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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 452 559 461
Rank change year-on-year +107 -98 +191
Permanent jobs citing Groovy 56 31 85
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.069% 0.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.86% 0.23% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 25 5 68
10th Percentile £57,250 £46,474 £45,276
25th Percentile £71,250 £48,750 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £75,669
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -7.49% +16.41%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £82,548
90th Percentile £91,000 - £96,539
UK median annual salary £72,500 £87,500 £75,669
% change year-on-year -17.14% +15.64% +13.30%

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 6,535 13,319 11,286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.33% 29.49% 38.67%
Number of salaries quoted 4,931 7,402 8,936
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,750 £35,679
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,950 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 December 2025.

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 December 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
Midlands +80 33 £72,500 +3.57% 1
West Midlands +82 29 £72,500 +3.57%
Scotland +17 13 £43,000 - 3
North of England +29 7 £78,750 - 4
Yorkshire +5 6 £78,750 - 4
South East +42 4 £72,500 - 2
East Midlands +25 4 £65,000 +13.04% 1
Wales +6 1 - - 1
North West - 1 - -
South West - 1 £100,000 - 12
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 24 (42.86%) Confluence
2 5 (8.93%) nginx
3 2 (3.57%) Apache
4 1 (1.79%) JBoss
4 1 (1.79%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (19.64%) Oracle Smart View
2 5 (8.93%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 11 (19.64%) Hyperion Planning
1 11 (19.64%) Oracle Assets
1 11 (19.64%) Oracle Financials
1 11 (19.64%) Oracle General Ledger
1 11 (19.64%) Oracle Payables
1 11 (19.64%) Oracle Receivables
2 4 (7.14%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 36 (64.29%) AWS
2 32 (57.14%) Amazon S3
3 26 (46.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 26 (46.43%) Amazon EC2
3 26 (46.43%) Amazon ELB
3 26 (46.43%) AWS KMS
3 26 (46.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 21 (37.50%) Amazon Glacier
5 17 (30.36%) Azure
6 11 (19.64%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (10.71%) Amazon ECR
8 6 (10.71%) Apigee
8 6 (10.71%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (10.71%) AWS Step Functions
8 6 (10.71%) Serverless
9 5 (8.93%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (8.93%) Route 53
10 2 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (3.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (42.86%) Firewall
2 21 (37.50%) HTTP
3 19 (33.93%) DNS
3 19 (33.93%) FTP
3 19 (33.93%) SMTP
3 19 (33.93%) SSH
4 5 (8.93%) IMAP
4 5 (8.93%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (46.43%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (19.64%) Essbase
3 6 (10.71%) DynamoDB
4 5 (8.93%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (8.93%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.57%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.79%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.79%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 35 (62.50%) Jenkins
2 26 (46.43%) Git
2 26 (46.43%) Vagrant
3 25 (44.64%) JIRA
4 11 (19.64%) Oracle Forms
5 8 (14.29%) Maven
6 6 (10.71%) Cypress.io
6 6 (10.71%) GitLab
6 6 (10.71%) SonarQube
7 5 (8.93%) Katalon Studio
7 5 (8.93%) Selenium
7 5 (8.93%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (3.57%) Appium
8 2 (3.57%) Cucumber
8 2 (3.57%) JMeter
8 2 (3.57%) JUnit
8 2 (3.57%) REST Assured
8 2 (3.57%) Subversion
8 2 (3.57%) TestNG
9 1 (1.79%) Ant
General
1 20 (35.71%) Public Sector
2 18 (32.14%) Social Skills
3 15 (26.79%) Finance
4 11 (19.64%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (10.71%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (32.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (25.00%) Senior
3 11 (19.64%) Analyst
3 11 (19.64%) Oracle Analyst
3 11 (19.64%) Senior Analyst
3 11 (19.64%) Senior Oracle Analyst
4 9 (16.07%) AWS Engineer
5 8 (14.29%) Lead
6 7 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (12.50%) Infrastructure Support
6 7 (12.50%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 7 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
6 7 (12.50%) Support Engineer
7 5 (8.93%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
8 4 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 3 (5.36%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 3 (5.36%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 3 (5.36%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 3 (5.36%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.50%) LDAP
2 6 (10.71%) AngularJS
2 6 (10.71%) Gherkin
2 6 (10.71%) Jest
2 6 (10.71%) Spring Boot
3 5 (8.93%) Spring
4 4 (7.14%) REST
5 3 (5.36%) OAuth
5 3 (5.36%) OpenID
5 3 (5.36%) SAML
5 3 (5.36%) SOAP
6 2 (3.57%) Kafka
6 2 (3.57%) Middleware
6 2 (3.57%) OAuth2
6 2 (3.57%) RESTful
7 1 (1.79%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (1.79%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.79%) JSON
7 1 (1.79%) Web Services
7 1 (1.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (28.57%) Replication
2 2 (3.57%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (3.57%) Mobile App
2 2 (3.57%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.79%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (1.79%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 27 (48.21%) Linux
2 26 (46.43%) VMS
3 19 (33.93%) Windows
4 17 (30.36%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (8.93%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (67.86%) DevOps
2 28 (50.00%) Cloud Security
3 27 (48.21%) Configuration Management
4 23 (41.07%) Change Management
5 19 (33.93%) Agile
6 17 (30.36%) Patch Management
7 16 (28.57%) CI/CD
8 15 (26.79%) Platform Engineering
9 13 (23.21%) Data Integration
10 11 (19.64%) Asset Management
10 11 (19.64%) Data Management
10 11 (19.64%) Enterprise Architecture
10 11 (19.64%) Enterprise Data Management
10 11 (19.64%) ERP
10 11 (19.64%) Financial Modelling
10 11 (19.64%) Impact Assessments
10 11 (19.64%) Performance Management
10 11 (19.64%) Requirements Gathering
10 11 (19.64%) Roadmaps
10 11 (19.64%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 31 (55.36%) Python
2 30 (53.57%) Java
3 24 (42.86%) PowerShell
4 18 (32.14%) SQL
5 14 (25.00%) Perl
6 7 (12.50%) Bash
7 6 (10.71%) TypeScript
8 5 (8.93%) JavaScript
9 2 (3.57%) C#
9 2 (3.57%) Go
9 2 (3.57%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 25 (44.64%) Security Cleared
2 24 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 16 (28.57%) AWS Certification
4 11 (19.64%) Azure Certification
4 11 (19.64%) Degree
5 3 (5.36%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.79%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.14%) QA
2 2 (3.57%) GDPR
2 2 (3.57%) NIST
System Software
1 24 (42.86%) Docker
2 23 (41.07%) Active Directory
3 16 (28.57%) DFS Replication
4 5 (8.93%) Dovecot
4 5 (8.93%) Postfix
4 5 (8.93%) Squid
Systems Management
1 30 (53.57%) Terraform
2 24 (42.86%) Grafana
2 24 (42.86%) Prometheus
3 10 (17.86%) Ansible
4 6 (10.71%) HP Fortify
5 5 (8.93%) Nessus
5 5 (8.93%) Proxmox
6 3 (5.36%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (3.57%) Kubernetes
7 2 (3.57%) Nagios
8 1 (1.79%) PingFederate
8 1 (1.79%) Podman
8 1 (1.79%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (42.86%) ServiceNow
2 13 (23.21%) Oracle
3 11 (19.64%) Hyperion
4 7 (12.50%) Juniper
5 5 (8.93%) Jaspersoft
6 2 (3.57%) ForgeRock
6 2 (3.57%) Microsoft
6 2 (3.57%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.79%) MuleSoft