Groovy Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Apache Groovy
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Groovy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 124 -
Rank change year-on-year -13 - -
Contract jobs citing Groovy 25 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.80% 0.043% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.28% 0.18% -
Number of daily rates quoted 15 1 0
10th Percentile £407 - -
25th Percentile £456 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £475 £631 £600
% change year-on-year -24.75% +5.21% -4.00%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 763 553 577
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 24.28% 24.01% 22.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 518 353 425
10th Percentile £358 £333 £308
25th Percentile £412 £381 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.89% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £561 £550 £575
90th Percentile £625 £637 £688
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 12 16
10th Percentile £19.83 £16.78 £17.31
25th Percentile £27.91 £17.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £21.37 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +133.97% +12.47% -3.38%
75th Percentile - £30.31 £51.00
90th Percentile £70.75 £50.75 £54.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -0.79%

Groovy
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Groovy relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Groovy job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Groovy
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Groovy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Groovy

Groovy
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Groovy in the Midlands over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Groovy in the Midlands

Groovy
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Groovy within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 December 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
West Midlands - 25 £475 -
Groovy
England

Groovy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 20 (80.00%) Confluence
2 11 (44.00%) nginx
3 2 (8.00%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (8.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 11 (44.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 22 (88.00%) Amazon S3
2 20 (80.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 20 (80.00%) Amazon EC2
2 20 (80.00%) Amazon ELB
2 20 (80.00%) AWS
2 20 (80.00%) AWS KMS
2 20 (80.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 11 (44.00%) Amazon ECS
3 11 (44.00%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (44.00%) Route 53
4 10 (40.00%) Azure
5 9 (36.00%) Amazon Glacier
6 3 (12.00%) GitHub
6 3 (12.00%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (8.00%) GCP
8 1 (4.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (84.00%) SSH
2 20 (80.00%) DNS
2 20 (80.00%) SMTP
3 19 (76.00%) Firewall
3 19 (76.00%) FTP
3 19 (76.00%) HTTP
4 11 (44.00%) IMAP
4 11 (44.00%) OpenLDAP
5 2 (8.00%) TCP/IP
6 1 (4.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (80.00%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (52.00%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (44.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (8.00%) Big Data
4 2 (8.00%) Delta Lake
4 2 (8.00%) Hadoop
4 2 (8.00%) NoSQL
4 2 (8.00%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 23 (92.00%) Jenkins
2 22 (88.00%) Git
3 20 (80.00%) JIRA
3 20 (80.00%) Vagrant
4 3 (12.00%) SonarQube
4 3 (12.00%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (8.00%) MLflow
5 2 (8.00%) Poetry
5 2 (8.00%) PyCharm
5 2 (8.00%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (4.00%) Cucumber
6 1 (4.00%) REST Assured
6 1 (4.00%) Selenium
General
1 19 (76.00%) Public Sector
2 10 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
2 10 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 18 (72.00%) AWS Engineer
1 18 (72.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 18 (72.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 18 (72.00%) Platform Engineer
2 16 (64.00%) AWS DevOps
2 16 (64.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 11 (44.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 9 (36.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Data Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Developer
6 1 (4.00%) ForgeRock Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (48.00%) LDAP
2 3 (12.00%) Flask
2 3 (12.00%) NumPy
2 3 (12.00%) Pandas
3 2 (8.00%) Apache Avro
3 2 (8.00%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (8.00%) RESTful
4 1 (4.00%) Gherkin
4 1 (4.00%) Java EE
4 1 (4.00%) OAuth
4 1 (4.00%) OAuth2
4 1 (4.00%) OpenID
4 1 (4.00%) SAML
4 1 (4.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (76.00%) Replication
2 1 (4.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 23 (92.00%) Linux
2 20 (80.00%) Amazon Linux
2 20 (80.00%) VMS
3 19 (76.00%) Windows
4 10 (40.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (92.00%) DevOps
2 20 (80.00%) Change Management
2 20 (80.00%) Cloud Security
2 20 (80.00%) Configuration Management
2 20 (80.00%) Platform Engineering
3 19 (76.00%) Patch Management
4 14 (56.00%) CI/CD
5 11 (44.00%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (12.00%) Agile
7 2 (8.00%) Containerisation
7 2 (8.00%) Data Engineering
7 2 (8.00%) Dependency Management
7 2 (8.00%) ETL
7 2 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (8.00%) Secrets Management
8 1 (4.00%) Data Pipeline
8 1 (4.00%) DataOps
8 1 (4.00%) Deployment Automation
8 1 (4.00%) Servant Leadership
8 1 (4.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 23 (92.00%) Python
2 20 (80.00%) PowerShell
3 13 (52.00%) SQL
4 11 (44.00%) Java
5 9 (36.00%) Perl
6 3 (12.00%) Bash
7 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
7 1 (4.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 20 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 19 (76.00%) SC Cleared
3 10 (40.00%) AWS Certification
3 10 (40.00%) Azure Certification
3 10 (40.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 22 (88.00%) Docker
2 19 (76.00%) DFS Replication
3 11 (44.00%) Dovecot
3 11 (44.00%) Postfix
3 11 (44.00%) Squid
4 10 (40.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (84.00%) Terraform
2 20 (80.00%) Grafana
2 20 (80.00%) Prometheus
3 11 (44.00%) Nessus
4 10 (40.00%) Proxmox
5 2 (8.00%) Argo
5 2 (8.00%) Istio
5 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
6 1 (4.00%) Ansible
6 1 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (80.00%) ServiceNow
2 11 (44.00%) Jaspersoft
3 2 (8.00%) Cloudera
3 2 (8.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.00%) ForgeRock
4 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.00%) Ping Identity