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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 466 596 479
Rank change year-on-year +130 -117 +227
Permanent jobs citing Groovy 73 47 113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.085% 0.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.94% 0.31% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 38 7 91
10th Percentile £45,065 - -
25th Percentile £68,125 £81,250 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £82,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -12.12% +16.90% +17.63%
75th Percentile £73,750 £86,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £74,875 £90,989 £87,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £84,000 £75,669
% change year-on-year -13.69% +11.01% +12.94%

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 7,776 15,311 13,005
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 22.61% 27.60% 37.67%
Number of salaries quoted 4,841 9,058 10,223
10th Percentile £30,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +4.00%

Groovy
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Groovy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Groovy 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 - 52 £72,500 - 4
West Midlands - 47 £72,500 - 2
South East +31 6 £72,500 -12.12% 2
Scotland +27 6 £43,000 -54.56% 1
North of England +32 5 £29,000 - 4
Wales +23 5 £62,562 -
East Midlands - 5 £65,000 - 2
Yorkshire +11 3 £29,000 - 2
North West - 2 £70,000 - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
South West - 1 £100,000 - 3
Groovy
UK

Groovy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 40 (54.79%) Confluence
2 8 (10.96%) nginx
3 2 (2.74%) Apache
4 1 (1.37%) JBoss
4 1 (1.37%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (15.07%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (5.48%) Oracle Smart View
3 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (5.48%) Hyperion Planning
1 4 (5.48%) Oracle Assets
1 4 (5.48%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (5.48%) Oracle Financials
1 4 (5.48%) Oracle General Ledger
1 4 (5.48%) Oracle Payables
1 4 (5.48%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 50 (68.49%) AWS
2 45 (61.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 45 (61.64%) Amazon EC2
2 45 (61.64%) Amazon ELB
2 45 (61.64%) Amazon S3
2 45 (61.64%) AWS KMS
2 45 (61.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 37 (50.68%) Amazon Glacier
4 26 (35.62%) Azure
5 11 (15.07%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (10.96%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (10.96%) Route 53
7 5 (6.85%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (4.11%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 3 (4.11%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (4.11%) Serverless
9 2 (2.74%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.74%) Azure API Management
9 2 (2.74%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (2.74%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 42 (57.53%) Firewall
2 30 (41.10%) HTTP
3 27 (36.99%) DNS
3 27 (36.99%) FTP
3 27 (36.99%) SMTP
3 27 (36.99%) SSH
4 8 (10.96%) IMAP
4 8 (10.96%) OpenLDAP
5 3 (4.11%) SSL
6 2 (2.74%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (61.64%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (10.96%) Amazon Aurora
2 8 (10.96%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (5.48%) Essbase
3 4 (5.48%) SQL Server
4 3 (4.11%) MongoDB
4 3 (4.11%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.74%) Couchbase
6 1 (1.37%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (1.37%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (1.37%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 54 (73.97%) Jenkins
2 46 (63.01%) Git
3 45 (61.64%) Vagrant
4 41 (56.16%) JIRA
5 10 (13.70%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (10.96%) Katalon Studio
6 8 (10.96%) Selenium
7 6 (8.22%) JMeter
7 6 (8.22%) Maven
8 5 (6.85%) Appium
8 5 (6.85%) Cucumber
8 5 (6.85%) JUnit
8 5 (6.85%) REST Assured
8 5 (6.85%) TestNG
9 4 (5.48%) Oracle Forms
10 3 (4.11%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (4.11%) TeamCity
11 2 (2.74%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (2.74%) Spock
11 2 (2.74%) Subversion
General
1 32 (43.84%) Public Sector
2 27 (36.99%) Social Skills
3 17 (23.29%) Presentation Skills
4 9 (12.33%) Finance
5 6 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (8.22%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.37%) Games
Job Titles
1 26 (35.62%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (23.29%) AWS Engineer
3 14 (19.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 14 (19.18%) Platform Engineer
4 13 (17.81%) Infrastructure Support
4 13 (17.81%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 13 (17.81%) Support Engineer
5 9 (12.33%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (10.96%) AWS DevOps
6 8 (10.96%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 7 (9.59%) Senior
8 6 (8.22%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 6 (8.22%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 6 (8.22%) Developer
8 6 (8.22%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 6 (8.22%) Linux Engineer
9 5 (6.85%) Analyst
9 5 (6.85%) Java Developer
9 5 (6.85%) Lead
10 4 (5.48%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.70%) REST
2 9 (12.33%) LDAP
3 7 (9.59%) SOAP
4 5 (6.85%) Kafka
5 4 (5.48%) Middleware
6 3 (4.11%) Spring
7 2 (2.74%) .NET
7 2 (2.74%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (2.74%) Node.js
7 2 (2.74%) OAuth
7 2 (2.74%) OpenID
7 2 (2.74%) pytest
7 2 (2.74%) React
7 2 (2.74%) Redux
7 2 (2.74%) SAML
7 2 (2.74%) Spring Boot
8 1 (1.37%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (1.37%) JMS
8 1 (1.37%) Web Services
8 1 (1.37%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (39.73%) Replication
2 2 (2.74%) Public Cloud
2 2 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.37%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (1.37%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.37%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 47 (64.38%) Linux
2 45 (61.64%) VMS
3 35 (47.95%) Windows
4 26 (35.62%) Amazon Linux
5 11 (15.07%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (79.45%) DevOps
2 47 (64.38%) Cloud Security
3 46 (63.01%) Configuration Management
4 39 (53.42%) Change Management
5 28 (38.36%) Patch Management
6 25 (34.25%) Agile
6 25 (34.25%) Platform Engineering
7 20 (27.40%) CI/CD
8 16 (21.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 14 (19.18%) Test Automation
10 9 (12.33%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (10.96%) Performance Tuning
12 7 (9.59%) Migration
13 6 (8.22%) Asset Management
13 6 (8.22%) Continuous Improvement
13 6 (8.22%) Data Integration
13 6 (8.22%) Performance Testing
13 6 (8.22%) Scrum
13 6 (8.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 6 (8.22%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 54 (73.97%) Python
2 41 (56.16%) Java
3 40 (54.79%) PowerShell
4 23 (31.51%) Perl
5 18 (24.66%) SQL
6 10 (13.70%) JavaScript
7 6 (8.22%) Ruby
8 4 (5.48%) C#
9 3 (4.11%) Shell Script
10 2 (2.74%) C++
10 2 (2.74%) Go
11 1 (1.37%) Bash
11 1 (1.37%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (57.53%) Security Cleared
2 41 (56.16%) SC Cleared
3 18 (24.66%) AWS Certification
3 18 (24.66%) Degree
4 16 (21.92%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.37%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.37%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.48%) QA
2 2 (2.74%) GDPR
2 2 (2.74%) NIST
System Software
1 37 (50.68%) Active Directory
2 33 (45.21%) Docker
3 29 (39.73%) DFS Replication
4 8 (10.96%) Dovecot
4 8 (10.96%) Postfix
4 8 (10.96%) Squid
5 3 (4.11%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (4.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 48 (65.75%) Terraform
2 43 (58.90%) Grafana
3 42 (57.53%) Prometheus
4 19 (26.03%) Ansible
5 11 (15.07%) Nessus
5 11 (15.07%) Proxmox
6 5 (6.85%) Nagios
7 4 (5.48%) Kubernetes
8 2 (2.74%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.37%) PingFederate
9 1 (1.37%) Podman
9 1 (1.37%) Puppet
Vendors
1 40 (54.79%) ServiceNow
2 17 (23.29%) Juniper
3 9 (12.33%) Oracle
4 8 (10.96%) Jaspersoft
5 4 (5.48%) Hyperion
6 3 (4.11%) Microsoft
7 2 (2.74%) Rapid7
8 1 (1.37%) ForgeRock
8 1 (1.37%) MuleSoft