Groovy Job Trends in England

Apache Groovy
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Groovy skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 609 605 770
Rank change year-on-year -4 +165 -215
Permanent jobs citing Groovy 74 35 71
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.092% 0.089% 0.084%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.51% 0.27% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 24 21 49
10th Percentile £53,750 £28,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £64,375 £50,750 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £70,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% -0.82% +5.73%
75th Percentile £81,563 £76,840 £83,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £88,950
UK median annual salary £77,500 £67,500 £70,576
% change year-on-year +14.81% -4.36% +8.58%

All Programming Languages
England

Groovy falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 14,392 12,844 27,125
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.88% 32.74% 32.23%
Number of salaries quoted 10,159 9,198 22,455
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,475
25th Percentile £48,394 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

Groovy
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Groovy job vacancy trend in England

Groovy
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Groovy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Groovy

Groovy
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Groovy in England over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Groovy in England

Groovy
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Groovy within the England region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -4 54 £80,000 +14.29% 10
Yorkshire -6 51 £80,000 +54.04% 7
South East -12 8 £82,500 - 3
London -23 7 £65,000 -7.14% 8
South West - 6 £75,000 - 1
North West -6 3 £80,000 +14.29% 3
West Midlands -31 2 - -
Midlands -43 2 - - 1
Groovy
UK

Groovy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 6 (8.11%) Apache
2 3 (4.05%) JBoss
3 1 (1.35%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.35%) SAP CAR
Cloud Services
1 58 (78.38%) AWS
2 50 (67.57%) AWS CloudFormation
3 49 (66.22%) Amazon S3
3 49 (66.22%) AWS Lambda
3 49 (66.22%) Serverless
4 43 (58.11%) Amazon ECR
4 43 (58.11%) Amazon ECS
4 43 (58.11%) Apigee
5 42 (56.76%) AWS Step Functions
6 23 (31.08%) Amazon SQS
7 13 (17.57%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (10.81%) GitHub
8 8 (10.81%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (8.11%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (2.70%) BlazeMeter
11 1 (1.35%) AWS CodePipeline
11 1 (1.35%) AWS Fargate
11 1 (1.35%) AWS KMS
11 1 (1.35%) Cloudflare
11 1 (1.35%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (58.11%) DynamoDB
2 6 (8.11%) MongoDB
2 6 (8.11%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.35%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 60 (81.08%) Jenkins
2 50 (67.57%) GitLab
3 47 (63.51%) SonarQube
4 45 (60.81%) Maven
5 44 (59.46%) Cypress.io
6 10 (13.51%) Cucumber
6 10 (13.51%) Git
7 6 (8.11%) JIRA
8 5 (6.76%) Selenium
9 4 (5.41%) Artifactory
10 3 (4.05%) JMeter
11 2 (2.70%) Gradle
11 2 (2.70%) JUnit
11 2 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (2.70%) Spock
12 1 (1.35%) git-flow
12 1 (1.35%) IDA Disassembler
12 1 (1.35%) Katalon Studio
12 1 (1.35%) LoadRunner
12 1 (1.35%) ScriptRunner
General
1 10 (13.51%) Social Skills
2 7 (9.46%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (8.11%) Finance
4 2 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.35%) Advertising
5 1 (1.35%) Automotive
5 1 (1.35%) Banking
5 1 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.35%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.35%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (48.65%) Developer
2 33 (44.59%) Java Developer
3 17 (22.97%) Lead
4 10 (13.51%) AWS Developer
5 9 (12.16%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (10.81%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (9.46%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (8.11%) Data Engineer
8 6 (8.11%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 6 (8.11%) Technical Leader
9 5 (6.76%) Senior
10 4 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
11 3 (4.05%) Lead Data Engineer
11 3 (4.05%) Senior Developer
11 3 (4.05%) Senior Java Developer
11 3 (4.05%) Tester
12 2 (2.70%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 2 (2.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 2 (2.70%) Lead Developer
12 2 (2.70%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (59.46%) AngularJS
2 42 (56.76%) Gherkin
2 42 (56.76%) Spring Boot
3 40 (54.05%) Jest
4 13 (17.57%) Spring
5 7 (9.46%) Web Services
6 6 (8.11%) Apache NiFi
6 6 (8.11%) JSON
6 6 (8.11%) Kafka
7 5 (6.76%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (6.76%) REST
7 5 (6.76%) YAML
8 4 (5.41%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (4.05%) Drools
9 3 (4.05%) Node.js
9 3 (4.05%) XML
10 2 (2.70%) React
11 1 (1.35%) ASP.NET
11 1 (1.35%) gRPC
11 1 (1.35%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.51%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (6.76%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.05%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (4.05%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (4.05%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.70%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.35%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.35%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.35%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.35%) IoT
5 1 (1.35%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (20.27%) Linux
2 2 (2.70%) Unix
3 1 (1.35%) Android
3 1 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (74.32%) Agile
1 55 (74.32%) DevOps
2 53 (71.62%) CI/CD
3 28 (37.84%) Secure Coding
4 27 (36.49%) SDLC
5 25 (33.78%) ITIL
6 24 (32.43%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 19 (25.68%) Full-Stack Development
8 15 (20.27%) Prototyping
9 14 (18.92%) Clean Code
10 13 (17.57%) Infrastructure as Code
11 12 (16.22%) Containerisation
11 12 (16.22%) Microservices
11 12 (16.22%) Software Delivery
11 12 (16.22%) Test Automation
12 11 (14.86%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (14.86%) Scrum
13 10 (13.51%) Platform Engineering
14 9 (12.16%) Continuous Improvement
15 8 (10.81%) Auto-Scaling
Programming Languages
1 61 (82.43%) Java
2 44 (59.46%) TypeScript
3 41 (55.41%) Bash
4 24 (32.43%) Python
5 8 (10.81%) SQL
6 6 (8.11%) JavaScript
7 4 (5.41%) Perl
8 3 (4.05%) Kotlin
9 2 (2.70%) C#
9 2 (2.70%) C++
9 2 (2.70%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.70%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.35%) C
Qualifications
1 33 (44.59%) AWS Certification
2 24 (32.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 24 (32.43%) ITIL Certification
3 23 (31.08%) Security Cleared
4 16 (21.62%) SC Cleared
5 9 (12.16%) AWS Certified Developer
6 5 (6.76%) DV Cleared
7 3 (4.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (17.57%) QA
2 3 (4.05%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.35%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 54 (72.97%) Docker
2 1 (1.35%) Firmware
2 1 (1.35%) OpenAM
2 1 (1.35%) OpenDJ
2 1 (1.35%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 40 (54.05%) HP Fortify
2 17 (22.97%) Terraform
3 13 (17.57%) Kubernetes
4 8 (10.81%) Progress Chef
5 7 (9.46%) Ansible
6 4 (5.41%) Packer
7 2 (2.70%) Kibana
7 2 (2.70%) logstash
8 1 (1.35%) Grafana
8 1 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (10.81%) AppDynamics
2 4 (5.41%) IBM
3 2 (2.70%) Atlassian
3 2 (2.70%) Splunk
4 1 (1.35%) Cognizant
4 1 (1.35%) ForgeRock
4 1 (1.35%) New Relic
4 1 (1.35%) Pega
4 1 (1.35%) Ping Identity
4 1 (1.35%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.35%) SAP
4 1 (1.35%) Sonatype