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 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 438 445 506
Rank change year-on-year +7 +61 -36
Contract jobs citing Gradle 111 35 43
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.13% 0.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.37% 1.00% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 22 27
10th Percentile £315 £454 £285
25th Percentile £380 £522 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £568 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.49% +8.10% -22.22%
75th Percentile £588 £744 £594
90th Percentile £668 £863 £665
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 0 3
10th Percentile £46.00 - £76.50
25th Percentile £52.50 - £76.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £80.00
75th Percentile £61.25 - £82.50
90th Percentile £80.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 - £80.00

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 4,690 3,512 4,415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.09% 13.50% 11.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,248 2,177 3,140
10th Percentile £340 £340 £363
25th Percentile £409 £413 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £535
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% -5.14% -6.96%
75th Percentile £594 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 57 202
10th Percentile £39.00 £38.00 £41.58
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £76.21
90th Percentile £81.60 £76.75 £88.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%

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 9 February 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Gradle in England over the 6 months to 9 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 9 February 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 -16 44 £550 - 6
North of England -30 29 £395 -35.30% 1
South East -1 27 £413 -35.25% 5
North West 0 26 £384 - 1
Midlands -45 5 £575 +26.37%
West Midlands -47 4 £575 +26.37%
Yorkshire -56 3 £586 -3.92%
East Midlands - 1 - -
South West - 1 £500 -
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 (3.60%) OpenStack
2 3 (2.70%) Apache
2 3 (2.70%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.70%) Confluence
3 2 (1.80%) Camunda
4 1 (0.90%) JBoss
4 1 (0.90%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.90%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (1.80%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 37 (33.33%) GitHub
2 36 (32.43%) AWS
3 19 (17.12%) Azure
4 16 (14.41%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (9.01%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (9.01%) Datadog
6 9 (8.11%) GCP
6 9 (8.11%) OpenShift
7 7 (6.31%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (6.31%) Figma
8 6 (5.41%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (5.41%) Amazon S3
8 6 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (5.41%) Serverless
9 5 (4.50%) Azure AKS
10 4 (3.60%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (3.60%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (3.60%) Google Play
10 4 (3.60%) npm
10 4 (3.60%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.50%) Kerberos
2 2 (1.80%) Bluetooth
2 2 (1.80%) DSL
3 1 (0.90%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.90%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (16.22%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (11.71%) NoSQL
3 11 (9.91%) MongoDB
4 9 (8.11%) DynamoDB
4 9 (8.11%) HBase
4 9 (8.11%) Relational Database
5 6 (5.41%) MySQL
6 4 (3.60%) RDBMS
7 3 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.70%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.90%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.90%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.90%) Big Data
8 1 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.90%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.90%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 44 (39.64%) Maven
2 43 (38.74%) Git
3 38 (34.23%) JUnit
4 34 (30.63%) Jenkins
5 25 (22.52%) GitLab
6 19 (17.12%) Sonatype Nexus
7 15 (13.51%) Cucumber
7 15 (13.51%) IntelliJ
8 13 (11.71%) Artifactory
9 11 (9.91%) Android Studio
9 11 (9.91%) Mockito
10 9 (8.11%) Bitbucket
10 9 (8.11%) CircleCI
10 9 (8.11%) Xcode
11 7 (6.31%) JIRA
11 7 (6.31%) Postman
11 7 (6.31%) Selenium
12 6 (5.41%) Cypress.io
13 5 (4.50%) Gatling
13 5 (4.50%) Storybook
General
1 22 (19.82%) Finance
2 17 (15.32%) Banking
3 12 (10.81%) Social Skills
4 8 (7.21%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.60%) Front Office
5 4 (3.60%) Retail Banking
6 1 (0.90%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.90%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.90%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.90%) Law
6 1 (0.90%) Private Banking
6 1 (0.90%) Retail
Job Titles
1 64 (57.66%) Developer
2 33 (29.73%) Java Developer
3 25 (22.52%) Java Engineer
4 22 (19.82%) Senior
5 21 (18.92%) Android Developer
6 18 (16.22%) Software Engineer
7 15 (13.51%) Java Software Engineer
8 12 (10.81%) Senior Developer
8 12 (10.81%) Senior Java Developer
9 11 (9.91%) DevOps Engineer
10 6 (5.41%) AWS Developer
10 6 (5.41%) Senior Java Engineer
11 5 (4.50%) React Developer
12 4 (3.60%) Backend Developer
12 4 (3.60%) Engineering Manager
12 4 (3.60%) Lead
12 4 (3.60%) Senior Software Engineer
13 3 (2.70%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
13 3 (2.70%) Applications Developer
13 3 (2.70%) iOS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (47.75%) Spring
2 46 (41.44%) Spring Boot
3 19 (17.12%) Kafka
3 19 (17.12%) REST
4 16 (14.41%) RESTful
5 15 (13.51%) OpenTelemetry
6 13 (11.71%) Android Jetpack
6 13 (11.71%) Jetpack Compose
7 12 (10.81%) GraphQL
8 9 (8.11%) React
9 8 (7.21%) CSS
9 8 (7.21%) Hibernate
9 8 (7.21%) HTML
9 8 (7.21%) JSON
10 7 (6.31%) AngularJS
10 7 (6.31%) RabbitMQ
10 7 (6.31%) React Native
10 7 (6.31%) RxJava
11 6 (5.41%) JPA
11 6 (5.41%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.71%) Mobile App
2 7 (6.31%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.41%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.41%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (4.50%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.60%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.60%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.60%) Legacy Code
5 4 (3.60%) Private Cloud
5 4 (3.60%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.70%) Derivative
6 3 (2.70%) Equities
6 3 (2.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (2.70%) Mobile Banking
6 3 (2.70%) TWAP
6 3 (2.70%) VWAP
7 2 (1.80%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.80%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.80%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 29 (26.13%) Android
2 14 (12.61%) Linux
3 10 (9.01%) Apple iOS
4 5 (4.50%) Unix
5 4 (3.60%) Windows
6 3 (2.70%) Solaris
7 2 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (48.65%) CI/CD
2 38 (34.23%) DevOps
3 31 (27.93%) Test Automation
4 29 (26.13%) Software Engineering
5 27 (24.32%) Microservices
6 22 (19.82%) Agile
7 20 (18.02%) Android Development
7 20 (18.02%) Containerisation
8 19 (17.12%) TDD
9 18 (16.22%) Design Patterns
9 18 (16.22%) User Experience
10 17 (15.32%) Unit Testing
11 14 (12.61%) Continuous Integration
11 14 (12.61%) OOP
12 13 (11.71%) Event-Driven
13 11 (9.91%) MVVM
13 11 (9.91%) Observability
14 10 (9.01%) Analytics
14 10 (9.01%) Mobile Development
15 9 (8.11%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 77 (69.37%) Java
2 37 (33.33%) Kotlin
3 18 (16.22%) SQL
4 16 (14.41%) Python
5 9 (8.11%) TypeScript
6 8 (7.21%) C++
7 7 (6.31%) JavaScript
8 5 (4.50%) Bash
8 5 (4.50%) PowerShell
8 5 (4.50%) Scala
8 5 (4.50%) Swift
9 4 (3.60%) Objective-C
10 3 (2.70%) C
10 3 (2.70%) Ruby
10 3 (2.70%) Rust
11 2 (1.80%) Go
11 2 (1.80%) Groovy
11 2 (1.80%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.90%) Clojure
12 1 (0.90%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (15.32%) Security Cleared
2 9 (8.11%) OCP
2 9 (8.11%) Oracle Certification
2 9 (8.11%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.41%) Degree
4 4 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.60%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.90%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.90%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.01%) QA
2 9 (8.11%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.80%) NCSC
System Software
1 25 (22.52%) Docker
2 1 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 43 (38.74%) Kubernetes
2 24 (21.62%) Grafana
3 14 (12.61%) Terraform
4 11 (9.91%) Ansible
5 6 (5.41%) Prometheus
5 6 (5.41%) Puppet
6 5 (4.50%) Progress Chef
7 4 (3.60%) Podman
8 1 (0.90%) Argo
Vendors
1 10 (9.01%) Oracle
1 10 (9.01%) Splunk
2 5 (4.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.50%) Red Hat
3 4 (3.60%) Dynatrace
3 4 (3.60%) Google
4 2 (1.80%) New Relic
5 1 (0.90%) Adobe
5 1 (0.90%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.90%) Foundry
5 1 (0.90%) Palantir
5 1 (0.90%) Roku