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 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 478 440 505
Rank change year-on-year -38 +65 -43
Contract jobs citing Gradle 100 42 43
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.27% 0.17% 0.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.99% 1.26% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 31 28
10th Percentile £305 £402 £285
25th Percentile £400 £472 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £523
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +3.35% -22.59%
75th Percentile £588 £633 £588
90th Percentile £613 £775 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £537 £525
% change year-on-year -2.19% +2.24% -22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 0 2
10th Percentile £46.00 - £76.38
25th Percentile £52.50 - £76.56
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £78.75
75th Percentile £61.25 - £81.56
90th Percentile £80.00 - £82.13
UK median hourly rate £55.00 - £78.75
% change year-on-year - - +5.00%

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 5,029 3,342 4,264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.67% 13.51% 11.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,394 2,202 2,971
10th Percentile £338 £337 £358
25th Percentile £409 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.40% -4.38% -7.89%
75th Percentile £588 £630 £638
90th Percentile £689 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 62 183
10th Percentile £35.80 £26.06 £37.50
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.48 £48.39
Median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.40% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £77.13 £71.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £87.50
UK median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +6.40% - +1.63%

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 16 March 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 16 March 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 16 March 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 -35 40 £543 -0.23% 10
South East -18 31 £400 -37.25% 3
North of England -43 19 £489 -7.83% 3
North West -24 18 £489 +4.83% 3
Midlands -57 5 £575 +35.29%
West Midlands -61 3 £575 +26.37%
East Midlands -29 2 - -
Yorkshire -57 1 - -
South West - 1 £500 -
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 4 (4.00%) Confluence
2 3 (3.00%) Apache
2 3 (3.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.00%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.00%) Camunda
4 1 (1.00%) JBoss
4 1 (1.00%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (1.00%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (2.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 35 (35.00%) AWS
1 35 (35.00%) GitHub
2 19 (19.00%) GitHub Actions
3 9 (9.00%) Datadog
4 7 (7.00%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (7.00%) OpenShift
5 6 (6.00%) Amazon S3
5 6 (6.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (6.00%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (6.00%) Azure
5 6 (6.00%) Serverless
6 5 (5.00%) GCP
7 4 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (4.00%) Google Play
8 3 (3.00%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (3.00%) Azure AKS
8 3 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 3 (3.00%) npm
8 3 (3.00%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.00%) Kerberos
2 2 (2.00%) Bluetooth
2 2 (2.00%) DSL
2 2 (2.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (21.00%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 9 (9.00%) DynamoDB
3 9 (9.00%) HBase
4 8 (8.00%) MongoDB
5 6 (6.00%) MySQL
5 6 (6.00%) Relational Database
6 3 (3.00%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.00%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.00%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.00%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.00%) Big Data
8 1 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.00%) Spark SQL
8 1 (1.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 38 (38.00%) JUnit
2 35 (35.00%) Maven
3 34 (34.00%) Jenkins
4 32 (32.00%) Git
5 22 (22.00%) GitLab
6 16 (16.00%) Cucumber
7 14 (14.00%) Sonatype Nexus
8 13 (13.00%) IntelliJ
9 12 (12.00%) Artifactory
10 11 (11.00%) Android Studio
10 11 (11.00%) CircleCI
11 10 (10.00%) Mockito
12 8 (8.00%) Bitbucket
12 8 (8.00%) JIRA
13 7 (7.00%) Postman
13 7 (7.00%) Selenium
14 6 (6.00%) Gatling
15 5 (5.00%) Cypress.io
15 5 (5.00%) REST Assured
15 5 (5.00%) TestNG
General
1 19 (19.00%) Finance
2 13 (13.00%) Banking
3 12 (12.00%) Social Skills
4 9 (9.00%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.00%) Retail Banking
6 3 (3.00%) Law
7 2 (2.00%) Front Office
8 1 (1.00%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.00%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 51 (51.00%) Developer
2 28 (28.00%) Java Engineer
3 27 (27.00%) Java Developer
4 21 (21.00%) Software Engineer
5 20 (20.00%) Android Developer
5 20 (20.00%) Senior
6 17 (17.00%) Java Software Engineer
7 9 (9.00%) Senior Developer
7 9 (9.00%) Senior Java Developer
8 6 (6.00%) AWS Developer
8 6 (6.00%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (6.00%) Senior Java Engineer
9 5 (5.00%) Android Engineer
10 4 (4.00%) Senior Software Engineer
11 3 (3.00%) Applications Developer
11 3 (3.00%) Backend Developer
12 2 (2.00%) Engineering Manager
12 2 (2.00%) Lead
12 2 (2.00%) Senior DevOps
12 2 (2.00%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (51.00%) Spring
2 44 (44.00%) Spring Boot
3 21 (21.00%) REST
4 17 (17.00%) Kafka
5 15 (15.00%) Android Jetpack
5 15 (15.00%) Jetpack Compose
6 14 (14.00%) RESTful
7 13 (13.00%) OpenTelemetry
8 12 (12.00%) GraphQL
9 10 (10.00%) React
10 9 (9.00%) RxJava
11 8 (8.00%) OpenAPI
11 8 (8.00%) Swagger
12 7 (7.00%) Dagger
12 7 (7.00%) JSON
12 7 (7.00%) OkHttp
12 7 (7.00%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (7.00%) RAML
13 6 (6.00%) AngularJS
13 6 (6.00%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.00%) Data Protection Act
1 8 (8.00%) Mobile App
1 8 (8.00%) Product Ownership
2 7 (7.00%) Legacy Code
3 6 (6.00%) Virtual Team
4 4 (4.00%) Data Structures
4 4 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (3.00%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.00%) Private Cloud
6 2 (2.00%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.00%) Derivative
6 2 (2.00%) Equities
6 2 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.00%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.00%) TWAP
6 2 (2.00%) VWAP
7 1 (1.00%) NHS
7 1 (1.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 24 (24.00%) Android
2 10 (10.00%) Linux
3 4 (4.00%) Windows
4 3 (3.00%) Apple iOS
5 2 (2.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (51.00%) CI/CD
2 30 (30.00%) Test Automation
3 28 (28.00%) Software Engineering
4 27 (27.00%) DevOps
5 25 (25.00%) Microservices
6 20 (20.00%) Agile
7 19 (19.00%) Android Development
8 17 (17.00%) Containerisation
9 16 (16.00%) TDD
9 16 (16.00%) User Experience
10 15 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
11 14 (14.00%) Design Patterns
12 13 (13.00%) Observability
12 13 (13.00%) OOP
12 13 (13.00%) Unit Testing
13 12 (12.00%) Event-Driven
14 11 (11.00%) MVVM
14 11 (11.00%) Performance Analysis
15 10 (10.00%) Analytics
16 9 (9.00%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 72 (72.00%) Java
2 40 (40.00%) Kotlin
3 17 (17.00%) SQL
4 10 (10.00%) Python
5 7 (7.00%) TypeScript
6 5 (5.00%) C++
7 3 (3.00%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.00%) Rust
8 2 (2.00%) Bash
8 2 (2.00%) Go
8 2 (2.00%) Groovy
8 2 (2.00%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.00%) Scala
8 2 (2.00%) Swift
9 1 (1.00%) BrightScript
9 1 (1.00%) Clojure
9 1 (1.00%) Objective-C
9 1 (1.00%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (17.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (10.00%) Degree
2 10 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 9 (9.00%) OCP
3 9 (9.00%) Oracle Certification
4 8 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.00%) QA
2 4 (4.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 26 (26.00%) Docker
2 1 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 37 (37.00%) Kubernetes
2 24 (24.00%) Grafana
3 10 (10.00%) Ansible
4 8 (8.00%) Terraform
5 6 (6.00%) Prometheus
6 5 (5.00%) Puppet
7 4 (4.00%) Progress Chef
8 3 (3.00%) Podman
9 1 (1.00%) Argo
Vendors
1 8 (8.00%) Splunk
2 7 (7.00%) Oracle
3 4 (4.00%) Google
3 4 (4.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.00%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.00%) New Relic
5 2 (2.00%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.00%) Adobe
6 1 (1.00%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.00%) Foundry
6 1 (1.00%) Palantir
6 1 (1.00%) Roku