Groovy Job Trends in the West Midlands

Apache Groovy
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Groovy skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 193 175
Rank change year-on-year +33 -18 +116
Permanent jobs citing Groovy 11 3 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.21% 0.071% 0.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.55% 0.27% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +21.74% +15.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £58,750
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £78,750 £87,500 £70,576
% change year-on-year -10.00% +23.98% +5.67%

All Programming Languages
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 709 1,093 1,049
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.46% 25.75% 30.09%
Number of salaries quoted 576 555 940
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,725
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,688 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +2.26% -4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,125
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

Groovy
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Groovy job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Groovy
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Groovy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Groovy

Groovy
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Groovy within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 January 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
Birmingham - 5 £72,500 -
Solihull - 4 - -
Warwickshire - 2 - -
Groovy
England

Groovy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (63.64%) Confluence
2 4 (36.36%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 9 (81.82%) Amazon EC2
1 9 (81.82%) Amazon ELB
1 9 (81.82%) Amazon S3
1 9 (81.82%) AWS
1 9 (81.82%) AWS KMS
1 9 (81.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 5 (45.45%) Amazon Glacier
3 4 (36.36%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (36.36%) Azure
3 4 (36.36%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (36.36%) Route 53
4 2 (18.18%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (81.82%) DNS
1 9 (81.82%) FTP
1 9 (81.82%) HTTP
1 9 (81.82%) SMTP
1 9 (81.82%) SSH
2 7 (63.64%) Firewall
3 4 (36.36%) IMAP
3 4 (36.36%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (81.82%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (36.36%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (36.36%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (81.82%) Jenkins
1 9 (81.82%) Vagrant
2 7 (63.64%) Git
2 7 (63.64%) JIRA
3 2 (18.18%) Subversion
General
1 7 (63.64%) Public Sector
2 6 (54.55%) Presentation Skills
2 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (18.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) ForgeRock Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Linux DevOps Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) LDAP
2 2 (18.18%) OAuth
2 2 (18.18%) OAuth2
2 2 (18.18%) OpenID
2 2 (18.18%) RESTful
2 2 (18.18%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Replication
2 2 (18.18%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 9 (81.82%) Linux
1 9 (81.82%) VMS
2 7 (63.64%) Amazon Linux
3 6 (54.55%) Windows
4 4 (36.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Cloud Security
1 9 (81.82%) Configuration Management
1 9 (81.82%) DevOps
2 7 (63.64%) Change Management
2 7 (63.64%) Patch Management
3 5 (45.45%) Platform Engineering
4 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
4 4 (36.36%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (18.18%) Agile
5 2 (18.18%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (18.18%) Identity Management
5 2 (18.18%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 2 (18.18%) OO
5 2 (18.18%) Performance Metrics
5 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (18.18%) Process Improvement
5 2 (18.18%) Project Management
5 2 (18.18%) Runbook
5 2 (18.18%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) Python
2 7 (63.64%) Java
2 7 (63.64%) PowerShell
3 5 (45.45%) Perl
4 4 (36.36%) SQL
5 2 (18.18%) C#
5 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
5 2 (18.18%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (81.82%) SC Cleared
1 9 (81.82%) Security Cleared
2 6 (54.55%) AWS Certification
3 4 (36.36%) Azure Certification
3 4 (36.36%) Degree
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) Docker
2 5 (45.45%) Active Directory
3 4 (36.36%) DFS Replication
3 4 (36.36%) Dovecot
3 4 (36.36%) Postfix
3 4 (36.36%) Squid
Systems Management
1 11 (100.00%) Terraform
2 7 (63.64%) Grafana
2 7 (63.64%) Prometheus
3 4 (36.36%) Nessus
3 4 (36.36%) Proxmox
4 2 (18.18%) Ansible
4 2 (18.18%) Nagios
4 2 (18.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) ServiceNow
2 4 (36.36%) Jaspersoft
3 2 (18.18%) ForgeRock
3 2 (18.18%) Oracle