Groovy Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Apache Groovy
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Groovy skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 505 494 646
Rank change year-on-year -11 +152 -120
Permanent jobs citing Groovy 76 46 98
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.16% 0.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.74% 0.56% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 28 26 42
10th Percentile £59,875 £37,493 £32,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £48,313 £43,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £72,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +8.62% +2.73% +22.08%
75th Percentile £82,500 £73,750 £77,171
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,170 £85,775
UK median annual salary £77,500 £71,250 £70,576
% change year-on-year +8.77% +0.96% +8.58%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,257 8,195 22,355
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.18% 28.01% 30.56%
Number of salaries quoted 7,212 5,250 16,599
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

Groovy
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Groovy job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Groovy
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Groovy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Groovy

Groovy
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Groovy in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Groovy in the UK excluding London

Groovy
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Groovy within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
North of England +16 58 £80,000 +14.29% 11
Yorkshire -7 53 £80,000 +54.04% 6
South East -10 9 £82,500 - 1
South West - 7 £75,000 - 1
North West -3 5 £80,000 +14.29% 5
Scotland +1 3 - -
West Midlands -45 2 - -
Midlands -51 2 - -
Groovy
UK

Groovy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (9.21%) Apache
2 3 (3.95%) JBoss
3 1 (1.32%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (3.95%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 3 (3.95%) Hyperion Planning
1 3 (3.95%) Oracle Assets
1 3 (3.95%) Oracle Financials
1 3 (3.95%) Oracle General Ledger
1 3 (3.95%) Oracle Payables
1 3 (3.95%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 58 (76.32%) AWS
2 50 (65.79%) AWS CloudFormation
3 48 (63.16%) Amazon S3
3 48 (63.16%) AWS Lambda
3 48 (63.16%) Serverless
4 42 (55.26%) Amazon ECS
4 42 (55.26%) AWS Step Functions
5 38 (50.00%) Amazon ECR
5 38 (50.00%) Apigee
6 26 (34.21%) Amazon SQS
7 13 (17.11%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (10.53%) GitHub
8 8 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (7.89%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (2.63%) BlazeMeter
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (51.32%) DynamoDB
2 8 (10.53%) NoSQL
3 7 (9.21%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.95%) Essbase
5 1 (1.32%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 59 (77.63%) Jenkins
2 49 (64.47%) GitLab
3 41 (53.95%) Cypress.io
3 41 (53.95%) SonarQube
4 40 (52.63%) Maven
5 11 (14.47%) Cucumber
6 9 (11.84%) Git
7 7 (9.21%) JIRA
8 6 (7.89%) Selenium
9 5 (6.58%) JUnit
10 4 (5.26%) Artifactory
10 4 (5.26%) Spock
11 3 (3.95%) JMeter
11 3 (3.95%) Oracle Forms
12 2 (2.63%) Gradle
13 1 (1.32%) HP UFT
13 1 (1.32%) LoadRunner
13 1 (1.32%) ScriptRunner
13 1 (1.32%) TestNG
13 1 (1.32%) WebDriver
General
1 9 (11.84%) Finance
2 8 (10.53%) Social Skills
3 5 (6.58%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.32%) Automotive
5 1 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.32%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 43 (56.58%) Developer
2 38 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 12 (15.79%) Full-Stack Developer
4 11 (14.47%) AWS Developer
4 11 (14.47%) Lead
4 11 (14.47%) Senior
5 8 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (10.53%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 8 (10.53%) Platform Engineer
6 7 (9.21%) Data Engineer
7 5 (6.58%) Senior Developer
7 5 (6.58%) Senior Java Developer
8 4 (5.26%) Analyst
8 4 (5.26%) Lead Data Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
9 3 (3.95%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) Oracle Analyst
9 3 (3.95%) Senior Oracle Analyst
9 3 (3.95%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (59.21%) AngularJS
2 41 (53.95%) Gherkin
3 39 (51.32%) Spring Boot
4 35 (46.05%) Jest
5 15 (19.74%) Spring
6 8 (10.53%) Web Services
7 7 (9.21%) Apache NiFi
7 7 (9.21%) Kafka
8 6 (7.89%) JSON
8 6 (7.89%) REST
9 5 (6.58%) YAML
10 4 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (5.26%) Node.js
10 4 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (3.95%) Drools
11 3 (3.95%) React
11 3 (3.95%) XML
12 1 (1.32%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.84%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (5.26%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.26%) Private Cloud
3 3 (3.95%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (3.95%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (18.42%) Linux
2 2 (2.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (71.05%) Agile
2 49 (64.47%) DevOps
3 48 (63.16%) CI/CD
4 27 (35.53%) SDLC
5 25 (32.89%) ITIL
5 25 (32.89%) Secure Coding
6 24 (31.58%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 22 (28.95%) Full-Stack Development
8 15 (19.74%) Clean Code
9 14 (18.42%) Infrastructure as Code
9 14 (18.42%) Prototyping
9 14 (18.42%) Test Automation
10 13 (17.11%) Microservices
11 12 (15.79%) Containerisation
11 12 (15.79%) Platform Engineering
12 11 (14.47%) Software Delivery
13 10 (13.16%) Scrum
14 8 (10.53%) AI
14 8 (10.53%) Analytics
14 8 (10.53%) Auto-Scaling
Programming Languages
1 61 (80.26%) Java
2 43 (56.58%) TypeScript
3 35 (46.05%) Bash
4 24 (31.58%) Python
5 13 (17.11%) SQL
6 8 (10.53%) JavaScript
7 4 (5.26%) Perl
8 3 (3.95%) Kotlin
9 2 (2.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 30 (39.47%) AWS Certification
2 23 (30.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 23 (30.26%) ITIL Certification
3 22 (28.95%) Security Cleared
4 15 (19.74%) SC Cleared
5 6 (7.89%) AWS Certified Developer
6 5 (6.58%) DV Cleared
7 3 (3.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.16%) QA
2 4 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.32%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.32%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 53 (69.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (44.74%) HP Fortify
2 17 (22.37%) Terraform
3 14 (18.42%) Kubernetes
4 8 (10.53%) Progress Chef
5 6 (7.89%) Ansible
6 4 (5.26%) Packer
7 2 (2.63%) Kibana
7 2 (2.63%) logstash
8 1 (1.32%) Grafana
8 1 (1.32%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 10 (13.16%) AppDynamics
2 4 (5.26%) IBM
2 4 (5.26%) Splunk
3 3 (3.95%) Hyperion
3 3 (3.95%) Oracle
4 2 (2.63%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.32%) New Relic
5 1 (1.32%) Sonatype