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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 329 353 388
Rank change year-on-year +24 +35 -7
Contract jobs citing Groovy 28 52 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.24% 0.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.73% 1.03% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 35 40
10th Percentile £433 £402 £399
25th Percentile £461 £406 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.54% -0.95% +2.44%
75th Percentile £603 £634 £603
90th Percentile £650 £665 £730
UK median daily rate £535 £538 £625
% change year-on-year -0.47% -14.00% +6.84%

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 3,858 5,026 6,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.47% 23.67% 27.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,563 3,288 4,393
10th Percentile £313 £321 £338
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £551 £583 £594
90th Percentile £625 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 463 326
10th Percentile £27.45 £36.30 £26.93
25th Percentile £44.51 £51.88 £51.25
Median hourly rate £61.50 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +4.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £68.50 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.27 £77.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -12.00% - +19.62%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 +29 15 £594 -4.96% 14
Yorkshire +7 13 £598 -4.32% 4
Midlands +11 9 £475 -7.68% 18
West Midlands +10 9 £475 -5.94% 16
Scotland -9 5 £475 -12.04% 3
North East - 5 £650 - 2
North West +7 3 - - 8
South West - 1 £600 - 3
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 13 (46.43%) Confluence
2 2 (7.14%) nginx
2 2 (7.14%) SharePoint
2 2 (7.14%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 18 (64.29%) AWS
2 8 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
2 8 (28.57%) Amazon S3
3 7 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 7 (25.00%) Amazon ELB
4 6 (21.43%) AWS KMS
4 6 (21.43%) GCP
4 6 (21.43%) GitHub
4 6 (21.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 5 (17.86%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (14.29%) Amazon Glacier
6 4 (14.29%) IaaS
6 4 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (10.71%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (10.71%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (10.71%) Power Platform
7 3 (10.71%) Route 53
7 3 (10.71%) Serverless
8 2 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (7.14%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (21.43%) SMTP
2 5 (17.86%) DNS
3 4 (14.29%) Firewall
3 4 (14.29%) FTP
3 4 (14.29%) HTTP
3 4 (14.29%) SSH
4 2 (7.14%) IMAP
4 2 (7.14%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (3.57%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (21.43%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (14.29%) BigQuery
3 2 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (7.14%) Hazelcast
3 2 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.57%) Big Data
4 1 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (3.57%) InfluxDB
4 1 (3.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 15 (53.57%) Jenkins
1 15 (53.57%) JIRA
2 9 (32.14%) Git
3 7 (25.00%) ScriptRunner
4 6 (21.43%) Vagrant
5 3 (10.71%) Jaeger
6 2 (7.14%) GitLab
6 2 (7.14%) SonarQube
7 1 (3.57%) Artifactory
7 1 (3.57%) Cypress.io
7 1 (3.57%) Selenium
7 1 (3.57%) Snyk
7 1 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (21.43%) Finance
1 6 (21.43%) Public Sector
2 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (39.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) JIRA Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Senior
3 4 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Administrator
4 2 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Developer
4 2 (7.14%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Java Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) JIRA Administrator
4 2 (7.14%) Lead
4 2 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) SharePoint Administrator
5 1 (3.57%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) gRPC
1 2 (7.14%) Kafka
1 2 (7.14%) LDAP
1 2 (7.14%) OAuth
1 2 (7.14%) SPFx
2 1 (3.57%) AWS CDK
2 1 (3.57%) Loki
2 1 (3.57%) Node.js
2 1 (3.57%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Replication
2 3 (10.71%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 10 (35.71%) Linux
2 6 (21.43%) Amazon Linux
2 6 (21.43%) VMS
3 4 (14.29%) Windows
4 3 (10.71%) Unix
5 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (53.57%) Agile
2 13 (46.43%) DevOps
3 11 (39.29%) CI/CD
4 8 (28.57%) Migration
4 8 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
5 7 (25.00%) Change Management
5 7 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 7 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
6 6 (21.43%) Cloud Security
6 6 (21.43%) Configuration Management
7 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
8 4 (14.29%) Incident Management
8 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (14.29%) Patch Management
8 4 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (14.29%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 3 (10.71%) High Availability
9 3 (10.71%) Software Engineering
9 3 (10.71%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 15 (53.57%) Python
2 12 (42.86%) Java
3 8 (28.57%) PowerShell
4 6 (21.43%) Bash
5 4 (14.29%) Perl
5 4 (14.29%) SQL
6 3 (10.71%) Shell Script
7 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
7 2 (7.14%) Kotlin
8 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 14 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.57%) Degree
4 1 (3.57%) ISTQB
4 1 (3.57%) OCP
4 1 (3.57%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 10 (35.71%) Docker
2 4 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 4 (14.29%) DFS Replication
3 2 (7.14%) Dovecot
3 2 (7.14%) Postfix
3 2 (7.14%) Squid
Systems Management
1 12 (42.86%) Grafana
2 10 (35.71%) Kubernetes
3 9 (32.14%) Prometheus
3 9 (32.14%) Terraform
4 5 (17.86%) Ansible
5 3 (10.71%) Control-M
5 3 (10.71%) Istio
5 3 (10.71%) Kiali
6 2 (7.14%) Nessus
6 2 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (3.57%) Kibana
7 1 (3.57%) Packer
Vendors
1 8 (28.57%) ServiceNow
2 7 (25.00%) Atlassian
3 3 (10.71%) AppDynamics
3 3 (10.71%) Splunk
3 3 (10.71%) xMatters
4 2 (7.14%) Databricks
4 2 (7.14%) ForgeRock
4 2 (7.14%) Google
4 2 (7.14%) Jaspersoft
4 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.57%) Red Hat