Groovy Contracts in London

Apache Groovy
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Groovy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Groovy over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 303 361 321
Rank change year-on-year +58 -40 +54
Contract jobs citing Groovy 50 30 177
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.40% 0.17% 0.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.01% 0.47% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 21 135
10th Percentile £415 £450 £563
25th Percentile £513 £513 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £675
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -18.52% +12.50%
75th Percentile £688 £625 £719
90th Percentile £775 £775 £775
England median daily rate £600 £538 £650
% change year-on-year +11.63% -17.31% +11.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £85.00
England median hourly rate - - £85.00
% change year-on-year - - +6.25%

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 4,959 6,430 11,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.52% 36.06% 40.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,479 4,906 8,206
10th Percentile £380 £380 £413
25th Percentile £449 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £712 £700 £738
90th Percentile £825 £825 £825
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 57 85
10th Percentile £29.07 £23.80 £34.55
25th Percentile £35.00 £36.25 £49.25
Median hourly rate £44.50 £50.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.88% -12.17% +15.00%
75th Percentile £60.81 £61.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £69.38 £70.75 £83.45
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Groovy in London.

Daily rate trend for Groovy in London

Groovy
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Groovy in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Groovy in London

Groovy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Groovy in London.

Hourly rate trend for Groovy in London

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 1 May 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 +15 12 £573 -4.58% 2
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 16 (32.00%) Confluence
2 7 (14.00%) Apache
2 7 (14.00%) nginx
3 4 (8.00%) OpenStack
4 1 (2.00%) Apache Spark
4 1 (2.00%) JBoss
4 1 (2.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 17 (34.00%) AWS
2 9 (18.00%) Azure
2 9 (18.00%) IaaS
3 5 (10.00%) GitHub
4 4 (8.00%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (8.00%) GCP
5 3 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (4.00%) OpenShift
6 2 (4.00%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.00%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.00%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.00%) Cloud Functions
7 1 (2.00%) Datadog
7 1 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.00%) SaaS
7 1 (2.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (20.00%) HTTP
2 6 (12.00%) HTTPS
3 2 (4.00%) DNS
4 1 (2.00%) Firewall
4 1 (2.00%) VPN
4 1 (2.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.00%) Oracle Database
1 3 (6.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (4.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (4.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (4.00%) Power BI
2 2 (4.00%) Redis
2 2 (4.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.00%) MySQL
3 1 (2.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 21 (42.00%) Jenkins
2 20 (40.00%) JIRA
3 15 (30.00%) ScriptRunner
4 8 (16.00%) Git
5 5 (10.00%) Maven
6 4 (8.00%) JMeter
7 3 (6.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (6.00%) Postman
7 3 (6.00%) REST Assured
7 3 (6.00%) SoapUI
8 2 (4.00%) Artifactory
8 2 (4.00%) Bitbucket
8 2 (4.00%) GitLab
8 2 (4.00%) JUnit
8 2 (4.00%) LoadRunner
8 2 (4.00%) Mockito
8 2 (4.00%) SonarQube
8 2 (4.00%) Subversion
8 2 (4.00%) Xcode
8 2 (4.00%) XCTest
General
1 13 (26.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (24.00%) Finance
3 9 (18.00%) Banking
4 5 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.00%) Military
5 3 (6.00%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.00%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.00%) Front Office
7 1 (2.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (18.00%) Developer
1 9 (18.00%) Senior
2 6 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (12.00%) JIRA Engineer
3 5 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
3 5 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (10.00%) Lead
3 5 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 5 (10.00%) Unix Engineer
4 4 (8.00%) Site Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) Automation Test Lead
5 2 (4.00%) Implementation Consultant
5 2 (4.00%) Integration Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 2 (4.00%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) SAP Consultant
5 2 (4.00%) SAP Implementation Consultant
5 2 (4.00%) Technical Leader
5 2 (4.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (28.00%) REST
2 12 (24.00%) SOAP
3 7 (14.00%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (14.00%) OAuth
4 6 (12.00%) JWT
4 6 (12.00%) Kafka
4 6 (12.00%) SAML
5 5 (10.00%) LDAP
5 5 (10.00%) Spring
6 4 (8.00%) Web Services
6 4 (8.00%) XML
7 3 (6.00%) JSON
7 3 (6.00%) Spring Boot
8 2 (4.00%) AngularJS
8 2 (4.00%) Bootstrap
8 2 (4.00%) CSS3
8 2 (4.00%) HTML5
8 2 (4.00%) Node.js
8 2 (4.00%) Spring Cloud
8 2 (4.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.00%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.00%) Equities
4 1 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.00%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.00%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (2.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (18.00%) Unix
2 8 (16.00%) Linux
3 2 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (46.00%) Agile
2 21 (42.00%) CI/CD
3 15 (30.00%) DevOps
3 15 (30.00%) Migration
4 10 (20.00%) High Availability
4 10 (20.00%) Incident Management
4 10 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 10 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (18.00%) SDLC
5 9 (18.00%) Test Automation
5 9 (18.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 8 (16.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 6 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (10.00%) Canary Deployment
8 5 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
8 5 (10.00%) Load Balancing
8 5 (10.00%) Mentoring
9 4 (8.00%) Kanban
9 4 (8.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 22 (44.00%) Python
2 17 (34.00%) Java
3 11 (22.00%) JavaScript
4 9 (18.00%) Shell Script
5 7 (14.00%) SQL
6 6 (12.00%) Bash
7 3 (6.00%) ABAP
8 2 (4.00%) Go
8 2 (4.00%) Perl
9 1 (2.00%) C#
9 1 (2.00%) COBOL
9 1 (2.00%) JCL
9 1 (2.00%) Kotlin
9 1 (2.00%) PowerShell
9 1 (2.00%) Ruby
9 1 (2.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (16.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.00%) Degree
3 2 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.00%) CEH
4 1 (2.00%) CISSP
4 1 (2.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.00%) QA
2 1 (2.00%) GDPR
2 1 (2.00%) IFRS
2 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (16.00%) Docker
2 6 (12.00%) OpenAM
2 6 (12.00%) OpenDJ
2 6 (12.00%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 13 (26.00%) Kubernetes
1 13 (26.00%) Terraform
2 11 (22.00%) Ansible
3 3 (6.00%) Grafana
3 3 (6.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.00%) Istio
5 1 (2.00%) Control-M
5 1 (2.00%) Opsgenie
5 1 (2.00%) Podman
5 1 (2.00%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.00%) Puppet
5 1 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (30.00%) Atlassian
2 8 (16.00%) Splunk
3 7 (14.00%) Dynatrace
3 7 (14.00%) Oracle
4 6 (12.00%) ForgeRock
5 5 (10.00%) AppDynamics
6 4 (8.00%) SAP
7 3 (6.00%) Google
8 2 (4.00%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (4.00%) ServiceNow
8 2 (4.00%) StreamSets
9 1 (2.00%) Bloomberg
9 1 (2.00%) CyberArk
9 1 (2.00%) IBM
9 1 (2.00%) Microsoft
9 1 (2.00%) Ping Identity