Groovy Contract Job Trends

Apache Groovy
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Groovy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 566 422 507
Rank change year-on-year -144 +85 -74
Contract jobs citing Groovy 75 95 83
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.33% 0.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.56% 0.95% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 60 54
10th Percentile £363 £374 £405
25th Percentile £411 £455 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £545 £538
Median % change year-on-year -17.43% +1.40% -14.68%
75th Percentile £547 £638 £634
90th Percentile £635 £718 £739
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -19.05% +0.96% -

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 13,289 9,978 13,079
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.84% 34.14% 30.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,684 6,755 9,244
10th Percentile £358 £356 £350
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £715 £760 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £475 £485
% change year-on-year +1.68% -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 564 232 526
10th Percentile £36.25 £27.00 £31.75
25th Percentile £54.55 £34.34 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £62.25
Median % change year-on-year +14.54% -8.84% -0.40%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.93 £85.00 £76.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -

Groovy
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Groovy job vacancy trend in the UK

Groovy
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Groovy

Groovy
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Groovy over the 6 months to 7 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Groovy in the UK

Groovy
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Groovy

Groovy
Top 14 Contract Job 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 7 June 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
England -124 66 £450 -24.24% 26
London -91 33 £500 -16.67% 9
UK excluding London -95 32 £425 -19.05% 20
North of England -68 20 £425 -28.93% 11
Yorkshire -55 13 £450 -24.75% 7
Work from Home -70 13 £500 +9.59% 10
North East -22 6 £425 -34.62%
Midlands -53 5 £524 +10.21% 1
West Midlands -61 5 £524 +10.21%
East of England -21 3 £425 +30.77% 3
South West -25 2 - - 1
South East - 2 £375 - 3
Scotland -12 1 - -
North West -46 1 £350 - 4

Groovy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (13.33%) Confluence
2 1 (1.33%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.33%) Apache
2 1 (1.33%) JBoss
2 1 (1.33%) Mule
2 1 (1.33%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (1.33%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (2.67%) SAP HCM
2 1 (1.33%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.33%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 35 (46.67%) AWS
2 17 (22.67%) GCP
3 15 (20.00%) Azure
4 9 (12.00%) GitHub
4 9 (12.00%) OCI
5 8 (10.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 8 (10.67%) Amazon S3
5 8 (10.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 7 (9.33%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (9.33%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (9.33%) Serverless
7 6 (8.00%) AWS KMS
7 6 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (8.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 5 (6.67%) Apigee
9 4 (5.33%) SaaS
10 3 (4.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 3 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (4.00%) Datadog
10 3 (4.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.00%) Firewall
2 5 (6.67%) DNS
3 4 (5.33%) HTTP
3 4 (5.33%) OpenLDAP
3 4 (5.33%) SSL
4 2 (2.67%) WAN
5 1 (1.33%) HTTPS
5 1 (1.33%) Internet
5 1 (1.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (13.33%) Metadata
2 9 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (10.67%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (9.33%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (4.00%) Data Mart
5 3 (4.00%) MongoDB
5 3 (4.00%) Redis
5 3 (4.00%) Relational Database
5 3 (4.00%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.67%) Couchbase
6 2 (2.67%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.67%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.67%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.33%) MySQL
7 1 (1.33%) OLAP
7 1 (1.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 43 (57.33%) Jenkins
2 19 (25.33%) Git
3 13 (17.33%) JIRA
4 12 (16.00%) Maven
5 11 (14.67%) SonarQube
6 4 (5.33%) Cucumber
6 4 (5.33%) GitLab
6 4 (5.33%) ScriptRunner
7 3 (4.00%) JMeter
7 3 (4.00%) JUnit
7 3 (4.00%) Postman
7 3 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (2.67%) Artifactory
8 2 (2.67%) LoadRunner
8 2 (2.67%) Selenium
9 1 (1.33%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (1.33%) NeoLoad
9 1 (1.33%) Protractor
9 1 (1.33%) REST Assured
9 1 (1.33%) SoapUI
General
1 9 (12.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (10.67%) Finance
2 8 (10.67%) Public Sector
3 7 (9.33%) Publishing
4 5 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.67%) Banking
5 4 (5.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.67%) Back Office
6 2 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.67%) Retail
7 1 (1.33%) Billing
7 1 (1.33%) Front Office
7 1 (1.33%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 28 (37.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
3 8 (10.67%) Developer
3 8 (10.67%) Senior
4 7 (9.33%) AWS DevOps
4 7 (9.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 5 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (6.67%) GCP Engineer
5 5 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
5 5 (6.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 4 (5.33%) Analyst
6 4 (5.33%) Consultant
6 4 (5.33%) Murex Analyst
6 4 (5.33%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (5.33%) Python Engineer
6 4 (5.33%) Software Engineer
7 3 (4.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 3 (4.00%) JIRA Administrator
7 3 (4.00%) Murex Support
7 3 (4.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (24.00%) JSON
2 13 (17.33%) REST
3 12 (16.00%) SLSA
3 12 (16.00%) YAML
4 8 (10.67%) Node.js
5 7 (9.33%) Kafka
6 6 (8.00%) SOAP
6 6 (8.00%) XML
7 5 (6.67%) LDAP
7 5 (6.67%) RESTful
8 4 (5.33%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (5.33%) Keycloak
8 4 (5.33%) OpenAPI
8 4 (5.33%) Swagger
9 3 (4.00%) OAuth
9 3 (4.00%) SAML
9 3 (4.00%) Web Services
10 2 (2.67%) SAP PI
10 2 (2.67%) Spring
10 2 (2.67%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.67%) Replication
2 4 (5.33%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.67%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.67%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.33%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.33%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.33%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.33%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (1.33%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 11 (14.67%) Linux
2 4 (5.33%) Amazon Linux
3 3 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (4.00%) Windows
4 1 (1.33%) Unix
4 1 (1.33%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (58.67%) DevOps
2 41 (54.67%) CI/CD
3 25 (33.33%) Agile
4 19 (25.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (24.00%) Performance Tuning
6 17 (22.67%) Test Automation
7 14 (18.67%) DevSecOps
7 14 (18.67%) Observability
8 13 (17.33%) SBOM
9 11 (14.67%) Root Cause Analysis
9 11 (14.67%) Static Application Security Testing
10 10 (13.33%) High Availability
10 10 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
10 10 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (13.33%) Release Automation
11 9 (12.00%) Change Management
11 9 (12.00%) ITIL
12 8 (10.67%) Containerisation
12 8 (10.67%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (10.67%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 50 (66.67%) Python
2 31 (41.33%) Java
3 17 (22.67%) Bash
4 13 (17.33%) JavaScript
5 12 (16.00%) PowerShell
5 12 (16.00%) SQL
6 5 (6.67%) Shell Script
7 4 (5.33%) Perl
8 3 (4.00%) ABAP
9 2 (2.67%) C#
9 2 (2.67%) Go
9 2 (2.67%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.33%) C
10 1 (1.33%) DataWeave
10 1 (1.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (32.00%) Security Cleared
2 22 (29.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.00%) AWS Certification
3 3 (4.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.33%) Degree
4 1 (1.33%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.33%) ISEB
4 1 (1.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (1.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.00%) QA
2 2 (2.67%) NCSC
3 1 (1.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.33%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.33%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (25.33%) Docker
2 6 (8.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.00%) Squid
4 1 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 43 (57.33%) Terraform
2 25 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 11 (14.67%) Grafana
4 9 (12.00%) Prometheus
5 7 (9.33%) Ansible
6 4 (5.33%) Istio
6 4 (5.33%) Kustomize
7 3 (4.00%) Packer
7 3 (4.00%) Puppet
7 3 (4.00%) Rancher
8 2 (2.67%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (2.67%) Podman
8 2 (2.67%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.33%) Consul
9 1 (1.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 11 (14.67%) Dynatrace
1 11 (14.67%) Sonatype
2 10 (13.33%) Oracle
2 10 (13.33%) ServiceNow
3 7 (9.33%) Google
4 4 (5.33%) Atlassian
4 4 (5.33%) Murex
4 4 (5.33%) SAP
5 3 (4.00%) Microsoft
5 3 (4.00%) PagerDuty
5 3 (4.00%) Trend Micro
6 2 (2.67%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.67%) Splunk
7 1 (1.33%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.33%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.33%) Dell
7 1 (1.33%) ForgeRock
7 1 (1.33%) IBM
7 1 (1.33%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.33%) New Relic