Groovy Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Apache Groovy
England > North of England

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

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 169 161 202
Rank change year-on-year -8 +41 +14
Contract jobs citing Groovy 27 12 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.64% 0.29% 0.020%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.18% 1.17% 0.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 4 0
10th Percentile £305 £381 -
25th Percentile £420 £393 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year +14.44% - -
75th Percentile £519 £405 -
90th Percentile £614 £413 -
England median daily rate £475 £513 £625
% change year-on-year -7.32% -18.00% +2.04%

All Programming Languages
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,241 1,030 1,297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 29.58% 24.92% 25.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 864 669 937
10th Percentile £315 £328 £331
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.60% -3.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £567 £600
90th Percentile £626 £638 £675
England median daily rate £513 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -5.53% -1.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 30 53
10th Percentile £31.20 £35.20 £31.51
25th Percentile £41.94 £37.55 -
Median hourly rate £66.50 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +44.00% - -7.82%
75th Percentile £84.50 £64.69 £51.50
90th Percentile £93.20 £80.00 £72.25
England median hourly rate £59.00 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -9.23% +4.00% +4.17%

Groovy
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Groovy job vacancy trend in the North of England

Groovy
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Groovy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Groovy

Groovy
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Groovy in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Groovy in the North of England

Groovy
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Groovy.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Groovy

Groovy
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Groovy within the North of England region over the 6 months to 16 October 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
North West -8 15 £446 +11.50%
Yorkshire -20 12 £590 +43.03% 4
North East - 6 £625 -
Groovy
England

Groovy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 11 (40.74%) Apache
1 11 (40.74%) IIS
1 11 (40.74%) JBoss
1 11 (40.74%) WebSphere
2 10 (37.04%) iPlanet
2 10 (37.04%) WebSphere Application Server
3 5 (18.52%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 18 (66.67%) AWS
2 10 (37.04%) OpenShift
3 7 (25.93%) GitHub
4 4 (14.81%) IaaS
5 3 (11.11%) Azure
5 3 (11.11%) GCP
6 2 (7.41%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (7.41%) AtomSphere
6 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (7.41%) Boomi
6 2 (7.41%) CloudBees
6 2 (7.41%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (7.41%) SaaS
7 1 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.70%) Azure AKS
7 1 (3.70%) Collibra
7 1 (3.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (37.04%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (37.04%) Oracle Database
2 3 (11.11%) BigQuery
3 1 (3.70%) DataStage
3 1 (3.70%) DB2
3 1 (3.70%) Metadata
3 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 18 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 13 (48.15%) Git
3 11 (40.74%) Bitbucket Server
3 11 (40.74%) CA Release Automation
4 10 (37.04%) Sonatype Nexus
5 7 (25.93%) JIRA
6 5 (18.52%) ScriptRunner
7 2 (7.41%) Bitbucket
7 2 (7.41%) GitLab
8 1 (3.70%) Gradle
8 1 (3.70%) Jaeger
8 1 (3.70%) Maven
8 1 (3.70%) SonarQube
General
1 9 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (3.70%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 9 (33.33%) Senior
2 7 (25.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (22.22%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (18.52%) Developer
5 3 (11.11%) JIRA Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
5 3 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Integration Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Lead
6 2 (7.41%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 1 (3.70%) Java Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Lead Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Lead Java Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Linux Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 1 (3.70%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (40.74%) OAuth
1 11 (40.74%) OpenID
1 11 (40.74%) SAML
2 10 (37.04%) LDAP
3 5 (18.52%) REST
4 2 (7.41%) JSON
4 2 (7.41%) SOAP
4 2 (7.41%) XML
5 1 (3.70%) Node.js
5 1 (3.70%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.70%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (3.70%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 14 (51.85%) Linux
2 11 (40.74%) Windows
3 9 (33.33%) Unix
3 9 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (70.37%) DevOps
2 17 (62.96%) CI/CD
3 10 (37.04%) Agile
4 9 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
5 8 (29.63%) Identity Access Management
6 7 (25.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (22.22%) Containerisation
8 5 (18.52%) Migration
8 5 (18.52%) Performance Tuning
8 5 (18.52%) Task Automation
9 4 (14.81%) Incident Management
9 4 (14.81%) Problem Management
9 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (14.81%) Test Automation
9 4 (14.81%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 3 (11.11%) Data Protection
10 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
11 2 (7.41%) Customer Engagement
11 2 (7.41%) Software Engineering
11 2 (7.41%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 10 (37.04%) Shell Script
2 7 (25.93%) Java
3 5 (18.52%) Python
4 4 (14.81%) JavaScript
5 3 (11.11%) Bash
6 2 (7.41%) C#
6 2 (7.41%) Kotlin
6 2 (7.41%) T-SQL
7 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
7 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (22.22%) AWS Certification
2 6 (22.22%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 13 (48.15%) Docker
2 10 (37.04%) Active Directory
3 8 (29.63%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 11 (40.74%) CA Single Sign-On
2 10 (37.04%) CA Wily
2 10 (37.04%) Progress Chef
3 8 (29.63%) Tivoli
4 5 (18.52%) Ansible
4 5 (18.52%) Kubernetes
4 5 (18.52%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (11.11%) Grafana
5 3 (11.11%) Prometheus
5 3 (11.11%) Terraform
6 1 (3.70%) Argo
6 1 (3.70%) Control-M
6 1 (3.70%) Istio
6 1 (3.70%) Kiali
6 1 (3.70%) Packer
6 1 (3.70%) Podman
6 1 (3.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (48.15%) Splunk
2 12 (44.44%) AppDynamics
3 11 (40.74%) Broadcom
3 11 (40.74%) Oracle
4 10 (37.04%) IBM
4 10 (37.04%) Microsoft
5 5 (18.52%) Atlassian
6 1 (3.70%) Databricks
6 1 (3.70%) Google
6 1 (3.70%) Informatica
6 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.70%) xMatters