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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 561 646 571
Rank change year-on-year +85 -75 -35
Permanent jobs citing Groovy 44 30 113
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.084% 0.063% 0.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.43% 0.18% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 16 14 80
10th Percentile £62,500 £53,000 £42,874
25th Percentile £71,250 £63,750 £59,947
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £87,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +23.98% +5.67%
75th Percentile £98,875 £110,313 £83,750
90th Percentile £108,750 £140,000 £108,750
UK median annual salary £78,750 £70,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year +12.50% -0.82% +6.30%

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 10,216 16,221 19,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.44% 33.81% 38.37%
Number of salaries quoted 7,711 9,522 15,997
10th Percentile £32,750 £38,275 £38,125
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £83,250 £86,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 13 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 13 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 +42 20 £77,500 - 6
Yorkshire +6 19 £77,500 - 4
Midlands +34 13 £72,500 +3.57% 4
London +49 11 £102,500 -2.38% 3
West Midlands +32 11 £72,500 +3.57% 3
East Midlands -8 2 £57,500 - 1
South West - 2 £78,750 - 3
North West - 1 - - 2
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 8 (18.18%) 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 33 (75.00%) AWS
2 28 (63.64%) Amazon S3
3 23 (52.27%) Amazon ECS
4 19 (43.18%) Amazon ECR
4 19 (43.18%) Apigee
4 19 (43.18%) AWS CloudFormation
4 19 (43.18%) AWS Lambda
4 19 (43.18%) AWS Step Functions
4 19 (43.18%) Serverless
5 13 (29.55%) Azure
6 10 (22.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (20.45%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (20.45%) Amazon ELB
7 9 (20.45%) AWS KMS
7 9 (20.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 7 (15.91%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (11.36%) Amazon Glacier
10 4 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (9.09%) Route 53
11 3 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (20.45%) DNS
1 9 (20.45%) FTP
1 9 (20.45%) HTTP
1 9 (20.45%) SMTP
1 9 (20.45%) SSH
2 7 (15.91%) Firewall
3 4 (9.09%) IMAP
3 4 (9.09%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (43.18%) DynamoDB
2 9 (20.45%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.55%) MongoDB
4 2 (4.55%) NoSQL
4 2 (4.55%) Redis
4 2 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 32 (72.73%) Jenkins
2 21 (47.73%) Maven
3 20 (45.45%) GitLab
4 19 (43.18%) Cypress.io
4 19 (43.18%) SonarQube
5 11 (25.00%) JIRA
6 9 (20.45%) Git
6 9 (20.45%) Vagrant
7 5 (11.36%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (9.09%) Artifactory
9 3 (6.82%) JUnit
9 3 (6.82%) Katalon Studio
10 2 (4.55%) Ant
10 2 (4.55%) Jaeger
10 2 (4.55%) Selenium
10 2 (4.55%) Subversion
10 2 (4.55%) TeamCity
11 1 (2.27%) Appium
11 1 (2.27%) IDA Disassembler
11 1 (2.27%) REST Assured
General
1 9 (20.45%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.91%) Public Sector
3 6 (13.64%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (11.36%) Finance
5 2 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (4.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (31.82%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (29.55%) Lead
3 10 (22.73%) Developer
3 10 (22.73%) Java Developer
4 5 (11.36%) AWS Developer
4 5 (11.36%) AWS DevOps
4 5 (11.36%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 5 (11.36%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (11.36%) Technical Leader
5 4 (9.09%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Linux Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 3 (6.82%) Senior
7 2 (4.55%) Lead Developer
7 2 (4.55%) Lead Java Developer
7 2 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Quality Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Security Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Senior Quality Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (43.18%) AngularJS
1 19 (43.18%) Gherkin
1 19 (43.18%) Jest
1 19 (43.18%) Spring Boot
2 8 (18.18%) Spring
3 7 (15.91%) LDAP
4 6 (13.64%) Kafka
5 4 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (6.82%) OAuth
6 3 (6.82%) OpenID
6 3 (6.82%) SAML
7 2 (4.55%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (4.55%) Middleware
7 2 (4.55%) OAuth2
7 2 (4.55%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (4.55%) pytest
7 2 (4.55%) REST
7 2 (4.55%) RESTful
7 2 (4.55%) SOAP
8 1 (2.27%) XSLT
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%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 14 (31.82%) Linux
2 11 (25.00%) Windows
3 9 (20.45%) VMS
4 7 (15.91%) Amazon Linux
5 4 (9.09%) Ubuntu
6 2 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (2.27%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (88.64%) DevOps
2 28 (63.64%) CI/CD
3 24 (54.55%) Agile
4 11 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 11 (25.00%) Secure Coding
5 9 (20.45%) Cloud Security
5 9 (20.45%) Full-Stack Development
5 9 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (18.18%) ITIL
6 8 (18.18%) Scrum
6 8 (18.18%) SDLC
7 7 (15.91%) Change Management
7 7 (15.91%) Patch Management
7 7 (15.91%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 6 (13.64%) Code Quality
8 6 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (13.64%) Software Delivery
9 5 (11.36%) Platform Engineering
9 5 (11.36%) Prototyping
10 4 (9.09%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 36 (81.82%) Java
2 23 (52.27%) Bash
3 19 (43.18%) TypeScript
4 17 (38.64%) Python
5 9 (20.45%) PowerShell
6 6 (13.64%) SQL
7 5 (11.36%) Perl
8 4 (9.09%) C#
8 4 (9.09%) JavaScript
9 3 (6.82%) Ruby
10 2 (4.55%) C++
11 1 (2.27%) C
Qualifications
1 18 (40.91%) AWS Certification
2 13 (29.55%) Security Cleared
3 10 (22.73%) SC Cleared
4 7 (15.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 7 (15.91%) ITIL Certification
5 5 (11.36%) AWS Certified Developer
5 5 (11.36%) Degree
6 4 (9.09%) Azure Certification
7 2 (4.55%) DV Cleared
8 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.36%) QA
System Software
1 26 (59.09%) Docker
2 5 (11.36%) 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%) Firmware
4 1 (2.27%) OpenAM
4 1 (2.27%) OpenDJ
4 1 (2.27%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 19 (43.18%) HP Fortify
2 13 (29.55%) Terraform
3 10 (22.73%) Prometheus
4 8 (18.18%) Grafana
5 6 (13.64%) Ansible
6 5 (11.36%) Kubernetes
7 4 (9.09%) Nessus
7 4 (9.09%) Proxmox
8 3 (6.82%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (4.55%) Nagios
9 2 (4.55%) Podman
9 2 (4.55%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (15.91%) ServiceNow
2 4 (9.09%) Jaspersoft
3 3 (6.82%) ForgeRock
4 2 (4.55%) Oracle
4 2 (4.55%) SAP
4 2 (4.55%) VMware
5 1 (2.27%) Cognizant
5 1 (2.27%) Cribl.io
5 1 (2.27%) Pega
5 1 (2.27%) Ping Identity
5 1 (2.27%) Sonatype