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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 509 486 648
Rank change year-on-year -23 +162 -122
Permanent jobs citing Groovy 73 29 107
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.10% 0.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.75% 0.35% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 19 20 51
10th Percentile £53,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £46,486 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £55,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +40.91% -22.07% +18.56%
75th Percentile £81,250 £76,840 £73,716
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,750 £83,750
UK median annual salary £76,250 £65,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year +17.31% -7.90% +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 9,705 8,170 21,842
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.66% 28.83% 32.08%
Number of salaries quoted 6,570 5,717 16,351
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £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 6 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 6 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 -7 52 £80,000 +14.29% 11
Yorkshire -7 51 £80,000 +54.04% 5
Scotland -10 8 - -
South East -19 8 £82,500 - 5
South West - 6 £75,000 - 2
West Midlands -24 2 - -
Midlands -39 2 - - 1
North West -23 1 £57,500 -17.86% 6
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 (8.22%) Apache
2 3 (4.11%) JBoss
3 1 (1.37%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (10.96%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 8 (10.96%) Hyperion Planning
1 8 (10.96%) Oracle Assets
1 8 (10.96%) Oracle Financials
1 8 (10.96%) Oracle General Ledger
1 8 (10.96%) Oracle Payables
1 8 (10.96%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 56 (76.71%) AWS
2 48 (65.75%) AWS CloudFormation
3 47 (64.38%) Amazon S3
3 47 (64.38%) AWS Lambda
3 47 (64.38%) Serverless
4 41 (56.16%) Amazon ECR
4 41 (56.16%) Amazon ECS
4 41 (56.16%) Apigee
4 41 (56.16%) AWS Step Functions
5 22 (30.14%) Amazon SQS
6 12 (16.44%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (9.59%) GitHub
7 7 (9.59%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (8.22%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.74%) BlazeMeter
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (56.16%) DynamoDB
2 8 (10.96%) Essbase
3 6 (8.22%) MongoDB
3 6 (8.22%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.37%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 57 (78.08%) Jenkins
2 47 (64.38%) GitLab
3 46 (63.01%) SonarQube
4 43 (58.90%) Cypress.io
5 42 (57.53%) Maven
6 10 (13.70%) Cucumber
7 8 (10.96%) Git
7 8 (10.96%) Oracle Forms
8 6 (8.22%) JIRA
9 5 (6.85%) Selenium
10 4 (5.48%) Artifactory
11 3 (4.11%) JMeter
12 2 (2.74%) Gradle
13 1 (1.37%) LoadRunner
13 1 (1.37%) ScriptRunner
General
1 9 (12.33%) Finance
2 8 (10.96%) Social Skills
3 5 (6.85%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.37%) Automotive
5 1 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.37%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 33 (45.21%) Developer
2 30 (41.10%) Java Developer
3 16 (21.92%) Lead
4 12 (16.44%) Senior
5 10 (13.70%) AWS Developer
6 8 (10.96%) Analyst
6 8 (10.96%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (10.96%) Oracle Analyst
6 8 (10.96%) Senior Analyst
6 8 (10.96%) Senior Oracle Analyst
7 7 (9.59%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (9.59%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (8.22%) Data Engineer
8 6 (8.22%) Technical Leader
9 5 (6.85%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 3 (4.11%) AWS Engineer
10 3 (4.11%) Lead Data Engineer
11 2 (2.74%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 2 (2.74%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 2 (2.74%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (57.53%) AngularJS
2 41 (56.16%) Gherkin
2 41 (56.16%) Spring Boot
3 39 (53.42%) Jest
4 11 (15.07%) Spring
5 7 (9.59%) Web Services
6 6 (8.22%) Apache NiFi
6 6 (8.22%) JSON
6 6 (8.22%) Kafka
7 5 (6.85%) REST
7 5 (6.85%) YAML
8 4 (5.48%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (5.48%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (4.11%) Drools
9 3 (4.11%) Node.js
9 3 (4.11%) XML
10 2 (2.74%) React
11 1 (1.37%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.33%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (6.85%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.11%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (4.11%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.74%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.74%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (17.81%) Linux
2 2 (2.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (69.86%) Agile
2 48 (65.75%) DevOps
3 47 (64.38%) CI/CD
4 27 (36.99%) Secure Coding
5 25 (34.25%) SDLC
6 24 (32.88%) ITIL
7 23 (31.51%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 15 (20.55%) Full-Stack Development
9 14 (19.18%) Clean Code
9 14 (19.18%) Prototyping
10 13 (17.81%) Infrastructure as Code
11 12 (16.44%) Software Delivery
12 11 (15.07%) Coaching
12 11 (15.07%) Data Integration
13 10 (13.70%) Containerisation
13 10 (13.70%) Microservices
13 10 (13.70%) Platform Engineering
13 10 (13.70%) Problem-Solving
14 9 (12.33%) Performance Monitoring
14 9 (12.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 54 (73.97%) Java
2 41 (56.16%) TypeScript
3 39 (53.42%) Bash
4 21 (28.77%) Python
5 16 (21.92%) SQL
6 4 (5.48%) Perl
7 3 (4.11%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.11%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.74%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 32 (43.84%) AWS Certification
2 23 (31.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 23 (31.51%) ITIL Certification
3 19 (26.03%) Security Cleared
4 13 (17.81%) SC Cleared
5 9 (12.33%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (5.48%) DV Cleared
7 3 (4.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (15.07%) QA
2 3 (4.11%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.37%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 50 (68.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (53.42%) HP Fortify
2 16 (21.92%) Terraform
3 13 (17.81%) Kubernetes
4 7 (9.59%) Progress Chef
5 6 (8.22%) Ansible
6 4 (5.48%) Packer
7 2 (2.74%) Kibana
7 2 (2.74%) logstash
8 1 (1.37%) Grafana
Vendors
1 8 (10.96%) Hyperion
1 8 (10.96%) Oracle
2 6 (8.22%) AppDynamics
3 4 (5.48%) IBM
4 2 (2.74%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.37%) New Relic
5 1 (1.37%) Sonatype