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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 518 483 640
Rank change year-on-year -35 +157 -111
Permanent jobs citing Groovy 74 42 103
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.15% 0.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.72% 0.53% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 26 24 47
10th Percentile £58,125 £33,896 £32,500
25th Percentile £70,313 £47,247 £52,500
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 £74,522 £72,433
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,302 £84,650
UK median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year +10.71% -0.82% +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 10,287 7,954 22,145
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.25% 27.84% 30.89%
Number of salaries quoted 7,198 5,079 16,514
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 £53,924
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +2.00% -1.96%
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 29 May 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 29 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
North of England 0 57 £80,000 +14.29% 9
Yorkshire -11 52 £80,000 +54.04% 7
South East -24 9 £82,500 - 1
South West - 6 £75,000 -
North West 0 5 £80,000 +14.29% 2
Scotland -2 3 - -
Midlands -45 2 - -
West Midlands -48 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 6 (8.11%) Apache
2 3 (4.05%) JBoss
3 1 (1.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (4.05%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 3 (4.05%) Hyperion Planning
1 3 (4.05%) Oracle Assets
1 3 (4.05%) Oracle Financials
1 3 (4.05%) Oracle General Ledger
1 3 (4.05%) Oracle Payables
1 3 (4.05%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 57 (77.03%) AWS
2 49 (66.22%) AWS CloudFormation
3 47 (63.51%) Amazon S3
3 47 (63.51%) AWS Lambda
3 47 (63.51%) Serverless
4 41 (55.41%) Amazon ECS
4 41 (55.41%) AWS Step Functions
5 38 (51.35%) Amazon ECR
5 38 (51.35%) Apigee
6 25 (33.78%) Amazon SQS
7 13 (17.57%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (10.81%) GitHub
8 8 (10.81%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (8.11%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (2.70%) BlazeMeter
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (52.70%) DynamoDB
2 7 (9.46%) NoSQL
3 6 (8.11%) MongoDB
4 3 (4.05%) Essbase
5 1 (1.35%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 58 (78.38%) Jenkins
2 49 (66.22%) GitLab
3 41 (55.41%) Cypress.io
3 41 (55.41%) SonarQube
4 40 (54.05%) Maven
5 11 (14.86%) Cucumber
6 9 (12.16%) Git
7 7 (9.46%) JIRA
8 6 (8.11%) Selenium
9 5 (6.76%) JUnit
10 4 (5.41%) Artifactory
10 4 (5.41%) Spock
11 3 (4.05%) JMeter
11 3 (4.05%) Oracle Forms
12 2 (2.70%) Gradle
13 1 (1.35%) HP UFT
13 1 (1.35%) LoadRunner
13 1 (1.35%) ScriptRunner
13 1 (1.35%) TestNG
13 1 (1.35%) WebDriver
General
1 9 (12.16%) Finance
2 8 (10.81%) Social Skills
3 5 (6.76%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.35%) Automotive
5 1 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 42 (56.76%) Developer
2 37 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 11 (14.86%) AWS Developer
3 11 (14.86%) Full-Stack Developer
3 11 (14.86%) Senior
4 10 (13.51%) Lead
5 8 (10.81%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (10.81%) Platform Engineer
6 7 (9.46%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 6 (8.11%) Data Engineer
8 5 (6.76%) Senior Developer
8 5 (6.76%) Senior Java Developer
9 4 (5.41%) Analyst
9 4 (5.41%) Senior Analyst
10 3 (4.05%) AWS Engineer
10 3 (4.05%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 3 (4.05%) Lead Data Engineer
10 3 (4.05%) Oracle Analyst
10 3 (4.05%) Senior Oracle Analyst
10 3 (4.05%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (59.46%) AngularJS
2 40 (54.05%) Gherkin
3 39 (52.70%) Spring Boot
4 35 (47.30%) Jest
5 15 (20.27%) Spring
6 8 (10.81%) Web Services
7 6 (8.11%) Apache NiFi
7 6 (8.11%) JSON
7 6 (8.11%) Kafka
7 6 (8.11%) REST
8 5 (6.76%) YAML
9 4 (5.41%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (5.41%) Node.js
9 4 (5.41%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (4.05%) Drools
10 3 (4.05%) React
10 3 (4.05%) XML
11 1 (1.35%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.16%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (5.41%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.41%) Private Cloud
3 3 (4.05%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (4.05%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (18.92%) Linux
2 2 (2.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (71.62%) Agile
2 48 (64.86%) CI/CD
2 48 (64.86%) DevOps
3 27 (36.49%) SDLC
4 25 (33.78%) ITIL
4 25 (33.78%) Secure Coding
5 24 (32.43%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 21 (28.38%) Full-Stack Development
7 15 (20.27%) Clean Code
8 14 (18.92%) Infrastructure as Code
8 14 (18.92%) Prototyping
8 14 (18.92%) Test Automation
9 13 (17.57%) Microservices
10 12 (16.22%) Containerisation
11 11 (14.86%) Platform Engineering
11 11 (14.86%) Software Delivery
12 10 (13.51%) Scrum
13 8 (10.81%) Auto-Scaling
13 8 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
14 7 (9.46%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 59 (79.73%) Java
2 43 (58.11%) TypeScript
3 35 (47.30%) Bash
4 23 (31.08%) Python
5 12 (16.22%) SQL
6 8 (10.81%) JavaScript
7 4 (5.41%) Perl
8 3 (4.05%) Kotlin
9 2 (2.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 30 (40.54%) AWS Certification
2 23 (31.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 23 (31.08%) ITIL Certification
3 21 (28.38%) Security Cleared
4 15 (20.27%) SC Cleared
5 6 (8.11%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (5.41%) DV Cleared
7 3 (4.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.51%) QA
2 3 (4.05%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.35%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.35%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 53 (71.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (45.95%) HP Fortify
2 17 (22.97%) Terraform
3 14 (18.92%) Kubernetes
4 8 (10.81%) Progress Chef
5 6 (8.11%) Ansible
6 4 (5.41%) Packer
7 2 (2.70%) Kibana
7 2 (2.70%) logstash
8 1 (1.35%) Grafana
8 1 (1.35%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 10 (13.51%) AppDynamics
2 4 (5.41%) IBM
2 4 (5.41%) Splunk
3 3 (4.05%) Hyperion
3 3 (4.05%) Oracle
4 2 (2.70%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.35%) New Relic
5 1 (1.35%) Sonatype