Groovy Contract Job Trends in South London

Apache Groovy
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring Groovy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 34 -
Rank change year-on-year -1 - -
Contract jobs citing Groovy 10 7 0
As % of all contract jobs in South London 3.44% 3.93% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.10% 9.46% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £503 - -
25th Percentile £506 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% - -
75th Percentile £519 - -
90th Percentile £523 - -
London median daily rate £500 £540 £563
% change year-on-year -7.41% -4.00% -12.79%

All Programming Languages
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 99 74 76
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 34.02% 41.57% 40.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 43 55
10th Percentile £456 £429 £402
25th Percentile £502 £466 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +7.32% -6.82%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £695
90th Percentile £725 £738 £815
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £65.63
Median hourly rate - - £68.75
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.00%
75th Percentile - - £71.88
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £52.50 £44.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +19.32% -7.37% -24.60%

Groovy
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Groovy job vacancy trend in South London

Groovy
Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Groovy

Groovy
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 London region over the 6 months to 23 August 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
Croydon -3 10 £513 +7.89% 1
Groovy
London

Groovy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London 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 9 (90.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) AWS
2 6 (60.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 6 (60.00%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (60.00%) Amazon S3
2 6 (60.00%) AWS KMS
2 6 (60.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 5 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 6 (60.00%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (90.00%) JIRA
2 7 (70.00%) Jenkins
3 6 (60.00%) Git
4 3 (30.00%) ScriptRunner
5 1 (10.00%) GitLab
General
1 5 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) DBA
3 3 (30.00%) Administrator
3 3 (30.00%) JIRA Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (70.00%) Terraform
2 3 (30.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Amazon Linux
1 6 (60.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (90.00%) Agile
3 6 (60.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 6 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (60.00%) Performance Tuning
3 6 (60.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 6 (60.00%) Servant Leadership
4 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (40.00%) High Availability
5 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (40.00%) Observability
5 4 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (30.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 3 (30.00%) ITIL
6 3 (30.00%) ITSM
6 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (30.00%) Service Delivery
6 3 (30.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Python
2 6 (60.00%) Java
2 6 (60.00%) Perl
2 6 (60.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (90.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (90.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 5 (50.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Docker
2 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Grafana
1 6 (60.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (10.00%) Argo
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Packer
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) ServiceNow
2 3 (30.00%) Atlassian