Gradle Contract Job Trends in Central London

Gradle
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Gradle skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 125 138
Rank change year-on-year -2 +13 +58
Contract jobs citing Gradle 7 6 7
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.35% 0.26% 0.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.27% 1.95% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 2
10th Percentile £454 £643 £588
25th Percentile £510 £825 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £875 £638
Median % change year-on-year -37.14% +37.25% -15.00%
75th Percentile £615 £913 £669
90th Percentile - £943 £688
London median daily rate £545 £652 £575
% change year-on-year -16.35% +13.30% -17.86%

All Development Application Skills
Central London

Gradle falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 309 308 274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 15.31% 13.17% 10.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 178 193
10th Percentile £357 £371 £351
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £564 £551
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.31% -10.77%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £760 £741 £785
London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.25 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +26.09%
75th Percentile £63.75 - £73.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £56.50 £67.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -16.30% +50.00% -21.74%

Gradle
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Gradle relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Gradle job vacancy trend in Central London

Gradle
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Gradle.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Gradle

Gradle
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Gradle in Central London over the 6 months to 24 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Gradle in Central London

Gradle
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Gradle within the Central London region over the 6 months to 24 December 2025. 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
City of London -1 7 £550 -37.14% 4
Gradle
London

Gradle
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) GCP
1 4 (57.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 3 (42.86%) Slack
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub
4 1 (14.29%) Apigee
4 1 (14.29%) Azure
4 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Figma
4 1 (14.29%) Stackdriver
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) GitLab
2 4 (57.14%) Maven
3 3 (42.86%) Selenium
3 3 (42.86%) SonarQube
4 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
4 2 (28.57%) TeamCity
5 1 (14.29%) Storybook
5 1 (14.29%) Xcode
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Retail Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) GCP Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) D3.js
2 1 (14.29%) GraphQL
2 1 (14.29%) Node.js
2 1 (14.29%) OAuth
2 1 (14.29%) React Native
2 1 (14.29%) SVG
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
1 3 (42.86%) Data Centre
2 2 (28.57%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
3 1 (14.29%) IVR
3 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Android
1 1 (14.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (85.71%) Containerisation
3 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
4 3 (42.86%) Application Packaging
4 3 (42.86%) GitOps
4 3 (42.86%) Incident Management
4 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (42.86%) Migration
4 3 (42.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (42.86%) Workshop Facilitation
5 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
5 2 (28.57%) Trunk-Based Development
6 1 (14.29%) B2C
6 1 (14.29%) Biometrics
6 1 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
6 1 (14.29%) Microservices
6 1 (14.29%) Mobile Application Development
6 1 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) TypeScript
3 2 (28.57%) Python
3 2 (28.57%) Rust
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Kubernetes
2 4 (57.14%) Terraform
3 3 (42.86%) Ansible
3 3 (42.86%) Argo
4 1 (14.29%) Istio
4 1 (14.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) MuleSoft
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk