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 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 172 171 202
Rank change year-on-year -1 +31 +27
Contract jobs citing Groovy 3 10 10
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.082% 0.24% 0.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.32% 0.90% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 7
10th Percentile - £400 -
25th Percentile £380 £419 £565
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £384 £638 £600
Median % change year-on-year -39.76% +6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £389 £722 £643
90th Percentile - £825 £646
England median daily rate £475 £513 £623
% change year-on-year -7.32% -17.67% +1.63%

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 924 1,116 1,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 25.38% 26.33% 24.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 643 707 940
10th Percentile £251 £328 £325
25th Percentile £380 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £513 £529
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.07% +0.71%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £614
90th Percentile £624 £660 £678
England median daily rate £513 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 58 66
10th Percentile £50.00 £27.00 £32.32
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.81 £48.73
Median hourly rate £55.00 £64.76 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.07% +17.75% -12.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £72.81 £67.19
90th Percentile - £75.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £62.25 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -4.23% +4.00% -

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 21 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
Berkshire +9 2 - - 3
Thames Valley -2 2 - - 3
Hampshire - 1 £384 - 1
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AtomSphere
1 2 (66.67%) Boomi
1 2 (66.67%) SaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) SSH
1 1 (33.33%) SSL
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
1 1 (33.33%) Delta Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Hadoop
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Parquet
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) MLflow
1 1 (33.33%) Poetry
1 1 (33.33%) PyCharm
1 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
1 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio Code
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Integration Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) JSON
1 2 (66.67%) REST
1 2 (66.67%) SOAP
1 2 (66.67%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) Apache Avro
2 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (33.33%) Flask
2 1 (33.33%) NumPy
2 1 (33.33%) Pandas
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Customer Engagement
2 2 (66.67%) Integration Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) Intelligent Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Translating Business Requirements
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Dependency Management
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Memory Management
3 1 (33.33%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) T-SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Argo
1 1 (33.33%) Istio
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cloudera
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat