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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 431 499 435
Rank change year-on-year +68 -64 +19
Contract jobs citing Groovy 91 77 263
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.18% 0.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.91% 0.61% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 53 198
10th Percentile £359 £405 £471
25th Percentile £456 £450 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £631
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% -14.82% +7.86%
75th Percentile £650 £634 £688
90th Percentile £775 £685 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £535 £522 £525
% change year-on-year +2.49% -0.57% -
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 9,997 12,689 19,768
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.97% 29.82% 34.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,789 9,018 14,250
10th Percentile £358 £350 £390
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -3.09% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £763 £763 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 493 448
10th Percentile £24.49 £32.25 £26.21
25th Percentile £34.54 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.25 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.40% - +24.13%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.75 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.87 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +2.20% - +25.00%

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 17 May 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 13 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 17 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
England +79 77 £600 +11.63% 60
London +54 51 £625 +12.36% 24
Work from Home +52 30 £494 -8.14% 39
UK excluding London +33 26 £535 +2.49% 49
North of England +20 13 £595 -4.80% 9
Yorkshire +18 12 £595 -4.80% 3
Midlands +22 6 - - 11
West Midlands +11 6 - - 9
Scotland -1 6 £525 -2.78% 4
North East - 4 £650 - 1
North West +16 3 - - 5
East of England +23 2 £325 -20.73% 4
South West - 1 £600 - 5

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 (31.87%) Confluence
2 8 (8.79%) Apache
3 7 (7.69%) nginx
4 4 (4.40%) OpenStack
5 2 (2.20%) JBoss
5 2 (2.20%) SharePoint
5 2 (2.20%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (1.10%) Apache Spark
6 1 (1.10%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.10%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 34 (37.36%) AWS
2 15 (16.48%) IaaS
3 14 (15.38%) Azure
4 12 (13.19%) GitHub
5 11 (12.09%) GCP
6 10 (10.99%) OpenShift
7 9 (9.89%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (7.69%) Amazon S3
8 7 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (7.69%) Serverless
9 5 (5.49%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (5.49%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 5 (5.49%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (5.49%) Power Platform
9 5 (5.49%) SaaS
10 4 (4.40%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 4 (4.40%) AWS CodeBuild
10 4 (4.40%) AWS CodeDeploy
10 4 (4.40%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 12 (13.19%) HTTP
2 5 (5.49%) HTTPS
3 4 (4.40%) Firewall
4 3 (3.30%) DNS
5 1 (1.10%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (1.10%) VPN
5 1 (1.10%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.59%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (4.40%) BigQuery
2 4 (4.40%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (4.40%) Oracle Database
3 3 (3.30%) InfluxDB
3 3 (3.30%) Power BI
3 3 (3.30%) Redis
4 2 (2.20%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.20%) Hazelcast
4 2 (2.20%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.20%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.20%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.10%) Big Data
5 1 (1.10%) MySQL
5 1 (1.10%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.10%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 39 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 37 (40.66%) JIRA
3 28 (30.77%) ScriptRunner
4 17 (18.68%) Git
5 6 (6.59%) Artifactory
6 5 (5.49%) Maven
7 4 (4.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (4.40%) Bitbucket
7 4 (4.40%) Jaeger
7 4 (4.40%) JUnit
7 4 (4.40%) Postman
7 4 (4.40%) REST Assured
7 4 (4.40%) SoapUI
7 4 (4.40%) SonarQube
8 3 (3.30%) GitLab
8 3 (3.30%) JMeter
8 3 (3.30%) Mockito
8 3 (3.30%) Subversion
8 3 (3.30%) Xcode
8 3 (3.30%) XCTest
General
1 22 (24.18%) Finance
2 19 (20.88%) Social Skills
3 10 (10.99%) Banking
3 10 (10.99%) Public Sector
4 7 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.40%) Electronics
5 4 (4.40%) Manufacturing
5 4 (4.40%) Marketing
5 4 (4.40%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.30%) Military
6 3 (3.30%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.20%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.10%) Front Office
8 1 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.10%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (19.78%) Developer
2 14 (15.38%) Senior
3 12 (13.19%) JIRA Engineer
4 11 (12.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (10.99%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (9.89%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (7.69%) Lead
8 6 (6.59%) Administrator
8 6 (6.59%) Architect
8 6 (6.59%) JIRA Administrator
8 6 (6.59%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (5.49%) Automation Engineer
9 5 (5.49%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (5.49%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 5 (5.49%) Unix Engineer
10 4 (4.40%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 4 (4.40%) Integration Developer
10 4 (4.40%) JIRA Specialist
10 4 (4.40%) SAP Developer
10 4 (4.40%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (19.78%) REST
2 15 (16.48%) SOAP
3 9 (9.89%) Kafka
4 8 (8.79%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (7.69%) OAuth
6 6 (6.59%) AWS CDK
6 6 (6.59%) J2EE
6 6 (6.59%) SAML
6 6 (6.59%) Spring
7 5 (5.49%) EDI
7 5 (5.49%) IDoc
7 5 (5.49%) JWT
7 5 (5.49%) Web Services
7 5 (5.49%) XSLT
8 4 (4.40%) LDAP
8 4 (4.40%) Spring Boot
8 4 (4.40%) XML
9 3 (3.30%) AngularJS
9 3 (3.30%) CSS3
9 3 (3.30%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.79%) Cloud Native
1 8 (8.79%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (4.40%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.30%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.30%) Virtual Team
4 2 (2.20%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.10%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.10%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.10%) Equities
5 1 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.10%) Life Science
5 1 (1.10%) LIMS
5 1 (1.10%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.10%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.10%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.10%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 21 (23.08%) Linux
2 13 (14.29%) Unix
3 7 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (4.40%) Windows
5 3 (3.30%) Ubuntu
6 2 (2.20%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (54.95%) Agile
2 36 (39.56%) CI/CD
3 28 (30.77%) DevOps
4 24 (26.37%) Migration
5 18 (19.78%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (17.58%) Incident Management
6 16 (17.58%) Performance Tuning
7 15 (16.48%) Test Automation
7 15 (16.48%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 13 (14.29%) High Availability
9 11 (12.09%) Containerisation
9 11 (12.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 11 (12.09%) Scrum
9 11 (12.09%) SDLC
10 10 (10.99%) Kanban
11 9 (9.89%) Microservices
12 8 (8.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 7 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
13 7 (7.69%) Infrastructure Automation
13 7 (7.69%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 39 (42.86%) Python
2 27 (29.67%) Java
3 18 (19.78%) JavaScript
4 16 (17.58%) Bash
5 13 (14.29%) Shell Script
6 11 (12.09%) SQL
7 6 (6.59%) ABAP
8 5 (5.49%) PowerShell
9 4 (4.40%) C++
10 3 (3.30%) Kotlin
11 2 (2.20%) COBOL
11 2 (2.20%) Go
12 1 (1.10%) C#
12 1 (1.10%) JCL
12 1 (1.10%) Perl
12 1 (1.10%) Scala
12 1 (1.10%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (25.27%) Security Cleared
2 21 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.40%) Degree
4 3 (3.30%) SAP Certification
5 2 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.10%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.10%) CEH
6 1 (1.10%) CISSP
6 1 (1.10%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.10%) OCP
6 1 (1.10%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.40%) QA
2 1 (1.10%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.10%) GDPR
2 1 (1.10%) GxP
2 1 (1.10%) IFRS
2 1 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 13 (14.29%) Docker
2 5 (5.49%) OpenAM
2 5 (5.49%) OpenDJ
2 5 (5.49%) OpenIDM
3 1 (1.10%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (29.67%) Kubernetes
2 20 (21.98%) Ansible
3 16 (17.58%) Terraform
4 12 (13.19%) Grafana
5 6 (6.59%) Prometheus
6 5 (5.49%) Istio
7 4 (4.40%) Control-M
7 4 (4.40%) Kibana
8 3 (3.30%) Kiali
9 2 (2.20%) Podman
9 2 (2.20%) Puppet
9 2 (2.20%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (1.10%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 28 (30.77%) Atlassian
2 13 (14.29%) Splunk
3 12 (13.19%) SAP
4 9 (9.89%) Oracle
5 8 (8.79%) AppDynamics
5 8 (8.79%) Dynatrace
6 6 (6.59%) ForgeRock
6 6 (6.59%) ServiceNow
7 5 (5.49%) Google
8 4 (4.40%) Microsoft
9 3 (3.30%) CA Agile Central
9 3 (3.30%) xMatters
10 2 (2.20%) HP
10 2 (2.20%) Imperva
10 2 (2.20%) StreamSets
11 1 (1.10%) Ariba
11 1 (1.10%) Bloomberg
11 1 (1.10%) CyberArk
11 1 (1.10%) IBM
11 1 (1.10%) Red Hat