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 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 454 540 465
Rank change year-on-year +86 -75 +137
Permanent jobs citing Groovy 48 27 90
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.074% 0.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.73% 0.24% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 13 6 70
10th Percentile £50,750 £46,228 £42,874
25th Percentile £53,750 £47,813 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £63,750 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +13.73% -9.67% +17.63%
75th Percentile £81,250 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile - - £96,539
UK median annual salary £78,750 £70,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year +12.50% -0.82% +5.67%

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 6,573 11,301 11,812
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.72% 30.79% 36.97%
Number of salaries quoted 4,935 6,128 9,172
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,646 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £81,250
UK median annual salary £62,219 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.28% +4.00% -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 4 January 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 4 January 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 +33 17 £77,500 - 5
Scotland +11 16 £43,000 -14.00%
Yorkshire +5 16 £77,500 - 4
Midlands +28 13 £72,500 +3.57% 1
West Midlands +38 11 £72,500 +3.57%
East Midlands 0 2 £57,500 - 1
South West - 2 £78,750 - 14
South East +14 1 £50,000 - 4
North West - 1 - - 1
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 (14.58%) Confluence
2 4 (8.33%) nginx
3 3 (6.25%) Apache
4 1 (2.08%) JBoss
4 1 (2.08%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (29.17%) Oracle Smart View
2 4 (8.33%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 14 (29.17%) Hyperion Planning
1 14 (29.17%) Oracle Assets
1 14 (29.17%) Oracle Financials
1 14 (29.17%) Oracle General Ledger
1 14 (29.17%) Oracle Payables
1 14 (29.17%) Oracle Receivables
2 4 (8.33%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 27 (56.25%) AWS
2 25 (52.08%) Amazon S3
3 20 (41.67%) Amazon ECS
4 16 (33.33%) Amazon ECR
4 16 (33.33%) Apigee
4 16 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 16 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
4 16 (33.33%) AWS Step Functions
4 16 (33.33%) Serverless
5 9 (18.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (18.75%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (18.75%) Amazon ELB
5 9 (18.75%) AWS KMS
5 9 (18.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 7 (14.58%) Azure
7 5 (10.42%) Amazon Glacier
8 4 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (8.33%) Route 53
9 2 (4.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (22.92%) HTTP
2 9 (18.75%) DNS
2 9 (18.75%) FTP
2 9 (18.75%) SMTP
2 9 (18.75%) SSH
3 7 (14.58%) Firewall
4 4 (8.33%) IMAP
4 4 (8.33%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (33.33%) DynamoDB
2 14 (29.17%) Essbase
3 9 (18.75%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (8.33%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (4.17%) MongoDB
5 2 (4.17%) NoSQL
5 2 (4.17%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 27 (56.25%) Jenkins
2 17 (35.42%) Maven
3 16 (33.33%) Cypress.io
3 16 (33.33%) GitLab
3 16 (33.33%) SonarQube
4 14 (29.17%) Oracle Forms
5 9 (18.75%) Vagrant
6 8 (16.67%) Git
6 8 (16.67%) JIRA
7 2 (4.17%) Katalon Studio
7 2 (4.17%) Selenium
7 2 (4.17%) Subversion
8 1 (2.08%) Ant
8 1 (2.08%) Appium
8 1 (2.08%) Cucumber
8 1 (2.08%) JMeter
8 1 (2.08%) JUnit
8 1 (2.08%) REST Assured
8 1 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (2.08%) TestNG
General
1 16 (33.33%) Finance
2 11 (22.92%) Social Skills
3 7 (14.58%) Public Sector
4 6 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (31.25%) Senior
2 14 (29.17%) Analyst
2 14 (29.17%) Oracle Analyst
2 14 (29.17%) Senior Analyst
2 14 (29.17%) Senior Oracle Analyst
3 12 (25.00%) Lead
4 10 (20.83%) DevOps Engineer
5 9 (18.75%) Developer
6 8 (16.67%) Java Developer
7 5 (10.42%) Technical Leader
8 4 (8.33%) AWS Developer
9 3 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
9 3 (6.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 3 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (6.25%) Linux DevOps Engineer
9 3 (6.25%) Linux Engineer
9 3 (6.25%) Linux/Unix DevOps
10 2 (4.17%) Lead Developer
10 2 (4.17%) Lead Java Developer
10 2 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 16 (33.33%) Gherkin
1 16 (33.33%) Jest
1 16 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 9 (18.75%) Spring
3 6 (12.50%) LDAP
4 3 (6.25%) Kafka
4 3 (6.25%) OAuth
4 3 (6.25%) OpenID
4 3 (6.25%) REST
4 3 (6.25%) SAML
5 2 (4.17%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (4.17%) Middleware
5 2 (4.17%) OAuth2
5 2 (4.17%) RESTful
5 2 (4.17%) SOAP
6 1 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (2.08%) JMS
6 1 (2.08%) Web Services
6 1 (2.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.33%) Cloud Native
1 4 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (8.33%) Replication
2 2 (4.17%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.08%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (2.08%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (20.83%) Linux
2 9 (18.75%) VMS
3 7 (14.58%) Amazon Linux
3 7 (14.58%) Windows
4 4 (8.33%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (58.33%) DevOps
2 23 (47.92%) Agile
3 20 (41.67%) CI/CD
4 16 (33.33%) Data Integration
5 14 (29.17%) Asset Management
5 14 (29.17%) Coaching
5 14 (29.17%) Data Management
5 14 (29.17%) Enterprise Architecture
5 14 (29.17%) Enterprise Data Management
5 14 (29.17%) ERP
5 14 (29.17%) Financial Modelling
5 14 (29.17%) Impact Assessments
5 14 (29.17%) Performance Management
5 14 (29.17%) Planning and Forecasting
5 14 (29.17%) Requirements Gathering
5 14 (29.17%) Roadmaps
5 14 (29.17%) User Acceptance Testing
6 11 (22.92%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (20.83%) Configuration Management
7 10 (20.83%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 29 (60.42%) Java
2 21 (43.75%) SQL
3 17 (35.42%) Bash
4 16 (33.33%) TypeScript
5 13 (27.08%) Python
6 7 (14.58%) PowerShell
7 5 (10.42%) Perl
8 4 (8.33%) JavaScript
9 2 (4.17%) C#
9 2 (4.17%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (31.25%) AWS Certification
2 11 (22.92%) Security Cleared
3 9 (18.75%) SC Cleared
4 5 (10.42%) AWS Certified Developer
5 4 (8.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Azure Certification
5 4 (8.33%) Degree
5 4 (8.33%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (2.08%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.42%) QA
System Software
1 24 (50.00%) Docker
2 5 (10.42%) Active Directory
3 4 (8.33%) DFS Replication
3 4 (8.33%) Dovecot
3 4 (8.33%) Postfix
3 4 (8.33%) Squid
Systems Management
1 16 (33.33%) HP Fortify
2 11 (22.92%) Terraform
3 7 (14.58%) Grafana
3 7 (14.58%) Prometheus
4 4 (8.33%) Nessus
4 4 (8.33%) Proxmox
5 3 (6.25%) Ansible
5 3 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (4.17%) Kubernetes
6 2 (4.17%) Nagios
7 1 (2.08%) PingFederate
7 1 (2.08%) Podman
7 1 (2.08%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (33.33%) Oracle
2 14 (29.17%) Hyperion
3 7 (14.58%) ServiceNow
4 4 (8.33%) Jaspersoft
5 2 (4.17%) ForgeRock
6 1 (2.08%) MuleSoft