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 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 437 470 501
Rank change year-on-year +33 +31 -25
Contract jobs citing Gradle 111 29 54
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.35% 0.11% 0.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.40% 0.81% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 20 36
10th Percentile £321 £521 £293
25th Percentile £393 £550 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £669 £575
Median % change year-on-year -21.50% +16.30% -14.81%
75th Percentile £588 £863 £700
90th Percentile £624 £901 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £638 £575
% change year-on-year -17.65% +10.87% -14.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 3
10th Percentile £42.50 - £76.50
25th Percentile £52.50 - £76.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £80.00
75th Percentile £57.50 - £86.25
90th Percentile £68.25 - £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 4,623 3,595 4,318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.77% 13.29% 11.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,196 2,238 3,093
10th Percentile £333 £336 £375
25th Percentile £410 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £509 £538
% change year-on-year -1.72% -5.35% -2.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 65 191
10th Percentile £39.53 £46.18 £44.60
25th Percentile £52.50 £54.00 £49.24
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 £77.50
90th Percentile £82.70 £75.85 £90.00
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 10 January 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 10 January 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 10 January 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 +8 43 £545 -24.83% 5
North of England -9 36 £384 - 5
North West -3 29 £390 - 3
South East -3 23 £467 -26.71% 17
Yorkshire - 7 £354 - 1
Midlands - 5 £575 - 3
West Midlands - 5 £575 - 2
South West - 1 £500 - 6
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 (4.50%) OpenStack
2 3 (2.70%) Apache
2 3 (2.70%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.80%) Camunda
3 2 (1.80%) Confluence
4 1 (0.90%) JBoss
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 27 (24.32%) Azure
4 19 (17.12%) GCP
5 16 (14.41%) Datadog
6 13 (11.71%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (9.91%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (9.01%) OpenShift
9 9 (8.11%) Figma
9 9 (8.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 8 (7.21%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (7.21%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (7.21%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (7.21%) Serverless
11 6 (5.41%) Apigee
11 6 (5.41%) Azure AKS
11 6 (5.41%) PaaS
11 6 (5.41%) SaaS
12 5 (4.50%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (4.50%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.50%) Kerberos
2 2 (1.80%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.90%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (18.02%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (16.22%) NoSQL
3 14 (12.61%) Relational Database
4 12 (10.81%) MongoDB
5 11 (9.91%) DynamoDB
6 9 (8.11%) HBase
6 9 (8.11%) RDBMS
7 8 (7.21%) MySQL
8 6 (5.41%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (4.50%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (4.50%) BigQuery
9 5 (4.50%) Redis
10 3 (2.70%) SQL Server
11 2 (1.80%) Big Data
12 1 (0.90%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.90%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.90%) HPCC
12 1 (0.90%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.90%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 41 (36.94%) Maven
2 40 (36.04%) Git
3 38 (34.23%) Jenkins
4 31 (27.93%) JUnit
5 29 (26.13%) GitLab
6 20 (18.02%) Sonatype Nexus
7 15 (13.51%) Cucumber
8 14 (12.61%) Android Studio
8 14 (12.61%) Artifactory
8 14 (12.61%) SonarQube
9 13 (11.71%) IntelliJ
10 11 (9.91%) Selenium
10 11 (9.91%) Xcode
11 10 (9.01%) Bitbucket
11 10 (9.01%) CircleCI
12 9 (8.11%) Mockito
13 7 (6.31%) Cypress.io
13 7 (6.31%) Postman
13 7 (6.31%) Storybook
14 5 (4.50%) SonarLint
General
1 19 (17.12%) Finance
2 15 (13.51%) Banking
3 14 (12.61%) Social Skills
4 10 (9.01%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.60%) Retail Banking
6 3 (2.70%) Front Office
7 1 (0.90%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.90%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.90%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.90%) Law
7 1 (0.90%) Private Banking
7 1 (0.90%) Retail
7 1 (0.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 63 (56.76%) Developer
2 28 (25.23%) Java Developer
3 22 (19.82%) Android Developer
4 20 (18.02%) Senior
5 19 (17.12%) Java Engineer
6 15 (13.51%) Software Engineer
7 13 (11.71%) Java Software Engineer
8 12 (10.81%) DevOps Engineer
8 12 (10.81%) Senior Developer
8 12 (10.81%) Senior Java Developer
9 7 (6.31%) React Developer
10 6 (5.41%) AWS Developer
11 5 (4.50%) Architect
11 5 (4.50%) Java Architect
11 5 (4.50%) Java Technical Architect
11 5 (4.50%) Technical Architect
12 4 (3.60%) Backend Developer
12 4 (3.60%) Engineering Manager
12 4 (3.60%) Lead
12 4 (3.60%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (39.64%) Spring
1 44 (39.64%) Spring Boot
2 21 (18.92%) RESTful
3 20 (18.02%) Kafka
3 20 (18.02%) REST
4 14 (12.61%) OpenTelemetry
5 13 (11.71%) JSON
6 11 (9.91%) Android Jetpack
6 11 (9.91%) Jetpack Compose
7 10 (9.01%) GraphQL
7 10 (9.01%) HTML
8 9 (8.11%) CSS
8 9 (8.11%) Micronaut
8 9 (8.11%) React Native
9 7 (6.31%) AngularJS
9 7 (6.31%) D3.js
9 7 (6.31%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (6.31%) React
9 7 (6.31%) RxJava
9 7 (6.31%) SVG
Miscellaneous
1 19 (17.12%) Mobile App
2 11 (9.91%) Cloud Native
3 10 (9.01%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.50%) N-Tier
4 5 (4.50%) Private Cloud
5 4 (3.60%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.60%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.60%) Legacy Code
5 4 (3.60%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.70%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.70%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.70%) Mobile Banking
7 2 (1.80%) Derivative
7 2 (1.80%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.80%) Equities
7 2 (1.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.80%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.80%) TWAP
7 2 (1.80%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 32 (28.83%) Android
2 14 (12.61%) Linux
3 11 (9.91%) Apple iOS
4 6 (5.41%) Unix
5 5 (4.50%) Windows
6 3 (2.70%) Solaris
7 2 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (45.95%) CI/CD
2 42 (37.84%) DevOps
3 32 (28.83%) Agile
4 30 (27.03%) Containerisation
5 27 (24.32%) Software Engineering
6 26 (23.42%) Microservices
7 25 (22.52%) Design Patterns
7 25 (22.52%) Test Automation
8 21 (18.92%) Android Development
8 21 (18.92%) TDD
9 18 (16.22%) User Experience
10 14 (12.61%) Event-Driven
10 14 (12.61%) Mentoring
11 13 (11.71%) Continuous Integration
11 13 (11.71%) Infrastructure as Code
11 13 (11.71%) OOP
11 13 (11.71%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (9.91%) BDD
12 11 (9.91%) Mobile Development
12 11 (9.91%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 77 (69.37%) Java
2 36 (32.43%) Kotlin
3 22 (19.82%) Python
4 17 (15.32%) SQL
5 10 (9.01%) TypeScript
6 8 (7.21%) C++
6 8 (7.21%) JavaScript
7 5 (4.50%) Bash
7 5 (4.50%) PowerShell
7 5 (4.50%) Scala
8 4 (3.60%) C
8 4 (3.60%) Objective-C
8 4 (3.60%) Swift
9 3 (2.70%) Go
9 3 (2.70%) Ruby
9 3 (2.70%) Rust
9 3 (2.70%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.80%) Groovy
11 1 (0.90%) Clojure
11 1 (0.90%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (16.22%) Security Cleared
2 9 (8.11%) OCP
2 9 (8.11%) Oracle Certification
3 7 (6.31%) Degree
3 7 (6.31%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.50%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.90%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.90%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.91%) Accessibility
2 8 (7.21%) QA
3 2 (1.80%) NCSC
System Software
1 31 (27.93%) Docker
2 1 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 52 (46.85%) Kubernetes
2 24 (21.62%) Grafana
2 24 (21.62%) Terraform
3 13 (11.71%) Ansible
4 8 (7.21%) Puppet
5 7 (6.31%) Progress Chef
5 7 (6.31%) Prometheus
6 5 (4.50%) Podman
7 4 (3.60%) Argo
8 1 (0.90%) Istio
Vendors
1 8 (7.21%) Google
1 8 (7.21%) Splunk
2 7 (6.31%) Oracle
3 5 (4.50%) Gigya
3 5 (4.50%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.50%) Red Hat
4 4 (3.60%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.80%) New Relic
6 1 (0.90%) Adobe
6 1 (0.90%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.90%) Foundry
6 1 (0.90%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.90%) Palantir