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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 194 179 179
Rank change year-on-year -15 0 +87
Permanent jobs citing Groovy 3 18 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.078% 0.37% 0.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.44% 1.34% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £81,250 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £82,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -39.39% - +6.45%
75th Percentile - £85,438 £83,750
90th Percentile - £86,000 £84,375
South East median annual salary £72,500 £82,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year -12.12% - +10.00%

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 677 1,345 1,583
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 17.50% 27.77% 42.29%
Number of salaries quoted 394 841 1,142
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,563 £45,000 £47,598
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £74,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £92,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

Groovy
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Groovy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Groovy 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 17 September 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 -18 2 - -
Buckinghamshire -13 1 £50,000 -
Groovy
South East

Groovy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

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