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

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 430 462 509
Rank change year-on-year +32 +47 -20
Contract jobs citing Gradle 107 34 52
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.12% 0.14%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.27% 0.88% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 23 36
10th Percentile £345 £522 £293
25th Percentile £403 £550 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £638 £575
Median % change year-on-year -15.29% +10.87% -13.04%
75th Percentile £601 £863 £700
90th Percentile £643 £895 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £638 £535
% change year-on-year -15.69% +19.16% -18.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 3
10th Percentile £40.00 - £76.50
25th Percentile £49.38 - £76.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £80.00
75th Percentile £63.44 - £86.25
90th Percentile £70.00 - £88.50
UK median hourly rate £55.00 - £80.00
% change year-on-year - - -5.88%

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 4,715 3,846 4,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.97% 13.32% 12.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,263 2,422 3,299
10th Percentile £338 £340 £375
25th Percentile £411 £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 £644
90th Percentile £700 £732 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £538
% change year-on-year -2.44% -4.74% -3.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 79 206
10th Percentile £39.53 £46.18 £45.24
25th Percentile £54.94 £54.66 £48.85
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £82.30 £75.05 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.84%

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 20 December 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 20 December 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 20 December 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 +22 45 £545 -16.35% 4
North of England -21 31 £384 - 4
North West -3 24 £390 - 4
South East -1 22 £473 -34.19% 5
Yorkshire - 7 £354 -
Midlands - 5 £575 - 1
West Midlands - 5 £575 - 1
South West - 1 - - 1
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 5 (4.67%) OpenStack
2 3 (2.80%) Apache
2 3 (2.80%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.87%) Confluence
4 1 (0.93%) JBoss
4 1 (0.93%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 36 (33.64%) GitHub
2 33 (30.84%) AWS
3 26 (24.30%) Azure
4 20 (18.69%) GCP
5 16 (14.95%) Datadog
6 13 (12.15%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (9.35%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (9.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 9 (8.41%) Figma
9 8 (7.48%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (7.48%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (7.48%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (7.48%) OpenShift
9 8 (7.48%) Serverless
10 6 (5.61%) Apigee
10 6 (5.61%) Azure AKS
10 6 (5.61%) PaaS
10 6 (5.61%) SaaS
11 5 (4.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (4.67%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.67%) Kerberos
2 2 (1.87%) Bluetooth
2 2 (1.87%) MQTT
3 1 (0.93%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (16.82%) NoSQL
2 17 (15.89%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (11.21%) MongoDB
3 12 (11.21%) Relational Database
4 11 (10.28%) DynamoDB
5 9 (8.41%) HBase
5 9 (8.41%) RDBMS
6 6 (5.61%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (5.61%) MySQL
7 5 (4.67%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (4.67%) BigQuery
7 5 (4.67%) Redis
8 4 (3.74%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.87%) Big Data
10 1 (0.93%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.93%) HPCC
10 1 (0.93%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.93%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 43 (40.19%) Maven
2 41 (38.32%) Jenkins
3 39 (36.45%) Git
4 27 (25.23%) JUnit
5 25 (23.36%) GitLab
6 20 (18.69%) Sonatype Nexus
7 15 (14.02%) SonarQube
8 14 (13.08%) Android Studio
8 14 (13.08%) Artifactory
9 13 (12.15%) Cucumber
9 13 (12.15%) Selenium
10 11 (10.28%) Xcode
11 10 (9.35%) Bitbucket
12 9 (8.41%) IntelliJ
13 8 (7.48%) CircleCI
13 8 (7.48%) Postman
14 7 (6.54%) Mockito
14 7 (6.54%) Storybook
15 5 (4.67%) Cypress.io
15 5 (4.67%) JIRA
General
1 23 (21.50%) Finance
2 15 (14.02%) Banking
3 14 (13.08%) Social Skills
4 9 (8.41%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.74%) Retail Banking
6 3 (2.80%) Front Office
7 2 (1.87%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.93%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.93%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.93%) Law
8 1 (0.93%) Private Banking
8 1 (0.93%) Retail
8 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 64 (59.81%) Developer
2 33 (30.84%) Java Developer
3 19 (17.76%) Android Developer
4 16 (14.95%) Senior
5 14 (13.08%) Java Engineer
6 12 (11.21%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (11.21%) Senior Developer
6 12 (11.21%) Senior Java Developer
7 10 (9.35%) Java Software Engineer
7 10 (9.35%) Software Engineer
8 7 (6.54%) React Developer
9 6 (5.61%) AWS Developer
10 5 (4.67%) Architect
10 5 (4.67%) Backend Developer
10 5 (4.67%) Java Architect
10 5 (4.67%) Java Technical Architect
10 5 (4.67%) Technical Architect
11 4 (3.74%) Engineering Manager
11 4 (3.74%) GCP Engineer
11 4 (3.74%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (36.45%) Spring
2 38 (35.51%) Spring Boot
3 21 (19.63%) RESTful
4 20 (18.69%) Kafka
5 17 (15.89%) REST
6 14 (13.08%) JSON
7 9 (8.41%) Android Jetpack
7 9 (8.41%) HTML
7 9 (8.41%) Jetpack Compose
7 9 (8.41%) OpenTelemetry
7 9 (8.41%) React Native
8 8 (7.48%) CSS
8 8 (7.48%) GraphQL
9 7 (6.54%) D3.js
9 7 (6.54%) Micronaut
9 7 (6.54%) OAuth
9 7 (6.54%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (6.54%) SVG
10 6 (5.61%) Elastic Stack
11 5 (4.67%) Dropwizard
Miscellaneous
1 19 (17.76%) Mobile App
2 12 (11.21%) Cloud Native
3 8 (7.48%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (4.67%) N-Tier
4 5 (4.67%) Private Cloud
5 4 (3.74%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.74%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.74%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.80%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.80%) Derivative
6 3 (2.80%) Mobile Banking
7 2 (1.87%) Equities
7 2 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.87%) IoT
7 2 (1.87%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.87%) TWAP
7 2 (1.87%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.87%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 29 (27.10%) Android
2 15 (14.02%) Linux
3 11 (10.28%) Apple iOS
4 7 (6.54%) Unix
5 5 (4.67%) Windows
6 3 (2.80%) Solaris
7 2 (1.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (51.40%) CI/CD
2 43 (40.19%) DevOps
3 32 (29.91%) Agile
4 30 (28.04%) Containerisation
5 29 (27.10%) Microservices
6 26 (24.30%) Software Engineering
7 25 (23.36%) Design Patterns
8 23 (21.50%) Test Automation
9 22 (20.56%) TDD
10 18 (16.82%) Android Development
11 16 (14.95%) User Experience
12 15 (14.02%) Event-Driven
13 14 (13.08%) BDD
13 14 (13.08%) Infrastructure as Code
13 14 (13.08%) Mentoring
13 14 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
14 13 (12.15%) Continuous Integration
14 13 (12.15%) OOP
15 12 (11.21%) SDLC
16 11 (10.28%) Mobile Development
Programming Languages
1 78 (72.90%) Java
2 28 (26.17%) Kotlin
3 23 (21.50%) Python
4 19 (17.76%) SQL
5 12 (11.21%) C++
6 10 (9.35%) TypeScript
7 9 (8.41%) JavaScript
8 5 (4.67%) Bash
8 5 (4.67%) C
8 5 (4.67%) PowerShell
8 5 (4.67%) Scala
9 4 (3.74%) Objective-C
9 4 (3.74%) Swift
10 3 (2.80%) PL/SQL
10 3 (2.80%) Ruby
10 3 (2.80%) Rust
10 3 (2.80%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.87%) Groovy
12 1 (0.93%) Clojure
12 1 (0.93%) Go
Qualifications
1 15 (14.02%) Security Cleared
2 9 (8.41%) OCP
2 9 (8.41%) Oracle Certification
3 6 (5.61%) Degree
4 5 (4.67%) DV Cleared
4 5 (4.67%) SC Cleared
5 4 (3.74%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.93%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.28%) Accessibility
2 6 (5.61%) QA
System Software
1 33 (30.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 49 (45.79%) Kubernetes
2 25 (23.36%) Terraform
3 21 (19.63%) Grafana
4 13 (12.15%) Ansible
5 9 (8.41%) Prometheus
6 8 (7.48%) Puppet
7 7 (6.54%) Progress Chef
8 5 (4.67%) Argo
8 5 (4.67%) Podman
9 1 (0.93%) Istio
9 1 (0.93%) Kibana
9 1 (0.93%) logstash
Vendors
1 9 (8.41%) Google
2 8 (7.48%) Oracle
2 8 (7.48%) Splunk
3 5 (4.67%) Gigya
3 5 (4.67%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.80%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.87%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.93%) Adobe
6 1 (0.93%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.93%) Foundry
6 1 (0.93%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.93%) Palantir