Groovy Contracts

Apache Groovy
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 434 526 436
Rank change year-on-year +92 -90 +23
Contract jobs citing Groovy 85 74 288
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.17% 0.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.85% 0.58% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 51 219
10th Percentile £358 £405 £450
25th Percentile £425 £444 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £538 £630
Median % change year-on-year +4.19% -14.68% +7.51%
75th Percentile £650 £634 £688
90th Percentile £775 £650 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £516 £525
% change year-on-year +1.69% -1.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £85.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Programming Languages
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 9,942 12,854 20,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.01% 29.49% 35.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,743 9,130 15,092
10th Percentile £360 £350 £400
25th Percentile £419 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £769 £760 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 485 471
10th Percentile £22.49 £31.25 £26.25
25th Percentile £33.91 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
Median % change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.75 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.87 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +2.20% - +26.21%

Groovy
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Groovy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Groovy in the UK

Groovy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Groovy.

Daily rate trend for Groovy in the UK

Groovy
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Groovy over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Groovy in the UK

Groovy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Groovy.

Hourly rate trend for Groovy in the UK

Groovy
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +77 71 £600 +11.63% 42
London +53 48 £625 +13.64% 22
Work from Home +57 28 £494 -8.14% 35
UK excluding London +39 25 £525 +1.69% 35
North of England +28 12 £600 -4.00% 7
Yorkshire +18 11 £600 -4.00% 6
Scotland +1 7 £525 -1.13% 7
Midlands +28 6 - - 6
West Midlands +20 6 - - 6
North East - 4 £650 -
North West +10 3 - - 2
East of England +28 2 £325 -20.73%

Groovy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 29 (34.12%) Confluence
2 7 (8.24%) Apache
2 7 (8.24%) nginx
3 4 (4.71%) OpenStack
4 2 (2.35%) SharePoint
4 2 (2.35%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.18%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.18%) JBoss
5 1 (1.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (3.53%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 32 (37.65%) AWS
2 15 (17.65%) IaaS
3 10 (11.76%) Azure
3 10 (11.76%) GitHub
4 8 (9.41%) GCP
4 8 (9.41%) OpenShift
5 7 (8.24%) Amazon S3
5 7 (8.24%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (8.24%) Serverless
6 6 (7.06%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (7.06%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (5.88%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 5 (5.88%) Power Platform
8 4 (4.71%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 4 (4.71%) AWS CodeBuild
8 4 (4.71%) AWS CodeDeploy
8 4 (4.71%) AWS CodePipeline
8 4 (4.71%) AWS Fargate
8 4 (4.71%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 13 (15.29%) HTTP
2 6 (7.06%) HTTPS
3 4 (4.71%) Firewall
4 3 (3.53%) DNS
5 1 (1.18%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (1.18%) VPN
5 1 (1.18%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (4.71%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (3.53%) BigQuery
3 3 (3.53%) Data Lake
3 3 (3.53%) InfluxDB
3 3 (3.53%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.53%) Oracle Database
3 3 (3.53%) Power BI
4 2 (2.35%) Hazelcast
4 2 (2.35%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.35%) Redis
4 2 (2.35%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.18%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.18%) Big Data
5 1 (1.18%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.18%) MySQL
5 1 (1.18%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.18%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 37 (43.53%) Jenkins
2 35 (41.18%) JIRA
3 28 (32.94%) ScriptRunner
4 15 (17.65%) Git
5 6 (7.06%) Artifactory
6 5 (5.88%) Bitbucket
6 5 (5.88%) JMeter
6 5 (5.88%) Maven
7 4 (4.71%) GitLab
8 3 (3.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (3.53%) Jaeger
8 3 (3.53%) JUnit
8 3 (3.53%) Postman
8 3 (3.53%) REST Assured
8 3 (3.53%) SoapUI
9 2 (2.35%) LoadRunner
9 2 (2.35%) Mockito
9 2 (2.35%) Subversion
9 2 (2.35%) Xcode
9 2 (2.35%) XCTest
General
1 22 (25.88%) Finance
2 15 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 10 (11.76%) Banking
3 10 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 8 (9.41%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.71%) Electronics
5 4 (4.71%) Manufacturing
5 4 (4.71%) Marketing
5 4 (4.71%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.53%) Military
6 3 (3.53%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.35%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.18%) Front Office
8 1 (1.18%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (20.00%) Developer
2 14 (16.47%) Senior
3 12 (14.12%) JIRA Engineer
4 11 (12.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (10.59%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (7.06%) Administrator
7 6 (7.06%) JIRA Administrator
7 6 (7.06%) Lead
7 6 (7.06%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (5.88%) Automation Engineer
8 5 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 5 (5.88%) Unix Engineer
9 4 (4.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 4 (4.71%) JIRA Specialist
9 4 (4.71%) Site Engineer
10 3 (3.53%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 3 (3.53%) Developer in Test
10 3 (3.53%) JIRA Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (18.82%) REST
2 13 (15.29%) SOAP
3 9 (10.59%) Kafka
4 7 (8.24%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (8.24%) OAuth
5 6 (7.06%) AWS CDK
5 6 (7.06%) JWT
5 6 (7.06%) SAML
6 5 (5.88%) J2EE
6 5 (5.88%) LDAP
6 5 (5.88%) Spring
6 5 (5.88%) XSLT
7 4 (4.71%) Web Services
8 3 (3.53%) EDI
8 3 (3.53%) IDoc
8 3 (3.53%) JDBC
8 3 (3.53%) Spring Boot
9 2 (2.35%) gRPC
9 2 (2.35%) PySpark
9 2 (2.35%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.24%) Cloud Native
1 7 (8.24%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (4.71%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.53%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.53%) Virtual Team
4 2 (2.35%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.18%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.18%) Equities
5 1 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.18%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.18%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.18%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.18%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 19 (22.35%) Linux
2 11 (12.94%) Unix
3 6 (7.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (4.71%) Windows
5 3 (3.53%) Ubuntu
6 2 (2.35%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (52.94%) Agile
2 32 (37.65%) CI/CD
3 25 (29.41%) DevOps
3 25 (29.41%) Migration
4 16 (18.82%) Incident Management
4 16 (18.82%) Performance Tuning
4 16 (18.82%) Test Automation
5 15 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (17.65%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 13 (15.29%) High Availability
7 11 (12.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 10 (11.76%) Scrum
8 10 (11.76%) SDLC
9 9 (10.59%) Containerisation
9 9 (10.59%) Kanban
10 8 (9.41%) Project Management
10 8 (9.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 7 (8.24%) Business Intelligence
12 6 (7.06%) Software Testing
12 6 (7.06%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 38 (44.71%) Python
2 25 (29.41%) Java
3 16 (18.82%) JavaScript
4 13 (15.29%) Bash
5 12 (14.12%) Shell Script
6 9 (10.59%) SQL
7 4 (4.71%) ABAP
7 4 (4.71%) C++
7 4 (4.71%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.53%) Kotlin
9 2 (2.35%) COBOL
9 2 (2.35%) Go
9 2 (2.35%) Perl
10 1 (1.18%) C#
10 1 (1.18%) JCL
10 1 (1.18%) Ruby
10 1 (1.18%) Scala
10 1 (1.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (24.71%) Security Cleared
2 19 (22.35%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.88%) Degree
4 3 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.53%) SAP Certification
5 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.18%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.18%) CEH
6 1 (1.18%) CISSP
6 1 (1.18%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.18%) OCP
6 1 (1.18%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.71%) QA
2 1 (1.18%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.18%) GDPR
2 1 (1.18%) IFRS
2 1 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (12.94%) Docker
2 6 (7.06%) OpenAM
2 6 (7.06%) OpenDJ
2 6 (7.06%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 23 (27.06%) Kubernetes
2 17 (20.00%) Ansible
3 13 (15.29%) Terraform
4 10 (11.76%) Grafana
5 5 (5.88%) Prometheus
6 4 (4.71%) Istio
6 4 (4.71%) Kibana
7 3 (3.53%) Control-M
8 2 (2.35%) Kiali
9 1 (1.18%) Opsgenie
9 1 (1.18%) Podman
9 1 (1.18%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.18%) Puppet
9 1 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (32.94%) Atlassian
2 11 (12.94%) Splunk
3 9 (10.59%) SAP
4 8 (9.41%) Oracle
5 7 (8.24%) AppDynamics
5 7 (8.24%) Dynatrace
6 6 (7.06%) ForgeRock
6 6 (7.06%) ServiceNow
7 5 (5.88%) Google
8 4 (4.71%) Microsoft
9 3 (3.53%) StreamSets
10 2 (2.35%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (2.35%) HP
10 2 (2.35%) IBM
10 2 (2.35%) Imperva
10 2 (2.35%) xMatters
11 1 (1.18%) Bloomberg
11 1 (1.18%) CyberArk
11 1 (1.18%) Informatica
11 1 (1.18%) Red Hat