Gradle Contracts in England

Gradle
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Gradle skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Gradle over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 388 499 486
Rank change year-on-year +111 -13 -102
Contract jobs citing Gradle 106 54 149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.41% 0.14% 0.31%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.89% 1.19% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 31 112
10th Percentile £358 £413 £563
25th Percentile £437 £511 £620
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £675
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -18.52% -1.46%
75th Percentile £546 £756 £738
90th Percentile £603 £875 £773
UK median daily rate £530 £588 £675
% change year-on-year -9.79% -12.96% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 8
10th Percentile - - £71.85
25th Percentile - £77.50 £75.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £80.00 £78.91
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +1.39% +9.59%
75th Percentile - £82.50 £87.42
90th Percentile - - £90.00
UK median hourly rate £90.00 £80.00 £78.91
% change year-on-year +12.50% +1.39% +9.59%

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 3,662 4,541 6,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.17% 12.17% 14.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,498 3,046 4,733
10th Percentile £335 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £675
90th Percentile £706 £725 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 233 202
10th Percentile £28.27 £33.01 £48.20
25th Percentile £50.00 £52.50 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.84% +18.10%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +18.84%

Gradle
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Gradle as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Gradle in England

Gradle
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Gradle in England

Gradle
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Gradle in England over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Gradle in England

Gradle
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Gradle in England

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 2 July 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
London +58 54 £535 -2.73% 78
North of England +34 29 £402 -26.91% 3
North West +32 24 £373 -32.27% 3
Midlands +12 10 £425 -27.35% 7
West Midlands +14 5 £425 +1.19% 6
East Midlands +5 5 £395 -47.40% 1
Yorkshire - 5 £520 -
South East +50 1 - - 16
South West +37 1 - - 10
Gradle
UK

Gradle
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 14 (13.21%) Confluence
2 9 (8.49%) Tomcat
3 8 (7.55%) JBoss
4 4 (3.77%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (0.94%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 30 (28.30%) AWS
2 21 (19.81%) GitHub
3 14 (13.21%) Azure
4 12 (11.32%) OpenShift
5 6 (5.66%) GCP
6 5 (4.72%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (4.72%) Serverless
7 4 (3.77%) Amazon EMR
7 4 (3.77%) Amazon Kinesis
7 4 (3.77%) Amazon S3
7 4 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.83%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (1.89%) Apigee
9 2 (1.89%) Azure AKS
9 2 (1.89%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.89%) Stackdriver
10 1 (0.94%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.94%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.83%) SSH
2 2 (1.89%) DMZ
2 2 (1.89%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (38.68%) Relational Database
2 35 (33.02%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (10.38%) MongoDB
4 8 (7.55%) NoSQL
5 7 (6.60%) MySQL
6 3 (2.83%) Redis
7 2 (1.89%) Big Data
7 2 (1.89%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.89%) HPCC
8 1 (0.94%) KDB
8 1 (0.94%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.94%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.94%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 72 (67.92%) Jenkins
2 63 (59.43%) JUnit
3 48 (45.28%) Maven
4 37 (34.91%) Mockito
5 30 (28.30%) Liquibase
6 27 (25.47%) JIRA
7 25 (23.58%) Git
8 19 (17.92%) IntelliJ
9 18 (16.98%) GitLab
10 13 (12.26%) Sonatype Nexus
11 12 (11.32%) Selenium
12 11 (10.38%) Cucumber
13 8 (7.55%) HP UFT
14 7 (6.60%) SonarQube
15 6 (5.66%) Eclipse
15 6 (5.66%) Subversion
15 6 (5.66%) Xcode
16 5 (4.72%) Artifactory
16 5 (4.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 5 (4.72%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 46 (43.40%) Finance
2 23 (21.70%) Telecoms
3 22 (20.75%) Social Skills
4 21 (19.81%) Electronics
4 21 (19.81%) Manufacturing
4 21 (19.81%) Marketing
4 21 (19.81%) Public Sector
5 14 (13.21%) Banking
6 12 (11.32%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.83%) Retail
8 2 (1.89%) Front Office
8 2 (1.89%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.94%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 70 (66.04%) Developer
2 50 (47.17%) Java Developer
3 18 (16.98%) Senior
4 17 (16.04%) Senior Developer
4 17 (16.04%) Senior Java Developer
5 16 (15.09%) Java Engineer
6 15 (14.15%) Java Software Engineer
6 15 (14.15%) Software Engineer
7 13 (12.26%) Lead
7 13 (12.26%) Lead Developer
7 13 (12.26%) React Developer
8 12 (11.32%) Lead Java Developer
9 11 (10.38%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 10 (9.43%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
11 7 (6.60%) Android Developer
12 6 (5.66%) DevOps Engineer
13 5 (4.72%) Azure Engineer
14 4 (3.77%) AWS Developer
14 4 (3.77%) iOS Developer
15 3 (2.83%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (61.32%) Spring
2 53 (50.00%) Spring Boot
3 44 (41.51%) Kafka
4 33 (31.13%) OpenAPI
4 33 (31.13%) Swagger
5 31 (29.25%) React
6 13 (12.26%) HTML
6 13 (12.26%) REST
7 10 (9.43%) RESTful
8 9 (8.49%) Hibernate
9 8 (7.55%) CSS
9 8 (7.55%) SOAP
10 7 (6.60%) JPA
10 7 (6.60%) Spring Cloud
10 7 (6.60%) Spring MVC
11 6 (5.66%) RxJava
11 6 (5.66%) Web Services
12 5 (4.72%) J2EE
12 5 (4.72%) JMS
12 5 (4.72%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.66%) Data Structures
1 6 (5.66%) Mobile App
2 5 (4.72%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.77%) Mobile Banking
4 3 (2.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (2.83%) Mainframe
4 3 (2.83%) PKI
5 2 (1.89%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.89%) Equities
5 2 (1.89%) IVR
6 1 (0.94%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.94%) Derivative
6 1 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.94%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.94%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (18.87%) Linux
2 16 (15.09%) Android
2 16 (15.09%) Unix
3 6 (5.66%) Apple iOS
4 4 (3.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.77%) Windows
5 2 (1.89%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (53.77%) CI/CD
2 56 (52.83%) Microservices
3 52 (49.06%) Agile
3 52 (49.06%) DevOps
4 50 (47.17%) TDD
5 46 (43.40%) Software Engineering
6 39 (36.79%) Containerisation
7 32 (30.19%) Migration
8 26 (24.53%) Continuous Integration
9 22 (20.75%) Design Patterns
10 21 (19.81%) Business Intelligence
10 21 (19.81%) Digital Marketing
10 21 (19.81%) Programme Management
11 16 (15.09%) Architectural Patterns
12 15 (14.15%) Event-Driven
12 15 (14.15%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 14 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
13 14 (13.21%) Test Automation
14 13 (12.26%) Build Automation
14 13 (12.26%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 94 (88.68%) Java
2 40 (37.74%) SQL
3 35 (33.02%) TypeScript
4 15 (14.15%) Python
5 14 (13.21%) Kotlin
6 10 (9.43%) JavaScript
6 10 (9.43%) Shell Script
7 9 (8.49%) C++
8 7 (6.60%) C
9 4 (3.77%) Bash
9 4 (3.77%) Objective-C
9 4 (3.77%) Ruby
9 4 (3.77%) Scala
9 4 (3.77%) Swift
10 2 (1.89%) JSX
10 2 (1.89%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.89%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 37 (34.91%) SC Cleared
1 37 (34.91%) Security Cleared
2 9 (8.49%) Degree
3 4 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.66%) QA
2 4 (3.77%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 48 (45.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (18.87%) Kubernetes
2 10 (9.43%) Terraform
3 6 (5.66%) Ansible
3 6 (5.66%) Puppet
4 4 (3.77%) Grafana
4 4 (3.77%) Progress Chef
5 3 (2.83%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.89%) Argo
6 2 (1.89%) Istio
7 1 (0.94%) Kibana
Vendors
1 22 (20.75%) SAP
2 11 (10.38%) Oracle
3 7 (6.60%) Splunk
4 6 (5.66%) Google
5 5 (4.72%) Microsoft
6 4 (3.77%) CA Agile Central
7 3 (2.83%) Sybase
8 2 (1.89%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.89%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.94%) Adobe
9 1 (0.94%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.94%) ION Trading
9 1 (0.94%) Remedy
9 1 (0.94%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.94%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.94%) Sonatype