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

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 466 566 471
Rank change year-on-year +100 -95 +193
Permanent jobs citing Groovy 57 30 82
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.063% 0.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.84% 0.22% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 28 5 63
10th Percentile £59,875 £53,974 £43,560
25th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £56,250
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 £80,875 £79,250 £96,539
UK median annual salary £72,500 £93,750 £75,669
% change year-on-year -22.67% +23.89% +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 6,756 13,582 11,556
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.29% 28.62% 38.38%
Number of salaries quoted 5,111 7,463 9,111
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,750 £35,249
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £43,457
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,250 £82,500 £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 21 November 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 21 November 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 +96 41 £72,500 +3.57%
West Midlands +82 36 £72,500 +3.57%
Scotland +15 10 £43,000 - 6
East Midlands +33 5 £65,000 -
South East +45 4 £72,500 -12.12% 5
Wales +9 2 - -
North of England +34 1 - - 8
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
South West - 1 £100,000 - 6
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 31 (54.39%) Confluence
2 7 (12.28%) nginx
3 2 (3.51%) Apache
4 1 (1.75%) JBoss
4 1 (1.75%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (14.04%) Oracle Smart View
2 7 (12.28%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (14.04%) Hyperion Planning
1 8 (14.04%) Oracle Assets
1 8 (14.04%) Oracle Financials
1 8 (14.04%) Oracle General Ledger
1 8 (14.04%) Oracle Payables
1 8 (14.04%) Oracle Receivables
2 4 (7.02%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 37 (64.91%) AWS
2 33 (57.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 33 (57.89%) Amazon EC2
2 33 (57.89%) Amazon ELB
2 33 (57.89%) Amazon S3
2 33 (57.89%) AWS KMS
2 33 (57.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 26 (45.61%) Amazon Glacier
4 20 (35.09%) Azure
5 7 (12.28%) Amazon ECS
5 7 (12.28%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (12.28%) Route 53
6 3 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.51%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (3.51%) Azure API Management
7 2 (3.51%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (3.51%) SaaS
8 1 (1.75%) Boomi
8 1 (1.75%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 31 (54.39%) Firewall
2 25 (43.86%) HTTP
3 22 (38.60%) DNS
3 22 (38.60%) FTP
3 22 (38.60%) SMTP
3 22 (38.60%) SSH
4 7 (12.28%) IMAP
4 7 (12.28%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (57.89%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (14.04%) Essbase
3 7 (12.28%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (12.28%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.51%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.75%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.75%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.75%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 38 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 35 (61.40%) Git
3 33 (57.89%) Vagrant
4 32 (56.14%) JIRA
5 8 (14.04%) Oracle Forms
6 6 (10.53%) Katalon Studio
6 6 (10.53%) Selenium
6 6 (10.53%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (7.02%) Maven
8 3 (5.26%) Appium
8 3 (5.26%) Cucumber
8 3 (5.26%) JMeter
8 3 (5.26%) JUnit
8 3 (5.26%) REST Assured
8 3 (5.26%) TestNG
9 2 (3.51%) Subversion
10 1 (1.75%) Ant
10 1 (1.75%) Artifactory
10 1 (1.75%) Gradle
10 1 (1.75%) TeamCity
General
1 25 (43.86%) Public Sector
2 21 (36.84%) Social Skills
3 14 (24.56%) Presentation Skills
4 13 (22.81%) Finance
5 6 (10.53%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.75%) Games
7 1 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 21 (36.84%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (24.56%) AWS Engineer
3 11 (19.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 11 (19.30%) Infrastructure Support
3 11 (19.30%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 11 (19.30%) Senior
3 11 (19.30%) Support Engineer
4 9 (15.79%) Analyst
4 9 (15.79%) Platform Engineer
5 8 (14.04%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (14.04%) Oracle Analyst
5 8 (14.04%) Senior Analyst
5 8 (14.04%) Senior Oracle Analyst
6 6 (10.53%) AWS DevOps
6 6 (10.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 5 (8.77%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 5 (8.77%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 5 (8.77%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) Linux DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (15.79%) LDAP
2 6 (10.53%) REST
3 4 (7.02%) SOAP
4 3 (5.26%) Kafka
4 3 (5.26%) OAuth
4 3 (5.26%) OpenID
4 3 (5.26%) SAML
5 2 (3.51%) Middleware
5 2 (3.51%) OAuth2
5 2 (3.51%) RESTful
5 2 (3.51%) Spring
6 1 (1.75%) Bootstrap
6 1 (1.75%) Grails
6 1 (1.75%) JMS
6 1 (1.75%) jQuery
6 1 (1.75%) JSON
6 1 (1.75%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.75%) Web Services
6 1 (1.75%) WebSockets
6 1 (1.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (38.60%) Replication
2 2 (3.51%) Mobile App
2 2 (3.51%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.75%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (1.75%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 34 (59.65%) Linux
2 33 (57.89%) VMS
3 25 (43.86%) Windows
4 20 (35.09%) Amazon Linux
5 7 (12.28%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (70.18%) DevOps
2 35 (61.40%) Cloud Security
3 34 (59.65%) Configuration Management
4 30 (52.63%) Change Management
5 20 (35.09%) Patch Management
6 18 (31.58%) Platform Engineering
7 16 (28.07%) Agile
8 15 (26.32%) CI/CD
9 13 (22.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 10 (17.54%) Data Integration
10 10 (17.54%) Test Automation
11 9 (15.79%) Asset Management
12 8 (14.04%) Data Management
12 8 (14.04%) Enterprise Architecture
12 8 (14.04%) Enterprise Data Management
12 8 (14.04%) ERP
12 8 (14.04%) Financial Modelling
12 8 (14.04%) Performance Management
12 8 (14.04%) Planning and Forecasting
12 8 (14.04%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 40 (70.18%) Python
2 31 (54.39%) PowerShell
3 27 (47.37%) Java
4 17 (29.82%) SQL
5 15 (26.32%) Perl
6 7 (12.28%) JavaScript
7 3 (5.26%) Ruby
8 2 (3.51%) C#
8 2 (3.51%) Go
9 1 (1.75%) Bash
9 1 (1.75%) C++
Qualifications
1 32 (56.14%) Security Cleared
2 31 (54.39%) SC Cleared
3 15 (26.32%) AWS Certification
3 15 (26.32%) Degree
4 13 (22.81%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.75%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.75%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.51%) GDPR
1 2 (3.51%) NIST
1 2 (3.51%) QA
System Software
1 28 (49.12%) Active Directory
2 22 (38.60%) DFS Replication
2 22 (38.60%) Docker
3 7 (12.28%) Dovecot
3 7 (12.28%) Postfix
3 7 (12.28%) Squid
Systems Management
1 37 (64.91%) Terraform
2 31 (54.39%) Grafana
2 31 (54.39%) Prometheus
3 14 (24.56%) Ansible
4 7 (12.28%) Nessus
4 7 (12.28%) Proxmox
5 3 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (3.51%) Kubernetes
6 2 (3.51%) Nagios
7 1 (1.75%) PingFederate
7 1 (1.75%) Podman
7 1 (1.75%) Puppet
Vendors
1 31 (54.39%) ServiceNow
2 11 (19.30%) Juniper
3 10 (17.54%) Oracle
4 8 (14.04%) Hyperion
5 7 (12.28%) Jaspersoft
6 3 (5.26%) Microsoft
7 2 (3.51%) ForgeRock
7 2 (3.51%) Rapid7
8 1 (1.75%) MuleSoft