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 10 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 449 464 514
Rank change year-on-year +15 +50 -46
Contract jobs citing Gradle 95 43 57
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.31% 0.14% 0.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.03% 1.07% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 30 39
10th Percentile £358 £525 £297
25th Percentile £405 £550 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £713 £575
Median % change year-on-year -24.21% +23.91% -12.88%
75th Percentile £605 £863 £738
90th Percentile £643 £914 £755
UK median daily rate £538 £700 £575
% change year-on-year -23.21% +21.74% -11.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile - - £76.63
25th Percentile - - £77.19
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £81.41
75th Percentile - - £87.42
90th Percentile - - £88.97
UK median hourly rate £40.00 - £81.41
% change year-on-year - - -4.23%

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 4,684 4,020 4,834
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.13% 13.26% 12.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,277 2,521 3,424
10th Percentile £330 £345 £375
25th Percentile £408 £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 £645
90th Percentile £700 £730 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £540
% change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 101 214
10th Percentile £39.00 £46.18 £45.88
25th Percentile £52.50 £54.36 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £84.40 £75.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +5.69%

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 10 December 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
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 10 December 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 +9 43 £550 -22.81% 9
North of England -21 24 £378 - 4
South East +3 21 £473 -34.19% 6
North West -2 17 £384 - 4
Yorkshire - 7 £354 -
Midlands -30 4 £575 -23.33% 1
West Midlands - 4 £575 - 1
South West -12 1 - - 2
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 (4.21%) OpenStack
2 3 (3.16%) Apache
2 3 (3.16%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.11%) Confluence
3 2 (2.11%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.05%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 35 (36.84%) GitHub
2 28 (29.47%) AWS
3 26 (27.37%) Azure
4 19 (20.00%) GCP
5 15 (15.79%) Datadog
6 12 (12.63%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (9.47%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 8 (8.42%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (8.42%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (8.42%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (8.42%) Serverless
9 7 (7.37%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (7.37%) Figma
9 7 (7.37%) OpenShift
10 6 (6.32%) Apigee
10 6 (6.32%) SaaS
11 5 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (5.26%) Amazon EMR
11 5 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (5.26%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.26%) Kerberos
2 2 (2.11%) Bluetooth
2 2 (2.11%) MQTT
3 1 (1.05%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (18.95%) NoSQL
2 17 (17.89%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (12.63%) MongoDB
3 12 (12.63%) Relational Database
4 11 (11.58%) DynamoDB
5 9 (9.47%) HBase
6 8 (8.42%) RDBMS
7 6 (6.32%) Amazon Aurora
7 6 (6.32%) MySQL
8 5 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (5.26%) BigQuery
8 5 (5.26%) Redis
9 4 (4.21%) SQL Server
10 3 (3.16%) Big Data
11 2 (2.11%) Data Lake
11 2 (2.11%) HPCC
12 1 (1.05%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (1.05%) Oracle Database
12 1 (1.05%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 42 (44.21%) Maven
2 39 (41.05%) Jenkins
3 38 (40.00%) Git
4 26 (27.37%) JUnit
5 19 (20.00%) GitLab
5 19 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
6 14 (14.74%) SonarQube
7 13 (13.68%) Artifactory
8 12 (12.63%) Android Studio
9 11 (11.58%) Cucumber
10 10 (10.53%) Selenium
10 10 (10.53%) Xcode
11 9 (9.47%) Bitbucket
12 8 (8.42%) Mockito
13 7 (7.37%) Postman
13 7 (7.37%) Storybook
14 6 (6.32%) CircleCI
15 5 (5.26%) JIRA
15 5 (5.26%) SonarLint
16 4 (4.21%) Eclipse
General
1 23 (24.21%) Finance
2 13 (13.68%) Banking
2 13 (13.68%) Social Skills
3 6 (6.32%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.16%) Front Office
5 2 (2.11%) Retail Banking
6 1 (1.05%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.05%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.05%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.05%) Law
6 1 (1.05%) Private Banking
6 1 (1.05%) Retail
6 1 (1.05%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 60 (63.16%) Developer
2 32 (33.68%) Java Developer
3 16 (16.84%) Android Developer
3 16 (16.84%) Senior
4 12 (12.63%) Senior Developer
4 12 (12.63%) Senior Java Developer
5 11 (11.58%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (10.53%) Java Engineer
7 7 (7.37%) React Developer
8 6 (6.32%) AWS Developer
8 6 (6.32%) Java Software Engineer
8 6 (6.32%) Software Engineer
9 5 (5.26%) Architect
9 5 (5.26%) Java Architect
9 5 (5.26%) Java Technical Architect
9 5 (5.26%) Lead
9 5 (5.26%) Technical Architect
10 4 (4.21%) Backend Developer
10 4 (4.21%) GCP Engineer
11 3 (3.16%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (32.63%) Spring
2 29 (30.53%) Spring Boot
3 21 (22.11%) Kafka
3 21 (22.11%) RESTful
4 13 (13.68%) JSON
4 13 (13.68%) REST
5 9 (9.47%) HTML
6 7 (7.37%) CSS
6 7 (7.37%) D3.js
6 7 (7.37%) Micronaut
6 7 (7.37%) OAuth
6 7 (7.37%) RabbitMQ
6 7 (7.37%) React Native
6 7 (7.37%) SVG
7 6 (6.32%) GraphQL
7 6 (6.32%) React
8 5 (5.26%) Android Jetpack
8 5 (5.26%) Dropwizard
8 5 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (5.26%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 17 (17.89%) Mobile App
2 12 (12.63%) Cloud Native
3 6 (6.32%) Product Ownership
4 5 (5.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (5.26%) N-Tier
5 4 (4.21%) Data Centre
5 4 (4.21%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (4.21%) Data Structures
5 4 (4.21%) Private Cloud
6 3 (3.16%) Algorithms
6 3 (3.16%) Derivative
6 3 (3.16%) Mobile Banking
7 2 (2.11%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (2.11%) Equities
7 2 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.11%) IoT
7 2 (2.11%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.11%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.11%) TWAP
7 2 (2.11%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 25 (26.32%) Android
2 12 (12.63%) Linux
3 10 (10.53%) Apple iOS
4 8 (8.42%) Unix
5 4 (4.21%) Windows
6 3 (3.16%) Solaris
7 2 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (53.68%) CI/CD
2 40 (42.11%) DevOps
3 31 (32.63%) Agile
4 29 (30.53%) Containerisation
5 28 (29.47%) Microservices
6 23 (24.21%) Design Patterns
7 21 (22.11%) TDD
8 20 (21.05%) Software Engineering
8 20 (21.05%) Test Automation
9 16 (16.84%) Android Development
10 15 (15.79%) Event-Driven
11 14 (14.74%) BDD
12 13 (13.68%) Mentoring
12 13 (13.68%) OOP
12 13 (13.68%) Problem-Solving
13 11 (11.58%) Continuous Integration
13 11 (11.58%) Infrastructure as Code
13 11 (11.58%) SDLC
14 10 (10.53%) Mobile Application Development
14 10 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 70 (73.68%) Java
2 24 (25.26%) Python
3 21 (22.11%) SQL
4 16 (16.84%) Kotlin
5 12 (12.63%) C++
6 11 (11.58%) TypeScript
7 10 (10.53%) JavaScript
8 6 (6.32%) C
9 5 (5.26%) Bash
9 5 (5.26%) PowerShell
9 5 (5.26%) Scala
10 4 (4.21%) PL/SQL
11 3 (3.16%) Objective-C
11 3 (3.16%) Ruby
11 3 (3.16%) Rust
11 3 (3.16%) Shell Script
11 3 (3.16%) Swift
12 2 (2.11%) Groovy
13 1 (1.05%) Clojure
13 1 (1.05%) Go
Qualifications
1 13 (13.68%) Security Cleared
2 9 (9.47%) OCP
2 9 (9.47%) Oracle Certification
3 6 (6.32%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.21%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (4.21%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.16%) Degree
6 2 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.05%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.05%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.37%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.21%) QA
System Software
1 33 (34.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 40 (42.11%) Kubernetes
2 22 (23.16%) Terraform
3 13 (13.68%) Grafana
4 12 (12.63%) Ansible
5 8 (8.42%) Prometheus
6 7 (7.37%) Puppet
7 6 (6.32%) Progress Chef
8 5 (5.26%) Argo
9 4 (4.21%) Podman
10 1 (1.05%) Istio
10 1 (1.05%) Kibana
10 1 (1.05%) logstash
Vendors
1 8 (8.42%) Google
2 7 (7.37%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.37%) Oracle
2 7 (7.37%) Splunk
3 5 (5.26%) Gigya
4 3 (3.16%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.11%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.05%) Adobe
6 1 (1.05%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.05%) Foundry
6 1 (1.05%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.05%) Palantir