Apache Groovy
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Groovy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Groovy over the 6 months leading up to 8 December 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 715 578 556
Rank change year-on-year -137 -22 -25
Permanent jobs citing Groovy 51 152 630
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.074% 0.29% 0.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.24% 0.71% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 15 115 249
10th Percentile £49,250 £50,250 £48,091
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,669 £66,786
Median % change year-on-year -7.49% +13.30% +2.75%
75th Percentile £109,375 £83,750 £89,852
90th Percentile £140,000 £103,866 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,576 £65,000
% change year-on-year -0.82% +8.58% +8.33%

All Programming Languages
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 21,409 21,547 56,462
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.87% 40.67% 45.97%
Number of salaries quoted 12,467 16,785 35,998
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,730 £38,442
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,788 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £106,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%

Groovy
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Groovy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Groovy in the UK

Groovy
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Groovy.

Salary trend for Groovy in the UK

Groovy
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Groovy over the 6 months to 8 December 2024.

Salary histogram for Groovy in the UK

Groovy
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Groovy within the UK over the 6 months to 8 December 2024. 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
England -148 37 £87,500 +15.64% 36
UK excluding London -132 31 £70,000 -0.82% 21
London -48 21 £105,000 +35.48% 22
Work from Home -58 16 £105,000 +48.78% 45
South East -47 12 - - 1
Wales +29 7 £49,104 -30.42% 2
Scotland -22 7 - - 5
Yorkshire +3 6 - - 3
North of England -51 6 - - 8
Midlands -49 5 £70,000 +21.74% 2
West Midlands -41 3 £70,000 +21.74% 1
East Midlands -31 2 £57,500 - 1

Groovy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (1.96%) Apache
1 1 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.96%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.96%) Confluence
1 1 (1.96%) JBoss
1 1 (1.96%) Jetty
1 1 (1.96%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (1.96%) Red Hat Fuse
1 1 (1.96%) Tomcat
1 1 (1.96%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (5.88%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 22 (43.14%) AWS
2 17 (33.33%) Azure
3 12 (23.53%) Serverless
4 10 (19.61%) GCP
5 9 (17.65%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (15.69%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (13.73%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (13.73%) Amazon S3
8 6 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (11.76%) GitHub
9 3 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (5.88%) WhatsApp
10 1 (1.96%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (1.96%) Azure AI
10 1 (1.96%) Azure AKS
10 1 (1.96%) Azure Functions
10 1 (1.96%) ChatGPT
10 1 (1.96%) OpenShift
10 1 (1.96%) Power Automate
10 1 (1.96%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.88%) FTP
2 2 (3.92%) Network Security
3 1 (1.96%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.80%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 4 (7.84%) MongoDB
3 3 (5.88%) BigQuery
3 3 (5.88%) Essbase
3 3 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.88%) Relational Database
3 3 (5.88%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.96%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.96%) Apache Hive
4 1 (1.96%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.96%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.96%) Hazelcast
4 1 (1.96%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.96%) Redis
Development Applications
1 22 (43.14%) Git
2 20 (39.22%) Jenkins
3 14 (27.45%) GitLab
3 14 (27.45%) JIRA
4 9 (17.65%) Cucumber
5 8 (15.69%) Artifactory
5 8 (15.69%) JMeter
6 7 (13.73%) TeamCity
6 7 (13.73%) Zephyr
7 6 (11.76%) Maven
7 6 (11.76%) SonarQube
8 5 (9.80%) Bitbucket
9 4 (7.84%) Selenium
10 3 (5.88%) CircleCI
10 3 (5.88%) GoCD
11 2 (3.92%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (1.96%) Ant
12 1 (1.96%) Jaeger
12 1 (1.96%) JUnit
12 1 (1.96%) TestCafe
General
1 18 (35.29%) Finance
2 13 (25.49%) Banking
3 10 (19.61%) Games
4 8 (15.69%) Social Skills
5 7 (13.73%) Front Office
6 5 (9.80%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (9.80%) Billing
6 5 (9.80%) Retail
7 3 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.96%) Back Office
8 1 (1.96%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.96%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (23.53%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (17.65%) Developer
3 6 (11.76%) Analyst
3 6 (11.76%) Software Engineer
4 5 (9.80%) Graduate
4 5 (9.80%) Graduate Software Tester
4 5 (9.80%) Graduate Tester
4 5 (9.80%) Software Tester
4 5 (9.80%) Tester
5 4 (7.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) Architect
6 3 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (5.88%) Java Developer
6 3 (5.88%) Junior
6 3 (5.88%) Python Developer
6 3 (5.88%) Report Manager
6 3 (5.88%) Senior
6 3 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
6 3 (5.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (37.25%) REST
2 9 (17.65%) RabbitMQ
2 9 (17.65%) XML
3 8 (15.69%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (15.69%) Kafka
4 7 (13.73%) AngularJS
4 7 (13.73%) React
5 6 (11.76%) JSON
5 6 (11.76%) Regular Expression
6 5 (9.80%) Node.js
6 5 (9.80%) OpenAPI
6 5 (9.80%) Swagger
7 3 (5.88%) CSS
7 3 (5.88%) FastAPI
7 3 (5.88%) FIX Protocol
7 3 (5.88%) HTML
7 3 (5.88%) MDX
7 3 (5.88%) NumPy
7 3 (5.88%) Pandas
8 2 (3.92%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (9.80%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (7.84%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (5.88%) Hedge funds
4 3 (5.88%) Private Cloud
5 2 (3.92%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.92%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.96%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.96%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (37.25%) Linux
2 9 (17.65%) Unix
3 3 (5.88%) Windows
4 1 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (54.90%) CI/CD
2 26 (50.98%) Agile
3 23 (45.10%) DevOps
4 15 (29.41%) Computer Science
5 11 (21.57%) Test Automation
6 10 (19.61%) Containerisation
6 10 (19.61%) Full-Stack Development
6 10 (19.61%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (17.65%) Auto-Scaling
7 9 (17.65%) OO
7 9 (17.65%) SDLC
7 9 (17.65%) Statistics
8 8 (15.69%) Analytics
8 8 (15.69%) Data Analytics
8 8 (15.69%) Deployment Automation
8 8 (15.69%) Microservices
8 8 (15.69%) Software Testing
9 7 (13.73%) Collaborative Working
9 7 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (13.73%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 32 (62.75%) Java
2 28 (54.90%) Python
3 19 (37.25%) SQL
4 15 (29.41%) Shell Script
5 12 (23.53%) C++
6 10 (19.61%) Bash
7 8 (15.69%) Perl
8 6 (11.76%) C
8 6 (11.76%) JavaScript
8 6 (11.76%) Rust
9 5 (9.80%) TypeScript
10 3 (5.88%) C#
10 3 (5.88%) Clojure
10 3 (5.88%) Scala
11 2 (3.92%) Ada
11 2 (3.92%) Embedded C
11 2 (3.92%) Embedded C++
11 2 (3.92%) PowerShell
11 2 (3.92%) Ruby
12 1 (1.96%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (35.29%) Degree
2 7 (13.73%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (13.73%) Security Cleared
3 6 (11.76%) Numerate Degree
4 5 (9.80%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.92%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.73%) QA
2 3 (5.88%) MiFID
3 2 (3.92%) JTAG
3 2 (3.92%) MISRA
4 1 (1.96%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 10 (19.61%) Docker
2 1 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (27.45%) Kubernetes
2 11 (21.57%) Ansible
2 11 (21.57%) Terraform
3 6 (11.76%) Packer
4 5 (9.80%) Istio
5 4 (7.84%) Puppet
6 3 (5.88%) Fortio
6 3 (5.88%) Kiali
6 3 (5.88%) Progress Chef
7 2 (3.92%) Grafana
7 2 (3.92%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.96%) Podman
Vendors
1 10 (19.61%) Microsoft
2 9 (17.65%) Murex
3 7 (13.73%) Atlassian
3 7 (13.73%) IBM
4 6 (11.76%) AppDynamics
5 5 (9.80%) Oracle
6 3 (5.88%) Bloomberg
6 3 (5.88%) Reuters
7 2 (3.92%) Parasoft
7 2 (3.92%) StreamSets
8 1 (1.96%) Confluent
8 1 (1.96%) Informatica
8 1 (1.96%) Talend
8 1 (1.96%) VMware