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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 389 481
Rank change year-on-year -127 +92 +13
Contract jobs citing Gradle 102 114 50
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.22% 0.41% 0.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.91% 2.85% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 84 33
10th Percentile £313 £351 £470
25th Percentile £425 £402 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -11.67% -11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £566 £825
90th Percentile £631 £612 £905
UK median daily rate £458 £530 £601
% change year-on-year -13.68% -11.78% -11.00%
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 5,329 3,998 4,279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.69% 14.47% 12.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,393 2,764 2,835
10th Percentile £353 £319 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £631
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 97 198
10th Percentile £35.38 £41.35 £35.30
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.06 £52.88
Median hourly rate £67.75 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.23% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.30 £73.83
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.80% - +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 11 August 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 11 August 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 -77 60 £525 -1.87% 28
North of England -94 20 £475 +26.67% 1
Yorkshire -41 12 £500 +13.93%
East of England - 11 £495 -
South East -70 6 £270 -57.48% 2
North West -65 4 £500 +33.33% 1
North East - 4 £450 -
South West -35 2 - - 1
Midlands -60 2 £575 +38.72% 4
East Midlands -14 1 - - 1
West Midlands -57 1 £575 +17.95% 3
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 (3.92%) Apache
1 4 (3.92%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.94%) Confluence
3 2 (1.96%) Anypoint
3 2 (1.96%) Camunda
3 2 (1.96%) Mule
4 1 (0.98%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (1.96%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 35 (34.31%) GitHub
2 31 (30.39%) Azure
3 27 (26.47%) AWS
4 26 (25.49%) GitHub Actions
5 18 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (15.69%) GCP
7 15 (14.71%) OpenShift
8 9 (8.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 6 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (5.88%) Apigee
9 6 (5.88%) Firebase
9 6 (5.88%) Google Play
9 6 (5.88%) Kong
10 5 (4.90%) Cloud Run
11 4 (3.92%) Apple Pay
12 3 (2.94%) Amazon Kinesis
12 3 (2.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (2.94%) GitHub Copilot
12 3 (2.94%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.92%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (1.96%) Firewall
3 1 (0.98%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.98%) DSL
3 1 (0.98%) HTTP
3 1 (0.98%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (22.55%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (15.69%) Relational Database
3 11 (10.78%) MongoDB
4 6 (5.88%) SQL Server
5 5 (4.90%) DynamoDB
5 5 (4.90%) Hazelcast
5 5 (4.90%) RDBMS
5 5 (4.90%) Redis
6 4 (3.92%) Flink
6 4 (3.92%) MySQL
6 4 (3.92%) NoSQL
7 3 (2.94%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.98%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.98%) Db2
8 1 (0.98%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.98%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 53 (51.96%) Jenkins
2 47 (46.08%) Git
3 39 (38.24%) Maven
4 38 (37.25%) JUnit
5 29 (28.43%) GitLab
6 19 (18.63%) Mockito
7 15 (14.71%) Liquibase
8 11 (10.78%) SonarQube
9 9 (8.82%) REST Assured
10 8 (7.84%) CircleCI
11 7 (6.86%) Cucumber
11 7 (6.86%) Selenium
12 6 (5.88%) Android Studio
12 6 (5.88%) fastlane
13 5 (4.90%) Crashlytics
13 5 (4.90%) JIRA
13 5 (4.90%) Snyk
13 5 (4.90%) Sonatype Nexus
14 4 (3.92%) Bitbucket
14 4 (3.92%) TestNG
General
1 17 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (14.71%) Banking
2 15 (14.71%) Finance
2 15 (14.71%) Social Skills
3 8 (7.84%) Public Sector
4 7 (6.86%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (4.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (4.90%) Law
6 1 (0.98%) Games
6 1 (0.98%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 66 (64.71%) Developer
2 52 (50.98%) Java Developer
3 22 (21.57%) Senior
4 13 (12.75%) Java Engineer
4 13 (12.75%) Senior Developer
4 13 (12.75%) Software Engineer
5 12 (11.76%) Senior Java Developer
5 12 (11.76%) Software Developer
6 9 (8.82%) Java Software Developer
6 9 (8.82%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 8 (7.84%) Android Developer
8 6 (5.88%) Backend Developer
8 6 (5.88%) Java Software Engineer
9 5 (4.90%) Mid-Level Java Developer
10 4 (3.92%) Android Engineer
10 4 (3.92%) Oracle Developer
10 4 (3.92%) Senior Backend Developer
11 3 (2.94%) Applications Engineer
11 3 (2.94%) DevOps Engineer
11 3 (2.94%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (70.59%) Spring Boot
2 67 (65.69%) Spring
3 48 (47.06%) Kafka
4 37 (36.27%) React
5 29 (28.43%) REST
6 26 (25.49%) RESTful
7 17 (16.67%) OpenAPI
7 17 (16.67%) Swagger
8 15 (14.71%) Hibernate
8 15 (14.71%) Redux
9 14 (13.73%) Android Jetpack
10 13 (12.75%) Jetpack Compose
11 9 (8.82%) OpenTelemetry
11 9 (8.82%) WireMock
12 8 (7.84%) JPA
12 8 (7.84%) RxJava
13 7 (6.86%) HTML
13 7 (6.86%) JSON
13 7 (6.86%) XML
14 6 (5.88%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.71%) Mobile App
2 13 (12.75%) Product Ownership
3 11 (10.78%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (9.80%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (5.88%) Cloud Native
6 5 (4.90%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (3.92%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.94%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.94%) Legacy Code
8 3 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (2.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 3 (2.94%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.96%) PKI
10 1 (0.98%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.98%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.98%) IoT
10 1 (0.98%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.98%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.98%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 14 (13.73%) Android
2 9 (8.82%) Linux
3 4 (3.92%) Unix
4 1 (0.98%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (76.47%) CI/CD
2 58 (56.86%) Agile
3 55 (53.92%) Microservices
4 44 (43.14%) TDD
5 43 (42.16%) DevOps
5 43 (42.16%) Test Automation
6 38 (37.25%) Containerisation
7 37 (36.27%) Software Engineering
8 21 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (17.65%) Clean Code
9 18 (17.65%) Event-Driven
9 18 (17.65%) Observability
9 18 (17.65%) Scrum
10 15 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (14.71%) Design Patterns
11 14 (13.73%) Secure Coding
12 12 (11.76%) Android Development
12 12 (11.76%) Architectural Patterns
13 11 (10.78%) API Development
13 11 (10.78%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 93 (91.18%) Java
2 58 (56.86%) SQL
3 17 (16.67%) TypeScript
4 16 (15.69%) Kotlin
5 12 (11.76%) PL/SQL
6 11 (10.78%) JavaScript
7 8 (7.84%) Python
8 2 (1.96%) Bash
8 2 (1.96%) Korn
8 2 (1.96%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.98%) C#
Qualifications
1 32 (31.37%) Security Cleared
2 28 (27.45%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (7.84%) Degree
4 2 (1.96%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.98%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.98%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (15.69%) QA
2 8 (7.84%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.90%) WCAG
4 4 (3.92%) ISO 20022
4 4 (3.92%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.98%) GDPR
5 1 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.98%) SEPA
System Software
1 40 (39.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (29.41%) Kubernetes
2 17 (16.67%) Ansible
3 12 (11.76%) Control-M
4 10 (9.80%) Grafana
4 10 (9.80%) Prometheus
5 8 (7.84%) Terraform
6 5 (4.90%) Argo
7 2 (1.96%) Istio
8 1 (0.98%) Podman
8 1 (0.98%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.98%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (22.55%) Oracle
2 9 (8.82%) Google
3 7 (6.86%) Dynatrace
3 7 (6.86%) Splunk
4 4 (3.92%) IBM
5 3 (2.94%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.96%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.96%) Sybase
6 2 (1.96%) Veracode
7 1 (0.98%) Confluent
7 1 (0.98%) Databricks
7 1 (0.98%) Solace
7 1 (0.98%) TIBCO