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

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 334 368
Rank change year-on-year +13 +34 +9
Contract jobs citing Groovy 52 31 29
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.37% 0.22% 0.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.98% 0.58% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 21 21
10th Percentile £358 - £406
25th Percentile £450 £500 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £638 £600
Median % change year-on-year -25.49% +6.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £531 £775 £675
90th Percentile £546 - £850
England median daily rate £475 £513 £575
% change year-on-year -7.32% -10.87% -11.54%

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 5,289 5,373 6,332
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.15% 38.08% 35.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,549 3,587 4,783
10th Percentile £363 £374 £392
25th Percentile £425 £461 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% -2.17% -4.17%
75th Percentile £670 £697 £700
90th Percentile £781 £825 £800
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 34 63
10th Percentile £25.82 £35.23 £26.24
25th Percentile £35.25 £40.62 £36.27
Median hourly rate £54.00 £52.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +3.96% -12.17%
75th Percentile £66.50 £69.50 £63.13
90th Percentile £82.25 £97.50 £72.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -3.85%

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 January 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 January 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 - 10 £475 - 1
Central London -1 2 £421 -37.59% 1
East London - 1 £540 -
West London - 1 £300 -
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 10 (19.23%) Confluence
1 10 (19.23%) nginx
2 6 (11.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (11.54%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.92%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.92%) CICS
Applications
1 10 (19.23%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 6 (11.54%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (7.69%) SAP HCM
3 1 (1.92%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 17 (32.69%) AWS
2 15 (28.85%) Azure
3 12 (23.08%) Amazon ECS
4 11 (21.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 11 (21.15%) Route 53
5 10 (19.23%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (19.23%) Amazon ELB
5 10 (19.23%) Amazon S3
5 10 (19.23%) AWS KMS
5 10 (19.23%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (19.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 6 (11.54%) OCI
7 5 (9.62%) GCP
8 4 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (7.69%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 4 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (7.69%) Serverless
9 3 (5.77%) GitHub
9 3 (5.77%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (3.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 10 (19.23%) DNS
1 10 (19.23%) Firewall
1 10 (19.23%) FTP
1 10 (19.23%) HTTP
1 10 (19.23%) IMAP
1 10 (19.23%) OpenLDAP
1 10 (19.23%) SMTP
1 10 (19.23%) SSH
2 1 (1.92%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (36.54%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (28.85%) Amazon RDS
3 14 (26.92%) Amazon Aurora
3 14 (26.92%) Oracle Reports
4 7 (13.46%) Redis
5 6 (11.54%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 3 (5.77%) Oracle Database
7 2 (3.85%) BigQuery
7 2 (3.85%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.92%) DB2
8 1 (1.92%) Essbase
Development Applications
1 23 (44.23%) Jenkins
2 22 (42.31%) Git
3 15 (28.85%) JIRA
4 10 (19.23%) Vagrant
5 5 (9.62%) Maven
6 4 (7.69%) SonarQube
7 3 (5.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (5.77%) JUnit
7 3 (5.77%) Mockito
7 3 (5.77%) Postman
7 3 (5.77%) REST Assured
7 3 (5.77%) SoapUI
7 3 (5.77%) Subversion
7 3 (5.77%) Xcode
7 3 (5.77%) XCTest
8 2 (3.85%) Artifactory
8 2 (3.85%) Eclipse
8 2 (3.85%) Spinnaker
9 1 (1.92%) GitLab
9 1 (1.92%) Gradle
General
1 28 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 20 (38.46%) Finance
3 10 (19.23%) Presentation Skills
4 9 (17.31%) Public Sector
5 7 (13.46%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (7.69%) Banking
7 3 (5.77%) Billing
8 2 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.92%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.92%) Law
9 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (32.69%) Consultant
2 13 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
2 13 (25.00%) Developer
2 13 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (23.08%) AWS Engineer
4 10 (19.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 10 (19.23%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 10 (19.23%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 10 (19.23%) Platform Engineer
5 9 (17.31%) Oracle Consultant
6 8 (15.38%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 8 (15.38%) SAP Consultant
7 6 (11.54%) Oracle Developer
7 6 (11.54%) SAP HCM Consultant
8 4 (7.69%) Payroll Consultant
8 4 (7.69%) SAP Payroll Consultant
9 3 (5.77%) ERP Developer
10 2 (3.85%) ForgeRock Developer
10 2 (3.85%) Full-Stack Developer
10 2 (3.85%) Principal Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (25.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 12 (23.08%) LDAP
2 12 (23.08%) REST
3 11 (21.15%) SOAP
4 9 (17.31%) SAP PI
5 7 (13.46%) AngularJS
5 7 (13.46%) Kafka
5 7 (13.46%) Spring
6 6 (11.54%) CSS
6 6 (11.54%) HTML
7 5 (9.62%) Bootstrap
7 5 (9.62%) J2EE
7 5 (9.62%) Web Services
8 4 (7.69%) CSS3
8 4 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (7.69%) HTML5
8 4 (7.69%) Keycloak
9 3 (5.77%) Spring Boot
9 3 (5.77%) Spring Cloud
9 3 (5.77%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 14 (26.92%) Replication
2 3 (5.77%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.77%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.85%) Life Science
4 1 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.92%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.92%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.92%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.92%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 13 (25.00%) Linux
2 10 (19.23%) Amazon Linux
2 10 (19.23%) Ubuntu
2 10 (19.23%) VMS
2 10 (19.23%) Windows
3 3 (5.77%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (38.46%) DevOps
2 19 (36.54%) CI/CD
3 16 (30.77%) Agile
4 14 (26.92%) Change Management
5 13 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (23.08%) Performance Tuning
7 10 (19.23%) Cloud Security
7 10 (19.23%) Configuration Management
7 10 (19.23%) Patch Management
7 10 (19.23%) Platform Engineering
8 9 (17.31%) Data Integration
8 9 (17.31%) Validation
8 9 (17.31%) Workshop Facilitation
9 8 (15.38%) Actionable Insight
9 8 (15.38%) AI
9 8 (15.38%) Data Management
9 8 (15.38%) Knowledge Transfer
9 8 (15.38%) Mentoring
9 8 (15.38%) Workflow
10 7 (13.46%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 21 (40.38%) SQL
2 20 (38.46%) Python
3 14 (26.92%) JavaScript
4 13 (25.00%) Java
4 13 (25.00%) PowerShell
5 9 (17.31%) ABAP
5 9 (17.31%) Bash
6 6 (11.54%) PL/SQL
7 3 (5.77%) Shell Script
8 2 (3.85%) Go
8 2 (3.85%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.92%) COBOL
9 1 (1.92%) JCL
9 1 (1.92%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.92%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (23.08%) Degree
1 12 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 12 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 11 (21.15%) AWS Certification
3 10 (19.23%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.92%) GAAP
1 1 (1.92%) IFRS
System Software
1 23 (44.23%) Docker
2 10 (19.23%) DFS Replication
2 10 (19.23%) Dovecot
2 10 (19.23%) Postfix
2 10 (19.23%) Squid
3 2 (3.85%) OpenAM
3 2 (3.85%) OpenDJ
3 2 (3.85%) OpenIDM
4 1 (1.92%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (32.69%) Terraform
2 15 (28.85%) Grafana
2 15 (28.85%) Prometheus
3 13 (25.00%) Kubernetes
4 10 (19.23%) Nessus
4 10 (19.23%) Proxmox
5 4 (7.69%) Rancher
6 2 (3.85%) Istio
6 2 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.92%) Control-M
7 1 (1.92%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (34.62%) Oracle
2 14 (26.92%) ServiceNow
3 10 (19.23%) Jaspersoft
4 9 (17.31%) SAP
5 7 (13.46%) Dynatrace
6 3 (5.77%) CA Agile Central
6 3 (5.77%) Google
6 3 (5.77%) Splunk
7 2 (3.85%) Ariba
7 2 (3.85%) ForgeRock
7 2 (3.85%) Microsoft
8 1 (1.92%) Adobe