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 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 525 394 473
Rank change year-on-year -131 +79 +38
Contract jobs citing Gradle 114 123 49
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.45% 0.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.18% 3.02% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 91 30
10th Percentile £326 £358 £524
25th Percentile £425 £393 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £652
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -18.65% -6.93%
75th Percentile £538 £567 £863
90th Percentile £618 £605 £914
UK median daily rate £478 £530 £603
% change year-on-year -9.91% -12.11% -7.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Median hourly rate £76.00 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% - -
UK median hourly rate £76.00 £90.00 -
% change year-on-year -15.56% - -

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 5,225 4,074 4,314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.36% 14.90% 13.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,326 2,822 2,811
10th Percentile £356 £325 £356
25th Percentile £415 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £637
90th Percentile £694 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 92 173
10th Percentile £37.25 £46.38 £36.35
25th Percentile £55.00 £54.94 £52.50
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - -
75th Percentile £71.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £83.00 £71.80
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.80% - +0.48%

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 8 September 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
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 8 September 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 -61 68 £525 -1.87% 64
North of England -97 24 £500 +33.33% 10
Yorkshire -37 12 £500 -3.80% 4
East of England - 11 £495 -
North West -85 8 £537 +43.20% 5
South East -69 6 £270 -57.48% 9
North East - 4 £450 - 1
South West -44 2 - - 6
Midlands -61 2 £455 +4.53% 3
East Midlands -15 1 £335 -21.91% 1
West Midlands -49 1 £575 - 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 9 (7.89%) Confluence
2 8 (7.02%) Camunda
3 4 (3.51%) Apache
3 4 (3.51%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.75%) Anypoint
4 2 (1.75%) Mule
5 1 (0.88%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (1.75%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 36 (31.58%) GitHub
2 35 (30.70%) Azure
3 32 (28.07%) AWS
4 26 (22.81%) GitHub Actions
5 23 (20.18%) OpenShift
6 19 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (14.91%) GCP
8 9 (7.89%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 7 (6.14%) Firebase
9 7 (6.14%) Google Play
10 6 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (5.26%) Apigee
10 6 (5.26%) Kong
11 5 (4.39%) Cloud Run
12 4 (3.51%) Apple Pay
13 3 (2.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (2.63%) Amazon Kinesis
13 3 (2.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (2.63%) Azure Monitor
13 3 (2.63%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.51%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (1.75%) Firewall
3 1 (0.88%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.88%) DSL
3 1 (0.88%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (22.81%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (16.67%) Relational Database
3 13 (11.40%) MongoDB
4 12 (10.53%) SQL Server
5 7 (6.14%) NoSQL
6 6 (5.26%) RDBMS
7 5 (4.39%) DynamoDB
7 5 (4.39%) Hazelcast
7 5 (4.39%) MySQL
7 5 (4.39%) Redis
8 4 (3.51%) Flink
9 3 (2.63%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (1.75%) Db2
11 1 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.88%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.88%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.88%) Pinecone
11 1 (0.88%) SQLite
11 1 (0.88%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 66 (57.89%) Jenkins
2 53 (46.49%) Git
3 49 (42.98%) Maven
4 47 (41.23%) JUnit
5 35 (30.70%) GitLab
6 28 (24.56%) Mockito
7 19 (16.67%) SonarQube
8 17 (14.91%) Liquibase
9 14 (12.28%) REST Assured
10 11 (9.65%) JIRA
10 11 (9.65%) Sonatype Nexus
11 8 (7.02%) Bitbucket Server
11 8 (7.02%) Cucumber
12 7 (6.14%) CircleCI
12 7 (6.14%) Selenium
13 6 (5.26%) Android Studio
13 6 (5.26%) fastlane
14 5 (4.39%) Crashlytics
14 5 (4.39%) Snyk
15 4 (3.51%) Bitbucket
General
1 22 (19.30%) Banking
1 22 (19.30%) Finance
2 19 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (15.79%) Social Skills
4 10 (8.77%) Public Sector
5 7 (6.14%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (4.39%) Law
8 1 (0.88%) Games
8 1 (0.88%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 79 (69.30%) Developer
2 60 (52.63%) Java Developer
3 22 (19.30%) Senior
4 14 (12.28%) Senior Developer
4 14 (12.28%) Software Engineer
5 13 (11.40%) Java Engineer
5 13 (11.40%) Senior Java Developer
5 13 (11.40%) Software Developer
6 12 (10.53%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 9 (7.89%) Android Developer
7 9 (7.89%) Java Software Developer
8 7 (6.14%) Java Software Engineer
9 6 (5.26%) Backend Developer
10 5 (4.39%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (4.39%) Mid-Level Java Developer
11 4 (3.51%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 4 (3.51%) Oracle Developer
11 4 (3.51%) Senior Backend Developer
12 3 (2.63%) Android Engineer
12 3 (2.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (76.32%) Spring Boot
2 78 (68.42%) Spring
3 61 (53.51%) Kafka
4 48 (42.11%) React
5 30 (26.32%) REST
5 30 (26.32%) RESTful
6 24 (21.05%) Hibernate
7 22 (19.30%) Redux
8 20 (17.54%) OpenAPI
8 20 (17.54%) Swagger
9 16 (14.04%) JPA
10 15 (13.16%) HTML
11 14 (12.28%) Android Jetpack
11 14 (12.28%) CSS
12 13 (11.40%) Jetpack Compose
13 9 (7.89%) OpenTelemetry
14 8 (7.02%) Terraform
14 8 (7.02%) WireMock
15 7 (6.14%) JWT
15 7 (6.14%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.40%) Mobile App
2 12 (10.53%) Product Ownership
2 12 (10.53%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (9.65%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (7.02%) Data Structures
5 6 (5.26%) Cloud Native
5 6 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.63%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.75%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.75%) PKI
7 2 (1.75%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.88%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.88%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.88%) IoT
8 1 (0.88%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.88%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.88%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 14 (12.28%) Android
2 9 (7.89%) Linux
3 5 (4.39%) Unix
4 1 (0.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (80.70%) CI/CD
2 72 (63.16%) Agile
3 68 (59.65%) Microservices
4 54 (47.37%) TDD
5 52 (45.61%) DevOps
6 49 (42.98%) Test Automation
7 43 (37.72%) Containerisation
8 38 (33.33%) Software Engineering
9 26 (22.81%) Clean Code
9 26 (22.81%) Scrum
10 24 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
11 22 (19.30%) Event-Driven
12 19 (16.67%) Observability
13 17 (14.91%) User Stories
14 16 (14.04%) Design Patterns
14 16 (14.04%) Full-Stack Development
15 15 (13.16%) Computer Science
15 15 (13.16%) Continuous Improvement
16 14 (12.28%) Secure Coding
17 13 (11.40%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 106 (92.98%) Java
2 71 (62.28%) SQL
3 19 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 19 (16.67%) TypeScript
4 15 (13.16%) Kotlin
5 13 (11.40%) PL/SQL
6 9 (7.89%) Python
7 3 (2.63%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.75%) Bash
8 2 (1.75%) Korn
9 1 (0.88%) C#
9 1 (0.88%) Scala
Qualifications
1 39 (34.21%) Security Cleared
2 34 (29.82%) SC Cleared
3 15 (13.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (13.16%) Degree
4 2 (1.75%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.75%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (13.16%) QA
2 9 (7.89%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.39%) WCAG
4 4 (3.51%) ISO 20022
4 4 (3.51%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.88%) GDPR
5 1 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.88%) SEPA
System Software
1 46 (40.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (31.58%) Kubernetes
2 17 (14.91%) Ansible
3 12 (10.53%) Control-M
4 10 (8.77%) Grafana
4 10 (8.77%) Prometheus
5 5 (4.39%) Argo
6 2 (1.75%) Istio
7 1 (0.88%) Podman
7 1 (0.88%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.88%) Puppet
Vendors
1 26 (22.81%) Oracle
2 11 (9.65%) Google
2 11 (9.65%) IBM
3 8 (7.02%) Splunk
3 8 (7.02%) Veracode
4 7 (6.14%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.63%) MuleSoft
5 3 (2.63%) Sybase
6 2 (1.75%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.88%) Confluent
7 1 (0.88%) Databricks
7 1 (0.88%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.88%) Solace
7 1 (0.88%) TIBCO