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 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 510 394 500
Rank change year-on-year -116 +106 -13
Contract jobs citing Gradle 104 105 53
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.24% 0.41% 0.14%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.01% 2.90% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 76 30
10th Percentile £291 £358 £412
25th Percentile £400 £437 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.21% -3.64% -18.52%
75th Percentile £538 £546 £766
90th Percentile £610 £603 £875
UK median daily rate £455 £530 £594
% change year-on-year -14.15% -10.74% -12.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 1
10th Percentile £51.50 - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - £77.50
Median hourly rate £76.00 £70.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -12.50% +1.39%
75th Percentile £85.50 - £82.50
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £76.00 £90.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -15.56% +12.50% +1.39%

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 5,179 3,616 4,500
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.83% 14.18% 12.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,342 2,458 3,012
10th Percentile £350 £338 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £688 £713 £732
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 76 234
10th Percentile £27.64 £28.18 £33.02
25th Percentile £56.94 £50.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +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 30 June 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 30 June 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 30 June 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 -84 56 £525 -1.87% 4
North of England -85 20 £450 +11.94%
South East -54 13 £354 - 2
East of England - 11 £495 -
North West -61 9 £500 +34.23%
Yorkshire -50 7 - -
North East - 4 £450 -
East Midlands -19 2 - -
Midlands -68 2 - -
South West - 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 4 (3.85%) Apache
1 4 (3.85%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.88%) Confluence
3 2 (1.92%) Anypoint
3 2 (1.92%) Camunda
3 2 (1.92%) Mule
Business Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.96%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 42 (40.38%) GitHub
2 31 (29.81%) GitHub Actions
3 27 (25.96%) AWS
4 23 (22.12%) Azure
5 14 (13.46%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (9.62%) GCP
7 8 (7.69%) OpenShift
8 6 (5.77%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 5 (4.81%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (4.81%) Apigee
9 5 (4.81%) Firebase
9 5 (4.81%) Google Play
10 4 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (3.85%) Apple Pay
10 4 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (3.85%) Cloud Run
10 4 (3.85%) Kong
11 3 (2.88%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (2.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (2.88%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (2.88%) DSL
3 2 (1.92%) Firewall
3 2 (1.92%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (20.19%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (9.62%) MongoDB
2 10 (9.62%) Relational Database
3 8 (7.69%) DynamoDB
4 4 (3.85%) Flink
4 4 (3.85%) Hazelcast
4 4 (3.85%) MySQL
4 4 (3.85%) NoSQL
4 4 (3.85%) RDBMS
4 4 (3.85%) Redis
4 4 (3.85%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.88%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.96%) Db2
Development Applications
1 47 (45.19%) Git
2 41 (39.42%) JUnit
2 41 (39.42%) Maven
3 40 (38.46%) Jenkins
4 28 (26.92%) GitLab
5 20 (19.23%) Mockito
6 14 (13.46%) Liquibase
7 9 (8.65%) CircleCI
8 8 (7.69%) fastlane
8 8 (7.69%) REST Assured
8 8 (7.69%) SonarQube
9 7 (6.73%) Cucumber
10 6 (5.77%) Android Studio
10 6 (5.77%) TestNG
11 5 (4.81%) Crashlytics
11 5 (4.81%) Gatling
12 4 (3.85%) Bitbucket
12 4 (3.85%) JIRA
12 4 (3.85%) Selenium
12 4 (3.85%) Snyk
General
1 16 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 14 (13.46%) Finance
3 10 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.65%) Banking
5 7 (6.73%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.81%) Law
7 1 (0.96%) Front Office
7 1 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 59 (56.73%) Developer
2 45 (43.27%) Java Developer
3 22 (21.15%) Senior
4 19 (18.27%) Java Engineer
5 17 (16.35%) Software Engineer
6 12 (11.54%) Senior Developer
7 11 (10.58%) Android Developer
7 11 (10.58%) Senior Java Developer
8 10 (9.62%) Java Software Engineer
9 6 (5.77%) Android Engineer
9 6 (5.77%) Java Software Developer
9 6 (5.77%) Software Developer
10 5 (4.81%) Backend Developer
10 5 (4.81%) Mid-Level Java Developer
10 5 (4.81%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 5 (4.81%) Senior Java Engineer
11 4 (3.85%) Applications Engineer
11 4 (3.85%) Senior Backend Developer
12 2 (1.92%) Applications Developer
12 2 (1.92%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (62.50%) Spring
1 65 (62.50%) Spring Boot
2 34 (32.69%) Kafka
3 29 (27.88%) React
4 24 (23.08%) REST
5 22 (21.15%) RESTful
6 18 (17.31%) OpenAPI
6 18 (17.31%) Swagger
7 16 (15.38%) Android Jetpack
8 15 (14.42%) Jetpack Compose
9 11 (10.58%) Hibernate
10 10 (9.62%) OpenTelemetry
11 9 (8.65%) GraphQL
11 9 (8.65%) JPA
11 9 (8.65%) RxJava
11 9 (8.65%) WireMock
12 7 (6.73%) Redux
12 7 (6.73%) Vert.x
13 5 (4.81%) Dagger
13 5 (4.81%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.50%) Mobile App
2 11 (10.58%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (9.62%) Product Ownership
4 9 (8.65%) Cloud Native
5 6 (5.77%) Legacy Code
6 5 (4.81%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (4.81%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (4.81%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (4.81%) Virtual Team
7 3 (2.88%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (2.88%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.92%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.92%) PKI
9 1 (0.96%) Derivative
9 1 (0.96%) Equities
9 1 (0.96%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.96%) TWAP
9 1 (0.96%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.96%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 18 (17.31%) Android
2 6 (5.77%) Linux
3 2 (1.92%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.92%) Unix
4 1 (0.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (72.12%) CI/CD
2 52 (50.00%) Microservices
3 47 (45.19%) Agile
4 45 (43.27%) TDD
5 43 (41.35%) Test Automation
6 42 (40.38%) DevOps
7 38 (36.54%) Software Engineering
8 33 (31.73%) Containerisation
9 19 (18.27%) Event-Driven
9 19 (18.27%) Observability
10 15 (14.42%) Architectural Patterns
10 15 (14.42%) Unit Testing
11 14 (13.46%) Android Development
11 14 (13.46%) Secure Coding
12 13 (12.50%) High Availability
13 12 (11.54%) API Development
13 12 (11.54%) Clean Code
13 12 (11.54%) Continuous Integration
13 12 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (10.58%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 87 (83.65%) Java
2 45 (43.27%) SQL
3 25 (24.04%) Kotlin
4 17 (16.35%) TypeScript
5 6 (5.77%) PL/SQL
5 6 (5.77%) Python
6 3 (2.88%) Bash
7 2 (1.92%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.92%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.96%) BrightScript
8 1 (0.96%) Go
8 1 (0.96%) Korn
8 1 (0.96%) Swift
Qualifications
1 20 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 17 (16.35%) SC Cleared
3 10 (9.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (9.62%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (13.46%) QA
2 7 (6.73%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.81%) WCAG
4 4 (3.85%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.92%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.96%) GDPR
6 1 (0.96%) NCSC
6 1 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.96%) SEPA
System Software
1 34 (32.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 16 (15.38%) Ansible
3 10 (9.62%) Grafana
4 8 (7.69%) Prometheus
5 6 (5.77%) Control-M
5 6 (5.77%) Terraform
6 4 (3.85%) Argo
7 2 (1.92%) Istio
Vendors
1 12 (11.54%) Oracle
2 9 (8.65%) Dynatrace
3 8 (7.69%) Splunk
4 6 (5.77%) Google
5 5 (4.81%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.88%) IBM
7 2 (1.92%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.92%) Sybase
8 1 (0.96%) New Relic
8 1 (0.96%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.96%) Roku
8 1 (0.96%) Solace
8 1 (0.96%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.96%) Veracode