Groovy Contracts in the North West

Apache Groovy
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 18 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 119 138
Rank change year-on-year -5 +19 +30
Contract jobs citing Groovy 7 5 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.32% 0.21% 0.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.24% 0.97% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 5
10th Percentile £304 £378 £353
25th Percentile £305 £386 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £306 £400 £650
Median % change year-on-year -23.44% -38.46% -
75th Percentile £323 - £725
90th Percentile £345 - £755
England median daily rate £484 £524 £625
% change year-on-year -7.65% -16.16% +2.46%

All Programming Languages
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 565 517 799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 25.78% 21.50% 27.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 428 362 585
10th Percentile £313 £350 £337
25th Percentile £363 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £459 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.72% -8.25% -3.38%
75th Percentile £525 £548 £593
90th Percentile £623 £613 £658
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 22 32
10th Percentile £28.56 £37.55 £37.57
25th Percentile £65.75 £46.18 £45.88
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +19.10% +4.95%
75th Percentile £84.50 £73.84 £50.25
90th Percentile £90.00 £96.05 £63.13
England median hourly rate £56.75 £65.00 £60.11
% change year-on-year -12.69% +8.14% +9.28%

Groovy
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Groovy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Groovy in the North West

Groovy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Groovy in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Groovy in the North West

Groovy
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 18 August 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
Cheshire -22 3 £305 -23.75% 2
Lancashire - 2 - -
Manchester - 2 £360 -
Groovy
England

Groovy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (57.14%) Apache
1 4 (57.14%) IIS
1 4 (57.14%) JBoss
1 4 (57.14%) WebSphere
2 3 (42.86%) Confluence
2 3 (42.86%) iPlanet
2 3 (42.86%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) OpenShift
3 2 (28.57%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Bitbucket Server
1 4 (57.14%) CA Release Automation
1 4 (57.14%) Git
1 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
2 3 (42.86%) JIRA
2 3 (42.86%) ScriptRunner
3 2 (28.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Senior
1 2 (28.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Linux DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) OAuth
1 4 (57.14%) OpenID
1 4 (57.14%) SAML
2 3 (42.86%) LDAP
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
1 4 (57.14%) Windows Server
2 2 (28.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) Migration
2 3 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
3 2 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Problem Management
3 2 (28.57%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) AWS Certification
2 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
3 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
2 2 (28.57%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) CA Single Sign-On
2 3 (42.86%) CA Wily
2 3 (42.86%) Progress Chef
3 2 (28.57%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Broadcom
2 3 (42.86%) AppDynamics
2 3 (42.86%) Atlassian
2 3 (42.86%) IBM
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) Oracle
2 3 (42.86%) Splunk
3 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow