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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 647 767 572
Rank change year-on-year +120 -195 +7
Permanent jobs citing Groovy 45 129 458
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.086% 0.13% 0.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.29% 0.39% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 29 66 311
10th Percentile £41,665 £41,029 £42,874
25th Percentile £47,500 £59,500 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,576 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.90% +8.58% -
75th Percentile £76,840 £82,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £92,237 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £70,576 £59,526
% change year-on-year -18.53% +18.56% +5.36%

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 15,622 33,278 45,076
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.02% 33.79% 43.37%
Number of salaries quoted 11,533 25,047 28,788
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £107,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,635 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% +2.33%

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 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Groovy in the UK

Groovy
Top 14 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 1 May 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
England +136 32 £70,000 -0.82% 117
UK excluding London +133 31 £57,500 -18.53% 114
Work from Home +141 19 £52,500 -25.61% 38
London +102 12 £67,500 -19.64% 31
North of England +75 10 £70,000 -0.82% 23
Yorkshire +69 9 £51,935 -26.41% 13
Wales +45 8 £50,124 -28.98% 7
Midlands +85 7 £70,000 +16.67% 22
West Midlands - 6 £70,000 - 15
Scotland +86 3 £80,000 +13.35% 10
South East +93 2 - - 28
East of England +53 2 £52,000 - 12
East Midlands +47 1 £57,500 -4.17% 6
North West +30 1 £70,000 -0.82% 9

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 6 (13.33%) Confluence
2 1 (2.22%) Jetty
2 1 (2.22%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (6.67%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 18 (40.00%) AWS
2 15 (33.33%) Azure
3 9 (20.00%) Serverless
4 8 (17.78%) Amazon S3
4 8 (17.78%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (17.78%) GCP
5 7 (15.56%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (15.56%) GitHub
6 6 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (6.67%) Amazon ELB
7 3 (6.67%) Amazon Glacier
7 3 (6.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 3 (6.67%) AWS KMS
7 3 (6.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (4.44%) OCI
8 2 (4.44%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.67%) Firewall
1 3 (6.67%) SSL
2 2 (4.44%) Kerberos
3 1 (2.22%) FTP
3 1 (2.22%) Network Security
3 1 (2.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (13.33%) Relational Database
2 4 (8.89%) MongoDB
3 3 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (6.67%) BigQuery
3 3 (6.67%) Essbase
3 3 (6.67%) Redis
4 2 (4.44%) NoSQL
4 2 (4.44%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 2 (4.44%) Oracle Database
4 2 (4.44%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (2.22%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.22%) Hazelcast
5 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (44.44%) Jenkins
2 13 (28.89%) Git
3 12 (26.67%) JIRA
4 9 (20.00%) SonarQube
5 7 (15.56%) JMeter
6 6 (13.33%) Cucumber
6 6 (13.33%) Selenium
7 5 (11.11%) Artifactory
7 5 (11.11%) JUnit
7 5 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (8.89%) GitLab
8 4 (8.89%) Maven
8 4 (8.89%) REST Assured
9 3 (6.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (6.67%) Bitbucket Server
9 3 (6.67%) IBM UrbanCode
9 3 (6.67%) SoapUI
9 3 (6.67%) Vagrant
10 2 (4.44%) Appium
10 2 (4.44%) XCTest
General
1 12 (26.67%) Finance
2 11 (24.44%) Social Skills
3 9 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (20.00%) Banking
4 4 (8.89%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.44%) Front Office
7 1 (2.22%) Advertising
7 1 (2.22%) Back Office
7 1 (2.22%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.22%) Games
7 1 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (17.78%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (15.56%) Developer
3 6 (13.33%) Test Engineer
4 5 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Performance Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Performance Test Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Senior
6 3 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (6.67%) Java Developer
6 3 (6.67%) Junior Developer
6 3 (6.67%) Junior Java Developer
6 3 (6.67%) Lead
6 3 (6.67%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Platform Manager
6 3 (6.67%) Report Manager
6 3 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
6 3 (6.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (28.89%) REST
2 7 (15.56%) Kafka
3 6 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (13.33%) SOAP
4 5 (11.11%) AngularJS
4 5 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (11.11%) Web Services
5 4 (8.89%) CSS
5 4 (8.89%) FastAPI
5 4 (8.89%) JSON
6 3 (6.67%) Django
6 3 (6.67%) Flask
6 3 (6.67%) HTML
6 3 (6.67%) MDX
6 3 (6.67%) Playwright
6 3 (6.67%) React
6 3 (6.67%) Spring Boot
7 2 (4.44%) LDAP
7 2 (4.44%) SAML
7 2 (4.44%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (8.89%) Mainframe
3 3 (6.67%) Virtual Team
4 2 (4.44%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.22%) Hedge funds
5 1 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.22%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (40.00%) Linux
2 8 (17.78%) Unix
2 8 (17.78%) Windows
3 3 (6.67%) Ubuntu
3 3 (6.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (55.56%) DevOps
2 22 (48.89%) Agile
3 17 (37.78%) CI/CD
4 13 (28.89%) Test Automation
5 11 (24.44%) Microservices
6 7 (15.56%) Deployment Automation
6 7 (15.56%) Performance Testing
7 6 (13.33%) Configuration Management
7 6 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (13.33%) Static Code Analysis
7 6 (13.33%) Unit Testing
8 5 (11.11%) Computer Science
8 5 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
8 5 (11.11%) Test Scripting
9 4 (8.89%) End-to-End Testing
9 4 (8.89%) Full-Stack Development
9 4 (8.89%) Key Management
9 4 (8.89%) Performance Engineering
9 4 (8.89%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 22 (48.89%) Java
2 20 (44.44%) Python
3 12 (26.67%) SQL
4 10 (22.22%) Shell Script
5 9 (20.00%) JavaScript
6 8 (17.78%) Perl
7 5 (11.11%) Ruby
8 3 (6.67%) Bash
8 3 (6.67%) C++
8 3 (6.67%) PL/SQL
8 3 (6.67%) PowerShell
9 2 (4.44%) C#
9 2 (4.44%) TypeScript
10 1 (2.22%) Ada
10 1 (2.22%) Clojure
10 1 (2.22%) Embedded C
10 1 (2.22%) Embedded C++
10 1 (2.22%) Go
10 1 (2.22%) Rust
10 1 (2.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (15.56%) Security Cleared
2 6 (13.33%) Degree
3 3 (6.67%) OCP
3 3 (6.67%) Oracle Certification
3 3 (6.67%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.44%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (2.22%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (2.22%) GDPR
2 1 (2.22%) JTAG
2 1 (2.22%) MiFID
2 1 (2.22%) MISRA
System Software
1 11 (24.44%) Docker
2 3 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.22%) NDS
3 1 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 14 (31.11%) Ansible
2 14 (31.11%) Terraform
3 8 (17.78%) Grafana
4 6 (13.33%) Prometheus
5 5 (11.11%) Istio
5 5 (11.11%) Packer
6 3 (6.67%) Argo
6 3 (6.67%) Nagios
6 3 (6.67%) Nessus
6 3 (6.67%) Progress Chef
6 3 (6.67%) Proxmox
7 1 (2.22%) CA Single Sign-On
7 1 (2.22%) Consul
7 1 (2.22%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 8 (17.78%) Oracle
2 7 (15.56%) Atlassian
2 7 (15.56%) Dynatrace
2 7 (15.56%) IBM
3 5 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 4 (8.89%) AppDynamics
5 3 (6.67%) Juniper
5 3 (6.67%) Splunk
6 2 (4.44%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (4.44%) ForgeRock
6 2 (4.44%) Ping Identity
6 2 (4.44%) Workday
7 1 (2.22%) Bloomberg
7 1 (2.22%) NetIQ
7 1 (2.22%) Okta
7 1 (2.22%) Parasoft
7 1 (2.22%) Reuters
7 1 (2.22%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.22%) StreamSets
7 1 (2.22%) VMware