Groovy Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Apache Groovy
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Groovy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 23 -
Rank change year-on-year -21 - -
Contract jobs citing Groovy 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.48% 2.15% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.20% 5.56% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £500 -
25th Percentile £415 £504 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £515 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.42% - -
75th Percentile £445 £521 -
90th Percentile - £523 -
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £515 -
% change year-on-year -7.68% - -

All Programming Languages
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 83 36 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 39.71% 38.71% 10.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 32 4
10th Percentile £353 £309 -
25th Percentile £456 £420 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £484 £413
Median % change year-on-year +7.54% +17.33% -23.47%
75th Percentile £540 £547 £531
90th Percentile £553 £567 £543
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £484 £475
% change year-on-year +3.31% +1.89% -6.86%

Groovy
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Groovy job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Groovy
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Groovy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Groovy

Groovy
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Groovy within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 11 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
Telford -22 1 £430 -16.42% 1
Groovy
West Midlands

Groovy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Gherkin
1 1 (100.00%) Java EE
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) System Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility