Groovy Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Apache Groovy
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Groovy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 41 54
Rank change year-on-year -43 +13 -7
Contract jobs citing Groovy 6 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.78% 0.93% 0.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.01% 3.37% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £453 - -
25th Percentile £456 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £485 - -
90th Percentile £486 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 - -

All Programming Languages
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 299 89 139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 38.73% 27.64% 31.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 65 92
10th Percentile £345 £404 £403
25th Percentile £400 £470 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.58% +7.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £623 £588
90th Percentile £675 £690 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% -9.30%

Groovy
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Groovy job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Groovy
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

Groovy
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 21 December 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
Sheffield -42 6 £475 -
Groovy
Yorkshire

Groovy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 4 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
1 4 (66.67%) GCP
1 4 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (33.33%) Collibra
2 2 (33.33%) OpenShift
2 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) BigQuery
1 2 (33.33%) DataStage
1 2 (33.33%) DB2
1 2 (33.33%) Metadata
1 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (33.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) Bitbucket
2 2 (33.33%) GitLab
2 2 (33.33%) JIRA
3 1 (16.67%) Gradle
3 1 (16.67%) Maven
3 1 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps Automation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (33.33%) Reference Data
2 1 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 2 (33.33%) Data Lineage
2 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 2 (33.33%) ETL
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Coaching
3 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 1 (16.67%) Critical Thinking
3 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
3 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Metadata Management
3 1 (16.67%) Observability
3 1 (16.67%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Bash
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) Python
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Ansible
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
3 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
3 1 (16.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Informatica
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) AppDynamics
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk