
9 7 (14.89%) ERP
9 7 (14.89%) Mentoring
9 7 (14.89%) Visualisation
9 7 (14.89%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 18 (38.30%) SQL
2 17 (36.17%) Python
3 14 (29.79%) JavaScript
4 11 (23.40%) Java
5 10 (21.28%) PowerShell
6 8 (17.02%) ABAP
6 8 (17.02%) Bash
7 6 (12.77%) PL/SQL
8 2 (4.26%) Go
8 2 (4.26%) Shell Script
8 2 (4.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (19.15%) Degree
1 9 (19.15%) SC Cleared
1 9 (19.15%) Security Cleared
2 8 (17.02%) AWS Certification
3 7 (14.89%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.13%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (2.13%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.13%) GAAP
1 1 (2.13%) IFRS
1 1 (2.13%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (38.30%) Docker
2 7 (14.89%) DFS Replication
2 7 (14.89%) Dovecot
2 7 (14.89%) Postfix
2 7 (14.89%) Squid
3 2 (4.26%) OpenAM
3 2 (4.26%) OpenDJ
3 2 (4.26%) OpenIDM
4 1 (2.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (29.79%) Terraform
2 12 (25.53%) Grafana
2 12 (25.53%) Prometheus
3 11 (23.40%) Kubernetes
4 7 (14.89%) Nessus
4 7 (14.89%) Proxmox
5 4 (8.51%) Rancher
6 2 (4.26%) Istio
6 2 (4.26%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (2.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (36.17%) Oracle
2 11 (23.40%) ServiceNow
3 8 (17.02%) SAP
4 7 (14.89%) Jaspersoft
5 6 (12.77%) Dynatrace
6 2 (4.26%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (4.26%) ForgeRock
6 2 (4.26%) Google
6 2 (4.26%) Splunk
7 1 (2.13%) Adobe
7 1 (2.13%) Ariba
7 1 (2.13%) Microsoft
7 1 (2.13%) Workday