Apache Groovy
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Groovy skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 652 594 786
Rank change year-on-year -58 +192 -202
Permanent jobs citing Groovy 81 70 114
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.087% 0.16% 0.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.49% 0.50% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 30 40 47
10th Percentile £53,750 £46,486 £32,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £60,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +2.73% +7.00%
75th Percentile £82,188 £74,522 £86,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £81,750 £99,384
UK excluding London median annual salary £78,750 £72,500 £61,000
% change year-on-year +8.62% +18.85% +5.52%

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 16,544 13,968 34,004
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.84% 31.45% 31.69%
Number of salaries quoted 11,653 9,191 25,656
10th Percentile £36,500 £35,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £98,474
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +0.92% -0.91%

Groovy
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Groovy relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Groovy job vacancy trend in the UK

Groovy
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Groovy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Groovy

Groovy
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Groovy over the 6 months to 13 June 2026.

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 13 June 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
England -40 80 £75,000 +3.45% 14
UK excluding London -48 72 £78,750 +8.62% 11
North of England +7 56 £80,000 +14.29% 5
Yorkshire +4 51 £80,000 +54.04% 3
Work from Home 0 20 £75,000 +15.38% 7
South East -8 9 £82,500 -13.16% 4
London -18 9 £60,000 -14.29% 7
South West - 7 £75,000 - 1
North West +10 5 £80,000 +14.29% 2
Midlands -43 2 - -
West Midlands -46 2 - -
Scotland +14 1 - - 1

Groovy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 7 (8.64%) Apache
2 3 (3.70%) JBoss
3 1 (1.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Hyperion Planning
1 1 (1.23%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (1.23%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (1.23%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (1.23%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (1.23%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (1.23%) SAP CAR
Cloud Services
1 59 (72.84%) AWS
2 51 (62.96%) AWS CloudFormation
3 45 (55.56%) Amazon S3
3 45 (55.56%) AWS Lambda
3 45 (55.56%) Serverless
4 39 (48.15%) Amazon ECS
5 38 (46.91%) AWS Step Functions
6 35 (43.21%) Amazon ECR
6 35 (43.21%) Apigee
7 26 (32.10%) Amazon SQS
8 18 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
9 13 (16.05%) GitHub
9 13 (16.05%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (7.41%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (2.47%) BlazeMeter
12 1 (1.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (1.23%) AWS CloudTrail
12 1 (1.23%) Cloudflare
12 1 (1.23%) npm
12 1 (1.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (44.44%) DynamoDB
2 8 (9.88%) NoSQL
3 7 (8.64%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.23%) Essbase
4 1 (1.23%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 61 (75.31%) Jenkins
2 45 (55.56%) GitLab
3 37 (45.68%) Cypress.io
3 37 (45.68%) Maven
3 37 (45.68%) SonarQube
4 11 (13.58%) Cucumber
4 11 (13.58%) Git
5 7 (8.64%) JIRA
6 6 (7.41%) Selenium
7 5 (6.17%) JUnit
8 4 (4.94%) Artifactory
8 4 (4.94%) Spock
9 3 (3.70%) JMeter
10 2 (2.47%) Gradle
10 2 (2.47%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (1.23%) IDA Disassembler
11 1 (1.23%) Katalon Studio
11 1 (1.23%) ScriptRunner
11 1 (1.23%) TestNG
11 1 (1.23%) WebDriver
General
1 11 (13.58%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.35%) Finance
3 7 (8.64%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.23%) Advertising
5 1 (1.23%) Automotive
5 1 (1.23%) Banking
5 1 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.23%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.23%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 44 (54.32%) Developer
2 38 (46.91%) Java Developer
3 15 (18.52%) Full-Stack Developer
4 12 (14.81%) Platform Engineer
5 11 (13.58%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 10 (12.35%) Senior
7 9 (11.11%) AWS Developer
7 9 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (9.88%) Lead
9 7 (8.64%) Data Engineer
10 5 (6.17%) Senior Developer
10 5 (6.17%) Senior Java Developer
11 4 (4.94%) AWS Engineer
11 4 (4.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 4 (4.94%) Lead Data Engineer
12 3 (3.70%) Tester
13 2 (2.47%) Analyst
13 2 (2.47%) Quality Engineer
13 2 (2.47%) Senior Analyst
13 2 (2.47%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (50.62%) AngularJS
2 37 (45.68%) Gherkin
3 35 (43.21%) Spring Boot
4 31 (38.27%) Jest
5 13 (16.05%) Spring
6 12 (14.81%) Web Services
7 7 (8.64%) Apache NiFi
7 7 (8.64%) Kafka
8 6 (7.41%) JSON
8 6 (7.41%) REST
9 5 (6.17%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (6.17%) YAML
10 4 (4.94%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (4.94%) Node.js
10 4 (4.94%) React
11 3 (3.70%) Drools
11 3 (3.70%) XML
12 1 (1.23%) Hibernate
12 1 (1.23%) LDAP
12 1 (1.23%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.64%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (4.94%) Private Cloud
3 3 (3.70%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.70%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (3.70%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.23%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.23%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.23%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.23%) IoT
5 1 (1.23%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.23%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (24.69%) Linux
2 2 (2.47%) Unix
3 1 (1.23%) Android
3 1 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (65.43%) CI/CD
2 52 (64.20%) Agile
3 51 (62.96%) DevOps
4 29 (35.80%) SDLC
5 25 (30.86%) ITIL
6 24 (29.63%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 23 (28.40%) Full-Stack Development
7 23 (28.40%) Secure Coding
8 18 (22.22%) Containerisation
8 18 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
9 17 (20.99%) Test Automation
10 16 (19.75%) Platform Engineering
11 15 (18.52%) Clean Code
11 15 (18.52%) Prototyping
12 11 (13.58%) Microservices
12 11 (13.58%) Network Load Balancing
12 11 (13.58%) Software Delivery
12 11 (13.58%) Software Engineering
13 10 (12.35%) AI
14 9 (11.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 62 (76.54%) Java
2 39 (48.15%) TypeScript
3 32 (39.51%) Bash
4 31 (38.27%) Python
5 11 (13.58%) SQL
6 9 (11.11%) JavaScript
7 4 (4.94%) Perl
8 3 (3.70%) Kotlin
9 2 (2.47%) C#
9 2 (2.47%) C++
9 2 (2.47%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.47%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.23%) C
10 1 (1.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 32 (39.51%) Security Cleared
2 29 (35.80%) AWS Certification
3 24 (29.63%) SC Cleared
4 23 (28.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 23 (28.40%) ITIL Certification
5 6 (7.41%) DV Cleared
6 5 (6.17%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.58%) QA
2 4 (4.94%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 54 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (1.23%) Firmware
2 1 (1.23%) OpenAM
2 1 (1.23%) OpenDJ
2 1 (1.23%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 30 (37.04%) HP Fortify
2 22 (27.16%) Terraform
3 18 (22.22%) Kubernetes
4 13 (16.05%) Progress Chef
5 7 (8.64%) Ansible
6 4 (4.94%) Packer
7 2 (2.47%) Kibana
7 2 (2.47%) logstash
8 1 (1.23%) Grafana
8 1 (1.23%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (12.35%) AppDynamics
2 4 (4.94%) IBM
2 4 (4.94%) Splunk
3 2 (2.47%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.23%) Cognizant
4 1 (1.23%) ForgeRock
4 1 (1.23%) Hyperion
4 1 (1.23%) New Relic
4 1 (1.23%) Oracle
4 1 (1.23%) Pega
4 1 (1.23%) Ping Identity
4 1 (1.23%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.23%) SAP
4 1 (1.23%) Sonatype