Groovy Contracts in the UK excluding London

Apache Groovy
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Groovy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Groovy over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 311 359 396
Rank change year-on-year +48 +37 +2
Contract jobs citing Groovy 25 40 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.19% 0.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.69% 0.82% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 28 50
10th Percentile £313 £400 £386
25th Percentile £430 £405 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £516 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -1.67% -
75th Percentile £613 £634 £613
90th Percentile £680 £638 £680
UK median daily rate £553 £538 £630
% change year-on-year +2.84% -14.68% +7.51%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,641 4,865 6,991
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.52% 23.42% 29.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,400 3,277 4,996
10th Percentile £325 £319 £338
25th Percentile £402 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £575 £584 £594
90th Percentile £650 £650 £676
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 397 346
10th Percentile £22.38 £37.58 £23.61
25th Percentile £42.00 £50.75 £50.00
Median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% - +26.21%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £69.31
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

Groovy
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Groovy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Groovy in the UK excluding London

Groovy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Groovy in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Groovy in the UK excluding London

Groovy
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Groovy in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Groovy in the UK excluding London

Groovy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Groovy in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Groovy in the UK excluding London

Groovy
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North of England +19 12 £600 -4.00% 38
Yorkshire +11 11 £600 -4.00% 20
Scotland +5 7 £525 -1.13% 14
Midlands +26 6 - - 37
West Midlands +18 6 - - 23
North East - 4 £650 - 4
North West +16 3 - - 15
East of England +25 2 £325 -20.73% 24
Groovy
UK

Groovy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (28.00%) Confluence
2 2 (8.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (8.00%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (44.00%) AWS
2 5 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 5 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 5 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (20.00%) Serverless
3 4 (16.00%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (16.00%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (16.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 4 (16.00%) GCP
3 4 (16.00%) GitHub
3 4 (16.00%) IaaS
3 4 (16.00%) OpenShift
4 3 (12.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 3 (12.00%) AWS CodeBuild
4 3 (12.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
4 3 (12.00%) AWS CodePipeline
4 3 (12.00%) AWS Fargate
4 3 (12.00%) Power Platform
4 3 (12.00%) Route 53
5 2 (8.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) HTTP
2 2 (8.00%) Firewall
3 1 (4.00%) DNS
3 1 (4.00%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) BigQuery
1 3 (12.00%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (8.00%) Hazelcast
2 2 (8.00%) InfluxDB
3 1 (4.00%) Apache Hive
3 1 (4.00%) Big Data
3 1 (4.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (4.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (48.00%) Jenkins
2 9 (36.00%) JIRA
3 7 (28.00%) ScriptRunner
4 5 (20.00%) Git
5 3 (12.00%) Artifactory
6 2 (8.00%) GitLab
6 2 (8.00%) Jaeger
7 1 (4.00%) JMeter
General
1 7 (28.00%) Finance
2 4 (16.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (12.00%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Electronics
4 2 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (8.00%) Manufacturing
4 2 (8.00%) Marketing
4 2 (8.00%) Telecoms
5 1 (4.00%) Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) Developer
2 5 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) JIRA Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Senior
3 4 (16.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Administrator
5 2 (8.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) C++ Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Developer in Test
5 2 (8.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Integration Developer
5 2 (8.00%) JIRA Administrator
5 2 (8.00%) Linux Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Python Developer
5 2 (8.00%) SAP Developer
5 2 (8.00%) SharePoint Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) AWS CDK
2 3 (12.00%) EDI
2 3 (12.00%) IDoc
2 3 (12.00%) J2EE
2 3 (12.00%) JDBC
2 3 (12.00%) Kafka
2 3 (12.00%) REST
2 3 (12.00%) SOAP
2 3 (12.00%) XSLT
3 2 (8.00%) gRPC
3 2 (8.00%) SPFx
4 1 (4.00%) Loki
4 1 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (8.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (28.00%) Linux
2 3 (12.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (8.00%) Mac OS
3 2 (8.00%) Ubuntu
3 2 (8.00%) Unix
3 2 (8.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (56.00%) Agile
2 8 (32.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (32.00%) Migration
3 7 (28.00%) Containerisation
4 6 (24.00%) DevOps
4 6 (24.00%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (20.00%) Scrum
5 5 (20.00%) Test Automation
6 4 (16.00%) Incident Management
6 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (16.00%) Kanban
6 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (16.00%) Project Management
6 4 (16.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 3 (12.00%) API Management
7 3 (12.00%) BPMN
7 3 (12.00%) High Availability
7 3 (12.00%) Requirements Gathering
7 3 (12.00%) Requirements Workshops
7 3 (12.00%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 11 (44.00%) Python
2 7 (28.00%) Java
3 6 (24.00%) Bash
4 5 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (12.00%) ABAP
5 3 (12.00%) Shell Script
6 2 (8.00%) C++
6 2 (8.00%) Kotlin
6 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
6 2 (8.00%) SQL
7 1 (4.00%) COBOL
7 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (32.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (24.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.00%) SAP Certification
4 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.00%) Degree
5 1 (4.00%) OCP
5 1 (4.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (32.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (24.00%) Grafana
3 5 (20.00%) Ansible
4 3 (12.00%) Kibana
5 2 (8.00%) Control-M
5 2 (8.00%) Istio
5 2 (8.00%) Kiali
5 2 (8.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) Atlassian
2 5 (20.00%) SAP
3 2 (8.00%) AppDynamics
3 2 (8.00%) Google
3 2 (8.00%) HP
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (8.00%) Splunk
3 2 (8.00%) xMatters
4 1 (4.00%) Confluent
4 1 (4.00%) Databricks
4 1 (4.00%) IBM
4 1 (4.00%) Imperva
4 1 (4.00%) Informatica
4 1 (4.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.00%) StreamSets