Gradle Contracts in England

Gradle
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Gradle skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Gradle over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 417 494 467
Rank change year-on-year +77 -27 -70
Contract jobs citing Gradle 68 48 188
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.28% 0.13% 0.37%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.06% 1.13% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 28 139
10th Percentile £404 £412 £523
25th Percentile £508 £512 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £675
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -18.52% -2.53%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £743
90th Percentile £700 £655 £775
UK median daily rate £530 £575 £675
% change year-on-year -7.83% -14.81% -2.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 8
10th Percentile - - £71.85
25th Percentile - £77.50 £75.00
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £80.00
75th Percentile - £82.50 £86.25
90th Percentile - - £90.00
UK median hourly rate £90.00 £80.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year +12.50% - +3.65%

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 3,305 4,263 7,542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.57% 11.46% 14.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,218 2,908 5,318
10th Percentile £350 £355 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 182 222
10th Percentile £27.50 £31.84 £45.00
25th Percentile £52.00 £52.50 £52.56
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.34
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.97% +21.46%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.75 £82.35 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

Gradle
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Gradle as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Gradle in England

Gradle
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Gradle in England.

Daily rate trend for Gradle in England

Gradle
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Gradle in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Gradle in England

Gradle
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Gradle in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 May 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 +39 36 £530 -7.83% 20
North of England +32 17 £530 -3.64% 2
North West +27 13 £530 -3.64% 2
Midlands +26 5 £425 +1.19% 1
Yorkshire - 4 £520 -
West Midlands +16 3 £455 +8.33% 1
East Midlands - 2 £326 -
Gradle
UK

Gradle
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (11.76%) Confluence
2 3 (4.41%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 20 (29.41%) AWS
2 9 (13.24%) GitHub
3 7 (10.29%) Azure
4 5 (7.35%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (7.35%) Serverless
5 4 (5.88%) GCP
6 3 (4.41%) Amazon EMR
6 3 (4.41%) Amazon Kinesis
6 3 (4.41%) Amazon S3
6 3 (4.41%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (4.41%) OpenShift
7 2 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.47%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.47%) BigCommerce
8 1 (1.47%) Datadog
8 1 (1.47%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.47%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.41%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (54.41%) Relational Database
2 32 (47.06%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (14.71%) MongoDB
4 8 (11.76%) NoSQL
5 6 (8.82%) MySQL
6 3 (4.41%) Redis
7 1 (1.47%) DB2
7 1 (1.47%) KDB
7 1 (1.47%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.47%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.47%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 50 (73.53%) Jenkins
1 50 (73.53%) JUnit
2 35 (51.47%) Mockito
3 31 (45.59%) Maven
4 27 (39.71%) Liquibase
5 19 (27.94%) IntelliJ
6 14 (20.59%) JIRA
7 12 (17.65%) GitLab
8 11 (16.18%) Cucumber
8 11 (16.18%) Selenium
9 8 (11.76%) Git
9 8 (11.76%) HP UFT
10 6 (8.82%) Subversion
11 5 (7.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (7.35%) Bitbucket Server
11 5 (7.35%) Eclipse
11 5 (7.35%) SonarQube
12 4 (5.88%) CA Release Automation
12 4 (5.88%) NetBeans
12 4 (5.88%) TeamCity
General
1 37 (54.41%) Finance
2 21 (30.88%) Electronics
2 21 (30.88%) Manufacturing
2 21 (30.88%) Marketing
2 21 (30.88%) Public Sector
2 21 (30.88%) Telecoms
3 12 (17.65%) Social Skills
4 5 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.41%) Banking
6 2 (2.94%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.94%) Front Office
6 2 (2.94%) Retail
7 1 (1.47%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 43 (63.24%) Developer
2 37 (54.41%) Java Developer
3 18 (26.47%) Senior
4 16 (23.53%) Senior Developer
5 15 (22.06%) Senior Java Developer
6 12 (17.65%) Java Engineer
7 11 (16.18%) Lead
7 11 (16.18%) React Developer
7 11 (16.18%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 10 (14.71%) Java Software Engineer
8 10 (14.71%) Lead Developer
8 10 (14.71%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 10 (14.71%) Software Engineer
9 9 (13.24%) Lead Java Developer
10 4 (5.88%) Tester
11 3 (4.41%) DevOps Engineer
11 3 (4.41%) Digital Developer
11 3 (4.41%) Test Manager
12 2 (2.94%) Android Developer
12 2 (2.94%) Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (72.06%) Spring
2 42 (61.76%) Spring Boot
3 41 (60.29%) Kafka
4 30 (44.12%) OpenAPI
4 30 (44.12%) Swagger
5 27 (39.71%) React
6 9 (13.24%) Hibernate
7 7 (10.29%) JPA
7 7 (10.29%) RESTful
8 6 (8.82%) HTML
9 5 (7.35%) J2EE
9 5 (7.35%) JMS
10 4 (5.88%) Spring Integration
10 4 (5.88%) Spring MVC
10 4 (5.88%) Web Services
11 3 (4.41%) AngularJS
11 3 (4.41%) HTML5
11 3 (4.41%) Node.js
11 3 (4.41%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (4.41%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.82%) Data Structures
2 3 (4.41%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.41%) Mainframe
2 3 (4.41%) PKI
3 2 (2.94%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.94%) Equities
4 1 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.47%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.47%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.47%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.24%) Linux
2 4 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (4.41%) Android
3 3 (4.41%) Unix
4 2 (2.94%) Windows
5 1 (1.47%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (70.59%) CI/CD
2 43 (63.24%) DevOps
3 42 (61.76%) Microservices
3 42 (61.76%) TDD
4 36 (52.94%) Software Engineering
5 35 (51.47%) Agile
6 32 (47.06%) Containerisation
7 28 (41.18%) Migration
8 21 (30.88%) Business Intelligence
8 21 (30.88%) Digital Marketing
8 21 (30.88%) Programme Management
9 20 (29.41%) Continuous Integration
10 15 (22.06%) Event-Driven
10 15 (22.06%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 13 (19.12%) Test Automation
12 12 (17.65%) Build Automation
13 11 (16.18%) Clean Code
14 9 (13.24%) BDD
15 7 (10.29%) Code Coverage
15 7 (10.29%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 64 (94.12%) Java
2 32 (47.06%) SQL
3 31 (45.59%) TypeScript
4 5 (7.35%) Python
5 4 (5.88%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.41%) Kotlin
7 2 (2.94%) Bash
7 2 (2.94%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (48.53%) SC Cleared
1 33 (48.53%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.35%) Degree
3 1 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.82%) QA
2 3 (4.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 39 (57.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (20.59%) Kubernetes
2 6 (8.82%) Terraform
3 4 (5.88%) Grafana
3 4 (5.88%) Progress Chef
3 4 (5.88%) Prometheus
3 4 (5.88%) Puppet
4 3 (4.41%) Ansible
5 1 (1.47%) Argo
5 1 (1.47%) Kibana
Vendors
1 22 (32.35%) SAP
2 5 (7.35%) Splunk
3 4 (5.88%) CA Agile Central
4 3 (4.41%) Google
4 3 (4.41%) Sybase
5 2 (2.94%) Oracle
6 1 (1.47%) Adobe
6 1 (1.47%) Confluent
6 1 (1.47%) ION Trading
6 1 (1.47%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.47%) New Relic
6 1 (1.47%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.47%) Remedy
6 1 (1.47%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.47%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.47%) Sonatype