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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 391 477 490
Rank change year-on-year +86 +13 -57
Contract jobs citing Gradle 122 51 100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.44% 0.15% 0.24%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.95% 1.16% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 31 67
10th Percentile £358 £525 £488
25th Percentile £393 £550 £571
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £700 £700
Median % change year-on-year -24.29% - +3.70%
75th Percentile £576 £863 £743
90th Percentile £615 £913 £775
UK median daily rate £530 £627 £650
% change year-on-year -15.40% -3.62% -1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £77.97
25th Percentile - - £78.67
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £86.41
75th Percentile - - £90.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £90.00 - £86.41
% change year-on-year - - +20.01%

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 4,137 4,402 5,536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.89% 13.37% 13.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,857 2,829 3,902
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £405 £425 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -3.51%
75th Percentile £603 £631 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 169 229
10th Percentile £44.63 £37.39 £46.18
25th Percentile £54.94 £54.36 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £78.00
90th Percentile £81.50 £73.80 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

Gradle
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Gradle as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Gradle 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +41 57 £538 -10.86% 17
North of England +27 46 £375 -31.82% 5
North West +18 36 £375 - 5
Yorkshire - 10 £520 -
Midlands -11 8 £442 -41.12% 1
West Midlands - 5 £575 - 1
South East +21 3 £635 -20.63% 6
East Midlands -2 3 £429 -42.80%
South West +25 1 - -
Gradle
UK

Gradle
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (8.20%) Confluence
2 9 (7.38%) Tomcat
3 8 (6.56%) JBoss
4 3 (2.46%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.64%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 35 (28.69%) GitHub
2 34 (27.87%) Azure
3 26 (21.31%) AWS
4 18 (14.75%) GCP
5 14 (11.48%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (11.48%) OpenShift
6 10 (8.20%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 8 (6.56%) Apigee
7 8 (6.56%) Datadog
8 7 (5.74%) Amazon EMR
8 7 (5.74%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (5.74%) Figma
8 7 (5.74%) Serverless
9 6 (4.92%) Azure AKS
9 6 (4.92%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (4.92%) SaaS
10 5 (4.10%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (4.10%) Amazon EventBridge
10 5 (4.10%) AWS Fargate
10 5 (4.10%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.46%) SSH
2 2 (1.64%) DMZ
2 2 (1.64%) Internet
2 2 (1.64%) MQTT
3 1 (0.82%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (27.87%) Relational Database
2 29 (23.77%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (9.84%) NoSQL
4 7 (5.74%) RDBMS
5 6 (4.92%) MongoDB
5 6 (4.92%) MySQL
6 5 (4.10%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (4.10%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (4.10%) BigQuery
6 5 (4.10%) DynamoDB
6 5 (4.10%) Redis
7 3 (2.46%) Big Data
7 3 (2.46%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.46%) HPCC
7 3 (2.46%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.64%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 71 (58.20%) Jenkins
2 56 (45.90%) Maven
3 49 (40.16%) Git
4 48 (39.34%) JUnit
5 29 (23.77%) Mockito
6 28 (22.95%) GitLab
7 24 (19.67%) Liquibase
8 22 (18.03%) JIRA
9 20 (16.39%) Sonatype Nexus
10 16 (13.11%) Xcode
11 15 (12.30%) Selenium
12 13 (10.66%) SonarQube
13 9 (7.38%) IntelliJ
14 7 (5.74%) Storybook
15 6 (4.92%) Android Studio
15 6 (4.92%) Artifactory
15 6 (4.92%) Eclipse
16 5 (4.10%) Bitbucket
16 5 (4.10%) Cucumber
16 5 (4.10%) Subversion
General
1 38 (31.15%) Finance
2 20 (16.39%) Telecoms
3 19 (15.57%) Public Sector
3 19 (15.57%) Social Skills
4 18 (14.75%) Banking
5 17 (13.93%) Electronics
5 17 (13.93%) Manufacturing
5 17 (13.93%) Marketing
6 7 (5.74%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.28%) Front Office
7 4 (3.28%) Retail
8 3 (2.46%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.82%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 72 (59.02%) Developer
2 41 (33.61%) Java Developer
3 18 (14.75%) React Developer
4 15 (12.30%) Java Engineer
5 14 (11.48%) Java Software Engineer
5 14 (11.48%) Software Engineer
6 12 (9.84%) DevOps Engineer
7 11 (9.02%) Android Developer
8 9 (7.38%) Kafka Developer
8 9 (7.38%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 9 (7.38%) Senior
8 9 (7.38%) Senior Developer
8 9 (7.38%) Senior Java Developer
9 8 (6.56%) Lead
9 8 (6.56%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
10 7 (5.74%) Architect
10 7 (5.74%) Azure Engineer
10 7 (5.74%) Lead Developer
10 7 (5.74%) Lead Java Developer
11 6 (4.92%) iOS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (40.98%) Spring
2 48 (39.34%) Spring Boot
3 38 (31.15%) Kafka
4 28 (22.95%) React
5 24 (19.67%) OpenAPI
5 24 (19.67%) Swagger
6 18 (14.75%) REST
7 16 (13.11%) RESTful
8 13 (10.66%) HTML
8 13 (10.66%) JSON
9 10 (8.20%) CSS
10 9 (7.38%) React Native
10 9 (7.38%) Spring Cloud
11 8 (6.56%) SOAP
12 7 (5.74%) D3.js
12 7 (5.74%) GraphQL
12 7 (5.74%) Micronaut
12 7 (5.74%) OAuth
12 7 (5.74%) SVG
13 6 (4.92%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 20 (16.39%) Mobile App
2 14 (11.48%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.74%) Mobile Banking
4 5 (4.10%) N-Tier
5 4 (3.28%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.28%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.46%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.46%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.46%) Equities
6 3 (2.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (2.46%) IVR
6 3 (2.46%) Private Cloud
6 3 (2.46%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.64%) Derivative
7 2 (1.64%) IoT
8 1 (0.82%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.82%) TWAP
Operating Systems
1 29 (23.77%) Android
2 23 (18.85%) Linux
3 20 (16.39%) Unix
4 16 (13.11%) Apple iOS
5 5 (4.10%) Solaris
5 5 (4.10%) Windows
6 4 (3.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (52.46%) DevOps
2 62 (50.82%) Agile
3 58 (47.54%) CI/CD
4 51 (41.80%) Microservices
4 51 (41.80%) TDD
5 46 (37.70%) Containerisation
6 41 (33.61%) Software Engineering
7 33 (27.05%) Design Patterns
8 31 (25.41%) Migration
9 24 (19.67%) Continuous Integration
10 21 (17.21%) BDD
10 21 (17.21%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (14.75%) Event-Driven
12 17 (13.93%) Architectural Patterns
12 17 (13.93%) Business Intelligence
12 17 (13.93%) Digital Marketing
12 17 (13.93%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 17 (13.93%) Programme Management
12 17 (13.93%) Test Automation
13 16 (13.11%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 95 (77.87%) Java
2 37 (30.33%) SQL
3 33 (27.05%) TypeScript
4 25 (20.49%) Python
5 20 (16.39%) Kotlin
6 13 (10.66%) JavaScript
7 12 (9.84%) C++
8 11 (9.02%) C
8 11 (9.02%) Shell Script
9 7 (5.74%) Bash
9 7 (5.74%) Objective-C
9 7 (5.74%) Ruby
9 7 (5.74%) Scala
9 7 (5.74%) Swift
10 4 (3.28%) PowerShell
11 3 (2.46%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.64%) JSX
13 1 (0.82%) Go
Qualifications
1 33 (27.05%) Security Cleared
2 28 (22.95%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.92%) Degree
4 4 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.46%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.82%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.82%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.74%) Accessibility
2 6 (4.92%) QA
3 2 (1.64%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 48 (39.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (22.95%) Kubernetes
2 23 (18.85%) Terraform
3 9 (7.38%) Ansible
4 7 (5.74%) Puppet
5 5 (4.10%) Grafana
5 5 (4.10%) Progress Chef
5 5 (4.10%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.28%) Argo
7 3 (2.46%) Istio
7 3 (2.46%) Podman
8 1 (0.82%) Kibana
8 1 (0.82%) logstash
Vendors
1 18 (14.75%) SAP
2 15 (12.30%) Oracle
3 9 (7.38%) Microsoft
4 7 (5.74%) Google
4 7 (5.74%) Splunk
5 5 (4.10%) Gigya
5 5 (4.10%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.46%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.64%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.64%) Sybase
8 1 (0.82%) Adobe
8 1 (0.82%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.82%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.82%) Remedy
8 1 (0.82%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.82%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.82%) Sonatype