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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 590 470 589
Rank change year-on-year -120 +119 -133
Permanent jobs citing Groovy 69 73 62
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.086% 0.21% 0.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.57% 0.90% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 28 40 13
10th Percentile £60,250 £46,486 -
25th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £72,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% -12.12% +17.86%
75th Percentile £82,500 £73,750 £86,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,750 -
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £84,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -13.69% +19.02%

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 12,181 8,156 15,902
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.14% 23.35% 27.32%
Number of salaries quoted 8,919 5,165 10,281
10th Percentile £35,250 £31,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,000 £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 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 31 August 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 31 August 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 -22 51 £80,000 +175.86% 9
Yorkshire +2 43 £80,000 +175.86% 2
South East -26 10 £82,500 +13.79% 5
South West - 10 £75,000 - 7
North West -2 8 £90,000 +28.57% 6
West Midlands -72 1 - - 2
Midlands -84 1 - - 3
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 8 (11.59%) Apache
2 1 (1.45%) Confluence
2 1 (1.45%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 50 (72.46%) AWS
2 42 (60.87%) AWS CloudFormation
3 31 (44.93%) Amazon S3
3 31 (44.93%) AWS Lambda
3 31 (44.93%) Serverless
4 25 (36.23%) Amazon ECS
4 25 (36.23%) AWS Step Functions
5 22 (31.88%) Amazon EC2
6 19 (27.54%) Amazon ECR
6 19 (27.54%) Apigee
7 17 (24.64%) GitHub
7 17 (24.64%) GitHub Actions
8 16 (23.19%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (2.90%) BlazeMeter
10 2 (2.90%) Cloudflare
10 2 (2.90%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.90%) DNS
1 2 (2.90%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (28.99%) DynamoDB
2 9 (13.04%) NoSQL
3 8 (11.59%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 50 (72.46%) Jenkins
2 34 (49.28%) GitLab
3 24 (34.78%) Maven
4 22 (31.88%) Cypress.io
5 21 (30.43%) SonarQube
6 13 (18.84%) Git
7 9 (13.04%) Cucumber
7 9 (13.04%) JUnit
8 8 (11.59%) Spock
9 7 (10.14%) JIRA
10 4 (5.80%) Artifactory
10 4 (5.80%) IntelliJ
10 4 (5.80%) Selenium
11 3 (4.35%) JMeter
12 2 (2.90%) Gradle
13 1 (1.45%) HP UFT
13 1 (1.45%) LoadRunner
13 1 (1.45%) ScriptRunner
13 1 (1.45%) TestNG
13 1 (1.45%) WebDriver
General
1 10 (14.49%) Finance
2 9 (13.04%) Social Skills
3 3 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.45%) Automotive
5 1 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 30 (43.48%) Developer
2 25 (36.23%) Java Developer
3 17 (24.64%) Full-Stack Developer
3 17 (24.64%) Platform Engineer
4 13 (18.84%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 9 (13.04%) Senior
6 8 (11.59%) Data Engineer
6 8 (11.59%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (10.14%) Lead
8 6 (8.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 5 (7.25%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (7.25%) Lead Data Engineer
10 4 (5.80%) AWS Developer
10 4 (5.80%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 4 (5.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 4 (5.80%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 3 (4.35%) Senior Developer
11 3 (4.35%) Senior Java Developer
12 2 (2.90%) Functional Tester
12 2 (2.90%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (46.38%) AngularJS
2 24 (34.78%) Gherkin
3 23 (33.33%) Terraform
4 20 (28.99%) Spring Boot
5 17 (24.64%) Web Services
6 16 (23.19%) Jest
6 16 (23.19%) Spring
7 8 (11.59%) Apache NiFi
7 8 (11.59%) Kafka
8 6 (8.70%) REST
9 5 (7.25%) JSON
10 4 (5.80%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (5.80%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (5.80%) React
10 4 (5.80%) YAML
11 2 (2.90%) Node.js
12 1 (1.45%) Drools
12 1 (1.45%) Hibernate
12 1 (1.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.94%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (11.59%) Private Cloud
3 5 (7.25%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.35%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.90%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.45%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (33.33%) Linux
2 4 (5.80%) VMS
3 2 (2.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (60.87%) CI/CD
2 41 (59.42%) Agile
2 41 (59.42%) DevOps
3 26 (37.68%) Full-Stack Development
4 25 (36.23%) Platform Engineering
5 23 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 19 (27.54%) Containerisation
7 18 (26.09%) Test Automation
8 17 (24.64%) SDLC
9 16 (23.19%) AI
9 16 (23.19%) Network Load Balancing
9 16 (23.19%) Software Engineering
10 15 (21.74%) ITIL
10 15 (21.74%) Microservices
10 15 (21.74%) Scrum
11 14 (20.29%) Software Delivery
11 14 (20.29%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 13 (18.84%) Secure Coding
13 12 (17.39%) Clean Code
14 11 (15.94%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 49 (71.01%) Java
2 33 (47.83%) Python
3 28 (40.58%) TypeScript
4 16 (23.19%) Bash
5 11 (15.94%) SQL
6 10 (14.49%) JavaScript
7 4 (5.80%) Perl
8 2 (2.90%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.45%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 32 (46.38%) Security Cleared
2 20 (28.99%) SC Cleared
3 15 (21.74%) AWS Certification
4 13 (18.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 13 (18.84%) ITIL Certification
5 8 (11.59%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.45%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.59%) QA
2 5 (7.25%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.45%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.45%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 47 (68.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 17 (24.64%) Progress Chef
3 15 (21.74%) HP Fortify
4 6 (8.70%) Ansible
5 4 (5.80%) Packer
6 2 (2.90%) Kibana
6 2 (2.90%) logstash
7 1 (1.45%) Grafana
7 1 (1.45%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 14 (20.29%) AppDynamics
2 8 (11.59%) Splunk
3 4 (5.80%) IBM
4 2 (2.90%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.45%) New Relic