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

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 462 539 454
Rank change year-on-year +77 -85 +171
Permanent jobs citing Groovy 54 31 86
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.080% 0.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.81% 0.26% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 17 5 71
10th Percentile £52,250 £46,474 £46,306
25th Percentile £71,250 £48,750 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -0.82% +8.58%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £81,250 - £96,539
UK median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year +10.71% -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 6,687 11,969 11,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.05% 30.73% 39.02%
Number of salaries quoted 5,060 6,667 8,589
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,300 £83,750 £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 16 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 16 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 +45 24 £72,500 +3.57% 2
West Midlands +42 21 £72,500 +3.57%
Scotland +14 15 £43,000 - 1
North of England +29 14 £78,750 - 5
Yorkshire -2 13 £78,750 - 5
South East +24 3 £50,000 - 2
East Midlands +1 3 £61,250 +6.52% 2
North West - 1 - -
South West - 1 £100,000 - 9
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 17 (31.48%) Confluence
2 5 (9.26%) nginx
3 2 (3.70%) Apache
4 1 (1.85%) JBoss
4 1 (1.85%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (24.07%) Oracle Smart View
2 5 (9.26%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 13 (24.07%) Hyperion Planning
1 13 (24.07%) Oracle Assets
1 13 (24.07%) Oracle Financials
1 13 (24.07%) Oracle General Ledger
1 13 (24.07%) Oracle Payables
1 13 (24.07%) Oracle Receivables
2 4 (7.41%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 34 (62.96%) AWS
2 32 (59.26%) Amazon S3
3 19 (35.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 19 (35.19%) Amazon EC2
3 19 (35.19%) Amazon ELB
3 19 (35.19%) AWS KMS
3 19 (35.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 18 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
5 14 (25.93%) Amazon Glacier
6 13 (24.07%) Amazon ECR
6 13 (24.07%) Apigee
6 13 (24.07%) AWS CloudFormation
6 13 (24.07%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (24.07%) AWS Step Functions
6 13 (24.07%) Azure
6 13 (24.07%) Serverless
7 5 (9.26%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (9.26%) Route 53
8 3 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (3.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (35.19%) HTTP
2 17 (31.48%) DNS
2 17 (31.48%) Firewall
2 17 (31.48%) FTP
2 17 (31.48%) SMTP
2 17 (31.48%) SSH
3 5 (9.26%) IMAP
3 5 (9.26%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (35.19%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (24.07%) DynamoDB
2 13 (24.07%) Essbase
3 5 (9.26%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (9.26%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.70%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.85%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.85%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 34 (62.96%) Jenkins
2 19 (35.19%) Vagrant
3 18 (33.33%) Git
3 18 (33.33%) JIRA
4 14 (25.93%) Maven
5 13 (24.07%) Cypress.io
5 13 (24.07%) GitLab
5 13 (24.07%) Oracle Forms
5 13 (24.07%) SonarQube
6 5 (9.26%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (5.56%) Katalon Studio
7 3 (5.56%) Selenium
8 2 (3.70%) Subversion
9 1 (1.85%) Ant
9 1 (1.85%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.85%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.85%) JMeter
9 1 (1.85%) JUnit
9 1 (1.85%) REST Assured
9 1 (1.85%) TestNG
General
1 17 (31.48%) Social Skills
2 15 (27.78%) Finance
3 13 (24.07%) Public Sector
4 11 (20.37%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (29.63%) DevOps Engineer
2 15 (27.78%) Senior
3 13 (24.07%) Analyst
3 13 (24.07%) Oracle Analyst
3 13 (24.07%) Senior Analyst
3 13 (24.07%) Senior Oracle Analyst
4 11 (20.37%) Lead
5 7 (12.96%) Platform Engineer
6 6 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (11.11%) Developer
7 5 (9.26%) Java Developer
7 5 (9.26%) Technical Leader
8 4 (7.41%) AWS DevOps
8 4 (7.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 3 (5.56%) AWS Developer
9 3 (5.56%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 3 (5.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 3 (5.56%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 3 (5.56%) Linux DevOps Engineer
9 3 (5.56%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (24.07%) AngularJS
1 13 (24.07%) Gherkin
1 13 (24.07%) Jest
1 13 (24.07%) Spring Boot
2 8 (14.81%) Spring
3 7 (12.96%) LDAP
4 3 (5.56%) OAuth
4 3 (5.56%) OpenID
4 3 (5.56%) REST
4 3 (5.56%) SAML
5 2 (3.70%) Kafka
5 2 (3.70%) Middleware
5 2 (3.70%) OAuth2
5 2 (3.70%) RESTful
5 2 (3.70%) SOAP
6 1 (1.85%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.85%) JMS
6 1 (1.85%) JSON
6 1 (1.85%) Web Services
6 1 (1.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.37%) Replication
2 4 (7.41%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.70%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.85%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (1.85%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 20 (37.04%) Linux
2 19 (35.19%) VMS
3 15 (27.78%) Amazon Linux
4 14 (25.93%) Windows
5 5 (9.26%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (66.67%) DevOps
2 23 (42.59%) Agile
3 20 (37.04%) CI/CD
3 20 (37.04%) Configuration Management
4 19 (35.19%) Cloud Security
5 16 (29.63%) Change Management
6 15 (27.78%) Data Integration
6 15 (27.78%) Patch Management
7 13 (24.07%) Asset Management
7 13 (24.07%) Coaching
7 13 (24.07%) Data Management
7 13 (24.07%) Enterprise Architecture
7 13 (24.07%) Enterprise Data Management
7 13 (24.07%) Financial Modelling
7 13 (24.07%) Impact Assessments
7 13 (24.07%) Performance Management
7 13 (24.07%) Planning and Forecasting
7 13 (24.07%) Requirements Gathering
7 13 (24.07%) Roadmaps
7 13 (24.07%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 33 (61.11%) Java
2 22 (40.74%) Python
3 20 (37.04%) SQL
4 17 (31.48%) PowerShell
5 14 (25.93%) Bash
6 13 (24.07%) TypeScript
7 12 (22.22%) Perl
8 4 (7.41%) JavaScript
9 2 (3.70%) C#
9 2 (3.70%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 18 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 18 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 17 (31.48%) SC Cleared
3 9 (16.67%) Azure Certification
3 9 (16.67%) Degree
4 4 (7.41%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (5.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (5.56%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.85%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.26%) QA
System Software
1 29 (53.70%) Docker
2 14 (25.93%) Active Directory
3 11 (20.37%) DFS Replication
4 5 (9.26%) Dovecot
4 5 (9.26%) Postfix
4 5 (9.26%) Squid
Systems Management
1 21 (38.89%) Terraform
2 17 (31.48%) Grafana
2 17 (31.48%) Prometheus
3 13 (24.07%) HP Fortify
4 5 (9.26%) Ansible
4 5 (9.26%) Nessus
4 5 (9.26%) Proxmox
5 3 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (3.70%) Kubernetes
6 2 (3.70%) Nagios
7 1 (1.85%) PingFederate
7 1 (1.85%) Podman
7 1 (1.85%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (31.48%) ServiceNow
2 15 (27.78%) Oracle
3 13 (24.07%) Hyperion
4 5 (9.26%) Jaspersoft
5 2 (3.70%) ForgeRock
5 2 (3.70%) Juniper
6 1 (1.85%) MuleSoft