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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 295 338 335
Rank change year-on-year +43 -3 +59
Contract jobs citing Groovy 66 42 128
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.50% 0.26% 0.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.30% 0.65% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 22 99
10th Percentile £359 £450 £510
25th Percentile £441 £500 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £513 £625
Median % change year-on-year -1.22% -18.00% -
75th Percentile £638 £703 £703
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
England median daily rate £475 £513 £625
% change year-on-year -7.32% -18.00% +2.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
England median hourly rate - - £75.00

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 5,095 6,456 8,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.48% 40.14% 37.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,502 4,650 6,315
10th Percentile £368 £363 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £688 £700 £725
90th Percentile £825 £850 £825
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 41 75
10th Percentile £26.71 £25.25 £25.45
25th Percentile £33.25 £33.07 £38.68
Median hourly rate £44.90 £47.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.48% -20.83% +12.71%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.43 £73.08
90th Percentile £87.00 £78.75 £88.62
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £64.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +1.56% +12.28%

Groovy
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Groovy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Groovy 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 15 September 2025.

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 15 September 2025. 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 +13 11 £379 - 2
South London - 10 £475 -
West London -6 1 £300 -33.33%
East London - 1 £540 -
Groovy
England

Groovy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 23 (34.85%) Confluence
2 11 (16.67%) nginx
3 5 (7.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (7.58%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (3.03%) Apache
4 2 (3.03%) JBoss
5 1 (1.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (1.52%) CICS
5 1 (1.52%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (15.15%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 5 (7.58%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (3.03%) SAP HR
3 1 (1.52%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 33 (50.00%) AWS
2 29 (43.94%) Azure
3 14 (21.21%) GCP
4 12 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
4 12 (18.18%) GitHub
5 11 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 11 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (16.67%) Route 53
5 11 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 10 (15.15%) Amazon ELB
6 10 (15.15%) Amazon S3
6 10 (15.15%) AWS KMS
6 10 (15.15%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (13.64%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (13.64%) IaaS
8 6 (9.09%) SaaS
9 5 (7.58%) OCI
10 4 (6.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 3 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (18.18%) HTTP
2 11 (16.67%) DNS
2 11 (16.67%) Firewall
3 10 (15.15%) FTP
3 10 (15.15%) IMAP
3 10 (15.15%) OpenLDAP
3 10 (15.15%) SMTP
3 10 (15.15%) SSH
4 2 (3.03%) HTTPS
5 1 (1.52%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (28.79%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (10.61%) Redis
5 6 (9.09%) Oracle Database
5 6 (9.09%) Oracle Reports
6 5 (7.58%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 2 (3.03%) BigQuery
7 2 (3.03%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.52%) DB2
8 1 (1.52%) Essbase
8 1 (1.52%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.52%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 34 (51.52%) Jenkins
2 33 (50.00%) JIRA
3 31 (46.97%) Git
4 13 (19.70%) ScriptRunner
5 11 (16.67%) Artifactory
6 10 (15.15%) Vagrant
7 8 (12.12%) Maven
7 8 (12.12%) SonarQube
8 7 (10.61%) REST Assured
8 7 (10.61%) Subversion
9 6 (9.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (9.09%) JUnit
9 6 (9.09%) Mockito
9 6 (9.09%) Postman
9 6 (9.09%) SoapUI
9 6 (9.09%) Xcode
9 6 (9.09%) XCTest
10 2 (3.03%) Eclipse
10 2 (3.03%) GitLab
10 2 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 25 (37.88%) Social Skills
2 19 (28.79%) Finance
3 13 (19.70%) Public Sector
4 10 (15.15%) Banking
4 10 (15.15%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.55%) Billing
6 3 (4.55%) Military
7 1 (1.52%) German Language
7 1 (1.52%) Law
7 1 (1.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (24.24%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (18.18%) AWS DevOps
2 12 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
2 12 (18.18%) Developer
3 11 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
4 10 (15.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 10 (15.15%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 10 (15.15%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 8 (12.12%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 7 (10.61%) Architect
6 7 (10.61%) Senior
7 6 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (7.58%) JIRA Engineer
8 5 (7.58%) Oracle Developer
8 5 (7.58%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (6.06%) GCP DevOps
9 4 (6.06%) GCP DevOps Engineer
9 4 (6.06%) GCP Engineer
10 3 (4.55%) Migration Engineer
11 2 (3.03%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (28.79%) REST
2 16 (24.24%) SOAP
3 11 (16.67%) Spring
4 10 (15.15%) AngularJS
4 10 (15.15%) LDAP
4 10 (15.15%) Web Services
5 9 (13.64%) CSS
5 9 (13.64%) HTML
6 8 (12.12%) Bootstrap
6 8 (12.12%) Kafka
7 7 (10.61%) CSS3
7 7 (10.61%) HTML5
7 7 (10.61%) J2EE
7 7 (10.61%) Spring Boot
8 6 (9.09%) Hibernate
8 6 (9.09%) JPA
8 6 (9.09%) Material-UI
8 6 (9.09%) Spring Cloud
8 6 (9.09%) Spring MVC
8 6 (9.09%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 13 (19.70%) Replication
2 6 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (6.06%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.06%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.03%) Life Science
4 2 (3.03%) Mainframe
4 2 (3.03%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.52%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 15 (22.73%) Linux
2 10 (15.15%) Amazon Linux
2 10 (15.15%) Ubuntu
2 10 (15.15%) VMS
2 10 (15.15%) Windows
3 6 (9.09%) Unix
4 2 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (46.97%) Agile
1 31 (46.97%) CI/CD
2 24 (36.36%) DevOps
3 22 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
4 21 (31.82%) Migration
5 16 (24.24%) Configuration Management
6 12 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (16.67%) Change Management
7 11 (16.67%) Microservices
7 11 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
8 10 (15.15%) Cloud Security
8 10 (15.15%) Incident Management
8 10 (15.15%) Infrastructure Automation
8 10 (15.15%) Patch Management
8 10 (15.15%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 9 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (13.64%) Kanban
9 9 (13.64%) Scrum
9 9 (13.64%) SDLC
10 8 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 32 (48.48%) Python
2 23 (34.85%) SQL
3 21 (31.82%) PowerShell
4 20 (30.30%) JavaScript
5 15 (22.73%) Java
6 11 (16.67%) Bash
7 10 (15.15%) Go
8 6 (9.09%) Shell Script
9 5 (7.58%) ABAP
9 5 (7.58%) C#
9 5 (7.58%) C++
9 5 (7.58%) PL/SQL
10 2 (3.03%) COBOL
10 2 (3.03%) JCL
10 2 (3.03%) TypeScript
11 1 (1.52%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 18 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 18 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 12 (18.18%) Degree
3 11 (16.67%) AWS Certification
4 10 (15.15%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.52%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.52%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.03%) GDPR
1 2 (3.03%) IFRS
2 1 (1.52%) GAAP
2 1 (1.52%) QA
System Software
1 27 (40.91%) Docker
2 10 (15.15%) DFS Replication
2 10 (15.15%) Dovecot
2 10 (15.15%) Postfix
2 10 (15.15%) Squid
3 2 (3.03%) OpenAM
3 2 (3.03%) OpenDJ
3 2 (3.03%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 27 (40.91%) Terraform
2 21 (31.82%) Kubernetes
3 12 (18.18%) Grafana
3 12 (18.18%) Prometheus
4 11 (16.67%) Ansible
5 10 (15.15%) Nessus
5 10 (15.15%) Proxmox
6 9 (13.64%) Puppet
7 4 (6.06%) Istio
8 2 (3.03%) Podman
9 1 (1.52%) Control-M
9 1 (1.52%) Opsgenie
9 1 (1.52%) Rancher
Vendors
1 15 (22.73%) Oracle
2 13 (19.70%) Atlassian
2 13 (19.70%) ServiceNow
3 10 (15.15%) Jaspersoft
4 8 (12.12%) Dynatrace
5 6 (9.09%) CA Agile Central
5 6 (9.09%) Splunk
6 5 (7.58%) Google
6 5 (7.58%) SAP
7 2 (3.03%) ForgeRock
8 1 (1.52%) Adobe
8 1 (1.52%) Ariba
8 1 (1.52%) Microsoft