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 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 476 416 492
Rank change year-on-year -60 +76 -23
Contract jobs citing Gradle 96 68 46
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.24% 0.28% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.91% 2.06% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 46 26
10th Percentile £277 £404 £411
25th Percentile £356 £508 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.60% -3.64% -18.52%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £597
90th Percentile £628 £700 £625
UK median daily rate £475 £530 £563
% change year-on-year -10.38% -5.78% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 0 1
10th Percentile £46.00 - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - £77.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £80.00
75th Percentile £61.25 - £82.50
90th Percentile £80.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £90.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -38.89% +12.50% -

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 5,027 3,304 4,207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.49% 13.59% 11.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,358 2,215 2,876
10th Percentile £340 £350 £356
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -6.54% -2.73%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £692 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 61 175
10th Percentile £38.16 £27.50 £31.71
25th Percentile £60.00 £52.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.97%
75th Percentile £74.38 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.75 £84.00
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +8.00% - +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 29 April 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 29 April 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 29 April 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 -75 34 £525 -0.94% 8
South East - 28 £355 - 5
North of England -69 21 £402 -24.15% 1
North West -29 17 £402 -24.15%
East of England - 5 £450 - 3
Yorkshire -60 4 - - 1
Midlands -65 3 £575 +35.29% 2
East Midlands -38 2 - - 1
West Midlands -60 1 £575 +26.37% 1
South West - 1 £500 - 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 4 (4.17%) Apache
1 4 (4.17%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.13%) Confluence
3 2 (2.08%) Camunda
4 1 (1.04%) JBoss
4 1 (1.04%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.04%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Shopify
2 1 (1.04%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 32 (33.33%) AWS
2 31 (32.29%) GitHub
3 19 (19.79%) GitHub Actions
4 9 (9.38%) Azure
5 7 (7.29%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (6.25%) Amazon S3
6 6 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (6.25%) Serverless
7 5 (5.21%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (5.21%) OpenShift
8 4 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (4.17%) GCP
9 3 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (3.13%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (3.13%) AWS Fargate
9 3 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (3.13%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (3.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.13%) DSL
2 2 (2.08%) Bluetooth
2 2 (2.08%) HTTP
3 1 (1.04%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (19.79%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (8.33%) Relational Database
3 7 (7.29%) DynamoDB
4 6 (6.25%) MongoDB
4 6 (6.25%) MySQL
5 5 (5.21%) NoSQL
6 4 (4.17%) RDBMS
7 3 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (3.13%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (3.13%) HBase
8 2 (2.08%) Hazelcast
8 2 (2.08%) Redis
9 1 (1.04%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (1.04%) Flink
Development Applications
1 40 (41.67%) Git
2 38 (39.58%) Maven
3 33 (34.38%) JUnit
4 26 (27.08%) GitLab
4 26 (27.08%) Jenkins
5 13 (13.54%) IntelliJ
6 12 (12.50%) Cucumber
6 12 (12.50%) Mockito
7 8 (8.33%) Android Studio
7 8 (8.33%) CircleCI
8 7 (7.29%) Liquibase
9 6 (6.25%) Bitbucket
9 6 (6.25%) JIRA
9 6 (6.25%) Postman
9 6 (6.25%) REST Assured
9 6 (6.25%) Selenium
9 6 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (6.25%) TestNG
10 5 (5.21%) fastlane
10 5 (5.21%) Gatling
General
1 14 (14.58%) Social Skills
2 11 (11.46%) Finance
3 9 (9.38%) Public Sector
4 8 (8.33%) Banking
5 3 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.13%) Law
6 2 (2.08%) Front Office
6 2 (2.08%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 50 (52.08%) Developer
2 30 (31.25%) Java Developer
3 27 (28.13%) Java Engineer
4 22 (22.92%) Software Engineer
5 18 (18.75%) Senior
6 16 (16.67%) Android Developer
6 16 (16.67%) Java Software Engineer
7 10 (10.42%) Senior Developer
8 9 (9.38%) Senior Java Developer
9 6 (6.25%) Android Engineer
10 4 (4.17%) Senior Java Engineer
11 3 (3.13%) Backend Developer
11 3 (3.13%) Senior Software Engineer
12 2 (2.08%) Applications Developer
12 2 (2.08%) Java Applications Developer
12 2 (2.08%) Java Software Developer
12 2 (2.08%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
12 2 (2.08%) Senior Backend Developer
12 2 (2.08%) Server Engineer
12 2 (2.08%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (59.38%) Spring
2 53 (55.21%) Spring Boot
3 21 (21.88%) REST
4 19 (19.79%) Kafka
5 18 (18.75%) OpenTelemetry
6 14 (14.58%) RESTful
7 13 (13.54%) Android Jetpack
7 13 (13.54%) Jetpack Compose
7 13 (13.54%) React
8 12 (12.50%) GraphQL
8 12 (12.50%) OpenAPI
8 12 (12.50%) Swagger
9 8 (8.33%) WireMock
10 7 (7.29%) JPA
10 7 (7.29%) RxJava
11 6 (6.25%) Dagger
11 6 (6.25%) OkHttp
11 6 (6.25%) RAML
12 5 (5.21%) AngularJS
12 5 (5.21%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.38%) Product Ownership
2 7 (7.29%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (7.29%) Legacy Code
2 7 (7.29%) Mobile App
3 6 (6.25%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.21%) Virtual Team
5 4 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.13%) Data Structures
6 3 (3.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (2.08%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.08%) Derivative
7 2 (2.08%) Equities
7 2 (2.08%) TWAP
7 2 (2.08%) VWAP
8 1 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.04%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.04%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (1.04%) Synthetic Data
8 1 (1.04%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 21 (21.88%) Android
2 6 (6.25%) Linux
3 4 (4.17%) Windows
4 3 (3.13%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (53.13%) CI/CD
2 33 (34.38%) Test Automation
3 32 (33.33%) Microservices
3 32 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 27 (28.13%) DevOps
5 26 (27.08%) Agile
6 25 (26.04%) Containerisation
7 24 (25.00%) TDD
8 15 (15.63%) Android Development
8 15 (15.63%) Continuous Integration
8 15 (15.63%) Observability
9 14 (14.58%) Unit Testing
10 13 (13.54%) Event-Driven
10 13 (13.54%) User Experience
11 12 (12.50%) Design Patterns
11 12 (12.50%) OOP
12 10 (10.42%) Performance Analysis
13 9 (9.38%) API Design
13 9 (9.38%) Architectural Patterns
13 9 (9.38%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 75 (78.13%) Java
2 36 (37.50%) Kotlin
3 24 (25.00%) SQL
4 8 (8.33%) TypeScript
5 5 (5.21%) Python
6 3 (3.13%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.08%) C++
7 2 (2.08%) Go
7 2 (2.08%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.08%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.08%) Swift
8 1 (1.04%) Bash
8 1 (1.04%) BrightScript
8 1 (1.04%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 18 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 11 (11.46%) SC Cleared
3 10 (10.42%) Degree
4 8 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (4.17%) OCP
5 4 (4.17%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.04%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (15.63%) QA
2 5 (5.21%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.08%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.08%) NCSC
4 1 (1.04%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.04%) SEPA
4 1 (1.04%) WCAG
System Software
1 28 (29.17%) Docker
2 1 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (32.29%) Kubernetes
2 21 (21.88%) Grafana
3 10 (10.42%) Ansible
4 8 (8.33%) Terraform
5 7 (7.29%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.08%) Argo
7 1 (1.04%) Podman
7 1 (1.04%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.04%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (6.25%) Oracle
1 6 (6.25%) Splunk
2 4 (4.17%) Dynatrace
2 4 (4.17%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.08%) Google
3 2 (2.08%) New Relic
3 2 (2.08%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.04%) Roku