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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 352 300
Rank change year-on-year +52 -52 +95
Contract jobs citing Groovy 50 42 173
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.40% 0.24% 0.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.00% 0.63% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 24 127
10th Percentile £407 £450 £563
25th Percentile £508 £494 £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £658
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -16.35% +5.20%
75th Percentile £688 £731 £725
90th Percentile £818 £768 £775
England median daily rate £583 £538 £650
% change year-on-year +8.37% -17.31% +10.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £85.00
England median hourly rate - - £85.00
% change year-on-year - - +33.62%

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 4,989 6,709 10,035
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.50% 38.03% 39.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,511 5,099 7,546
10th Percentile £375 £375 £406
25th Percentile £431 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £700 £700 £738
90th Percentile £825 £838 £835
England median daily rate £520 £540 £560
% change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% +1.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 50 77
10th Percentile £27.88 £23.80 £25.55
25th Percentile £33.25 £34.99 £46.25
Median hourly rate £40.25 £50.25 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.90% -16.25% +20.00%
75th Percentile £55.94 £62.23 £75.00
90th Percentile £84.38 £72.75 £87.94
England median hourly rate £55.00 £63.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -12.70% +0.80% +19.05%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 - 12 £500 - 7
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 17 (34.00%) Confluence
2 3 (6.00%) Apache
2 3 (6.00%) JBoss
3 2 (4.00%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (4.00%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 23 (46.00%) AWS
2 18 (36.00%) Azure
3 12 (24.00%) GitHub
4 11 (22.00%) GCP
5 9 (18.00%) IaaS
6 8 (16.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (16.00%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (10.00%) SaaS
8 3 (6.00%) OpenShift
8 3 (6.00%) Power Platform
9 2 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (4.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (4.00%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (2.00%) Amazon S3
10 1 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (2.00%) Cloud Functions
10 1 (2.00%) Datadog
10 1 (2.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.00%) HTTP
1 4 (8.00%) HTTPS
2 2 (4.00%) DNS
3 1 (2.00%) Firewall
3 1 (2.00%) VPN
3 1 (2.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.00%) Oracle Database
1 4 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (6.00%) Power BI
2 3 (6.00%) Redis
3 1 (2.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.00%) MySQL
3 1 (2.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (48.00%) JIRA
2 20 (40.00%) Jenkins
3 17 (34.00%) Git
4 16 (32.00%) ScriptRunner
5 9 (18.00%) Artifactory
6 6 (12.00%) Maven
7 4 (8.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (8.00%) Postman
7 4 (8.00%) REST Assured
7 4 (8.00%) SoapUI
7 4 (8.00%) Subversion
8 3 (6.00%) JUnit
8 3 (6.00%) Mockito
8 3 (6.00%) SonarQube
8 3 (6.00%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (6.00%) Xcode
8 3 (6.00%) XCTest
9 2 (4.00%) Ant
9 2 (4.00%) GitLab
9 2 (4.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 12 (24.00%) Finance
2 11 (22.00%) Social Skills
3 10 (20.00%) Banking
4 4 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.00%) Military
5 3 (6.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.00%) Front Office
6 1 (2.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (14.00%) Architect
1 7 (14.00%) Developer
2 6 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (12.00%) JIRA Engineer
2 6 (12.00%) Senior
3 5 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (6.00%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (6.00%) JIRA Developer
4 3 (6.00%) Lead
5 2 (4.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) GCP DevOps
5 2 (4.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) GCP Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) JIRA Administrator
5 2 (4.00%) JIRA Specialist
5 2 (4.00%) Linux Scripter
5 2 (4.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (26.00%) REST
2 11 (22.00%) SOAP
3 7 (14.00%) Web Services
4 6 (12.00%) Spring
5 5 (10.00%) Kafka
5 5 (10.00%) OAuth
6 4 (8.00%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (8.00%) JWT
6 4 (8.00%) SAML
6 4 (8.00%) Spring Boot
6 4 (8.00%) XML
7 3 (6.00%) CSS
7 3 (6.00%) Hibernate
7 3 (6.00%) HTML
7 3 (6.00%) J2EE
7 3 (6.00%) JPA
7 3 (6.00%) JSON
7 3 (6.00%) Material-UI
7 3 (6.00%) Middleware
7 3 (6.00%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.00%) Public Cloud
2 3 (6.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (6.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.00%) Replication
4 1 (2.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.00%) 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%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (2.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.00%) Linux
2 3 (6.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (6.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (64.00%) Agile
2 22 (44.00%) CI/CD
3 19 (38.00%) Migration
4 14 (28.00%) DevOps
5 12 (24.00%) Kanban
5 12 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (24.00%) Scrum
6 10 (20.00%) Incident Management
6 10 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
7 9 (18.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 8 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (14.00%) Configuration Management
9 7 (14.00%) Load Balancing
9 7 (14.00%) Microservices
10 6 (12.00%) Infrastructure Automation
10 6 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 6 (12.00%) Mentoring
10 6 (12.00%) SDLC
11 5 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (10.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 24 (48.00%) Python
2 17 (34.00%) JavaScript
3 16 (32.00%) Java
4 8 (16.00%) Bash
4 8 (16.00%) PowerShell
5 7 (14.00%) Go
5 7 (14.00%) SQL
6 5 (10.00%) ABAP
6 5 (10.00%) C#
7 4 (8.00%) C++
8 3 (6.00%) Shell Script
9 1 (2.00%) COBOL
9 1 (2.00%) JCL
9 1 (2.00%) Kotlin
9 1 (2.00%) Perl
9 1 (2.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (18.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (18.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (2.00%) CEH
2 1 (2.00%) CISSP
2 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.00%) GDPR
1 3 (6.00%) QA
2 1 (2.00%) IFRS
2 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (14.00%) Docker
2 4 (8.00%) OpenAM
2 4 (8.00%) OpenDJ
2 4 (8.00%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 14 (28.00%) Kubernetes
2 13 (26.00%) Terraform
3 12 (24.00%) Ansible
4 9 (18.00%) Puppet
5 3 (6.00%) Podman
6 2 (4.00%) Grafana
6 2 (4.00%) Istio
6 2 (4.00%) Opsgenie
6 2 (4.00%) Prometheus
7 1 (2.00%) Control-M
7 1 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (32.00%) Atlassian
2 8 (16.00%) Oracle
3 6 (12.00%) SAP
4 4 (8.00%) Dynatrace
4 4 (8.00%) ForgeRock
4 4 (8.00%) Splunk
5 3 (6.00%) CA Agile Central
5 3 (6.00%) Google
6 2 (4.00%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.00%) Bloomberg
7 1 (2.00%) IBM
7 1 (2.00%) Microsoft