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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 553 473 656
Rank change year-on-year -80 +183 -152
Permanent jobs citing Groovy 72 68 81
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.20% 0.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.63% 0.79% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 27 42 23
10th Percentile £66,250 £46,486 £32,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% +18.85% -6.15%
75th Percentile £82,500 £73,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,434 £86,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £78,750
% change year-on-year +3.45% -7.94% +12.50%

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 11,428 8,607 21,391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.97% 25.46% 29.23%
Number of salaries quoted 8,267 5,533 15,614
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,148 £82,500 £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 16 July 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 July 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 +16 55 £80,000 +14.29% 6
Yorkshire +10 50 £80,000 +54.04% 5
South East -9 10 £82,500 +13.79% 3
South West - 8 £75,000 - 3
North West +2 5 £90,000 +28.57% 1
Midlands -59 2 - - 1
West Midlands -65 2 - - 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 6 (8.33%) Apache
2 3 (4.17%) JBoss
3 1 (1.39%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 57 (79.17%) AWS
2 49 (68.06%) AWS CloudFormation
3 42 (58.33%) Amazon S3
3 42 (58.33%) AWS Lambda
3 42 (58.33%) Serverless
4 36 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
4 36 (50.00%) AWS Step Functions
5 30 (41.67%) Amazon ECR
5 30 (41.67%) Apigee
6 24 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
7 18 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
8 13 (18.06%) GitHub
8 13 (18.06%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (2.78%) BlazeMeter
10 2 (2.78%) Cloudflare
10 2 (2.78%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.78%) DNS
1 2 (2.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (43.06%) DynamoDB
2 7 (9.72%) NoSQL
3 6 (8.33%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.39%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 58 (80.56%) Jenkins
2 42 (58.33%) GitLab
3 33 (45.83%) Cypress.io
3 33 (45.83%) Maven
3 33 (45.83%) SonarQube
4 11 (15.28%) Cucumber
5 10 (13.89%) Git
6 7 (9.72%) JIRA
7 6 (8.33%) JUnit
7 6 (8.33%) Selenium
8 5 (6.94%) Spock
9 4 (5.56%) Artifactory
10 3 (4.17%) JMeter
11 2 (2.78%) Gradle
12 1 (1.39%) HP UFT
12 1 (1.39%) IntelliJ
12 1 (1.39%) LoadRunner
12 1 (1.39%) ScriptRunner
12 1 (1.39%) TestNG
12 1 (1.39%) WebDriver
General
1 9 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 7 (9.72%) Finance
3 5 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.39%) Automotive
5 1 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.39%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 41 (56.94%) Developer
2 36 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 19 (26.39%) Full-Stack Developer
4 15 (20.83%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 13 (18.06%) Platform Engineer
6 10 (13.89%) Senior
7 8 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (9.72%) AWS Developer
9 6 (8.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 6 (8.33%) Data Engineer
9 6 (8.33%) Lead
10 5 (6.94%) AWS Engineer
11 4 (5.56%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 4 (5.56%) Lead Data Engineer
11 4 (5.56%) Senior Developer
11 4 (5.56%) Senior Java Developer
11 4 (5.56%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 3 (4.17%) Angular Developer
13 2 (2.78%) DevOps Developer
13 2 (2.78%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (55.56%) AngularJS
2 35 (48.61%) Gherkin
3 31 (43.06%) Spring Boot
4 27 (37.50%) Jest
5 13 (18.06%) Spring
5 13 (18.06%) Web Services
6 6 (8.33%) Apache NiFi
6 6 (8.33%) JSON
6 6 (8.33%) Kafka
6 6 (8.33%) REST
7 5 (6.94%) YAML
8 4 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (5.56%) Node.js
8 4 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (5.56%) React
9 3 (4.17%) Drools
9 3 (4.17%) XML
10 1 (1.39%) Hibernate
10 1 (1.39%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (6.94%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.94%) Private Cloud
3 3 (4.17%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.78%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (26.39%) Linux
2 2 (2.78%) Unix
3 1 (1.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (66.67%) Agile
1 48 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 45 (62.50%) DevOps
3 25 (34.72%) Full-Stack Development
3 25 (34.72%) SDLC
4 23 (31.94%) ITIL
5 22 (30.56%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 21 (29.17%) Secure Coding
7 19 (26.39%) Infrastructure as Code
7 19 (26.39%) Platform Engineering
8 16 (22.22%) Clean Code
9 15 (20.83%) Containerisation
9 15 (20.83%) Test Automation
10 13 (18.06%) Prototyping
11 12 (16.67%) Microservices
11 12 (16.67%) Network Load Balancing
11 12 (16.67%) Software Delivery
12 11 (15.28%) AI
12 11 (15.28%) Scrum
13 10 (13.89%) Auto-Scaling
Programming Languages
1 55 (76.39%) Java
2 36 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 28 (38.89%) Python
4 27 (37.50%) Bash
5 9 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 9 (12.50%) SQL
6 4 (5.56%) Perl
7 3 (4.17%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 26 (36.11%) AWS Certification
3 21 (29.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 21 (29.17%) ITIL Certification
4 17 (23.61%) SC Cleared
5 6 (8.33%) DV Cleared
6 4 (5.56%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.11%) QA
2 4 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.39%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.39%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 51 (70.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (36.11%) HP Fortify
2 22 (30.56%) Terraform
3 19 (26.39%) Kubernetes
4 13 (18.06%) Progress Chef
5 6 (8.33%) Ansible
6 4 (5.56%) Packer
7 2 (2.78%) Kibana
7 2 (2.78%) logstash
8 1 (1.39%) Grafana
8 1 (1.39%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 11 (15.28%) AppDynamics
2 5 (6.94%) Splunk
3 4 (5.56%) IBM
4 2 (2.78%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.39%) New Relic
5 1 (1.39%) Sonatype