Groovy Contracts in the UK excluding London

Apache Groovy
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 355 390 380
Rank change year-on-year +35 -10 -22
Contract jobs citing Groovy 39 56 121
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.24% 0.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.81% 0.84% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 43 91
10th Percentile £404 £379 £383
25th Percentile £405 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.57% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £634 £626 £625
90th Percentile £655 £715 £638
UK median daily rate £538 £631 £585
% change year-on-year -14.82% +7.86% +6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.81
Median hourly rate - - £63.62
75th Percentile - - £65.42
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £85.00 £63.62
% change year-on-year - +33.62% -

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,791 6,633 8,801
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.64% 28.68% 28.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,228 4,683 6,147
10th Percentile £313 £350 £338
25th Percentile £400 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +1.01% +15.79%
75th Percentile £588 £591 £575
90th Percentile £650 £676 £650
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 409 329 332
10th Percentile £37.93 £23.08 £17.03
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.00 £29.13
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% +24.82%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £77.00 £68.68
UK median hourly rate £62.36 £60.70 £50.10
% change year-on-year +2.73% +21.16% +17.03%

Groovy
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Groovy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Groovy in the UK excluding London

Groovy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Groovy in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Groovy in the UK excluding London

Groovy
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Groovy in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Groovy in the UK excluding London

Groovy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Groovy in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Groovy in the UK excluding London

Groovy
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Groovy within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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
Scotland +42 14 £540 +9.37% 1
North of England +25 12 £625 +8.70% 7
Yorkshire +25 8 £625 +25.00% 3
South East +14 6 £538 +2.38% 6
East of England +11 6 £410 -20.62% 2
North West +7 4 - - 4
West Midlands +19 2 £450 -18.18% 5
Midlands +16 2 £450 -18.18% 7
Groovy
UK

Groovy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 9 (23.08%) Confluence
2 4 (10.26%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (7.69%) Jupyter
3 3 (7.69%) nginx
4 1 (2.56%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Hyperion Planning
1 1 (2.56%) NetSuite
1 1 (2.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 15 (38.46%) AWS
2 12 (30.77%) OpenShift
3 9 (23.08%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (15.38%) Amazon S3
4 6 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (15.38%) CloudBees
4 6 (15.38%) Collibra
4 6 (15.38%) Power Platform
4 6 (15.38%) Serverless
5 5 (12.82%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (12.82%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (12.82%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 5 (12.82%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (12.82%) AWS Fargate
5 5 (12.82%) GCP
6 3 (7.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (5.13%) Google Compute Engine
8 1 (2.56%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (2.56%) Boomi
8 1 (2.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (23.08%) Firewall
2 4 (10.26%) HTTP
3 1 (2.56%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.08%) MongoDB
2 6 (15.38%) Metadata
2 6 (15.38%) Power BI
3 5 (12.82%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (12.82%) NoSQL
4 4 (10.26%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (10.26%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (7.69%) ClickHouse
5 3 (7.69%) InfluxDB
6 2 (5.13%) BigQuery
7 1 (2.56%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (2.56%) Apache Hive
7 1 (2.56%) Essbase
7 1 (2.56%) Hadoop
7 1 (2.56%) MySQL
7 1 (2.56%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (2.56%) RDBMS
7 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 23 (58.97%) Jenkins
2 14 (35.90%) JIRA
3 10 (25.64%) Git
4 7 (17.95%) Maven
5 6 (15.38%) Eclipse
5 6 (15.38%) GitLab
5 6 (15.38%) Gradle
5 6 (15.38%) PyCharm
6 5 (12.82%) Artifactory
7 4 (10.26%) Cucumber
7 4 (10.26%) Gatling
7 4 (10.26%) JMeter
7 4 (10.26%) Selenium
7 4 (10.26%) WebDriver
8 2 (5.13%) Bitbucket
8 2 (5.13%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (2.56%) NWDI
9 1 (2.56%) NWDS
General
1 6 (15.38%) Pharmaceutical
2 5 (12.82%) Finance
2 5 (12.82%) Manufacturing
2 5 (12.82%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.26%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.13%) Banking
5 1 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (20.51%) AWS Engineer
1 8 (20.51%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (17.95%) AWS DevOps
2 7 (17.95%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 6 (15.38%) Analyst
3 6 (15.38%) Business Analyst
4 5 (12.82%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 5 (12.82%) Platform Engineer
4 5 (12.82%) Senior
4 5 (12.82%) Site Manager
4 5 (12.82%) Site Reliability Manager
5 4 (10.26%) Data Analyst
5 4 (10.26%) Data Business Analyst
5 4 (10.26%) Data Product Analyst
5 4 (10.26%) Developer
5 4 (10.26%) Product Analyst
5 4 (10.26%) Product Business Analyst
5 4 (10.26%) Product Owner
5 4 (10.26%) Senior Test Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (23.08%) Kafka
2 5 (12.82%) AWS CDK
3 4 (10.26%) ActiveMQ
3 4 (10.26%) Web Services
4 3 (7.69%) Apache Beam
4 3 (7.69%) Keycloak
4 3 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (5.13%) REST
5 2 (5.13%) SOAP
5 2 (5.13%) XSLT
6 1 (2.56%) IDoc
6 1 (2.56%) JSON
6 1 (2.56%) Regular Expression
6 1 (2.56%) WSDL
6 1 (2.56%) XML
6 1 (2.56%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.51%) Product Ownership
2 5 (12.82%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.56%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (35.90%) Linux
2 11 (28.21%) Unix
3 7 (17.95%) Windows
4 5 (12.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (12.82%) Ubuntu
5 4 (10.26%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (51.28%) CI/CD
2 15 (38.46%) DevOps
3 14 (35.90%) Agile
3 14 (35.90%) Continuous Integration
4 10 (25.64%) Containerisation
4 10 (25.64%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (23.08%) Test Automation
6 8 (20.51%) Root Cause Analysis
7 7 (17.95%) Configuration Management
7 7 (17.95%) Deployment Automation
7 7 (17.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 7 (17.95%) TDD
7 7 (17.95%) Workflow
8 6 (15.38%) Application Security
8 6 (15.38%) BDD
8 6 (15.38%) Data Governance
8 6 (15.38%) Lean Six Sigma
8 6 (15.38%) OWASP
8 6 (15.38%) Six Sigma
Programming Languages
1 26 (66.67%) Python
2 18 (46.15%) Java
3 13 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 12 (30.77%) Bash
4 12 (30.77%) Shell Script
5 11 (28.21%) Ruby
6 8 (20.51%) Scala
7 4 (10.26%) Go
8 3 (7.69%) SQL
9 1 (2.56%) ABAP
9 1 (2.56%) PowerShell
9 1 (2.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (5.13%) SC Cleared
1 2 (5.13%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.56%) Degree
2 1 (2.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.38%) GDPR
1 6 (15.38%) Good Clinical Practice
1 6 (15.38%) GxP
System Software
1 10 (25.64%) Docker
2 3 (7.69%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 19 (48.72%) Ansible
2 17 (43.59%) Terraform
3 16 (41.03%) Kubernetes
4 8 (20.51%) Grafana
5 5 (12.82%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (7.69%) Atlassian
1 3 (7.69%) SAP
2 2 (5.13%) Google
3 1 (2.56%) BMC
3 1 (2.56%) Confluent
3 1 (2.56%) Hyperion
3 1 (2.56%) IBM
3 1 (2.56%) Informatica
3 1 (2.56%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle
3 1 (2.56%) Remedy
3 1 (2.56%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.56%) StreamSets