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

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 428 469 508
Rank change year-on-year +41 +39 -60
Contract jobs citing Gradle 118 47 66
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.39% 0.15% 0.17%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.55% 1.15% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 30 47
10th Percentile £358 £521 £300
25th Percentile £393 £550 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £713 £675
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% +5.56% +2.08%
75th Percentile £588 £863 £738
90th Percentile £615 £914 £760
UK median daily rate £525 £669 £613
% change year-on-year -21.50% +9.18% -7.20%
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

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 4,625 4,100 5,051
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.31% 13.15% 12.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,232 2,568 3,583
10th Percentile £325 £350 £375
25th Percentile £406 £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 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £540
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -2.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 122 228
10th Percentile £39.00 £38.04 £46.09
25th Percentile £54.81 £51.25 £50.94
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.69%
75th Percentile £69.69 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £77.75 £74.94 £89.13
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +0.78% -0.77% +8.33%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +18 50 £547 -21.93% 15
North of England -8 35 £375 - 2
North West +5 27 £375 - 2
South East +18 19 £473 -34.19% 12
Midlands -23 9 £508 -32.23%
Yorkshire - 8 £358 -
West Midlands - 6 £575 -
East Midlands -12 3 £429 -42.80%
South West 0 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 8 (6.78%) Tomcat
2 7 (5.93%) JBoss
3 5 (4.24%) Confluence
4 4 (3.39%) OpenStack
5 3 (2.54%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.69%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 41 (34.75%) GitHub
2 36 (30.51%) AWS
3 34 (28.81%) Azure
4 20 (16.95%) GCP
5 15 (12.71%) Datadog
6 14 (11.86%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (11.86%) OpenShift
7 10 (8.47%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (8.47%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 8 (6.78%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (6.78%) Serverless
9 7 (5.93%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (5.93%) Apigee
9 7 (5.93%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (5.93%) Figma
10 6 (5.08%) Amazon EMR
10 6 (5.08%) Azure AKS
10 6 (5.08%) SaaS
11 5 (4.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (4.24%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.24%) Kerberos
2 2 (1.69%) Bluetooth
2 2 (1.69%) DMZ
2 2 (1.69%) Internet
2 2 (1.69%) MQTT
3 1 (0.85%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (16.10%) NoSQL
2 17 (14.41%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (12.71%) Relational Database
4 14 (11.86%) MongoDB
5 11 (9.32%) DynamoDB
6 8 (6.78%) HBase
6 8 (6.78%) RDBMS
7 6 (5.08%) Amazon Aurora
7 6 (5.08%) MySQL
8 5 (4.24%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (4.24%) BigQuery
8 5 (4.24%) Redis
9 4 (3.39%) Big Data
9 4 (3.39%) SQL Server
10 3 (2.54%) Data Lake
10 3 (2.54%) HPCC
11 2 (1.69%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.85%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 56 (47.46%) Jenkins
2 54 (45.76%) Maven
3 50 (42.37%) Git
4 36 (30.51%) JUnit
5 27 (22.88%) Sonatype Nexus
6 22 (18.64%) GitLab
7 16 (13.56%) Xcode
8 15 (12.71%) SonarQube
9 14 (11.86%) Android Studio
9 14 (11.86%) Artifactory
9 14 (11.86%) JIRA
10 11 (9.32%) Cucumber
11 10 (8.47%) Mockito
11 10 (8.47%) Selenium
12 9 (7.63%) Bitbucket
13 7 (5.93%) Postman
13 7 (5.93%) Storybook
14 6 (5.08%) CircleCI
15 5 (4.24%) SonarLint
16 4 (3.39%) Snyk
General
1 26 (22.03%) Finance
2 21 (17.80%) Banking
2 21 (17.80%) Social Skills
3 6 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.24%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.54%) Retail
6 2 (1.69%) Front Office
6 2 (1.69%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.69%) Retail Banking
6 2 (1.69%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.85%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.85%) Law
7 1 (0.85%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 74 (62.71%) Developer
2 37 (31.36%) Java Developer
3 18 (15.25%) Android Developer
4 17 (14.41%) Senior
5 14 (11.86%) DevOps Engineer
6 13 (11.02%) Senior Developer
6 13 (11.02%) Senior Java Developer
7 11 (9.32%) Java Engineer
8 9 (7.63%) AWS Developer
8 9 (7.63%) React Developer
9 8 (6.78%) Java Software Engineer
9 8 (6.78%) Software Engineer
10 7 (5.93%) Architect
10 7 (5.93%) Lead
11 6 (5.08%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (5.08%) iOS Developer
12 5 (4.24%) Java Architect
12 5 (4.24%) Java Technical Architect
12 5 (4.24%) Lead Developer
12 5 (4.24%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (33.90%) Spring
2 36 (30.51%) Spring Boot
3 23 (19.49%) Kafka
3 23 (19.49%) RESTful
4 21 (17.80%) REST
5 14 (11.86%) HTML
5 14 (11.86%) JSON
6 11 (9.32%) CSS
7 9 (7.63%) React
7 9 (7.63%) React Native
8 8 (6.78%) RabbitMQ
8 8 (6.78%) Spring Cloud
9 7 (5.93%) Android Jetpack
9 7 (5.93%) D3.js
9 7 (5.93%) GraphQL
9 7 (5.93%) Jetpack Compose
9 7 (5.93%) Micronaut
9 7 (5.93%) OAuth
9 7 (5.93%) SOAP
9 7 (5.93%) SVG
Miscellaneous
1 23 (19.49%) Mobile App
2 13 (11.02%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.93%) Mobile Banking
4 6 (5.08%) Product Ownership
5 5 (4.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (4.24%) N-Tier
6 4 (3.39%) Data Centre
6 4 (3.39%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (3.39%) Private Cloud
7 3 (2.54%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.54%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.69%) Derivative
8 2 (1.69%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.69%) IoT
8 2 (1.69%) IVR
8 2 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.69%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.69%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.85%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 35 (29.66%) Android
2 22 (18.64%) Linux
3 17 (14.41%) Unix
4 16 (13.56%) Apple iOS
5 5 (4.24%) Windows
6 4 (3.39%) Solaris
7 3 (2.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (49.15%) CI/CD
2 46 (38.98%) DevOps
3 41 (34.75%) Agile
4 38 (32.20%) Microservices
5 33 (27.97%) Design Patterns
6 32 (27.12%) Containerisation
7 28 (23.73%) TDD
8 24 (20.34%) Software Engineering
9 21 (17.80%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (17.80%) Test Automation
10 20 (16.95%) Android Development
11 19 (16.10%) BDD
12 15 (12.71%) Architectural Patterns
12 15 (12.71%) Event-Driven
12 15 (12.71%) User Experience
13 14 (11.86%) Continuous Integration
14 13 (11.02%) Scrum
15 12 (10.17%) Mobile Development
15 12 (10.17%) OOP
15 12 (10.17%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 86 (72.88%) Java
2 32 (27.12%) Python
3 23 (19.49%) Kotlin
3 23 (19.49%) SQL
4 17 (14.41%) C++
5 16 (13.56%) JavaScript
6 15 (12.71%) TypeScript
7 11 (9.32%) C
8 9 (7.63%) Scala
8 9 (7.63%) Shell Script
9 7 (5.93%) Bash
9 7 (5.93%) Objective-C
9 7 (5.93%) Ruby
9 7 (5.93%) Swift
10 5 (4.24%) PowerShell
11 4 (3.39%) PL/SQL
12 3 (2.54%) Rust
13 2 (1.69%) Groovy
13 2 (1.69%) JSX
14 1 (0.85%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 15 (12.71%) Security Cleared
2 9 (7.63%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.78%) OCP
3 8 (6.78%) Oracle Certification
4 6 (5.08%) Degree
5 4 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.39%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.85%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.85%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.93%) Accessibility
2 5 (4.24%) QA
3 1 (0.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 38 (32.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 42 (35.59%) Kubernetes
2 24 (20.34%) Terraform
3 13 (11.02%) Ansible
3 13 (11.02%) Grafana
4 8 (6.78%) Prometheus
4 8 (6.78%) Puppet
5 6 (5.08%) Progress Chef
6 5 (4.24%) Argo
7 4 (3.39%) Podman
8 2 (1.69%) Istio
9 1 (0.85%) Kibana
9 1 (0.85%) logstash
Vendors
1 13 (11.02%) Oracle
2 10 (8.47%) Microsoft
3 9 (7.63%) Google
4 8 (6.78%) Splunk
5 5 (4.24%) Gigya
6 4 (3.39%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.69%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.69%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.85%) Adobe
8 1 (0.85%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.85%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.85%) Foundry
8 1 (0.85%) Palantir