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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 382 299 364
Rank change year-on-year -83 +65 -43
Contract jobs citing Groovy 32 50 33
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.18% 0.40% 0.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.57% 1.03% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 33 22
10th Percentile £383 £432 £453
25th Percentile £450 £518 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £556
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +12.36% -17.59%
75th Percentile £561 £700 £624
90th Percentile £667 £775 £773
England median daily rate £450 £600 £538
% change year-on-year -25.00% +11.63% -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 5,638 4,865 6,393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.54% 39.25% 36.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,792 3,431 4,883
10th Percentile £363 £380 £381
25th Percentile £434 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £700
90th Percentile £750 £825 £829
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 28 50
10th Percentile £32.39 £29.07 £23.80
25th Percentile £44.56 £33.25 £40.77
Median hourly rate £58.94 £43.66 £51.13
Median % change year-on-year +34.99% -14.61% -14.79%
75th Percentile £73.00 £59.88 £64.02
90th Percentile £88.75 £73.13 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 £500 -
Central London -19 1 £501 -12.58% 3
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 8 (25.00%) Confluence
2 1 (3.13%) Anypoint
2 1 (3.13%) Mule
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle Application Server
Business Applications
1 4 (12.50%) SAP HCM
2 1 (3.13%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 10 (31.25%) AWS
2 6 (18.75%) Azure
3 4 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 4 (12.50%) AWS KMS
3 4 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 1 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.13%) Azure API Management
4 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.13%) GCP
4 1 (3.13%) GitHub
4 1 (3.13%) SaaS
4 1 (3.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.38%) Firewall
1 3 (9.38%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.63%) Amazon Aurora
1 5 (15.63%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (15.63%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (9.38%) Data Mart
3 2 (6.25%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (3.13%) OLAP
4 1 (3.13%) Redis
4 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (34.38%) Jenkins
2 8 (25.00%) JIRA
3 7 (21.88%) Git
4 3 (9.38%) ScriptRunner
5 1 (3.13%) Maven
5 1 (3.13%) Postman
General
1 10 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.63%) Finance
3 4 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (9.38%) Banking
4 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Front Office
6 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (28.13%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (21.88%) Consultant
3 6 (18.75%) Developer
4 4 (12.50%) Analyst
4 4 (12.50%) Murex Analyst
4 4 (12.50%) Payroll Consultant
4 4 (12.50%) SAP Consultant
4 4 (12.50%) SAP HCM Consultant
4 4 (12.50%) SAP Payroll Consultant
4 4 (12.50%) Senior
5 3 (9.38%) Administrator
5 3 (9.38%) JIRA Administrator
5 3 (9.38%) Murex Support
5 3 (9.38%) Murex Support Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) Support Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) ForgeRock Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Oracle Consultant
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.63%) LDAP
1 5 (15.63%) REST
2 4 (12.50%) OAuth
2 4 (12.50%) SAML
2 4 (12.50%) SAP PI
3 3 (9.38%) JSON
3 3 (9.38%) OpenID
3 3 (9.38%) SOAP
4 2 (6.25%) J2EE
4 2 (6.25%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (6.25%) RESTful
4 2 (6.25%) XML
5 1 (3.13%) .NET
5 1 (3.13%) CSS
5 1 (3.13%) HTML
5 1 (3.13%) Kafka
5 1 (3.13%) RAML
5 1 (3.13%) Web Services
5 1 (3.13%) XSLT
5 1 (3.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.00%) Replication
2 2 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.13%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.75%) Linux
2 4 (12.50%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (53.13%) DevOps
2 12 (37.50%) Agile
3 9 (28.13%) CI/CD
3 9 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
5 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (18.75%) Validation
6 5 (15.63%) Change Management
6 5 (15.63%) Identity Access Management
6 5 (15.63%) ITIL
6 5 (15.63%) Root Cause Analysis
6 5 (15.63%) Workshop Facilitation
7 4 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (12.50%) Integration Testing
7 4 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
7 4 (12.50%) Mentoring
7 4 (12.50%) Performance Management
7 4 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (12.50%) Test Automation
7 4 (12.50%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (50.00%) Python
2 13 (40.63%) Java
3 12 (37.50%) JavaScript
4 7 (21.88%) SQL
5 4 (12.50%) ABAP
5 4 (12.50%) Perl
5 4 (12.50%) PowerShell
5 4 (12.50%) Shell Script
6 3 (9.38%) Bash
7 1 (3.13%) DataWeave
7 1 (3.13%) Go
7 1 (3.13%) PL/SQL
7 1 (3.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (40.63%) SC Cleared
1 13 (40.63%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.38%) AWS Certification
2 3 (9.38%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) ISO 20022
1 1 (3.13%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (28.13%) Docker
2 3 (9.38%) Active Directory
3 2 (6.25%) OpenAM
3 2 (6.25%) OpenDJ
3 2 (6.25%) OpenIDM
4 1 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (34.38%) Terraform
2 7 (21.88%) Kubernetes
3 6 (18.75%) Grafana
3 6 (18.75%) Prometheus
4 3 (9.38%) Kustomize
4 3 (9.38%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (6.25%) Ansible
6 1 (3.13%) Istio
6 1 (3.13%) Podman
6 1 (3.13%) Rancher
Vendors
1 7 (21.88%) Oracle
2 5 (15.63%) SAP
2 5 (15.63%) ServiceNow
3 4 (12.50%) Murex
4 3 (9.38%) Atlassian
4 3 (9.38%) ForgeRock
5 2 (6.25%) Microsoft
6 1 (3.13%) Anaplan
6 1 (3.13%) Dynatrace
6 1 (3.13%) Google
6 1 (3.13%) IBM
6 1 (3.13%) MuleSoft
6 1 (3.13%) Workday