Groovy Contracts in Scotland

Apache Groovy
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Groovy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Groovy over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 155 157
Rank change year-on-year +47 +2 -20
Contract jobs citing Groovy 14 12 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.65% 0.45% 0.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.29% 1.31% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 10 14
10th Percentile £449 £363 £476
25th Percentile £510 £394 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £494 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.37% -5.95% +7.14%
75th Percentile £634 £500 £566
90th Percentile - £524 £620
UK median daily rate £538 £631 £585
% change year-on-year -14.82% +7.86% +7.34%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 612 914 946
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 28.57% 33.93% 27.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 407 656 663
10th Percentile £358 £406 £363
25th Percentile £413 £435 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +3.16% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £551 £550
90th Percentile £650 £658 £638
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 12 15
10th Percentile £29.60 £48.08 £17.50
25th Percentile £41.31 £55.00 £27.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £59.79 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.83% +34.36% -2.20%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.81 £55.03
90th Percentile £62.50 £69.88 £56.80
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.20
% change year-on-year - +24.50% +18.12%

Groovy
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Groovy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Groovy in Scotland

Groovy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Groovy in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Groovy in Scotland

Groovy
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Groovy in Scotland over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Groovy in Scotland

Groovy
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Groovy within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 17 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +37 11 £581 +17.72%
Glasgow +11 1 £522 +22.82%
South Lanarkshire - 1 £675 -
Groovy
UK

Groovy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (92.86%) AWS
2 12 (85.71%) OpenShift
3 8 (57.14%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (42.86%) Amazon S3
4 6 (42.86%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (42.86%) Serverless
5 5 (35.71%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (35.71%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (35.71%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 5 (35.71%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (35.71%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (7.14%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (21.43%) InfluxDB
2 3 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (7.14%) Apache Hive
3 1 (7.14%) Hadoop
3 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (85.71%) Jenkins
2 7 (50.00%) Maven
3 6 (42.86%) Git
3 6 (42.86%) GitLab
3 6 (42.86%) Gradle
4 5 (35.71%) Artifactory
5 2 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 4 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) AWS Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) AWS DevOps
2 5 (35.71%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Platform Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Site Manager
2 5 (35.71%) Site Reliability Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) JIRA Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Applications Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Operations Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Test Automation Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) AWS CDK
2 3 (21.43%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (7.14%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (78.57%) Linux
2 6 (42.86%) Unix
2 6 (42.86%) Windows
3 5 (35.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (35.71%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 7 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 7 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 7 (50.00%) DevOps
2 7 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (42.86%) Application Security
3 6 (42.86%) OWASP
3 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (35.71%) Containerisation
4 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (35.71%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (35.71%) Service-Level Objective
4 5 (35.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 5 (35.71%) Test Automation
5 4 (28.57%) Agile
5 4 (28.57%) Observability
6 3 (21.43%) Software Delivery
7 2 (14.29%) Kanban
7 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
7 2 (14.29%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 13 (92.86%) Python
2 12 (85.71%) Bash
3 7 (50.00%) Ruby
3 7 (50.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (7.14%) Java
4 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (85.71%) Ansible
1 12 (85.71%) Kubernetes
2 10 (71.43%) Terraform
3 5 (35.71%) Grafana
3 5 (35.71%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Atlassian
1 1 (7.14%) Confluent
1 1 (7.14%) IBM
1 1 (7.14%) Informatica
1 1 (7.14%) StreamSets