Groovy Job Trends in Reading

Apache Groovy
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Groovy skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 62 97
Rank change year-on-year +2 +35 +13
Permanent jobs citing Groovy 6 2 15
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 0.66% 0.41% 1.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.95% 1.27% 3.16%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 11
10th Percentile - - £73,750
25th Percentile £81,250 - £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 - £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.03%
75th Percentile £83,750 - £84,250
90th Percentile - - £86,000
Berkshire median annual salary £82,500 - £80,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.03%

All Programming Languages
Reading

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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 152 158 475
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 16.72% 32.44% 32.74%
Number of salaries quoted 92 93 348
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,500 £38,375
25th Percentile £49,063 £51,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +10.17% -15.71%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £112,500 £83,750
Berkshire median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% -7.69%

Groovy
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Groovy job vacancy trend in Reading

Groovy
Salary Trend in Reading

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Groovy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Groovy

Groovy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 6 (100.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Git
1 6 (100.00%) GitLab
1 6 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 6 (100.00%) SonarQube
2 5 (83.33%) Cucumber
2 5 (83.33%) JIRA
3 4 (66.67%) Artifactory
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Java Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) JSON
1 5 (83.33%) REST
2 4 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (66.67%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (66.67%) YAML
3 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
3 1 (16.67%) React
3 1 (16.67%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 6 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (100.00%) Microservices
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) Security Hardening
3 4 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (66.67%) Issue Tracking
3 4 (66.67%) Secrets Management
4 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
5 2 (33.33%) Regression Testing
5 2 (33.33%) Static Code Analysis
6 1 (16.67%) Release Management
6 1 (16.67%) Scrum
6 1 (16.67%) TDD
6 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (83.33%) Java
3 4 (66.67%) Perl
4 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (83.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Ansible
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
2 4 (66.67%) Packer
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) AppDynamics
2 4 (66.67%) IBM
3 1 (16.67%) Atlassian