Groovy Contracts

Apache Groovy
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 495 439 458
Rank change year-on-year -56 +19 -16
Contract jobs citing Groovy 80 258 447
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.46% 0.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.62% 1.35% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 189 315
10th Percentile £405 £450 £429
25th Percentile £450 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £630 £585
Median % change year-on-year -14.68% +7.69% +2.86%
75th Percentile £634 £688 £695
90th Percentile £739 £775 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £522 £520 £510
% change year-on-year +0.38% +1.96% +2.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.81
Median hourly rate - £85.00 £63.62
Median % change year-on-year - +33.62% -
75th Percentile - - £65.42
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £63.62

All Programming Languages
UK

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 with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,939 19,124 31,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.05% 34.12% 36.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,176 13,793 23,095
10th Percentile £350 £388 £388
25th Percentile £425 £461 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £660
90th Percentile £763 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 522 433 488
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.60 £19.52
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +20.77% +17.21%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £61.56
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.95 £71.98
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +28.05%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Groovy in the UK

Groovy
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Groovy over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Groovy in the UK

Groovy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Groovy.

Hourly rate trend for Groovy in the UK

Groovy
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 June 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
England -60 66 £538 -17.31% 28
UK excluding London +20 39 £522 +0.38% 14
London -28 39 £556 -17.59% 15
Work from Home +24 23 £544 -13.00% 17
Scotland +34 14 £540 +8.00% 1
North of England +19 12 £625 +25.00% 1
Yorkshire +24 8 £625 +25.00%
South East +5 6 £538 +2.38% 5
East of England +4 6 £410 -20.62% 2
North West +13 4 - - 1
Midlands +22 2 £450 -16.28% 5
West Midlands +13 2 £450 -16.28% 3

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 18 (22.50%) Confluence
2 5 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.75%) Jupyter
3 3 (3.75%) nginx
4 2 (2.50%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (1.25%) Apache
5 1 (1.25%) JBoss
5 1 (1.25%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.25%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (1.25%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Hyperion Planning
1 1 (1.25%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.25%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 30 (37.50%) AWS
2 24 (30.00%) OpenShift
3 16 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
4 10 (12.50%) Azure
4 10 (12.50%) GCP
5 9 (11.25%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (10.00%) Collibra
7 7 (8.75%) Amazon S3
7 7 (8.75%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (8.75%) CloudBees
7 7 (8.75%) Serverless
8 6 (7.50%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (7.50%) Power Platform
9 5 (6.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 5 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (6.25%) AWS Fargate
9 5 (6.25%) GitHub
9 5 (6.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (5.00%) Azure AKS
11 3 (3.75%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 9 (11.25%) Firewall
2 4 (5.00%) HTTP
3 2 (2.50%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.25%) FTP
4 1 (1.25%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.25%) SNMP
4 1 (1.25%) SSH
4 1 (1.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (21.25%) MongoDB
2 10 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (11.25%) Apache Cassandra
3 9 (11.25%) NoSQL
3 9 (11.25%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (7.50%) Metadata
4 6 (7.50%) Power BI
5 5 (6.25%) SQL Server
6 4 (5.00%) DataStax
7 3 (3.75%) ClickHouse
7 3 (3.75%) InfluxDB
8 2 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (2.50%) Apache Hive
8 2 (2.50%) BigQuery
8 2 (2.50%) Hadoop
8 2 (2.50%) MySQL
8 2 (2.50%) RDBMS
8 2 (2.50%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.25%) Couchbase
9 1 (1.25%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 41 (51.25%) Jenkins
2 26 (32.50%) JIRA
3 15 (18.75%) Git
4 13 (16.25%) GitLab
4 13 (16.25%) Maven
5 9 (11.25%) Bitbucket
6 7 (8.75%) Artifactory
6 7 (8.75%) Eclipse
6 7 (8.75%) PyCharm
7 6 (7.50%) Gradle
7 6 (7.50%) JMeter
8 5 (6.25%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (5.00%) Cucumber
9 4 (5.00%) Gatling
9 4 (5.00%) Selenium
9 4 (5.00%) TeamCity
9 4 (5.00%) WebDriver
10 2 (2.50%) NWDI
10 2 (2.50%) NWDS
10 2 (2.50%) Zephyr
General
1 20 (25.00%) Finance
2 18 (22.50%) Banking
3 7 (8.75%) Social Skills
4 6 (7.50%) Pharmaceutical
4 6 (7.50%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.25%) Manufacturing
6 4 (5.00%) Front Office
7 3 (3.75%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.75%) Aviation
8 2 (2.50%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.25%) Advertising
9 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.25%) Military
Job Titles
1 18 (22.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (16.25%) Developer
3 10 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
4 9 (11.25%) AWS DevOps
4 9 (11.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 9 (11.25%) Lead
5 8 (10.00%) Senior
6 7 (8.75%) Analyst
6 7 (8.75%) Business Analyst
6 7 (8.75%) Lead DevOps
7 6 (7.50%) Consultant
8 5 (6.25%) Administrator
8 5 (6.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 5 (6.25%) JIRA Administrator
8 5 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (6.25%) SAP Consultant
8 5 (6.25%) Site Manager
8 5 (6.25%) Site Reliability Manager
9 4 (5.00%) Data Product Analyst
9 4 (5.00%) Product Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (26.25%) Kafka
2 12 (15.00%) REST
3 7 (8.75%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (6.25%) ActiveMQ
4 5 (6.25%) AWS CDK
4 5 (6.25%) JSON
4 5 (6.25%) SOAP
5 4 (5.00%) FIX Protocol
5 4 (5.00%) IDoc
5 4 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (5.00%) Web Services
5 4 (5.00%) XSLT
6 3 (3.75%) Apache Beam
6 3 (3.75%) Drools
6 3 (3.75%) JWT
6 3 (3.75%) Keycloak
6 3 (3.75%) Node.js
6 3 (3.75%) SAP PI
6 3 (3.75%) Swagger
7 2 (2.50%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 6 (7.50%) Cloud Native
3 5 (6.25%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.25%) CBDC
5 1 (1.25%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.25%) Derivative
5 1 (1.25%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.25%) Life Science
5 1 (1.25%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 24 (30.00%) Linux
2 12 (15.00%) Unix
3 10 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (10.00%) Windows
5 5 (6.25%) Ubuntu
6 4 (5.00%) Mac OS X
7 1 (1.25%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (45.00%) CI/CD
2 32 (40.00%) Agile
2 32 (40.00%) DevOps
3 19 (23.75%) Test Automation
4 16 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
5 14 (17.50%) Containerisation
5 14 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (15.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 11 (13.75%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (13.75%) TDD
8 9 (11.25%) Configuration Management
8 9 (11.25%) Workflow
9 8 (10.00%) Migration
9 8 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
9 8 (10.00%) Scrum
10 7 (8.75%) Data Governance
10 7 (8.75%) Deployment Automation
10 7 (8.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 7 (8.75%) Lean Six Sigma
10 7 (8.75%) Six Sigma
Programming Languages
1 46 (57.50%) Python
2 41 (51.25%) Java
3 27 (33.75%) JavaScript
4 20 (25.00%) Bash
5 18 (22.50%) SQL
6 13 (16.25%) Ruby
6 13 (16.25%) Shell Script
7 10 (12.50%) Scala
8 9 (11.25%) Go
9 4 (5.00%) PL/SQL
9 4 (5.00%) TypeScript
10 2 (2.50%) ABAP
10 2 (2.50%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.25%) C#
11 1 (1.25%) Clojure
11 1 (1.25%) Korn
11 1 (1.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (5.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.75%) Degree
2 3 (3.75%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.25%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.25%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.25%) CISSP
3 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.25%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.75%) GDPR
1 7 (8.75%) Good Clinical Practice
1 7 (8.75%) GxP
2 2 (2.50%) QA
3 1 (1.25%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.25%) MiFID
System Software
1 27 (33.75%) Docker
2 3 (3.75%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (1.25%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.25%) KVM
3 1 (1.25%) OpenAM
3 1 (1.25%) OpenDJ
3 1 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 31 (38.75%) Ansible
1 31 (38.75%) Kubernetes
2 20 (25.00%) Terraform
3 17 (21.25%) Grafana
4 6 (7.50%) Kibana
4 6 (7.50%) Prometheus
4 6 (7.50%) Puppet
5 4 (5.00%) Podman
6 1 (1.25%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (1.25%) logstash
6 1 (1.25%) Packer
6 1 (1.25%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (10.00%) Atlassian
1 8 (10.00%) Splunk
2 7 (8.75%) Oracle
2 7 (8.75%) SAP
3 6 (7.50%) Confluent
4 5 (6.25%) Google
5 3 (3.75%) Avaloq
5 3 (3.75%) Microsoft
5 3 (3.75%) Solace
6 2 (2.50%) AppDynamics
6 2 (2.50%) CyberArk
6 2 (2.50%) IBM
6 2 (2.50%) Informatica
6 2 (2.50%) StreamSets
7 1 (1.25%) Adobe
7 1 (1.25%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.25%) BMC
7 1 (1.25%) Hyperion
7 1 (1.25%) Reuters
7 1 (1.25%) Salesforce