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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 628 480 582
Rank change year-on-year -148 +102 -101
Permanent jobs citing Groovy 55 69 31
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.064% 0.20% 0.059%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.45% 0.90% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 20 34 5
10th Percentile £55,000 £56,375 -
25th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -12.12% +16.90%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £84,750 £76,375 £85,100
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £83,250
% change year-on-year - -12.91% +10.02%

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 12,122 7,658 14,372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.00% 22.03% 27.41%
Number of salaries quoted 8,939 4,743 8,218
10th Percentile £36,250 £30,000 £34,175
25th Percentile £45,750 £39,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £69,800
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +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 October 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 October 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 -20 44 £80,000 +175.86% 10
Yorkshire -8 36 £77,500 +167.24% 2
North West -13 8 £90,000 - 6
South West -63 8 £67,500 -32.50% 9
South East -51 3 - - 13
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 (10.91%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 40 (72.73%) AWS
2 38 (69.09%) AWS CloudFormation
3 20 (36.36%) Amazon ECS
3 20 (36.36%) Amazon S3
3 20 (36.36%) AWS Lambda
3 20 (36.36%) AWS Step Functions
3 20 (36.36%) Serverless
4 18 (32.73%) GitHub
4 18 (32.73%) GitHub Actions
5 17 (30.91%) Amazon EC2
6 14 (25.45%) Amazon ECR
6 14 (25.45%) Apigee
7 12 (21.82%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (3.64%) BlazeMeter
8 2 (3.64%) Cloudflare
8 2 (3.64%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.64%) DNS
1 2 (3.64%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (27.27%) DynamoDB
2 7 (12.73%) NoSQL
3 6 (10.91%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 40 (72.73%) Jenkins
2 23 (41.82%) GitLab
3 19 (34.55%) Maven
4 17 (30.91%) Cypress.io
5 10 (18.18%) SonarQube
6 9 (16.36%) JUnit
7 8 (14.55%) Spock
8 7 (12.73%) Git
9 4 (7.27%) IntelliJ
10 3 (5.45%) Cucumber
10 3 (5.45%) Selenium
11 2 (3.64%) Gradle
11 2 (3.64%) JMeter
12 1 (1.82%) HP UFT
12 1 (1.82%) JIRA
12 1 (1.82%) TestNG
12 1 (1.82%) WebDriver
General
1 9 (16.36%) Finance
2 4 (7.27%) Social Skills
3 2 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (41.82%) Developer
2 19 (34.55%) Java Developer
3 18 (32.73%) Platform Engineer
4 17 (30.91%) Full-Stack Developer
5 13 (23.64%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 8 (14.55%) Senior
7 6 (10.91%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 6 (10.91%) Data Engineer
8 5 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (7.27%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 4 (7.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 4 (7.27%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 3 (5.45%) AWS Developer
10 3 (5.45%) Lead
10 3 (5.45%) Lead Data Engineer
10 3 (5.45%) Senior Developer
10 3 (5.45%) Senior Java Developer
11 2 (3.64%) Cloud Engineer
11 2 (3.64%) DevOps Engineer
11 2 (3.64%) Functional Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (47.27%) AngularJS
2 19 (34.55%) Gherkin
3 18 (32.73%) Web Services
4 17 (30.91%) Terraform
5 15 (27.27%) Spring
5 15 (27.27%) Spring Boot
6 11 (20.00%) Jest
7 6 (10.91%) Apache NiFi
7 6 (10.91%) Kafka
8 3 (5.45%) React
9 1 (1.82%) Hibernate
9 1 (1.82%) Node.js
9 1 (1.82%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.55%) Private Cloud
2 6 (10.91%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (9.09%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.45%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (3.64%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 18 (32.73%) Linux
2 4 (7.27%) VMS
3 2 (3.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (61.82%) CI/CD
2 28 (50.91%) DevOps
3 27 (49.09%) Agile
4 26 (47.27%) Full-Stack Development
5 24 (43.64%) Platform Engineering
6 18 (32.73%) Infrastructure as Code
7 17 (30.91%) Containerisation
7 17 (30.91%) Network Load Balancing
7 17 (30.91%) Software Engineering
8 14 (25.45%) AI
8 14 (25.45%) Software Delivery
9 13 (23.64%) Scrum
9 13 (23.64%) SDLC
10 12 (21.82%) Test Automation
11 11 (20.00%) Software Testing
12 10 (18.18%) ITIL
12 10 (18.18%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 9 (16.36%) Clean Code
13 9 (16.36%) Microservices
13 9 (16.36%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 37 (67.27%) Java
2 25 (45.45%) Python
3 23 (41.82%) TypeScript
4 11 (20.00%) Bash
5 9 (16.36%) JavaScript
5 9 (16.36%) SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (21.82%) SC Cleared
3 10 (18.18%) AWS Certification
4 9 (16.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 9 (16.36%) ITIL Certification
5 6 (10.91%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.45%) Data Quality
1 3 (5.45%) QA
2 1 (1.82%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 41 (74.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (32.73%) Kubernetes
1 18 (32.73%) Progress Chef
2 10 (18.18%) HP Fortify
3 2 (3.64%) Kibana
3 2 (3.64%) logstash
4 1 (1.82%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 8 (14.55%) AppDynamics
1 8 (14.55%) Splunk