Groovy Contracts with Work from Home Options

Apache Groovy
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Groovy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Groovy over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 316 344 389
Rank change year-on-year +28 +45 -68
Contract jobs citing Groovy 25 113 243
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.17% 0.47% 0.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.49% 1.30% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 93 188
10th Percentile £509 £478 £456
25th Percentile £513 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £625 £593
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +5.49% -5.20%
75th Percentile £638 £738 £800
90th Percentile £750 £775 -
UK median daily rate £538 £628 £585
% change year-on-year -14.34% +7.26% +1.74%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

Groovy falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,080 8,696 16,767
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 34.43% 36.42% 38.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,656 6,423 12,512
10th Percentile £356 £381 £381
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £672 £638
90th Percentile £800 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 187 184
10th Percentile £29.38 £26.96 £20.25
25th Percentile £44.88 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +25.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £62.69
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.25
% change year-on-year - +19.62% +16.76%

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
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Groovy daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Groovy
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Groovy over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Groovy daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Groovy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (36.00%) Confluence
2 2 (8.00%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (4.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 9 (36.00%) AWS
2 8 (32.00%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (28.00%) Amazon S3
3 7 (28.00%) OpenShift
4 6 (24.00%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (24.00%) Serverless
5 4 (16.00%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (16.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 4 (16.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (16.00%) AWS Fargate
6 3 (12.00%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (12.00%) GCP
7 2 (8.00%) Azure
7 2 (8.00%) CloudBees
7 2 (8.00%) Collibra
7 2 (8.00%) Google Compute Engine
8 1 (4.00%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (4.00%) Azure AKS
8 1 (4.00%) GitHub
8 1 (4.00%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (32.00%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (16.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (12.00%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (12.00%) DataStax
3 3 (12.00%) InfluxDB
4 2 (8.00%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (8.00%) Apache Hive
4 2 (8.00%) BigQuery
4 2 (8.00%) Hadoop
4 2 (8.00%) MongoDB
4 2 (8.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (36.00%) JIRA
2 8 (32.00%) Jenkins
3 7 (28.00%) GitLab
4 6 (24.00%) Bitbucket
5 4 (16.00%) Artifactory
6 3 (12.00%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (4.00%) Eclipse
7 1 (4.00%) Gradle
7 1 (4.00%) JUnit
7 1 (4.00%) NWDI
7 1 (4.00%) NWDS
7 1 (4.00%) PyCharm
7 1 (4.00%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (44.00%) Banking
2 10 (40.00%) Finance
3 4 (16.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Military
5 1 (4.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Developer
3 5 (20.00%) Lead
3 5 (20.00%) Lead DevOps
4 4 (16.00%) AWS DevOps
4 4 (16.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Administrator
5 3 (12.00%) JIRA Administrator
6 2 (8.00%) Senior
6 2 (8.00%) Senior Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Analyst
7 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Consultant
7 1 (4.00%) DevOps Specialist
7 1 (4.00%) SAP Consultant
7 1 (4.00%) SAP Integration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (24.00%) Kafka
2 4 (16.00%) AWS CDK
2 4 (16.00%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (16.00%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (4.00%) .NET
3 1 (4.00%) CSS
3 1 (4.00%) CSS3
3 1 (4.00%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (4.00%) HTML
3 1 (4.00%) HTML5
3 1 (4.00%) IDoc
3 1 (4.00%) jQuery
3 1 (4.00%) REST
3 1 (4.00%) SOAP
3 1 (4.00%) Spring
3 1 (4.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.00%) XSLT
3 1 (4.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.00%) CBDC
2 1 (4.00%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.00%) Linux
2 4 (16.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (16.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (56.00%) CI/CD
1 14 (56.00%) DevOps
2 13 (52.00%) Agile
3 9 (36.00%) Test Automation
4 7 (28.00%) Containerisation
4 7 (28.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (16.00%) Observability
5 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (16.00%) Scrum
6 3 (12.00%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (12.00%) Kanban
6 3 (12.00%) Mentoring
6 3 (12.00%) Performance Metrics
6 3 (12.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (12.00%) Software Delivery
6 3 (12.00%) TDD
7 2 (8.00%) Auto-Scaling
7 2 (8.00%) Data Engineering
7 2 (8.00%) ETL Development
7 2 (8.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 14 (56.00%) Python
2 13 (52.00%) Java
3 8 (32.00%) Bash
4 6 (24.00%) SQL
5 5 (20.00%) JavaScript
6 3 (12.00%) Go
6 3 (12.00%) PL/SQL
7 2 (8.00%) TypeScript
8 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
8 1 (4.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (4.00%) Degree
1 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.00%) GDPR
1 1 (4.00%) Good Clinical Practice
1 1 (4.00%) GxP
1 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (24.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (44.00%) Ansible
1 11 (44.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (28.00%) Terraform
3 6 (24.00%) Grafana
4 5 (20.00%) Kibana
5 4 (16.00%) Puppet
6 1 (4.00%) logstash
6 1 (4.00%) Packer
6 1 (4.00%) Progress Chef
6 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Confluent
2 3 (12.00%) Atlassian
2 3 (12.00%) Avaloq
2 3 (12.00%) Google
3 2 (8.00%) IBM
3 2 (8.00%) Informatica
3 2 (8.00%) StreamSets
4 1 (4.00%) Adobe
4 1 (4.00%) SAP
4 1 (4.00%) Solace
4 1 (4.00%) Splunk