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 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 562 640 557
Rank change year-on-year +78 -83 -34
Permanent jobs citing Groovy 44 33 118
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.084% 0.067% 0.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.43% 0.20% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 19 14 84
10th Percentile £53,750 £53,000 £43,903
25th Percentile £71,250 £63,750 £61,232
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £87,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% +23.98% +5.67%
75th Percentile £101,750 £110,313 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £140,000 £108,750
UK median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year +10.71% -0.82% +5.67%

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 10,241 16,698 18,130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.66% 33.97% 39.38%
Number of salaries quoted 7,724 9,852 15,198
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,512 £38,838
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.62% +4.00% -3.85%

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 3 January 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 3 January 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 +37 17 £77,500 - 3
Yorkshire +7 16 £77,500 - 3
Midlands +29 14 £72,500 +3.57% 1
London +65 12 £102,500 -2.38% 6
West Midlands +41 12 £72,500 +3.57%
East Midlands -10 2 £57,500 - 1
South West - 2 £78,750 - 13
South East +14 1 £50,000 - 3
North West - 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 9 (20.45%) Confluence
2 4 (9.09%) Apache
2 4 (9.09%) nginx
3 2 (4.55%) JBoss
3 2 (4.55%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (9.09%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (4.55%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 34 (77.27%) AWS
2 26 (59.09%) Amazon S3
3 21 (47.73%) Amazon ECS
4 16 (36.36%) Amazon ECR
4 16 (36.36%) Apigee
4 16 (36.36%) AWS CloudFormation
4 16 (36.36%) AWS Lambda
4 16 (36.36%) AWS Step Functions
4 16 (36.36%) Serverless
5 14 (31.82%) Azure
6 12 (27.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 10 (22.73%) Amazon EC2
7 10 (22.73%) Amazon ELB
7 10 (22.73%) AWS KMS
7 10 (22.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 6 (13.64%) Amazon Glacier
9 4 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (9.09%) Route 53
10 3 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (25.00%) HTTP
2 10 (22.73%) DNS
2 10 (22.73%) FTP
2 10 (22.73%) SMTP
2 10 (22.73%) SSH
3 8 (18.18%) Firewall
4 4 (9.09%) IMAP
4 4 (9.09%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (2.27%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (36.36%) DynamoDB
2 10 (22.73%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (6.82%) NoSQL
5 2 (4.55%) MongoDB
5 2 (4.55%) Redis
5 2 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 31 (70.45%) Jenkins
2 18 (40.91%) GitLab
2 18 (40.91%) Maven
3 16 (36.36%) Cypress.io
3 16 (36.36%) SonarQube
4 12 (27.27%) JIRA
5 10 (22.73%) Git
5 10 (22.73%) Vagrant
6 6 (13.64%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (9.09%) Artifactory
8 3 (6.82%) JUnit
8 3 (6.82%) Katalon Studio
9 2 (4.55%) Ant
9 2 (4.55%) Jaeger
9 2 (4.55%) Selenium
9 2 (4.55%) Subversion
9 2 (4.55%) TeamCity
10 1 (2.27%) Appium
10 1 (2.27%) Cucumber
10 1 (2.27%) REST Assured
General
1 11 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 6 (13.64%) Finance
3 6 (13.64%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (4.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (36.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (29.55%) Lead
3 9 (20.45%) Developer
3 9 (20.45%) Java Developer
4 6 (13.64%) AWS DevOps
4 6 (13.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 6 (13.64%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (11.36%) Technical Leader
6 4 (9.09%) AWS Developer
6 4 (9.09%) Linux DevOps Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) Linux Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) Linux/Unix DevOps
7 3 (6.82%) Senior
8 2 (4.55%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Data Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) ForgeRock Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Principal DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Windows DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (36.36%) AngularJS
1 16 (36.36%) Gherkin
1 16 (36.36%) Jest
1 16 (36.36%) Spring Boot
2 9 (20.45%) Spring
3 7 (15.91%) LDAP
4 6 (13.64%) Kafka
5 4 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (9.09%) OAuth
5 4 (9.09%) OpenID
5 4 (9.09%) SAML
6 3 (6.82%) REST
7 2 (4.55%) .NET Framework
7 2 (4.55%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (4.55%) Middleware
7 2 (4.55%) Node.js
7 2 (4.55%) OAuth2
7 2 (4.55%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (4.55%) RESTful
7 2 (4.55%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 4 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (9.09%) Replication
2 2 (4.55%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.55%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.27%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.27%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (2.27%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (31.82%) Linux
2 10 (22.73%) VMS
2 10 (22.73%) Windows
3 8 (18.18%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (9.09%) Ubuntu
5 2 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (86.36%) DevOps
2 26 (59.09%) CI/CD
3 22 (50.00%) Agile
4 12 (27.27%) Configuration Management
5 10 (22.73%) Cloud Security
5 10 (22.73%) Full-Stack Development
6 9 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (20.45%) Secure Coding
7 8 (18.18%) Change Management
7 8 (18.18%) Patch Management
7 8 (18.18%) Scrum
8 7 (15.91%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (15.91%) Software Delivery
9 6 (13.64%) Code Quality
9 6 (13.64%) Platform Engineering
9 6 (13.64%) SDLC
10 5 (11.36%) ITIL
10 5 (11.36%) Observability
11 4 (9.09%) Microservices
11 4 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 36 (81.82%) Java
2 20 (45.45%) Bash
3 19 (43.18%) Python
4 16 (36.36%) TypeScript
5 10 (22.73%) PowerShell
6 7 (15.91%) SQL
7 6 (13.64%) Perl
8 5 (11.36%) JavaScript
9 4 (9.09%) C#
9 4 (9.09%) Ruby
10 2 (4.55%) C++
11 1 (2.27%) Kotlin
11 1 (2.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 15 (34.09%) AWS Certification
2 13 (29.55%) Security Cleared
3 11 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 5 (11.36%) AWS Certified Developer
4 5 (11.36%) Degree
5 4 (9.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Azure Certification
5 4 (9.09%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.27%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.64%) QA
System Software
1 26 (59.09%) Docker
2 6 (13.64%) Active Directory
3 4 (9.09%) DFS Replication
3 4 (9.09%) Dovecot
3 4 (9.09%) Postfix
3 4 (9.09%) Squid
4 1 (2.27%) OpenAM
4 1 (2.27%) OpenDJ
4 1 (2.27%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 16 (36.36%) HP Fortify
2 14 (31.82%) Terraform
3 12 (27.27%) Prometheus
4 10 (22.73%) Grafana
5 8 (18.18%) Kubernetes
6 6 (13.64%) Ansible
7 4 (9.09%) Nessus
7 4 (9.09%) Proxmox
7 4 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (4.55%) Nagios
8 2 (4.55%) Podman
8 2 (4.55%) Puppet
9 1 (2.27%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 8 (18.18%) ServiceNow
2 4 (9.09%) Jaspersoft
3 3 (6.82%) ForgeRock
4 2 (4.55%) Cribl.io
4 2 (4.55%) Oracle
4 2 (4.55%) SAP
4 2 (4.55%) Sonatype
4 2 (4.55%) VMware
5 1 (2.27%) Cognizant
5 1 (2.27%) Google
5 1 (2.27%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.27%) Pega
5 1 (2.27%) Ping Identity