Apache Groovy
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Groovy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Groovy over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 578 555 530
Rank change year-on-year -23 -25 +94
Permanent jobs citing Groovy 152 630 697
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.51% 0.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.71% 1.12% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 115 249 355
10th Percentile £50,250 £48,091 £46,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £56,219 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,669 £66,786 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.30% +2.75% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £89,852 £78,750
90th Percentile £103,866 £103,750 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,576 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.58% +8.33% -

All Programming Languages
UK

Groovy is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 21,547 56,460 66,736
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 40.67% 45.96% 52.08%
Number of salaries quoted 16,785 35,996 45,555
10th Percentile £39,730 £38,442 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,788 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% 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 7 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Groovy in the UK

Groovy
Top 15 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 7 December 2023. 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 -16 128 £75,669 +13.30% 49
UK excluding London +173 91 £70,576 +8.58% 42
Work from Home +111 81 £70,576 +5.67% 46
London -33 56 £77,500 +3.33% 19
North of England +119 24 £70,576 +17.63% 11
Scotland +38 22 £73,122 +9.49% 6
South East +117 18 £77,500 - 12
Yorkshire +88 18 £70,576 +18.56% 4
South West +71 18 £75,669 +13.30% 5
East of England +126 8 £85,000 +54.55% 1
North West +111 6 £81,677 +30.68% 6
Midlands +130 5 £57,500 +15.00% 4
West Midlands +130 4 £57,500 +15.00% 2
Wales +9 2 £70,576 +8.58% 3
East Midlands +48 1 £57,500 +15.00% 2

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 17 (11.18%) Confluence
2 12 (7.89%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.32%) Apache
3 2 (1.32%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 64 (42.11%) AWS
2 58 (38.16%) GCP
3 48 (31.58%) Azure
4 25 (16.45%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (15.13%) OpenShift
6 21 (13.82%) Azure AKS
7 18 (11.84%) Azure Monitor
8 17 (11.18%) AWS Direct Connect
9 14 (9.21%) Amazon EKS
9 14 (9.21%) Serverless
10 13 (8.55%) Datadog
10 13 (8.55%) Pulumi
11 12 (7.89%) Amazon EC2
11 12 (7.89%) Amazon S3
11 12 (7.89%) Amazon SQS
11 12 (7.89%) AWS CodeCommit
11 12 (7.89%) BlazeMeter
12 10 (6.58%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (5.92%) Cloud Composer
14 8 (5.26%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (11.18%) VPN
2 12 (7.89%) AMQP
3 9 (5.92%) Firewall
4 6 (3.95%) DNS
4 6 (3.95%) Network Security
4 6 (3.95%) SNMP
5 2 (1.32%) FTP
5 2 (1.32%) HTTP
5 2 (1.32%) SMTP
5 2 (1.32%) SSH
5 2 (1.32%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.66%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (13.82%) MongoDB
2 18 (11.84%) SQL Server
3 12 (7.89%) Oracle Database
3 12 (7.89%) Oracle Database 10g
3 12 (7.89%) Oracle Database 11g
4 9 (5.92%) BigQuery
5 7 (4.61%) Hadoop
6 6 (3.95%) Big Data
7 4 (2.63%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (2.63%) ArangoDB
7 4 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (2.63%) MySQL
8 3 (1.97%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.32%) InfluxDB
9 2 (1.32%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 95 (62.50%) Jenkins
2 44 (28.95%) Git
3 33 (21.71%) Spinnaker
4 28 (18.42%) Maven
4 28 (18.42%) Sonatype Nexus
5 27 (17.76%) JIRA
6 26 (17.11%) Cucumber
7 21 (13.82%) JUnit
8 18 (11.84%) GitLab
9 16 (10.53%) Team Foundation Server
10 15 (9.87%) LoadRunner
11 14 (9.21%) JMeter
11 14 (9.21%) Postman
12 12 (7.89%) ClearCase
12 12 (7.89%) eggPlant
12 12 (7.89%) Mockito
12 12 (7.89%) REST Assured
12 12 (7.89%) SoapUI
12 12 (7.89%) The Grinder
13 11 (7.24%) SonarQube
General
1 61 (40.13%) Finance
2 56 (36.84%) Banking
3 33 (21.71%) Social Skills
4 15 (9.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (9.87%) Retail
5 13 (8.55%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (5.26%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.32%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.32%) Games
7 2 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.66%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.66%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 77 (50.66%) DevOps Engineer
2 44 (28.95%) Senior
3 37 (24.34%) Senior DevOps
4 34 (22.37%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 26 (17.11%) Cloud Engineer
6 17 (11.18%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 17 (11.18%) Azure Engineer
7 15 (9.87%) Developer
8 12 (7.89%) Analyst
8 12 (7.89%) Automation Test Analyst
8 12 (7.89%) Test Analyst
9 11 (7.24%) Senior Support Engineer
9 11 (7.24%) Support Engineer
10 10 (6.58%) AWS Engineer
10 10 (6.58%) Java Developer
11 8 (5.26%) AWS DevOps
11 8 (5.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 8 (5.26%) Lead
12 7 (4.61%) GCP Engineer
12 7 (4.61%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (14.47%) ARM Templates
1 22 (14.47%) RabbitMQ
2 20 (13.16%) JSON
3 19 (12.50%) AWS CDK
4 18 (11.84%) REST
5 14 (9.21%) Gherkin
6 13 (8.55%) Elastic Stack
7 12 (7.89%) Flask
7 12 (7.89%) LDAP
7 12 (7.89%) Middleware
7 12 (7.89%) OpenAPI
7 12 (7.89%) Swagger
7 12 (7.89%) WireMock
7 12 (7.89%) XML
8 11 (7.24%) Kafka
9 6 (3.95%) Spring Boot
10 5 (3.29%) Azure Blueprints
10 5 (3.29%) React
11 4 (2.63%) Node.js
11 4 (2.63%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (28.29%) Public Cloud
2 28 (18.42%) Cloud Native
3 19 (12.50%) Product Ownership
4 13 (8.55%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (8.55%) Linux Command Line
5 12 (7.89%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (5.92%) Distributed Applications
7 8 (5.26%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (2.63%) Private Cloud
8 4 (2.63%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.97%) PKI
10 2 (1.32%) Client/Server
10 2 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.32%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.66%) Online Games
11 1 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 54 (35.53%) Linux
2 20 (13.16%) Windows
3 16 (10.53%) Unix
4 3 (1.97%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.32%) Android
5 2 (1.32%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.32%) VMS
6 1 (0.66%) Debian
6 1 (0.66%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (81.58%) Agile
2 111 (73.03%) DevOps
3 80 (52.63%) CI/CD
4 60 (39.47%) Infrastructure as Code
5 47 (30.92%) Migration
6 46 (30.26%) Continuous Integration
7 36 (23.68%) Test Automation
8 31 (20.39%) Containerisation
9 29 (19.08%) Mentoring
10 28 (18.42%) Continuous Delivery
11 27 (17.76%) Project Delivery
11 27 (17.76%) Software Testing
12 25 (16.45%) Cloud Security
13 24 (15.79%) Technical Leadership
14 23 (15.13%) Configuration Management
15 22 (14.47%) Analytics
15 22 (14.47%) BDD
15 22 (14.47%) SDLC
16 21 (13.82%) Design Patterns
17 20 (13.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 89 (58.55%) Python
2 69 (45.39%) Java
3 55 (36.18%) Bash
4 44 (28.95%) PowerShell
5 38 (25.00%) SQL
6 31 (20.39%) JavaScript
7 28 (18.42%) Perl
8 27 (17.76%) Ruby
8 27 (17.76%) Scala
9 22 (14.47%) C#
9 22 (14.47%) Go
10 18 (11.84%) C
10 18 (11.84%) Shell Script
11 12 (7.89%) Tcl
11 12 (7.89%) TypeScript
12 6 (3.95%) Ada
12 6 (3.95%) C++
12 6 (3.95%) Embedded C
12 6 (3.95%) Embedded C++
12 6 (3.95%) Rust
Qualifications
1 21 (13.82%) AWS Certification
2 19 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 19 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 9 (5.92%) Degree
4 4 (2.63%) Postgraduate
5 3 (1.97%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.66%) CISSP
6 1 (0.66%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.66%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.66%) OCP
6 1 (0.66%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.66%) OSCP
6 1 (0.66%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.24%) QA
2 6 (3.95%) MISRA
3 3 (1.97%) SLA
4 2 (1.32%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.66%) GDPR
5 1 (0.66%) GLBA
5 1 (0.66%) ISO 31000
5 1 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 1 (0.66%) NIST
5 1 (0.66%) NIST 800
System Software
1 49 (32.24%) Docker
2 5 (3.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.63%) Ceph
4 2 (1.32%) Firmware
5 1 (0.66%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 102 (67.11%) Kubernetes
2 85 (55.92%) Terraform
3 48 (31.58%) Ansible
4 33 (21.71%) Istio
5 31 (20.39%) Progress Chef
6 19 (12.50%) Grafana
6 19 (12.50%) Puppet
7 18 (11.84%) Prometheus
8 10 (6.58%) HP Quality Center
9 7 (4.61%) Packer
10 4 (2.63%) Fortio
10 4 (2.63%) Kiali
10 4 (2.63%) Kibana
11 2 (1.32%) logstash
11 2 (1.32%) Nagios
12 1 (0.66%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 28 (18.42%) Google
2 18 (11.84%) IBM
3 14 (9.21%) Oracle
4 13 (8.55%) New Relic
4 13 (8.55%) SaltStack
5 12 (7.89%) Atlassian
5 12 (7.89%) MKS
6 10 (6.58%) HP
7 8 (5.26%) Dynatrace
8 7 (4.61%) AppDynamics
9 6 (3.95%) ServiceNow
10 5 (3.29%) VMware
11 4 (2.63%) Microsoft
11 4 (2.63%) Parasoft
11 4 (2.63%) Sonatype
11 4 (2.63%) Splunk
12 3 (1.97%) Adobe
13 1 (0.66%) Red Hat