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 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 524 407 493
Rank change year-on-year -117 +86 -14
Contract jobs citing Gradle 101 105 54
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.22% 0.38% 0.16%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.91% 2.68% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 76 37
10th Percentile £290 £358 £424
25th Percentile £425 £437 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.13% -3.64% -18.52%
75th Percentile £538 £565 £775
90th Percentile £614 £615 £875
UK median daily rate £455 £530 £594
% change year-on-year -14.15% -10.74% -12.04%
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 5,279 3,922 4,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.71% 14.29% 12.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,366 2,705 2,884
10th Percentile £350 £321 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £631
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 93 205
10th Percentile £28.97 £40.50 £31.71
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.60 £73.90
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 -64 56 £525 -2.10% 5
North of England -85 18 £450 +20.00% 4
East of England - 11 £495 -
Yorkshire -36 10 £500 -3.80% 2
South East -61 10 £273 -57.01% 2
North West -68 4 £500 +35.14% 2
North East - 4 £450 -
Midlands -56 3 £575 +43.75% 2
East Midlands -15 2 - -
South West -34 2 - -
West Midlands -54 1 £575 +43.75% 2
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 4 (3.96%) Apache
1 4 (3.96%) Apache Spark
1 4 (3.96%) Confluence
2 2 (1.98%) Anypoint
2 2 (1.98%) Camunda
2 2 (1.98%) Mule
3 1 (0.99%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (1.98%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 38 (37.62%) GitHub
2 29 (28.71%) Azure
2 29 (28.71%) GitHub Actions
3 27 (26.73%) AWS
4 16 (15.84%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (14.85%) GCP
6 14 (13.86%) OpenShift
7 7 (6.93%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 6 (5.94%) Firebase
8 6 (5.94%) Google Play
9 5 (4.95%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (4.95%) Apigee
10 4 (3.96%) Apple Pay
10 4 (3.96%) Cloud Run
10 4 (3.96%) Kong
11 3 (2.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (2.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (2.97%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (2.97%) GitHub Copilot
11 3 (2.97%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.96%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (1.98%) DSL
2 2 (1.98%) Firewall
2 2 (1.98%) HTTP
3 1 (0.99%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.99%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (21.78%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (14.85%) Relational Database
3 10 (9.90%) MongoDB
4 6 (5.94%) SQL Server
5 5 (4.95%) DynamoDB
5 5 (4.95%) NoSQL
6 4 (3.96%) Flink
6 4 (3.96%) Hazelcast
6 4 (3.96%) MySQL
6 4 (3.96%) RDBMS
6 4 (3.96%) Redis
7 3 (2.97%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.99%) Db2
8 1 (0.99%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.99%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 47 (46.53%) Jenkins
2 44 (43.56%) Git
3 39 (38.61%) JUnit
4 38 (37.62%) Maven
5 29 (28.71%) GitLab
6 18 (17.82%) Mockito
7 14 (13.86%) Liquibase
8 11 (10.89%) SonarQube
9 10 (9.90%) CircleCI
10 9 (8.91%) REST Assured
11 7 (6.93%) fastlane
12 6 (5.94%) Android Studio
12 6 (5.94%) Cucumber
13 5 (4.95%) Crashlytics
13 5 (4.95%) Gatling
13 5 (4.95%) Selenium
13 5 (4.95%) Snyk
13 5 (4.95%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (4.95%) TestNG
14 4 (3.96%) Postman
General
1 16 (15.84%) Analytical Skills
1 16 (15.84%) Social Skills
2 13 (12.87%) Banking
2 13 (12.87%) Finance
3 8 (7.92%) Public Sector
4 6 (5.94%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (4.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (4.95%) Law
6 1 (0.99%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 64 (63.37%) Developer
2 50 (49.50%) Java Developer
3 19 (18.81%) Senior
4 13 (12.87%) Senior Developer
5 12 (11.88%) Java Engineer
5 12 (11.88%) Senior Java Developer
6 11 (10.89%) Software Developer
6 11 (10.89%) Software Engineer
7 9 (8.91%) Android Developer
7 9 (8.91%) Java Software Developer
7 9 (8.91%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 6 (5.94%) Java Software Engineer
9 5 (4.95%) Android Engineer
9 5 (4.95%) Backend Developer
9 5 (4.95%) Mid-Level Java Developer
10 4 (3.96%) Applications Engineer
10 4 (3.96%) Oracle Developer
10 4 (3.96%) Senior Backend Developer
11 3 (2.97%) DevOps Engineer
12 2 (1.98%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (69.31%) Spring Boot
2 66 (65.35%) Spring
3 41 (40.59%) Kafka
4 34 (33.66%) React
5 30 (29.70%) REST
6 26 (25.74%) RESTful
7 17 (16.83%) OpenAPI
7 17 (16.83%) Swagger
8 16 (15.84%) Android Jetpack
9 15 (14.85%) Hibernate
9 15 (14.85%) Jetpack Compose
10 14 (13.86%) Redux
11 9 (8.91%) RxJava
11 9 (8.91%) WireMock
12 8 (7.92%) JPA
12 8 (7.92%) OpenTelemetry
13 7 (6.93%) HTML
14 6 (5.94%) Android SDK
14 6 (5.94%) CSS
14 6 (5.94%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.85%) Mobile App
2 13 (12.87%) Product Ownership
3 10 (9.90%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (9.90%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (5.94%) Cloud Native
5 5 (4.95%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (4.95%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (4.95%) Legacy Code
6 4 (3.96%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.96%) Virtual Team
7 3 (2.97%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.98%) PKI
9 1 (0.99%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.99%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.99%) IoT
9 1 (0.99%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.99%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.99%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.99%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 17 (16.83%) Android
2 7 (6.93%) Linux
3 3 (2.97%) Unix
4 1 (0.99%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.99%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (75.25%) CI/CD
2 56 (55.45%) Agile
3 55 (54.46%) Microservices
4 43 (42.57%) TDD
5 41 (40.59%) Test Automation
6 39 (38.61%) DevOps
7 36 (35.64%) Containerisation
8 34 (33.66%) Software Engineering
9 19 (18.81%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (17.82%) Clean Code
10 18 (17.82%) Observability
11 17 (16.83%) Scrum
12 16 (15.84%) Design Patterns
12 16 (15.84%) Event-Driven
13 14 (13.86%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (13.86%) Secure Coding
14 13 (12.87%) Android Development
14 13 (12.87%) Architectural Patterns
15 11 (10.89%) High Availability
15 11 (10.89%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 89 (88.12%) Java
2 54 (53.47%) SQL
3 21 (20.79%) Kotlin
4 16 (15.84%) TypeScript
5 11 (10.89%) PL/SQL
6 9 (8.91%) JavaScript
7 6 (5.94%) Python
8 2 (1.98%) Bash
8 2 (1.98%) Korn
8 2 (1.98%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (27.72%) Security Cleared
2 24 (23.76%) SC Cleared
3 11 (10.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (10.89%) Degree
4 1 (0.99%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (15.84%) QA
2 8 (7.92%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.95%) WCAG
4 4 (3.96%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.98%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.99%) GDPR
6 1 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.99%) SEPA
System Software
1 37 (36.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (27.72%) Kubernetes
2 17 (16.83%) Ansible
3 11 (10.89%) Control-M
4 9 (8.91%) Grafana
4 9 (8.91%) Prometheus
5 7 (6.93%) Terraform
6 4 (3.96%) Argo
7 2 (1.98%) Istio
8 1 (0.99%) Podman
8 1 (0.99%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.99%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (19.80%) Oracle
2 9 (8.91%) Google
3 8 (7.92%) Dynatrace
4 7 (6.93%) Splunk
5 4 (3.96%) IBM
6 3 (2.97%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.98%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.98%) Sybase
7 2 (1.98%) Veracode
8 1 (0.99%) Solace
8 1 (0.99%) TIBCO