Groovy Contract Job Trends in the South East

Apache Groovy
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Groovy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 - 191
Rank change year-on-year - - +8
Contract jobs citing Groovy 2 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.034% - 0.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.17% - 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £367
25th Percentile £363 - £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £538
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.38%
75th Percentile £388 - £675
90th Percentile - - £683
England median daily rate £450 £599 £538
% change year-on-year -24.87% +11.44% -17.31%

All Programming Languages
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,154 790 1,267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 19.38% 26.94% 22.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 542 871
10th Percentile £310 £350 £325
25th Percentile £400 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £501
Median % change year-on-year - -0.20% -4.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £608
90th Percentile £688 £660 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 28 81
10th Percentile £34.01 £38.83 £35.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £48.99 £46.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year - -10.71% +12.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £65.62 £77.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.84% -0.80% -

Groovy
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Groovy job vacancy trend in the South East

Groovy
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Groovy

Groovy
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Groovy.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Groovy

Groovy
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Groovy within the South East region over the 6 months to 4 June 2026. 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
Berkshire - 2 £375 -
Thames Valley - 2 £375 -
Groovy
England

Groovy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) HTTPS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JMeter
1 1 (50.00%) Katalon Studio
1 1 (50.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (50.00%) NeoLoad
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (50.00%) Parasoft