Groovy Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Apache Groovy
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Groovy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 94 112
Rank change year-on-year -20 +18 +17
Contract jobs citing Groovy 12 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.72% 0.34% 0.049%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.02% 1.14% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile £460 - -
25th Percentile £478 £406 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £413 -
Median % change year-on-year +43.03% - -
75th Percentile £630 £419 -
90th Percentile £650 - -
England median daily rate £475 £513 £625
% change year-on-year -7.32% -18.00% +2.04%

All Programming Languages
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 593 438 470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 35.34% 29.86% 23.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 376 311 337
10th Percentile £343 £350 £363
25th Percentile £400 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +0.10% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £578 £625
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
England median daily rate £513 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -5.53% -1.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 5
10th Percentile - £26.25 £17.72
25th Percentile £49.25 £30.00 -
Median hourly rate £49.50 £40.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +23.75% +87.71% -57.38%
75th Percentile £49.75 £58.13 £26.78
90th Percentile - £63.75 £47.91
England median hourly rate £59.00 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -9.23% +4.00% +4.17%

Groovy
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Groovy job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Groovy
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Groovy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Groovy

Groovy
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Groovy in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Groovy in Yorkshire

Groovy
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Groovy within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 16 October 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
South Yorkshire -17 11 £590 - 2
West Yorkshire -3 5 £650 +57.58% 1
Groovy
England

Groovy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 4 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) GitHub
2 5 (41.67%) AWS
3 4 (33.33%) IaaS
4 3 (25.00%) GCP
5 2 (16.67%) Azure
5 2 (16.67%) CloudBees
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (8.33%) AtomSphere
6 1 (8.33%) Azure AKS
6 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (8.33%) Boomi
6 1 (8.33%) Collibra
6 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (8.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
6 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (8.33%) DataStage
2 1 (8.33%) DB2
2 1 (8.33%) Metadata
2 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) JIRA
2 5 (41.67%) Jenkins
3 4 (33.33%) ScriptRunner
4 2 (16.67%) Bitbucket
4 2 (16.67%) Git
5 1 (8.33%) Gradle
5 1 (8.33%) Jaeger
5 1 (8.33%) Maven
5 1 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Senior
2 4 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) JIRA Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) DevSecOps Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (8.33%) Integration Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
5 1 (8.33%) JIRA Specialist
5 1 (8.33%) Lead
5 1 (8.33%) Lead Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Lead Java Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) JSON
2 1 (8.33%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (8.33%) SOAP
2 1 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (8.33%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (8.33%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Agile
2 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (50.00%) DevOps
3 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (33.33%) Incident Management
4 4 (33.33%) Migration
4 4 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 3 (25.00%) Data Protection
5 3 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (16.67%) Architectural Design
6 2 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
6 2 (16.67%) Design Patterns
6 2 (16.67%) DevSecOps
6 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
6 2 (16.67%) TDD
6 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
7 1 (8.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) Java
2 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (25.00%) Python
3 2 (16.67%) Kotlin
3 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
4 1 (8.33%) Bash
4 1 (8.33%) C#
4 1 (8.33%) SQL
4 1 (8.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (25.00%) Ansible
3 2 (16.67%) Grafana
3 2 (16.67%) Prometheus
4 1 (8.33%) Control-M
4 1 (8.33%) Istio
4 1 (8.33%) Kiali
4 1 (8.33%) Progress Chef
4 1 (8.33%) Puppet
4 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Atlassian
2 2 (16.67%) AppDynamics
2 2 (16.67%) Splunk
3 1 (8.33%) Databricks
3 1 (8.33%) Google
3 1 (8.33%) Informatica
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle
3 1 (8.33%) xMatters