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 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 183 225
Rank change year-on-year +20 +42 +9
Permanent jobs citing Groovy 6 1 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.11% 0.030% 0.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.66% 0.13% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 11
10th Percentile - - £73,750
25th Percentile £81,250 - £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 - £82,500
75th Percentile £83,750 - £86,000
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £82,500 - £77,500
% change year-on-year - - -6.06%

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 903 786 1,843
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 16.05% 23.39% 28.25%
Number of salaries quoted 667 509 1,562
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £49,584 £47,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £76,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £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 12 May 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
Berkshire +7 6 £82,500 - 1
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:

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