Gradle Contract Job Trends in England

Gradle
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Gradle skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 521 400 479
Rank change year-on-year -121 +79 +14
Contract jobs citing Gradle 108 117 48
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.24% 0.42% 0.14%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.08% 2.88% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 87 30
10th Percentile £303 £358 £525
25th Percentile £425 £393 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £652
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -18.65% -4.89%
75th Percentile £538 £555 £863
90th Percentile £621 £609 £914
UK median daily rate £485 £530 £603
% change year-on-year -8.49% -12.11% -10.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Median hourly rate £76.00 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% - -
UK median hourly rate £76.00 £90.00 -
% change year-on-year -15.56% - -

All Development Application Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,200 4,065 4,322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.38% 14.76% 13.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,308 2,815 2,824
10th Percentile £358 £325 £353
25th Percentile £415 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £625
90th Percentile £694 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 97 181
10th Percentile £36.25 £41.35 £33.07
25th Percentile £57.75 £51.06 £54.00
Median hourly rate £68.11 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.78% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.98 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - -

Gradle
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Gradle job vacancy trend in England

Gradle
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Gradle.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Gradle

Gradle
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Gradle in England over the 6 months to 25 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Gradle in England

Gradle
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Gradle.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Gradle

Gradle
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Gradle within the England region over the 6 months to 25 August 2026. 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
London -62 61 £525 -2.10% 51
North of England -87 24 £500 +33.33% 4
Yorkshire -34 12 £500 +13.93%
East of England - 11 £495 -
North West -68 8 £537 +43.20% 3
South East -63 6 £270 -57.48% 4
North East - 4 £450 - 1
Midlands -65 3 £455 +6.06% 2
East Midlands -19 2 £335 -21.91% 1
South West -41 2 - - 6
West Midlands -47 1 £575 +17.95% 1
Gradle
UK

Gradle
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (6.48%) Confluence
2 5 (4.63%) Camunda
3 4 (3.70%) Apache
3 4 (3.70%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.85%) Anypoint
4 2 (1.85%) Mule
5 1 (0.93%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (1.85%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 36 (33.33%) GitHub
2 33 (30.56%) Azure
3 30 (27.78%) AWS
4 26 (24.07%) GitHub Actions
5 19 (17.59%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (17.59%) OpenShift
6 16 (14.81%) GCP
7 9 (8.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 6 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (5.56%) Apigee
8 6 (5.56%) Firebase
8 6 (5.56%) Google Play
8 6 (5.56%) Kong
9 5 (4.63%) Cloud Run
10 4 (3.70%) Apple Pay
11 3 (2.78%) Amazon Kinesis
11 3 (2.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (2.78%) GitHub Copilot
11 3 (2.78%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.70%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (1.85%) Firewall
3 1 (0.93%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.93%) DSL
3 1 (0.93%) HTTP
3 1 (0.93%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (16.67%) Relational Database
3 11 (10.19%) MongoDB
4 9 (8.33%) SQL Server
5 6 (5.56%) NoSQL
5 6 (5.56%) RDBMS
6 5 (4.63%) DynamoDB
6 5 (4.63%) Hazelcast
6 5 (4.63%) Redis
7 4 (3.70%) Flink
7 4 (3.70%) MySQL
8 3 (2.78%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.93%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.93%) Db2
9 1 (0.93%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.93%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 60 (55.56%) Jenkins
2 51 (47.22%) Git
3 46 (42.59%) Maven
4 43 (39.81%) JUnit
5 33 (30.56%) GitLab
6 24 (22.22%) Mockito
7 16 (14.81%) Liquibase
8 15 (13.89%) SonarQube
9 12 (11.11%) REST Assured
10 9 (8.33%) JIRA
11 8 (7.41%) Selenium
11 8 (7.41%) Sonatype Nexus
12 7 (6.48%) CircleCI
12 7 (6.48%) Cucumber
13 6 (5.56%) Android Studio
13 6 (5.56%) fastlane
14 5 (4.63%) Bitbucket Server
14 5 (4.63%) Crashlytics
14 5 (4.63%) Snyk
15 4 (3.70%) Gatling
General
1 19 (17.59%) Banking
1 19 (17.59%) Finance
2 18 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (15.74%) Social Skills
4 9 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 7 (6.48%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (4.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.63%) Law
7 1 (0.93%) Games
7 1 (0.93%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 71 (65.74%) Developer
2 54 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 22 (20.37%) Senior
4 14 (12.96%) Java Engineer
4 14 (12.96%) Software Engineer
5 13 (12.04%) Senior Developer
6 12 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
6 12 (11.11%) Software Developer
7 11 (10.19%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 9 (8.33%) Java Software Developer
9 8 (7.41%) Android Developer
10 7 (6.48%) Java Software Engineer
11 6 (5.56%) Backend Developer
12 5 (4.63%) Mid-Level Java Developer
13 4 (3.70%) Oracle Developer
13 4 (3.70%) Senior Backend Developer
14 3 (2.78%) Android Engineer
14 3 (2.78%) Applications Engineer
14 3 (2.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 3 (2.78%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (73.15%) Spring Boot
2 71 (65.74%) Spring
3 54 (50.00%) Kafka
4 42 (38.89%) React
5 30 (27.78%) REST
6 29 (26.85%) RESTful
7 19 (17.59%) Hibernate
7 19 (17.59%) OpenAPI
7 19 (17.59%) Swagger
8 18 (16.67%) Redux
9 13 (12.04%) Android Jetpack
10 12 (11.11%) Jetpack Compose
10 12 (11.11%) JPA
11 11 (10.19%) HTML
12 10 (9.26%) CSS
13 9 (8.33%) OpenTelemetry
14 8 (7.41%) Terraform
14 8 (7.41%) WireMock
15 7 (6.48%) JWT
15 7 (6.48%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.96%) Mobile App
2 12 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 11 (10.19%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (10.19%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (5.56%) Cloud Native
4 6 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (4.63%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 2 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.85%) Legacy Code
8 2 (1.85%) PKI
8 2 (1.85%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.93%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.93%) IoT
9 1 (0.93%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.93%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.93%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 13 (12.04%) Android
2 9 (8.33%) Linux
3 4 (3.70%) Unix
4 1 (0.93%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (79.63%) CI/CD
2 65 (60.19%) Agile
3 63 (58.33%) Microservices
4 49 (45.37%) DevOps
4 49 (45.37%) TDD
5 48 (44.44%) Test Automation
6 40 (37.04%) Containerisation
7 38 (35.19%) Software Engineering
8 22 (20.37%) Clean Code
8 22 (20.37%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (20.37%) Scrum
9 21 (19.44%) Event-Driven
10 19 (17.59%) Observability
11 16 (14.81%) Design Patterns
12 15 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (12.96%) Secure Coding
13 14 (12.96%) User Stories
14 13 (12.04%) API Development
14 13 (12.04%) Full-Stack Development
15 12 (11.11%) Android Development
Programming Languages
1 100 (92.59%) Java
2 65 (60.19%) SQL
3 18 (16.67%) TypeScript
4 15 (13.89%) JavaScript
5 14 (12.96%) Kotlin
6 12 (11.11%) PL/SQL
7 8 (7.41%) Python
8 2 (1.85%) Bash
8 2 (1.85%) Korn
8 2 (1.85%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.93%) C#
Qualifications
1 35 (32.41%) Security Cleared
2 30 (27.78%) SC Cleared
3 10 (9.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (9.26%) Degree
4 2 (1.85%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.93%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.93%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (15.74%) QA
2 9 (8.33%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.63%) WCAG
4 4 (3.70%) ISO 20022
4 4 (3.70%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.93%) GDPR
5 1 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.93%) SEPA
System Software
1 44 (40.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (30.56%) Kubernetes
2 17 (15.74%) Ansible
3 12 (11.11%) Control-M
4 10 (9.26%) Grafana
4 10 (9.26%) Prometheus
5 5 (4.63%) Argo
6 2 (1.85%) Istio
7 1 (0.93%) Podman
7 1 (0.93%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.93%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (22.22%) Oracle
2 9 (8.33%) Google
3 8 (7.41%) Splunk
4 7 (6.48%) Dynatrace
4 7 (6.48%) IBM
5 5 (4.63%) Veracode
6 3 (2.78%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.85%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.85%) Sybase
8 1 (0.93%) Confluent
8 1 (0.93%) Databricks
8 1 (0.93%) Solace
8 1 (0.93%) TIBCO