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 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 510 395 488
Rank change year-on-year -115 +93 +14
Contract jobs citing Gradle 107 109 52
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.24% 0.40% 0.14%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.02% 2.83% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 79 32
10th Percentile £313 £358 £414
25th Percentile £425 £440 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.60% -3.64% -18.52%
75th Percentile £538 £559 £747
90th Percentile £606 £615 £874
UK median daily rate £478 £530 £569
% change year-on-year -9.91% -6.81% -15.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £60.40 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £76.00 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% - -
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £76.00 £90.00 -
% change year-on-year -15.56% - -

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 5,289 3,857 4,541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.80% 14.13% 12.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,406 2,640 3,029
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £630
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 88 230
10th Percentile £29.86 £30.05 £32.87
25th Percentile £59.00 £50.00 £51.56
Median hourly rate £68.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.80% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £74.04
UK median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.40% -3.85% +4.00%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 13 July 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 -62 60 £525 -1.87% 23
North of England -87 18 £450 +11.94% 4
South East -64 12 £355 -44.09% 3
East of England - 11 £495 -
Yorkshire -50 7 - - 2
North West -69 7 £500 +34.23% 2
North East - 4 £450 -
East Midlands -17 2 - - 3
South West -31 2 - -
Midlands -57 2 - - 4
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 (3.74%) Apache
1 4 (3.74%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.80%) Confluence
3 2 (1.87%) Anypoint
3 2 (1.87%) Mule
4 1 (0.93%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 2 (1.87%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 43 (40.19%) GitHub
2 32 (29.91%) GitHub Actions
3 31 (28.97%) AWS
4 27 (25.23%) Azure
5 15 (14.02%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (13.08%) GCP
7 8 (7.48%) OpenShift
8 6 (5.61%) Firebase
8 6 (5.61%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 6 (5.61%) Google Play
9 5 (4.67%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (4.67%) Apigee
10 4 (3.74%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (3.74%) Apple Pay
10 4 (3.74%) Cloud Run
10 4 (3.74%) Kong
11 3 (2.80%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (2.80%) Amazon S3
11 3 (2.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (2.80%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.74%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (2.80%) DSL
3 2 (1.87%) Firewall
3 2 (1.87%) HTTP
4 1 (0.93%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.93%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (22.43%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (13.08%) Relational Database
3 10 (9.35%) MongoDB
4 8 (7.48%) DynamoDB
5 7 (6.54%) MySQL
6 5 (4.67%) SQL Server
7 4 (3.74%) Flink
7 4 (3.74%) Hazelcast
7 4 (3.74%) NoSQL
7 4 (3.74%) RDBMS
7 4 (3.74%) Redis
8 3 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.80%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.93%) Db2
9 1 (0.93%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.93%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 53 (49.53%) Git
2 46 (42.99%) Maven
3 44 (41.12%) Jenkins
4 43 (40.19%) JUnit
5 27 (25.23%) GitLab
6 20 (18.69%) Mockito
7 14 (13.08%) Liquibase
8 9 (8.41%) CircleCI
8 9 (8.41%) SonarQube
9 8 (7.48%) fastlane
9 8 (7.48%) REST Assured
10 7 (6.54%) Android Studio
11 6 (5.61%) Cucumber
11 6 (5.61%) TestNG
12 5 (4.67%) Crashlytics
12 5 (4.67%) Gatling
13 4 (3.74%) Bitbucket
13 4 (3.74%) JIRA
13 4 (3.74%) Selenium
13 4 (3.74%) Snyk
General
1 18 (16.82%) Social Skills
2 16 (14.95%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (14.02%) Finance
4 11 (10.28%) Banking
5 8 (7.48%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.67%) Law
7 2 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.93%) Front Office
8 1 (0.93%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 66 (61.68%) Developer
2 53 (49.53%) Java Developer
3 21 (19.63%) Senior
4 16 (14.95%) Java Engineer
5 14 (13.08%) Software Engineer
6 13 (12.15%) Senior Developer
7 12 (11.21%) Senior Java Developer
8 11 (10.28%) Android Developer
9 8 (7.48%) Java Software Engineer
9 8 (7.48%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 7 (6.54%) Java Software Developer
10 7 (6.54%) Software Developer
11 5 (4.67%) Android Engineer
11 5 (4.67%) Backend Developer
11 5 (4.67%) Mid-Level Java Developer
12 4 (3.74%) Applications Engineer
12 4 (3.74%) Senior Backend Developer
12 4 (3.74%) Senior Java Engineer
13 3 (2.80%) Applications Developer
13 3 (2.80%) Java Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (64.49%) Spring
1 69 (64.49%) Spring Boot
2 35 (32.71%) Kafka
3 31 (28.97%) React
4 28 (26.17%) RESTful
5 27 (25.23%) REST
6 17 (15.89%) Android Jetpack
6 17 (15.89%) OpenAPI
6 17 (15.89%) Swagger
7 16 (14.95%) Jetpack Compose
8 13 (12.15%) Hibernate
9 10 (9.35%) JPA
10 9 (8.41%) Redux
10 9 (8.41%) RxJava
10 9 (8.41%) WireMock
11 8 (7.48%) GraphQL
11 8 (7.48%) OpenTelemetry
12 7 (6.54%) Spring MVC
12 7 (6.54%) Vert.x
13 6 (5.61%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.02%) Mobile App
2 12 (11.21%) Product Ownership
3 11 (10.28%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (8.41%) Cloud Native
5 6 (5.61%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (4.67%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (4.67%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (4.67%) Legacy Code
7 4 (3.74%) Virtual Team
8 3 (2.80%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (2.80%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.87%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.87%) PKI
10 1 (0.93%) Derivative
10 1 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.93%) IoT
10 1 (0.93%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.93%) Synthetic Data
10 1 (0.93%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 19 (17.76%) Android
2 6 (5.61%) Linux
3 2 (1.87%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.87%) Unix
4 1 (0.93%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (76.64%) CI/CD
2 58 (54.21%) Microservices
3 54 (50.47%) Agile
4 45 (42.06%) TDD
5 43 (40.19%) Test Automation
6 42 (39.25%) DevOps
7 35 (32.71%) Software Engineering
8 34 (31.78%) Containerisation
9 19 (17.76%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (16.82%) Event-Driven
10 18 (16.82%) Observability
11 17 (15.89%) Unit Testing
12 16 (14.95%) Design Patterns
12 16 (14.95%) Scrum
13 15 (14.02%) Android Development
13 15 (14.02%) Clean Code
14 14 (13.08%) Architectural Patterns
14 14 (13.08%) OOP
14 14 (13.08%) Secure Coding
15 13 (12.15%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 93 (86.92%) Java
2 50 (46.73%) SQL
3 23 (21.50%) Kotlin
4 17 (15.89%) TypeScript
5 7 (6.54%) JavaScript
5 7 (6.54%) PL/SQL
5 7 (6.54%) Python
6 3 (2.80%) Bash
7 2 (1.87%) Korn
7 2 (1.87%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.93%) BrightScript
8 1 (0.93%) Swift
Qualifications
1 25 (23.36%) Security Cleared
2 22 (20.56%) SC Cleared
3 10 (9.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (9.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (14.02%) QA
2 8 (7.48%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.67%) WCAG
4 4 (3.74%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.87%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.93%) GDPR
6 1 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.93%) SEPA
System Software
1 38 (35.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (24.30%) Kubernetes
2 17 (15.89%) Ansible
3 8 (7.48%) Grafana
3 8 (7.48%) Prometheus
4 7 (6.54%) Control-M
5 6 (5.61%) Terraform
6 4 (3.74%) Argo
7 2 (1.87%) Istio
Vendors
1 19 (17.76%) Oracle
2 9 (8.41%) Google
3 8 (7.48%) Dynatrace
3 8 (7.48%) Splunk
4 5 (4.67%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.80%) IBM
5 3 (2.80%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.87%) Sybase
7 1 (0.93%) Roku
7 1 (0.93%) Solace
7 1 (0.93%) TIBCO
7 1 (0.93%) Veracode