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

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 652 789 596
Rank change year-on-year +137 -193 -18
Permanent jobs citing Groovy 57 123 402
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.12% 0.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.34% 0.37% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 33 57 278
10th Percentile £46,486 £37,485 £42,874
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £48,091
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,576 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.82% +8.58% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £78,500 £90,989 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £70,576 £57,810
% change year-on-year +2.73% +22.08% -0.21%

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 16,594 33,687 41,724
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.95% 32.62% 42.94%
Number of salaries quoted 10,785 25,114 26,852
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £98,750 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,635 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% +4.76%

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 30 May 2025.

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 30 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 +134 44 £71,250 -6.56% 220
UK excluding London +139 43 £72,500 +2.73% 232
Work from Home +69 21 £65,000 -7.90% 209
Midlands +100 18 £72,500 +20.83% 52
West Midlands - 17 £72,500 - 34
London +102 12 £68,750 -18.15% 28
North of England +44 9 £70,000 -0.82% 40
Yorkshire +54 8 £51,935 -26.41% 15
Wales +46 7 £50,124 -10.00% 6
Scotland +75 3 £80,000 +31.15% 12
South East +74 3 - - 56
East of England +44 2 £52,000 - 38
East Midlands +43 1 £70,000 +16.67% 16
North West +8 1 £70,000 -0.82% 20
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 17

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 20 (35.09%) Confluence
2 2 (3.51%) nginx
3 1 (1.75%) Apache
3 1 (1.75%) JBoss
3 1 (1.75%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.75%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (8.77%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 31 (54.39%) AWS
2 22 (38.60%) Amazon S3
3 21 (36.84%) Amazon EC2
4 20 (35.09%) Azure
5 18 (31.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 17 (29.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 17 (29.82%) Amazon ELB
6 17 (29.82%) AWS KMS
7 15 (26.32%) Amazon Glacier
8 9 (15.79%) Serverless
9 8 (14.04%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (14.04%) GitHub
10 6 (10.53%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (8.77%) GCP
12 4 (7.02%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (5.26%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 3 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (5.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 3 (5.26%) Route 53
13 3 (5.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (28.07%) Firewall
2 8 (14.04%) HTTP
3 7 (12.28%) DNS
3 7 (12.28%) FTP
3 7 (12.28%) SMTP
3 7 (12.28%) SSH
4 3 (5.26%) SSL
5 2 (3.51%) Broadband
5 2 (3.51%) IMAP
5 2 (3.51%) Kerberos
5 2 (3.51%) OpenLDAP
5 2 (3.51%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (29.82%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (14.04%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (8.77%) MongoDB
4 4 (7.02%) NoSQL
5 3 (5.26%) Oracle Database
5 3 (5.26%) Redis
5 3 (5.26%) Relational Database
6 2 (3.51%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (3.51%) Couchbase
6 2 (3.51%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 2 (3.51%) Oracle ODI
6 2 (3.51%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 37 (64.91%) Jenkins
2 30 (52.63%) Git
3 27 (47.37%) JIRA
4 17 (29.82%) Vagrant
5 9 (15.79%) SonarQube
5 9 (15.79%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (14.04%) Maven
7 6 (10.53%) Cucumber
7 6 (10.53%) JMeter
7 6 (10.53%) JUnit
7 6 (10.53%) REST Assured
7 6 (10.53%) Selenium
8 5 (8.77%) Artifactory
9 4 (7.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (7.02%) SoapUI
10 3 (5.26%) Mockito
10 3 (5.26%) Postman
10 3 (5.26%) TeamCity
10 3 (5.26%) TestNG
10 3 (5.26%) XCTest
General
1 20 (35.09%) Social Skills
2 14 (24.56%) Public Sector
3 12 (21.05%) Banking
3 12 (21.05%) Finance
4 6 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (7.02%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.51%) Games
6 2 (3.51%) Law
6 2 (3.51%) Legal
7 1 (1.75%) Advertising
7 1 (1.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (26.32%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (21.05%) AWS Engineer
3 8 (14.04%) AWS DevOps
3 8 (14.04%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 8 (14.04%) Platform Engineer
4 6 (10.53%) Developer
4 6 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) Infrastructure Support
5 5 (8.77%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) Lead
5 5 (8.77%) Support Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Java Developer
6 4 (7.02%) Linux Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Senior
6 4 (7.02%) Software Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Test Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Consultant
7 3 (5.26%) Junior
7 3 (5.26%) Junior Developer
7 3 (5.26%) Performance Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (26.32%) REST
2 8 (14.04%) SOAP
3 7 (12.28%) Kafka
3 7 (12.28%) Spring
4 6 (10.53%) Spring Boot
4 6 (10.53%) Web Services
5 5 (8.77%) AngularJS
5 5 (8.77%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (8.77%) Hibernate
6 4 (7.02%) Bootstrap
6 4 (7.02%) CSS
6 4 (7.02%) LDAP
6 4 (7.02%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (7.02%) React
7 3 (5.26%) Django
7 3 (5.26%) J2EE
7 3 (5.26%) JPA
7 3 (5.26%) JSON
7 3 (5.26%) Middleware
7 3 (5.26%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 11 (19.30%) Replication
2 9 (15.79%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (7.02%) Mainframe
4 3 (5.26%) Virtual Team
5 2 (3.51%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.51%) Mobile Banking
5 2 (3.51%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.51%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.51%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.75%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 27 (47.37%) Linux
2 18 (31.58%) Windows
3 17 (29.82%) VMS
4 8 (14.04%) Amazon Linux
5 6 (10.53%) Unix
6 5 (8.77%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (71.93%) DevOps
2 23 (40.35%) CI/CD
3 22 (38.60%) Agile
4 20 (35.09%) Configuration Management
5 17 (29.82%) Cloud Security
6 15 (26.32%) Change Management
7 13 (22.81%) Microservices
7 13 (22.81%) Test Automation
8 12 (21.05%) Platform Engineering
9 10 (17.54%) Patch Management
9 10 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (15.79%) SDLC
11 7 (12.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 7 (12.28%) Unit Testing
12 6 (10.53%) End-to-End Testing
12 6 (10.53%) Performance Testing
12 6 (10.53%) Static Code Analysis
13 5 (8.77%) Infrastructure as Code
13 5 (8.77%) Mentoring
13 5 (8.77%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 34 (59.65%) Python
2 31 (54.39%) Java
3 16 (28.07%) PowerShell
4 15 (26.32%) SQL
5 14 (24.56%) JavaScript
6 12 (21.05%) Perl
7 10 (17.54%) Shell Script
8 5 (8.77%) Ruby
9 3 (5.26%) C++
9 3 (5.26%) PL/SQL
10 2 (3.51%) C#
10 2 (3.51%) Kotlin
10 2 (3.51%) TypeScript
11 1 (1.75%) Bash
11 1 (1.75%) Go
Qualifications
1 19 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 16 (28.07%) SC Cleared
3 7 (12.28%) Degree
4 5 (8.77%) AWS Certification
5 4 (7.02%) Azure Certification
6 3 (5.26%) OCP
6 3 (5.26%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (3.51%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.28%) QA
2 1 (1.75%) GDPR
2 1 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 22 (38.60%) Docker
2 14 (24.56%) Active Directory
3 11 (19.30%) DFS Replication
4 3 (5.26%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (3.51%) Dovecot
5 2 (3.51%) Postfix
5 2 (3.51%) Squid
6 1 (1.75%) NDS
Systems Management
1 27 (47.37%) Terraform
2 23 (40.35%) Grafana
3 21 (36.84%) Prometheus
4 19 (33.33%) Ansible
5 18 (31.58%) Kubernetes
6 5 (8.77%) Nessus
6 5 (8.77%) Proxmox
7 4 (7.02%) Packer
8 3 (5.26%) Argo
8 3 (5.26%) Istio
8 3 (5.26%) Nagios
8 3 (5.26%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.75%) CA Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.75%) Consul
9 1 (1.75%) PingFederate
9 1 (1.75%) Podman
9 1 (1.75%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (26.32%) ServiceNow
2 9 (15.79%) Juniper
3 8 (14.04%) Dynatrace
3 8 (14.04%) Oracle
4 6 (10.53%) Atlassian
4 6 (10.53%) IBM
5 4 (7.02%) Splunk
6 3 (5.26%) AppDynamics
6 3 (5.26%) CA Agile Central
6 3 (5.26%) Microsoft
7 2 (3.51%) ForgeRock
7 2 (3.51%) Jaspersoft
7 2 (3.51%) Ping Identity
7 2 (3.51%) Workday
8 1 (1.75%) NetIQ
8 1 (1.75%) Okta