Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Skill Sets
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The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 20 May 2022 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Apache Groovy
UK > Work from Home
6 months to
20 May 2022		 Same period 2021 Same period 2020
Rank 486 455 277
Rank change year-on-year -31 -178 +30
Permanent jobs citing Groovy 395 106 41
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.55% 0.34% 0.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.93% 0.55% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 184 62 41
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,050 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £58,779 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.58% -2.04% -14.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £67,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -6.18%

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 WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

All Programming Languages
Work from Home
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 42,401 19,132 6,011
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 59.50% 61.61% 64.41%
Number of salaries quoted 24,181 15,985 5,269
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% - -
75th Percentile £81,250 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £86,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% - +4.76%

Groovy
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Groovy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Groovy trend for jobs with a WFH option

Groovy
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Groovy.

Groovy salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Groovy
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Groovy over the 6 months to 20 May 2022.

Groovy salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

For the 6 months to 20 May 2022, Groovy job roles required the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with a WFH option and a requirement for Groovy.

1 248 (62.78%) Java
2 236 (59.75%) Agile
3 217 (54.94%) AWS
3 217 (54.94%) CI/CD
4 212 (53.67%) DevOps
5 191 (48.35%) Jenkins
6 188 (47.59%) Kubernetes
7 178 (45.06%) Python
8 170 (43.04%) Docker
9 162 (41.01%) Terraform
10 156 (39.49%) Finance
11 153 (38.73%) Ansible
12 145 (36.71%) Linux
13 142 (35.95%) Test Automation
14 125 (31.65%) Bash
15 124 (31.39%) Software Engineering
16 121 (30.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 115 (29.11%) Azure
18 113 (28.61%) Infrastructure as Code
19 112 (28.35%) Scrum
20 103 (26.08%) Continuous Integration
21 102 (25.82%) SDLC
22 95 (24.05%) JavaScript
23 94 (23.80%) Git (software)
24 92 (23.29%) Banking
25 89 (22.53%) Configuration Management
26 84 (21.27%) QA
27 80 (20.25%) TDD
28 75 (18.99%) Microservices
28 75 (18.99%) Elasticsearch

Groovy
Co-occurring IT Skills with a WFH Option by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 75 (18.99%) Elasticsearch
2 15 (3.80%) Confluence
3 9 (2.28%) Apache
4 7 (1.77%) Apache Solr
4 7 (1.77%) Mule
5 6 (1.52%) Mendix
5 6 (1.52%) nginx
6 5 (1.27%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.76%) SAS
8 2 (0.51%) Camunda
8 2 (0.51%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.51%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.25%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.25%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.25%) Mule ESB
9 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.25%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.25%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (1.52%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 21 (5.32%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.25%) SAP HCM
2 1 (0.25%) SAP HR
2 1 (0.25%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 217 (54.94%) AWS
2 115 (29.11%) Azure
3 60 (15.19%) GCP
4 51 (12.91%) AWS CloudFormation
5 42 (10.63%) GitHub
6 34 (8.61%) Serverless
7 33 (8.35%) Amazon EKS
8 29 (7.34%) GitHub Actions
9 24 (6.08%) Amazon EC2
10 23 (5.82%) Amazon S3
10 23 (5.82%) PaaS
10 23 (5.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 20 (5.06%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 20 (5.06%) Amazon EMR
11 20 (5.06%) Amazon Kinesis
11 20 (5.06%) AWS CodeDeploy
12 18 (4.56%) SaaS
13 14 (3.54%) Azure Active Directory
13 14 (3.54%) Cloud Computing
14 13 (3.29%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 35 (8.86%) SNA
2 29 (7.34%) HTTP
3 24 (6.08%) DSL
4 20 (5.06%) DNS
5 12 (3.04%) Broadband
6 9 (2.28%) FIX Connectivity
7 5 (1.27%) Network Security
8 3 (0.76%) Firewall
8 3 (0.76%) Internet
8 3 (0.76%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.76%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.25%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.25%) SSL
9 1 (0.25%) TACACS
9 1 (0.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (18.48%) MongoDB
2 63 (15.95%) NoSQL
3 45 (11.39%) PostgreSQL
4 38 (9.62%) Hadoop
5 34 (8.61%) Hazelcast
6 21 (5.32%) Relational Database
7 20 (5.06%) Amazon RDS
7 20 (5.06%) Electronic Patient Records
7 20 (5.06%) SQL Server
8 14 (3.54%) Oracle Database
9 12 (3.04%) Aerospike
9 12 (3.04%) Redis
10 11 (2.78%) MySQL
11 9 (2.28%) Big Data
12 8 (2.03%) Amazon DynamoDB
13 5 (1.27%) Apache Cassandra
13 5 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (1.27%) InfluxDB
13 5 (1.27%) MariaDB
14 3 (0.76%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 191 (48.35%) Jenkins
2 94 (23.80%) Git (software)
3 39 (9.87%) JUnit
4 36 (9.11%) Cucumber
5 35 (8.86%) CircleCI
6 32 (8.10%) Selenium
7 30 (7.59%) JIRA
8 25 (6.33%) GoCD
9 23 (5.82%) Bitbucket
10 20 (5.06%) Spinnaker
10 20 (5.06%) Travis CI
11 18 (4.56%) Sonatype Nexus
12 15 (3.80%) GitLab
13 14 (3.54%) Maven
13 14 (3.54%) SonarQube
14 13 (3.29%) Gerrit
14 13 (3.29%) Gradle
14 13 (3.29%) Spock
15 11 (2.78%) Terragrunt
16 9 (2.28%) TeamCity
General
1 156 (39.49%) Finance
2 121 (30.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 92 (23.29%) Banking
4 59 (14.94%) Social Skills
5 52 (13.16%) Public Sector
6 32 (8.10%) Games
7 30 (7.59%) Analytical Skills
8 29 (7.34%) Retail
9 27 (6.84%) Financial Institution
10 25 (6.33%) Marketing
11 24 (6.08%) Advertising
12 12 (3.04%) Manufacturing
12 12 (3.04%) Police
13 11 (2.78%) Electronics
13 11 (2.78%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.27%) Tech for Good
15 2 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
16 1 (0.25%) Aerospace
16 1 (0.25%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 159 (40.25%) DevOps Engineer
2 97 (24.56%) Developer
3 82 (20.76%) Senior DevOps
3 82 (20.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 65 (16.46%) Java Developer
5 55 (13.92%) Software Engineer
6 45 (11.39%) AWS Engineer
7 40 (10.13%) AWS DevOps
7 40 (10.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 30 (7.59%) Cloud Engineer
9 27 (6.84%) Cloud Developer
9 27 (6.84%) Senior Developer
10 24 (6.08%) Senior Java Developer
11 21 (5.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 20 (5.06%) Automation Engineer
12 20 (5.06%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 16 (4.05%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 15 (3.80%) Platform Engineer
15 14 (3.54%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 12 (3.04%) Technical Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (17.47%) Spring
2 65 (16.46%) React
3 45 (11.39%) Hibernate
4 44 (11.14%) RESTful
5 43 (10.89%) Node.js
6 42 (10.63%) CSS
7 34 (8.61%) Elastic Stack
7 34 (8.61%) Guava
7 34 (8.61%) JAX-RS
8 33 (8.35%) REST
9 31 (7.85%) ActiveMQ
9 31 (7.85%) AngularJS
10 30 (7.59%) .NET
11 24 (6.08%) CSS3
12 21 (5.32%) LDAP
12 21 (5.32%) OAuth
13 19 (4.81%) Spring Boot
14 15 (3.80%) Sass
14 15 (3.80%) Vue.js
15 12 (3.04%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 75 (18.99%) Cloud Native
2 59 (14.94%) Social Network
3 47 (11.90%) Cyber Defence
3 47 (11.90%) Cyberattack
4 46 (11.65%) Linux Command Line
5 35 (8.86%) Greenfield Project
6 29 (7.34%) Management Information System
6 29 (7.34%) Public Cloud
6 29 (7.34%) User Experience
7 25 (6.33%) Private Cloud
8 23 (5.82%) Virtual Team
9 19 (4.81%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (3.29%) Clustering
11 12 (3.04%) Cybercrime
11 12 (3.04%) iPhone
12 9 (2.28%) Client/Server
12 9 (2.28%) Derivative
12 9 (2.28%) Equities
12 9 (2.28%) Fixed Income
12 9 (2.28%) OTC Derivatives
Operating Systems
1 145 (36.71%) Linux
2 51 (12.91%) Windows
3 45 (11.39%) Unix
4 28 (7.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 22 (5.57%) Windows Server
6 17 (4.30%) CentOS
7 9 (2.28%) zOS
8 8 (2.03%) Android
9 6 (1.52%) Alpine Linux
10 2 (0.51%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 236 (59.75%) Agile
2 217 (54.94%) CI/CD
3 212 (53.67%) DevOps
4 142 (35.95%) Test Automation
5 124 (31.39%) Software Engineering
6 113 (28.61%) Infrastructure as Code
7 112 (28.35%) Scrum
8 103 (26.08%) Continuous Integration
9 102 (25.82%) SDLC
10 89 (22.53%) Configuration Management
11 80 (20.25%) TDD
12 75 (18.99%) Microservices
13 74 (18.73%) Problem-Solving
14 69 (17.47%) Continuous Delivery
15 58 (14.68%) Full Stack Development
16 52 (13.16%) User Stories
17 50 (12.66%) Analytics
17 50 (12.66%) Cybersecurity
18 49 (12.41%) Deployment Automation
19 47 (11.90%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 248 (62.78%) Java
2 178 (45.06%) Python
3 125 (31.65%) Bash
4 95 (24.05%) JavaScript
5 69 (17.47%) Go
6 64 (16.20%) SQL
7 63 (15.95%) Scala
8 49 (12.41%) Kotlin
9 48 (12.15%) Ruby
10 38 (9.62%) PowerShell
11 30 (7.59%) C#
12 26 (6.58%) TypeScript
13 14 (3.54%) Shell Script
14 11 (2.78%) PHP
15 5 (1.27%) PL/SQL
16 4 (1.01%) C++
17 3 (0.76%) AWK
17 3 (0.76%) Perl
18 2 (0.51%) ABAP
18 2 (0.51%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 23 (5.82%) Degree
2 15 (3.80%) SC Cleared
2 15 (3.80%) Security Cleared
3 13 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (1.52%) AWS Certification
4 6 (1.52%) PMI Certification
5 2 (0.51%) ISTQB
5 2 (0.51%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (21.27%) QA
2 1 (0.25%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 170 (43.04%) Docker
2 13 (3.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 188 (47.59%) Kubernetes
2 162 (41.01%) Terraform
3 153 (38.73%) Ansible
4 74 (18.73%) Prometheus
5 65 (16.46%) Puppet
6 43 (10.89%) Packer
7 37 (9.37%) Grafana
8 36 (9.11%) Opscode Chef
9 30 (7.59%) Istio
10 25 (6.33%) Fortio
10 25 (6.33%) Kiali
10 25 (6.33%) Kibana
11 21 (5.32%) Single Sign-On
12 20 (5.06%) Graphite
12 20 (5.06%) StatsD
13 13 (3.29%) Failover Clustering
13 13 (3.29%) HAProxy
13 13 (3.29%) logstash
13 13 (3.29%) ZABBIX
14 12 (3.04%) yum
Vendors
1 63 (15.95%) Oracle
2 38 (9.62%) Microsoft
3 27 (6.84%) Atlassian
4 21 (5.32%) PagerDuty
5 15 (3.80%) Dynatrace
6 14 (3.54%) SAP
7 13 (3.29%) Google
7 13 (3.29%) Red Hat
8 9 (2.28%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.27%) New Relic
9 5 (1.27%) Salesforce.com
9 5 (1.27%) SaltStack
10 4 (1.01%) AppDynamics
10 4 (1.01%) Black Duck
10 4 (1.01%) Coverity
10 4 (1.01%) Splunk
11 3 (0.76%) Sonatype
12 2 (0.51%) IBM
13 1 (0.25%) Dell
13 1 (0.25%) Software AG