Groovy Job Trends in the South West

Apache Groovy
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Groovy skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 161 -
Rank change year-on-year -72 - -
Permanent jobs citing Groovy 9 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.090% 0.029% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.58% 0.14% -
Number of salaries quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55,000 £92,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £100,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £107,500 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £84,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -13.69% +11.01%

All Programming Languages
South West

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 the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,544 718 1,952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.43% 20.66% 26.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,129 482 1,251
10th Percentile £34,925 £29,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.36% +1.60% -3.85%

Groovy
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Groovy job vacancy trend in the South West

Groovy
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Groovy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Groovy

Groovy
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Groovy in the South West over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Groovy in the South West

Groovy
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Groovy within the South West region over the 6 months to 15 September 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
Gloucestershire -50 7 £75,000 -25.00% 2
Dorset - 2 - - 3
Groovy
England

Groovy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 7 (77.78%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
1 2 (22.22%) BlazeMeter
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (77.78%) MongoDB
1 7 (77.78%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Cucumber
1 2 (22.22%) Cypress.io
1 2 (22.22%) Git
1 2 (22.22%) Gradle
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
1 2 (22.22%) JMeter
1 2 (22.22%) Maven
1 2 (22.22%) Selenium
General
1 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Data Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Lead
2 4 (44.44%) Lead Data Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Automation Tester
3 2 (22.22%) Functional Tester
3 2 (22.22%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (77.78%) Apache NiFi
1 7 (77.78%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) AI
1 7 (77.78%) Data Engineering
1 7 (77.78%) Data Governance
1 7 (77.78%) Data Integration
1 7 (77.78%) Data Pipeline
1 7 (77.78%) Data Science
1 7 (77.78%) Data Strategy
1 7 (77.78%) DevOps
1 7 (77.78%) Epics
1 7 (77.78%) ETL
1 7 (77.78%) Platform Engineering
1 7 (77.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 6 (66.67%) Agile
3 5 (55.56%) Scrum
4 4 (44.44%) Analytics
4 4 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (33.33%) Clean Code
5 3 (33.33%) Data Modelling
5 3 (33.33%) TDD
6 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Java
1 9 (100.00%) SQL
2 7 (77.78%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (77.78%) DV Cleared
1 7 (77.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) Data Quality
2 2 (22.22%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Kibana
1 2 (22.22%) logstash