Groovy Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Apache Groovy
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Groovy skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 183 188 174
Rank change year-on-year +5 -14 +93
Permanent jobs citing Groovy 3 15 16
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.081% 0.35% 0.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.50% 1.14% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £81,250 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -39.39% +3.13% -
75th Percentile - £83,750 £83,125
90th Percentile - - £83,500
South East median annual salary £72,500 £82,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.12% +57.14% -31.15%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 597 1,317 1,437
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 16.10% 30.31% 42.82%
Number of salaries quoted 386 735 986
10th Percentile £33,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £46,050
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,715 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £90,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

Groovy
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Groovy job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Groovy
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Groovy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Groovy

Groovy
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Groovy within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 30 October 2025. 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
Berkshire -4 2 - - 4
Buckinghamshire +4 1 £50,000 -
Groovy
South East

Groovy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (66.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon ELB
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon Glacier
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (66.67%) AWS KMS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) HTTP
2 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) FTP
2 2 (66.67%) SMTP
2 2 (66.67%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) Sonatype Nexus
1 2 (66.67%) Vagrant
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
1 1 (33.33%) OpenID
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) SAML
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) VMS
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Change Management
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
1 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 2 (66.67%) Patch Management
1 2 (66.67%) Process Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) Servant Leadership
1 2 (66.67%) Workshop Facilitation
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (33.33%) OO
2 1 (33.33%) OOP
2 1 (33.33%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Perl
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Certification
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Grafana
1 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) PingFederate
2 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) ServiceNow