Groovy Contracts in Scotland

Apache Groovy
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 114 152
Rank change year-on-year +5 +38 +7
Contract jobs citing Groovy 7 15 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.43% 0.68% 0.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.06% 2.25% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 10
10th Percentile £328 £442 £363
25th Percentile £350 £509 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £531 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.13% +8.92% -7.14%
75th Percentile £538 £634 £523
90th Percentile £551 - £530
UK median daily rate £553 £538 £630
% change year-on-year +2.84% -14.68% +7.51%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 658 668 1,001
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 40.49% 30.13% 34.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 370 438 730
10th Percentile £313 £369 £406
25th Percentile £408 £415 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £484 £493
Median % change year-on-year -2.79% -1.98% +3.84%
75th Percentile £538 £586 £557
90th Percentile £575 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 14
10th Percentile - £29.60 £48.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £41.31 £52.50
Median hourly rate £23.77 £57.50 £59.79
Median % change year-on-year -58.67% -3.83% +27.21%
75th Percentile £40.72 £60.75 £67.27
90th Percentile £63.00 £62.50 £69.63
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

Groovy
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Groovy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Groovy in Scotland

Groovy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Groovy in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Groovy in Scotland

Groovy
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Groovy in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Groovy in Scotland

Groovy
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Groovy within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Edinburgh -2 5 £525 -9.68% 5
Glasgow +3 2 £338 -35.34% 5
Groovy
UK

Groovy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (28.57%) SharePoint
1 2 (28.57%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Amazon EC2
1 4 (57.14%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 4 (57.14%) Amazon S3
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) AWS CloudFormation
1 4 (57.14%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (57.14%) OpenShift
1 4 (57.14%) Serverless
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 3 (42.86%) AWS CodeBuild
2 3 (42.86%) AWS CodeDeploy
2 3 (42.86%) AWS CodePipeline
2 3 (42.86%) AWS Fargate
2 3 (42.86%) Route 53
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (28.57%) OneDrive
3 2 (28.57%) Power Automate
3 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
3 2 (28.57%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) DNS
2 1 (14.29%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (28.57%) InfluxDB
3 1 (14.29%) Apache Hive
3 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
3 1 (14.29%) Hadoop
3 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
3 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
2 3 (42.86%) Artifactory
3 2 (28.57%) Git
3 2 (28.57%) GitLab
3 2 (28.57%) JIRA
4 1 (14.29%) JMeter
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) AWS Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) JIRA Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) SharePoint Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Developer
3 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Test Automation Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) AWS CDK
2 2 (28.57%) SPFx
3 1 (14.29%) Kafka
3 1 (14.29%) Loki
3 1 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
2 4 (57.14%) Kanban
2 4 (57.14%) Scrum
3 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) High Availability
4 2 (28.57%) Kalman Filter
4 2 (28.57%) Migration
4 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Software Delivery
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (14.29%) Human-Centred Design
5 1 (14.29%) Inclusive Design
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (14.29%) Observability
5 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) Bash
3 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
4 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) OCP
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Ansible
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 3 (42.86%) Grafana
2 3 (42.86%) Kibana
3 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Confluent
2 1 (14.29%) IBM
2 1 (14.29%) Imperva
2 1 (14.29%) Informatica
2 1 (14.29%) StreamSets