Groovy Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Apache Groovy
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Groovy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 - 118
Rank change year-on-year - - +26
Contract jobs citing Groovy 3 0 9
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.092% - 0.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.49% - 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile £374 - £333
25th Percentile £391 - £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - -30.18%
75th Percentile £491 - £738
90th Percentile £511 - £825
South East median daily rate £485 £384 £550
% change year-on-year +26.30% -30.18% -3.51%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 610 437 499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 18.69% 26.12% 20.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 411 265 347
10th Percentile £313 £343 £363
25th Percentile £400 £413 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £588 £586 £608
90th Percentile £650 £670 £651
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +2.50% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 3 15
10th Percentile £27.66 £22.73 £43.85
25th Percentile £36.22 £25.55 £58.49
Median hourly rate £52.50 £31.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -51.54% +52.94%
75th Percentile £82.25 £43.25 £69.22
90th Percentile £83.75 £49.55 £83.50
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £52.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +14.29% -19.23% +16.87%

Groovy
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Groovy job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Groovy
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Groovy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Groovy

Groovy
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Groovy in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 26 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Groovy in the Thames Valley

Groovy
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Groovy.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Groovy

Groovy
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Groovy within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 26 July 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 -
Buckinghamshire - 1 £500 - 1
Groovy
South East

Groovy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
1 1 (33.33%) HTTPS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) JMeter
1 1 (33.33%) Katalon Studio
1 1 (33.33%) LoadRunner
1 1 (33.33%) NeoLoad
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
General
1 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Functional Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Functional Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Budgeting
2 1 (33.33%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) ERP
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Management
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
2 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Parasoft
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow