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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 422 469 514
Rank change year-on-year +47 +45 -57
Contract jobs citing Gradle 108 45 63
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.35% 0.15% 0.16%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.31% 1.11% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 30 44
10th Percentile £347 £525 £300
25th Percentile £393 £550 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £713 £650
Median % change year-on-year -25.12% +9.62% -1.52%
75th Percentile £588 £863 £738
90th Percentile £641 £914 £768
UK median daily rate £529 £700 £575
% change year-on-year -24.39% +21.74% -12.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £43.00 - £76.63
25th Percentile £47.50 - £77.19
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £81.41
75th Percentile £62.50 - £87.42
90th Percentile £67.00 - £88.97
UK median hourly rate £55.00 - £81.41
% change year-on-year - - -4.23%

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 4,671 4,058 4,961
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.33% 13.14% 12.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,259 2,509 3,521
10th Percentile £330 £347 £375
25th Percentile £407 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £645
90th Percentile £699 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £540
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.79% -1.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 116 220
10th Percentile £39.00 £43.50 £45.88
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.08 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £84.20 £75.00 £86.78
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +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 25 November 2025.

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 25 November 2025.

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 25 November 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 +23 46 £543 -23.79% 11
North of England -18 31 £370 - 1
North West +2 24 £375 - 1
South East +13 20 £473 -34.19% 18
Yorkshire - 7 £354 -
Midlands -30 6 £575 -23.33%
West Midlands - 5 £575 -
South West -3 1 - - 1
East Midlands -15 1 £360 -52.00%
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 8 (7.41%) Tomcat
2 7 (6.48%) JBoss
3 4 (3.70%) OpenStack
4 3 (2.78%) Apache
4 3 (2.78%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.85%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 36 (33.33%) GitHub
2 34 (31.48%) AWS
3 30 (27.78%) Azure
4 20 (18.52%) GCP
5 15 (13.89%) Datadog
6 13 (12.04%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (12.04%) OpenShift
7 10 (9.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 9 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (7.41%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (7.41%) Serverless
10 7 (6.48%) Apigee
10 7 (6.48%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (6.48%) Figma
11 6 (5.56%) Azure AKS
11 6 (5.56%) SaaS
12 5 (4.63%) Amazon EMR
12 5 (4.63%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (4.63%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.63%) Kerberos
2 2 (1.85%) Bluetooth
2 2 (1.85%) MQTT
3 1 (0.93%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (16.67%) NoSQL
1 18 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (12.96%) Relational Database
3 12 (11.11%) MongoDB
4 11 (10.19%) DynamoDB
5 8 (7.41%) HBase
5 8 (7.41%) RDBMS
6 6 (5.56%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (5.56%) MySQL
7 5 (4.63%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (4.63%) BigQuery
7 5 (4.63%) Redis
8 4 (3.70%) Big Data
8 4 (3.70%) SQL Server
9 3 (2.78%) Data Lake
9 3 (2.78%) HPCC
10 2 (1.85%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.93%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 53 (49.07%) Maven
2 47 (43.52%) Git
2 47 (43.52%) Jenkins
3 34 (31.48%) JUnit
4 26 (24.07%) Sonatype Nexus
5 22 (20.37%) GitLab
6 15 (13.89%) SonarQube
7 13 (12.04%) Android Studio
7 13 (12.04%) Artifactory
8 12 (11.11%) Xcode
9 11 (10.19%) JIRA
10 10 (9.26%) Bitbucket
10 10 (9.26%) Cucumber
10 10 (9.26%) Mockito
10 10 (9.26%) Selenium
11 7 (6.48%) Postman
11 7 (6.48%) Storybook
12 6 (5.56%) CircleCI
13 5 (4.63%) SonarLint
14 4 (3.70%) Snyk
General
1 23 (21.30%) Finance
2 18 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 15 (13.89%) Banking
4 6 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.63%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.78%) Front Office
7 2 (1.85%) Retail
7 2 (1.85%) Retail Banking
7 2 (1.85%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.93%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.93%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.93%) Law
8 1 (0.93%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 69 (63.89%) Developer
2 38 (35.19%) Java Developer
3 18 (16.67%) Senior
4 15 (13.89%) Android Developer
5 14 (12.96%) Senior Developer
5 14 (12.96%) Senior Java Developer
6 13 (12.04%) DevOps Engineer
7 11 (10.19%) Java Engineer
8 9 (8.33%) AWS Developer
9 8 (7.41%) Java Software Engineer
9 8 (7.41%) React Developer
9 8 (7.41%) Software Engineer
10 7 (6.48%) Lead
11 5 (4.63%) Architect
11 5 (4.63%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (4.63%) Java Architect
11 5 (4.63%) Java Technical Architect
11 5 (4.63%) Lead Developer
11 5 (4.63%) Technical Architect
12 4 (3.70%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (37.04%) Spring
2 36 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 22 (20.37%) Kafka
3 22 (20.37%) RESTful
4 20 (18.52%) REST
5 14 (12.96%) JSON
6 11 (10.19%) HTML
7 8 (7.41%) CSS
7 8 (7.41%) React
7 8 (7.41%) React Native
7 8 (7.41%) Spring Cloud
8 7 (6.48%) D3.js
8 7 (6.48%) GraphQL
8 7 (6.48%) Micronaut
8 7 (6.48%) OAuth
8 7 (6.48%) RabbitMQ
8 7 (6.48%) SOAP
8 7 (6.48%) SVG
9 6 (5.56%) XML
10 5 (4.63%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 19 (17.59%) Mobile App
2 12 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.56%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (4.63%) N-Tier
5 4 (3.70%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.70%) Mobile Banking
5 4 (3.70%) Private Cloud
6 3 (2.78%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.78%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.78%) Derivative
7 2 (1.85%) Equities
7 2 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.85%) IoT
7 2 (1.85%) IVR
7 2 (1.85%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.85%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.85%) TWAP
7 2 (1.85%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 26 (24.07%) Android
2 21 (19.44%) Linux
3 16 (14.81%) Unix
4 12 (11.11%) Apple iOS
5 5 (4.63%) Windows
6 4 (3.70%) Solaris
7 3 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (50.93%) CI/CD
2 46 (42.59%) DevOps
3 37 (34.26%) Microservices
4 36 (33.33%) Agile
5 33 (30.56%) Containerisation
6 30 (27.78%) Design Patterns
7 25 (23.15%) TDD
8 24 (22.22%) Software Engineering
9 21 (19.44%) Test Automation
10 19 (17.59%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (13.89%) Android Development
11 15 (13.89%) BDD
11 15 (13.89%) Event-Driven
12 13 (12.04%) Continuous Integration
12 13 (12.04%) Mentoring
12 13 (12.04%) OOP
13 12 (11.11%) Architectural Patterns
13 12 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
14 11 (10.19%) Migration
14 11 (10.19%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 79 (73.15%) Java
2 28 (25.93%) Python
3 24 (22.22%) SQL
4 16 (14.81%) Kotlin
5 14 (12.96%) C++
5 14 (12.96%) TypeScript
6 12 (11.11%) JavaScript
7 9 (8.33%) Shell Script
8 8 (7.41%) C
9 7 (6.48%) Bash
10 6 (5.56%) Scala
11 5 (4.63%) PowerShell
12 4 (3.70%) Objective-C
12 4 (3.70%) PL/SQL
12 4 (3.70%) Ruby
12 4 (3.70%) Swift
13 3 (2.78%) Rust
14 2 (1.85%) Groovy
15 1 (0.93%) Clojure
15 1 (0.93%) Go
Qualifications
1 16 (14.81%) Security Cleared
2 9 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.41%) OCP
3 8 (7.41%) Oracle Certification
4 4 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (3.70%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.78%) Degree
6 2 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.93%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.48%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 36 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 42 (38.89%) Kubernetes
2 24 (22.22%) Terraform
3 13 (12.04%) Ansible
3 13 (12.04%) Grafana
4 8 (7.41%) Prometheus
4 8 (7.41%) Puppet
5 6 (5.56%) Progress Chef
6 5 (4.63%) Argo
7 4 (3.70%) Podman
8 2 (1.85%) Istio
9 1 (0.93%) Kibana
9 1 (0.93%) logstash
Vendors
1 13 (12.04%) Oracle
2 10 (9.26%) Microsoft
3 9 (8.33%) Google
4 8 (7.41%) Splunk
5 5 (4.63%) Gigya
6 4 (3.70%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.85%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.85%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.93%) Adobe
8 1 (0.93%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.93%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.93%) Foundry
8 1 (0.93%) Palantir