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 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 443 455 510
Rank change year-on-year +12 +55 -35
Contract jobs citing Gradle 109 38 43
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.32% 0.15% 0.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.30% 1.09% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 26 26
10th Percentile £313 £403 £285
25th Percentile £400 £493 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -22.22%
75th Percentile £588 £744 £588
90th Percentile £675 £863 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 0 3
10th Percentile £46.00 - £76.50
25th Percentile £52.50 - £76.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £80.00
75th Percentile £61.25 - £82.50
90th Percentile £80.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 - £80.00

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 4,745 3,472 4,386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.95% 13.46% 11.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,267 2,175 3,082
10th Percentile £339 £338 £363
25th Percentile £409 £410 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £533
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -5.21% -7.35%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 60 206
10th Percentile £28.84 £27.38 £40.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.11 £48.35
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £75.19
90th Percentile £80.70 £80.00 £88.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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 16 February 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 16 February 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 16 February 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 -18 43 £550 - 2
South East -2 31 £400 -37.25% 1
North of England -40 25 £404 -33.87% 1
North West -11 22 £395 - 1
Midlands -50 5 £575 +35.29%
West Midlands -45 4 £575 +26.37%
Yorkshire -55 3 £586 -3.92%
East Midlands -21 1 - -
South West - 1 £500 -
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 (3.67%) OpenStack
2 3 (2.75%) Apache
2 3 (2.75%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.75%) Confluence
3 2 (1.83%) Camunda
4 1 (0.92%) JBoss
4 1 (0.92%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.92%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (1.83%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 39 (35.78%) GitHub
2 36 (33.03%) AWS
3 19 (17.43%) GitHub Actions
4 18 (16.51%) Azure
5 10 (9.17%) Datadog
6 9 (8.26%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (8.26%) GCP
7 8 (7.34%) OpenShift
8 7 (6.42%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (5.50%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (5.50%) Amazon S3
9 6 (5.50%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (5.50%) Figma
9 6 (5.50%) Serverless
10 5 (4.59%) Azure AKS
11 4 (3.67%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (3.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 4 (3.67%) Google Play
11 4 (3.67%) npm
11 4 (3.67%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.59%) Kerberos
2 2 (1.83%) Bluetooth
2 2 (1.83%) DSL
3 1 (0.92%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.92%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (15.60%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (11.93%) NoSQL
3 11 (10.09%) MongoDB
4 9 (8.26%) DynamoDB
4 9 (8.26%) HBase
5 8 (7.34%) Relational Database
6 6 (5.50%) MySQL
7 4 (3.67%) RDBMS
8 3 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.75%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.92%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.92%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.92%) Big Data
9 1 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.92%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 44 (40.37%) Maven
2 39 (35.78%) Git
2 39 (35.78%) JUnit
3 30 (27.52%) Jenkins
4 24 (22.02%) GitLab
5 19 (17.43%) Sonatype Nexus
6 15 (13.76%) Cucumber
6 15 (13.76%) IntelliJ
7 13 (11.93%) Artifactory
8 12 (11.01%) CircleCI
9 11 (10.09%) Android Studio
10 10 (9.17%) Mockito
11 9 (8.26%) Bitbucket
12 7 (6.42%) JIRA
12 7 (6.42%) Postman
12 7 (6.42%) Selenium
13 6 (5.50%) Cypress.io
14 5 (4.59%) Gatling
14 5 (4.59%) SonarQube
14 5 (4.59%) Xcode
General
1 22 (20.18%) Finance
2 14 (12.84%) Banking
3 12 (11.01%) Social Skills
4 8 (7.34%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.67%) Front Office
5 4 (3.67%) Retail Banking
6 1 (0.92%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.92%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.92%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.92%) Law
6 1 (0.92%) Private Banking
6 1 (0.92%) Retail
Job Titles
1 59 (54.13%) Developer
2 32 (29.36%) Java Developer
3 25 (22.94%) Java Engineer
4 21 (19.27%) Senior
5 20 (18.35%) Android Developer
6 18 (16.51%) Software Engineer
7 15 (13.76%) Java Software Engineer
8 11 (10.09%) DevOps Engineer
8 11 (10.09%) Senior Developer
8 11 (10.09%) Senior Java Developer
9 6 (5.50%) AWS Developer
9 6 (5.50%) Senior Java Engineer
10 5 (4.59%) Android Engineer
11 4 (3.67%) Backend Developer
11 4 (3.67%) Engineering Manager
11 4 (3.67%) React Developer
11 4 (3.67%) Senior Software Engineer
12 3 (2.75%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
12 3 (2.75%) Applications Developer
12 3 (2.75%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (47.71%) Spring
2 44 (40.37%) Spring Boot
3 22 (20.18%) REST
4 18 (16.51%) Kafka
5 16 (14.68%) RESTful
6 15 (13.76%) Android Jetpack
6 15 (13.76%) Jetpack Compose
6 15 (13.76%) OpenTelemetry
7 12 (11.01%) GraphQL
8 9 (8.26%) RxJava
9 8 (7.34%) Hibernate
9 8 (7.34%) JSON
9 8 (7.34%) React
10 7 (6.42%) AngularJS
10 7 (6.42%) Dagger
10 7 (6.42%) OkHttp
10 7 (6.42%) RabbitMQ
10 7 (6.42%) RAML
11 6 (5.50%) React Native
11 6 (5.50%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.09%) Mobile App
2 8 (7.34%) Product Ownership
3 7 (6.42%) Legacy Code
4 6 (5.50%) Cloud Native
4 6 (5.50%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (5.50%) Virtual Team
5 5 (4.59%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.67%) Algorithms
6 4 (3.67%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.67%) Private Cloud
7 3 (2.75%) Derivative
7 3 (2.75%) Equities
7 3 (2.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (2.75%) TWAP
7 3 (2.75%) VWAP
8 2 (1.83%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.83%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.83%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 28 (25.69%) Android
2 13 (11.93%) Linux
3 7 (6.42%) Apple iOS
4 5 (4.59%) Unix
5 4 (3.67%) Windows
6 3 (2.75%) Solaris
7 2 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (49.54%) CI/CD
2 36 (33.03%) DevOps
3 30 (27.52%) Test Automation
4 28 (25.69%) Software Engineering
5 26 (23.85%) Microservices
6 19 (17.43%) Android Development
7 18 (16.51%) Agile
7 18 (16.51%) Containerisation
7 18 (16.51%) Design Patterns
8 16 (14.68%) Continuous Integration
8 16 (14.68%) User Experience
9 15 (13.76%) TDD
10 14 (12.84%) OOP
10 14 (12.84%) Unit Testing
11 13 (11.93%) Event-Driven
12 12 (11.01%) Observability
13 11 (10.09%) MVVM
13 11 (10.09%) Performance Analysis
14 10 (9.17%) Analytics
15 9 (8.26%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 73 (66.97%) Java
2 38 (34.86%) Kotlin
3 16 (14.68%) SQL
4 13 (11.93%) Python
5 7 (6.42%) TypeScript
6 5 (4.59%) Bash
6 5 (4.59%) C++
6 5 (4.59%) PowerShell
7 4 (3.67%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.75%) Rust
9 2 (1.83%) Go
9 2 (1.83%) Groovy
9 2 (1.83%) Scala
9 2 (1.83%) Swift
10 1 (0.92%) BrightScript
10 1 (0.92%) Clojure
10 1 (0.92%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.92%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.92%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (14.68%) Security Cleared
2 10 (9.17%) Degree
3 9 (8.26%) OCP
3 9 (8.26%) Oracle Certification
4 8 (7.34%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (7.34%) SC Cleared
5 4 (3.67%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.92%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.92%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.09%) QA
2 8 (7.34%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.83%) NCSC
System Software
1 23 (21.10%) Docker
2 1 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 42 (38.53%) Kubernetes
2 24 (22.02%) Grafana
3 14 (12.84%) Terraform
4 11 (10.09%) Ansible
5 6 (5.50%) Prometheus
5 6 (5.50%) Puppet
6 5 (4.59%) Progress Chef
7 4 (3.67%) Podman
8 1 (0.92%) Argo
Vendors
1 9 (8.26%) Oracle
1 9 (8.26%) Splunk
2 5 (4.59%) Dynatrace
2 5 (4.59%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.59%) Red Hat
3 4 (3.67%) Google
4 2 (1.83%) New Relic
5 1 (0.92%) Adobe
5 1 (0.92%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.92%) Foundry
5 1 (0.92%) Palantir
5 1 (0.92%) Roku