Groovy Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Apache Groovy
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 276 324 352
Rank change year-on-year +48 +28 +39
Contract jobs citing Groovy 28 21 126
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.28% 0.14% 0.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.76% 0.41% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 14 100
10th Percentile £384 £510 £428
25th Percentile £422 £514 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £538 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.14% -14.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £681 £617 £738
90th Percentile £775 £638 £775
UK median daily rate £553 £538 £630
% change year-on-year +2.84% -14.68% +7.51%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

Groovy falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,699 5,133 9,659
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 37.34% 33.45% 37.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,627 3,702 7,073
10th Percentile £363 £350 £393
25th Percentile £421 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £656
90th Percentile £800 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 147 213
10th Percentile £24.60 £27.75 £35.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -8.73% +26.95%
75th Percentile £68.25 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.50 £86.50 £79.20
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

Groovy
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Groovy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Groovy trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Groovy
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Groovy.

Groovy daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Groovy
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Groovy over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Groovy daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Groovy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (21.43%) Confluence
2 4 (14.29%) Apache
2 4 (14.29%) nginx
2 4 (14.29%) OpenStack
3 1 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.00%) AWS
2 5 (17.86%) Azure
3 4 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 4 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (14.29%) GitHub
3 4 (14.29%) OpenShift
4 3 (10.71%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (10.71%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 3 (10.71%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 3 (10.71%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (10.71%) AWS CodeBuild
4 3 (10.71%) AWS CodeDeploy
4 3 (10.71%) AWS CodePipeline
4 3 (10.71%) AWS Fargate
4 3 (10.71%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (10.71%) Route 53
4 3 (10.71%) Serverless
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (7.14%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (21.43%) HTTP
2 3 (10.71%) Firewall
3 2 (7.14%) HTTPS
4 1 (3.57%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (10.71%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (10.71%) Oracle Database
3 2 (7.14%) InfluxDB
3 2 (7.14%) Redis
4 1 (3.57%) Apache Hive
4 1 (3.57%) BigQuery
4 1 (3.57%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.57%) Hadoop
4 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.57%) MySQL
4 1 (3.57%) Power BI
4 1 (3.57%) RDBMS
4 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 9 (32.14%) Git
2 9 (32.14%) JIRA
3 7 (25.00%) ScriptRunner
4 4 (14.29%) Artifactory
4 4 (14.29%) Bitbucket
5 3 (10.71%) JMeter
5 3 (10.71%) JUnit
5 3 (10.71%) Maven
6 2 (7.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (7.14%) LoadRunner
6 2 (7.14%) Mockito
6 2 (7.14%) Postman
6 2 (7.14%) REST Assured
6 2 (7.14%) SoapUI
6 2 (7.14%) SonarQube
6 2 (7.14%) Subversion
6 2 (7.14%) Xcode
6 2 (7.14%) XCTest
7 1 (3.57%) Gatling
General
1 7 (25.00%) Finance
2 6 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (17.86%) Social Skills
4 3 (10.71%) Banking
5 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
1 4 (14.29%) Developer
1 4 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 4 (14.29%) Unix Engineer
2 3 (10.71%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (10.71%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 3 (10.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 3 (10.71%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (10.71%) Senior
2 3 (10.71%) Site Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Administrator
3 2 (7.14%) Consultant
3 2 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Java Developer
3 2 (7.14%) JIRA Administrator
3 2 (7.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) Analyst
4 1 (3.57%) Architect
4 1 (3.57%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.00%) REST
2 5 (17.86%) SOAP
3 4 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (14.29%) Spring
4 3 (10.71%) AWS CDK
4 3 (10.71%) Kafka
4 3 (10.71%) OAuth
4 3 (10.71%) Spring Boot
4 3 (10.71%) Web Services
5 2 (7.14%) CSS
5 2 (7.14%) Hibernate
5 2 (7.14%) HTML
5 2 (7.14%) HTML5
5 2 (7.14%) J2EE
5 2 (7.14%) JWT
5 2 (7.14%) LDAP
5 2 (7.14%) Material-UI
5 2 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (7.14%) SAML
5 2 (7.14%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 3 (10.71%) Onboarding
4 2 (7.14%) Data Centre
4 2 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.57%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (3.57%) Mainframe
5 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (32.14%) Linux
2 6 (21.43%) Unix
3 3 (10.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (10.71%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (53.57%) Agile
1 15 (53.57%) CI/CD
2 10 (35.71%) DevOps
3 7 (25.00%) SDLC
4 6 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (21.43%) Scrum
5 5 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (17.86%) High Availability
5 5 (17.86%) Kanban
5 5 (17.86%) Migration
5 5 (17.86%) Test Automation
6 4 (14.29%) Canary Deployment
6 4 (14.29%) Service Management
6 4 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (14.29%) TDD
7 3 (10.71%) Architectural Design
7 3 (10.71%) Front End Development
7 3 (10.71%) Mentoring
7 3 (10.71%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (10.71%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (53.57%) Python
2 12 (42.86%) Java
3 7 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 6 (21.43%) JavaScript
5 5 (17.86%) Bash
6 3 (10.71%) SQL
7 2 (7.14%) Kotlin
7 2 (7.14%) PowerShell
8 1 (3.57%) COBOL
8 1 (3.57%) Go
8 1 (3.57%) JCL
8 1 (3.57%) Perl
8 1 (3.57%) Ruby
8 1 (3.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (7.14%) Degree
4 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (3.57%) IFRS
1 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 7 (25.00%) Docker
2 2 (7.14%) OpenAM
2 2 (7.14%) OpenDJ
2 2 (7.14%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 11 (39.29%) Kubernetes
2 8 (28.57%) Ansible
3 5 (17.86%) Terraform
4 4 (14.29%) Grafana
5 3 (10.71%) Kibana
6 1 (3.57%) Opsgenie
6 1 (3.57%) Progress Chef
6 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
6 1 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (28.57%) Splunk
2 7 (25.00%) Atlassian
2 7 (25.00%) Dynatrace
3 5 (17.86%) Oracle
4 4 (14.29%) AppDynamics
5 2 (7.14%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (7.14%) ForgeRock
5 2 (7.14%) Imperva
5 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
6 1 (3.57%) Confluent
6 1 (3.57%) Google
6 1 (3.57%) IBM
6 1 (3.57%) Informatica
6 1 (3.57%) SAP
6 1 (3.57%) StreamSets