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

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 500 489 608
Rank change year-on-year -11 +119 -51
Permanent jobs citing Groovy 49 24 97
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.092% 0.087% 0.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.61% 0.28% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 11 14 62
10th Percentile £53,750 £46,486 £33,331
25th Percentile £61,875 £47,813 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £63,750 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +21.57% -9.67% +18.56%
75th Percentile £80,625 £75,755 £77,036
90th Percentile £81,250 £76,840 £82,500
UK median annual salary £77,500 £65,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year +19.23% -7.90% +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 7,968 8,571 19,847
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.91% 31.02% 33.61%
Number of salaries quoted 5,678 5,890 15,568
10th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,284 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.28% +4.23% -1.82%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 16 March 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 16 March 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 -15 33 £77,500 +3.51% 4
Yorkshire -18 32 £78,750 +5.18% 2
Scotland -9 10 - -
South West - 3 £75,000 - 2
West Midlands -4 2 - - 4
Midlands -20 2 - - 5
South East -8 1 £57,500 - 5
North West - 1 £57,500 - 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 5 (10.20%) Apache
2 2 (4.08%) JBoss
Applications
1 10 (20.41%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 10 (20.41%) Hyperion Planning
1 10 (20.41%) Oracle Assets
1 10 (20.41%) Oracle Financials
1 10 (20.41%) Oracle General Ledger
1 10 (20.41%) Oracle Payables
1 10 (20.41%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 32 (65.31%) Amazon ECR
1 32 (65.31%) Amazon ECS
1 32 (65.31%) Amazon S3
1 32 (65.31%) Apigee
1 32 (65.31%) AWS
1 32 (65.31%) AWS CloudFormation
1 32 (65.31%) AWS Lambda
1 32 (65.31%) AWS Step Functions
1 32 (65.31%) Serverless
2 17 (34.69%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (2.04%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (65.31%) DynamoDB
2 10 (20.41%) Essbase
3 5 (10.20%) MongoDB
3 5 (10.20%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.04%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 33 (67.35%) Jenkins
1 33 (67.35%) Maven
1 33 (67.35%) SonarQube
2 32 (65.31%) Cypress.io
2 32 (65.31%) GitLab
3 10 (20.41%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (4.08%) Cucumber
4 2 (4.08%) Selenium
General
1 10 (20.41%) Finance
2 2 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (46.94%) Developer
1 23 (46.94%) Java Developer
2 13 (26.53%) Lead
3 12 (24.49%) Senior
4 10 (20.41%) Analyst
4 10 (20.41%) Oracle Analyst
4 10 (20.41%) Senior Analyst
4 10 (20.41%) Senior Oracle Analyst
5 8 (16.33%) AWS Developer
6 5 (10.20%) Data Engineer
6 5 (10.20%) Technical Leader
7 3 (6.12%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (6.12%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 2 (4.08%) Lead Data Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Lead Developer
8 2 (4.08%) Lead Java Developer
8 2 (4.08%) Senior Developer
8 2 (4.08%) Senior Java Developer
9 1 (2.04%) DevOps Engineer
9 1 (2.04%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (65.31%) AngularJS
1 32 (65.31%) Gherkin
1 32 (65.31%) Jest
1 32 (65.31%) Spring Boot
2 8 (16.33%) Spring
3 5 (10.20%) Apache NiFi
3 5 (10.20%) Kafka
4 2 (4.08%) Drools
4 2 (4.08%) Node.js
4 2 (4.08%) XML
5 1 (2.04%) JSON
5 1 (2.04%) LDAP
5 1 (2.04%) OAuth
5 1 (2.04%) OAuth2
5 1 (2.04%) OpenID
5 1 (2.04%) RESTful
5 1 (2.04%) SAML
5 1 (2.04%) SLSA
5 1 (2.04%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.16%) Cloud Native
1 4 (8.16%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (6.12%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (4.08%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.04%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (69.39%) Agile
2 33 (67.35%) DevOps
3 28 (57.14%) CI/CD
4 21 (42.86%) Secure Coding
5 17 (34.69%) ITIL
5 17 (34.69%) SDLC
5 17 (34.69%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 12 (24.49%) Coaching
6 12 (24.49%) Data Integration
7 11 (22.45%) Full-Stack Development
8 10 (20.41%) Asset Management
8 10 (20.41%) Data Management
8 10 (20.41%) Enterprise Architecture
8 10 (20.41%) Financial Modelling
8 10 (20.41%) Impact Assessments
8 10 (20.41%) Performance Management
8 10 (20.41%) Performance Monitoring
8 10 (20.41%) Planning and Forecasting
8 10 (20.41%) Requirements Gathering
8 10 (20.41%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 38 (77.55%) Java
2 32 (65.31%) Bash
2 32 (65.31%) TypeScript
3 15 (30.61%) SQL
4 6 (12.24%) Python
5 3 (6.12%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.08%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 25 (51.02%) AWS Certification
2 17 (34.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 17 (34.69%) ITIL Certification
3 8 (16.33%) AWS Certified Developer
4 7 (14.29%) Security Cleared
5 4 (8.16%) SC Cleared
6 3 (6.12%) DV Cleared
7 2 (4.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.16%) QA
2 2 (4.08%) Data Quality
System Software
1 32 (65.31%) Docker
2 1 (2.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 32 (65.31%) HP Fortify
2 4 (8.16%) Terraform
3 1 (2.04%) Ansible
3 1 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (20.41%) Hyperion
1 10 (20.41%) Oracle
2 1 (2.04%) ForgeRock
2 1 (2.04%) Sonatype