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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 393 475
Rank change year-on-year -123 +82 +36
Contract jobs citing Gradle 121 122 47
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.26% 0.44% 0.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.28% 2.90% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 94 30
10th Percentile £324 £358 £517
25th Percentile £406 £401 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £528 £713
Median % change year-on-year -6.16% -25.96% +1.79%
75th Percentile £537 £585 £863
90th Percentile £591 £615 £914
UK median daily rate £456 £528 £675
% change year-on-year -13.65% -21.85% +3.85%
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 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year +8.57% - -

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 5,305 4,206 4,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.45% 15.15% 13.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,358 2,915 2,710
10th Percentile £352 £325 £350
25th Percentile £415 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £635
90th Percentile £700 £694 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 251 98 164
10th Percentile £22.68 £34.43 £39.03
25th Percentile £51.21 £50.00 £54.68
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.12 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £75.75 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £63.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.36% -2.31% -

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 -78 75 £500 -7.88% 70
North of England -92 23 £500 +33.33% 12
East of England - 11 £495 - 4
Yorkshire -37 10 £500 -3.80% 5
North West -70 9 £537 +43.20% 7
South East -54 7 £270 -41.50% 9
North East - 4 £450 -
South West -34 2 - - 1
Midlands -47 2 £455 +3.03% 5
East Midlands -10 1 £335 -21.91% 2
West Midlands -50 1 £575 - 3
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 11 (9.09%) Confluence
2 9 (7.44%) Camunda
3 3 (2.48%) Apache
3 3 (2.48%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.65%) Anypoint
4 2 (1.65%) Mule
5 1 (0.83%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.83%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.83%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 38 (31.40%) Azure
2 35 (28.93%) AWS
2 35 (28.93%) GitHub
3 28 (23.14%) GitHub Actions
4 25 (20.66%) GCP
5 24 (19.83%) OpenShift
6 17 (14.05%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 7 (5.79%) Cloud Run
8 7 (5.79%) Firebase
9 6 (4.96%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (4.96%) Apigee
9 6 (4.96%) Google Play
9 6 (4.96%) Kong
10 4 (3.31%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (3.31%) Amazon S3
10 4 (3.31%) Apple Pay
10 4 (3.31%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (3.31%) Serverless
11 3 (2.48%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.31%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (1.65%) Firewall
3 1 (0.83%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.83%) DSL
3 1 (0.83%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (24.79%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (22.31%) Relational Database
3 16 (13.22%) MongoDB
4 14 (11.57%) SQL Server
5 8 (6.61%) MySQL
5 8 (6.61%) NoSQL
6 6 (4.96%) RDBMS
7 5 (4.13%) Hazelcast
7 5 (4.13%) Redis
8 4 (3.31%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (2.48%) BigQuery
9 3 (2.48%) Db2
9 3 (2.48%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (2.48%) Flink
9 3 (2.48%) Pinecone
9 3 (2.48%) Weaviate
10 2 (1.65%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.83%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.83%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.83%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 66 (54.55%) Jenkins
2 63 (52.07%) Git
3 58 (47.93%) Maven
4 46 (38.02%) JUnit
5 37 (30.58%) GitLab
6 28 (23.14%) Mockito
7 22 (18.18%) SonarQube
8 14 (11.57%) REST Assured
9 13 (10.74%) JIRA
10 12 (9.92%) Cucumber
10 12 (9.92%) Sonatype Nexus
11 11 (9.09%) Liquibase
12 9 (7.44%) Bitbucket Server
13 7 (5.79%) CircleCI
14 6 (4.96%) fastlane
14 6 (4.96%) Selenium
15 5 (4.13%) Android Studio
15 5 (4.13%) Crashlytics
15 5 (4.13%) Snyk
16 4 (3.31%) Bitbucket
General
1 29 (23.97%) Finance
2 26 (21.49%) Banking
3 23 (19.01%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (15.70%) Social Skills
5 8 (6.61%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (5.79%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.65%) Law
8 1 (0.83%) Back Office
8 1 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Games
8 1 (0.83%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.83%) Marketing
8 1 (0.83%) Publishing
8 1 (0.83%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 83 (68.60%) Developer
2 65 (53.72%) Java Developer
3 22 (18.18%) Senior
4 14 (11.57%) Java Engineer
4 14 (11.57%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 13 (10.74%) Software Developer
6 11 (9.09%) Senior Developer
6 11 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
6 11 (9.09%) Software Engineer
7 9 (7.44%) Java Software Developer
8 8 (6.61%) Android Developer
9 6 (4.96%) Backend Developer
9 6 (4.96%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (4.96%) Senior Java Engineer
10 5 (4.13%) Java Software Engineer
10 5 (4.13%) Mid-Level Java Developer
11 4 (3.31%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 4 (3.31%) Oracle Developer
11 4 (3.31%) Senior Backend Developer
12 3 (2.48%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (77.69%) Spring Boot
2 84 (69.42%) Spring
3 59 (48.76%) Kafka
4 47 (38.84%) React
5 42 (34.71%) REST
6 31 (25.62%) RESTful
7 28 (23.14%) Hibernate
8 23 (19.01%) Redux
9 21 (17.36%) HTML
10 20 (16.53%) CSS
10 20 (16.53%) JPA
11 16 (13.22%) OpenAPI
11 16 (13.22%) Swagger
12 15 (12.40%) Android Jetpack
13 14 (11.57%) Jetpack Compose
14 10 (8.26%) Spring MVC
14 10 (8.26%) XML
15 9 (7.44%) RabbitMQ
15 9 (7.44%) Terraform
16 8 (6.61%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.57%) Product Ownership
2 13 (10.74%) Mobile App
3 12 (9.92%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (8.26%) Data Structures
6 6 (4.96%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (4.13%) Client/Server
7 5 (4.13%) Cloud Native
8 3 (2.48%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.65%) Legacy Code
9 2 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.65%) PKI
9 2 (1.65%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (1.65%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.83%) Derivative
10 1 (0.83%) Equities
10 1 (0.83%) IoT
10 1 (0.83%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.83%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 17 (14.05%) Linux
2 15 (12.40%) Android
3 13 (10.74%) Unix
4 3 (2.48%) Mac OS X
5 2 (1.65%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.83%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (80.99%) CI/CD
2 80 (66.12%) Agile
3 67 (55.37%) Microservices
4 53 (43.80%) DevOps
5 52 (42.98%) TDD
6 49 (40.50%) Test Automation
7 44 (36.36%) Containerisation
8 36 (29.75%) Software Engineering
9 31 (25.62%) Clean Code
9 31 (25.62%) Scrum
10 30 (24.79%) Problem-Solving
11 23 (19.01%) User Stories
12 22 (18.18%) Computer Science
13 20 (16.53%) Event-Driven
14 19 (15.70%) Observability
14 19 (15.70%) Unit Testing
15 17 (14.05%) Design Patterns
16 16 (13.22%) Architectural Patterns
16 16 (13.22%) Continuous Improvement
17 14 (11.57%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 111 (91.74%) Java
2 75 (61.98%) SQL
3 27 (22.31%) JavaScript
4 18 (14.88%) Kotlin
5 14 (11.57%) TypeScript
6 13 (10.74%) PL/SQL
7 10 (8.26%) Python
8 4 (3.31%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.48%) Scala
10 2 (1.65%) Bash
10 2 (1.65%) Korn
10 2 (1.65%) Swift
11 1 (0.83%) C#
Qualifications
1 44 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 38 (31.40%) SC Cleared
3 22 (18.18%) Degree
4 20 (16.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.13%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.48%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (1.65%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.83%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (14.88%) QA
2 9 (7.44%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.31%) PCI DSS
3 4 (3.31%) WCAG
4 2 (1.65%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.83%) GDPR
5 1 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 49 (40.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 42 (34.71%) Kubernetes
2 17 (14.05%) Ansible
3 12 (9.92%) Control-M
4 9 (7.44%) Grafana
4 9 (7.44%) Prometheus
5 5 (4.13%) Argo
6 2 (1.65%) Istio
7 1 (0.83%) Podman
7 1 (0.83%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.83%) Puppet
Vendors
1 28 (23.14%) Oracle
2 15 (12.40%) Google
3 12 (9.92%) IBM
4 9 (7.44%) Veracode
5 7 (5.79%) Dynatrace
5 7 (5.79%) Splunk
6 4 (3.31%) Sybase
7 3 (2.48%) MuleSoft
7 3 (2.48%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.65%) Microsoft
9 1 (0.83%) Confluent
9 1 (0.83%) Databricks
9 1 (0.83%) Solace
9 1 (0.83%) TIBCO