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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 496 389 488
Rank change year-on-year -107 +99 -20
Contract jobs citing Gradle 109 101 54
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.41% 0.14%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.15% 2.90% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 72 29
10th Percentile £310 £358 £412
25th Percentile £402 £428 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.60% -3.64% -18.52%
75th Percentile £538 £546 £725
90th Percentile £591 £600 £875
UK median daily rate £478 £530 £588
% change year-on-year -9.91% -9.79% -12.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - £77.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% -12.50% +1.39%
75th Percentile £76.00 - £82.50
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £90.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -38.89% +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 5,064 3,479 4,436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.82% 14.09% 11.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,294 2,359 2,971
10th Percentile £350 £336 £350
25th Percentile £409 £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 £715 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 70 226
10th Percentile £31.87 £27.35 £32.36
25th Percentile £59.06 £50.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £59.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.45% -8.46% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.69 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.30 £75.13
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.55% -11.15% +4.84%

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 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 16 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 16 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 -76 54 £525 -0.94% 11
North of England -76 24 £450 +11.94% 1
South East -45 14 £339 - 2
North West -50 14 £451 +21.07% 1
East of England - 11 £495 -
Yorkshire -53 6 - -
North East - 4 £450 -
East Midlands -26 2 - -
Midlands -65 2 - - 1
South West - 2 £500 - 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 (3.67%) Apache
1 4 (3.67%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.75%) Camunda
2 3 (2.75%) Confluence
3 2 (1.83%) Anypoint
3 2 (1.83%) Mule
4 1 (0.92%) JBoss
4 1 (0.92%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (1.83%) Shopify
2 1 (0.92%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 42 (38.53%) GitHub
2 33 (30.28%) GitHub Actions
3 30 (27.52%) AWS
4 23 (21.10%) Azure
5 13 (11.93%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (9.17%) GCP
7 6 (5.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 6 (5.50%) Google Play
7 6 (5.50%) OpenShift
8 5 (4.59%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (4.59%) Apigee
8 5 (4.59%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (4.59%) Firebase
9 4 (3.67%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (3.67%) Apple Pay
9 4 (3.67%) Cloud Run
9 4 (3.67%) Kong
10 3 (2.75%) AWS Fargate
10 3 (2.75%) Google Ads
10 3 (2.75%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.67%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (2.75%) DSL
3 2 (1.83%) Firewall
3 2 (1.83%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (20.18%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (9.17%) MongoDB
2 10 (9.17%) Relational Database
3 8 (7.34%) DynamoDB
4 6 (5.50%) MySQL
5 4 (3.67%) Flink
5 4 (3.67%) Hazelcast
5 4 (3.67%) NoSQL
5 4 (3.67%) RDBMS
5 4 (3.67%) Redis
6 3 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.75%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (2.75%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.92%) Db2
Development Applications
1 46 (42.20%) Git
2 41 (37.61%) JUnit
3 40 (36.70%) Maven
4 36 (33.03%) Jenkins
5 31 (28.44%) GitLab
6 20 (18.35%) Mockito
7 14 (12.84%) Liquibase
8 11 (10.09%) CircleCI
9 8 (7.34%) Cucumber
9 8 (7.34%) fastlane
9 8 (7.34%) REST Assured
10 7 (6.42%) Android Studio
10 7 (6.42%) IntelliJ
10 7 (6.42%) SonarQube
11 6 (5.50%) TestNG
12 5 (4.59%) Crashlytics
12 5 (4.59%) Gatling
12 5 (4.59%) JIRA
13 4 (3.67%) Snyk
13 4 (3.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 14 (12.84%) Social Skills
2 12 (11.01%) Finance
3 10 (9.17%) Public Sector
4 9 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (7.34%) Banking
6 5 (4.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.59%) Law
7 1 (0.92%) Front Office
7 1 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 57 (52.29%) Developer
2 39 (35.78%) Java Developer
3 25 (22.94%) Senior
4 24 (22.02%) Java Engineer
5 22 (20.18%) Software Engineer
6 14 (12.84%) Android Developer
6 14 (12.84%) Java Software Engineer
7 13 (11.93%) Senior Developer
8 12 (11.01%) Senior Java Developer
9 8 (7.34%) Android Engineer
10 6 (5.50%) Java Software Developer
10 6 (5.50%) Senior Java Engineer
10 6 (5.50%) Software Developer
11 5 (4.59%) Backend Developer
12 4 (3.67%) Applications Engineer
12 4 (3.67%) Senior Backend Developer
13 3 (2.75%) SC Cleared Java Developer
13 3 (2.75%) Senior Software Engineer
14 2 (1.83%) Java Applications Developer
14 2 (1.83%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (59.63%) Spring Boot
2 64 (58.72%) Spring
3 30 (27.52%) Kafka
4 26 (23.85%) React
4 26 (23.85%) REST
5 21 (19.27%) RESTful
6 19 (17.43%) Android Jetpack
6 19 (17.43%) OpenAPI
6 19 (17.43%) Swagger
7 18 (16.51%) Jetpack Compose
8 14 (12.84%) OpenTelemetry
9 11 (10.09%) RxJava
9 11 (10.09%) WireMock
10 10 (9.17%) GraphQL
11 9 (8.26%) JPA
12 8 (7.34%) Hibernate
13 7 (6.42%) Dagger
14 6 (5.50%) RAML
14 6 (5.50%) Retrofit
15 5 (4.59%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.84%) Mobile App
2 12 (11.01%) Product Ownership
3 8 (7.34%) Cloud Native
3 8 (7.34%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (7.34%) Legacy Code
4 7 (6.42%) Virtual Team
5 5 (4.59%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.75%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (2.75%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.83%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.83%) PKI
8 1 (0.92%) Derivative
8 1 (0.92%) Equities
8 1 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.92%) TWAP
8 1 (0.92%) Video\Live Streaming
8 1 (0.92%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 22 (20.18%) Android
2 7 (6.42%) Linux
3 3 (2.75%) Unix
4 2 (1.83%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (65.14%) CI/CD
2 49 (44.95%) Microservices
3 45 (41.28%) Agile
4 43 (39.45%) TDD
5 42 (38.53%) Software Engineering
6 41 (37.61%) Test Automation
7 39 (35.78%) DevOps
8 35 (32.11%) Containerisation
9 20 (18.35%) Observability
10 18 (16.51%) Architectural Patterns
11 17 (15.60%) Android Development
12 16 (14.68%) Event-Driven
13 15 (13.76%) Continuous Integration
13 15 (13.76%) Secure Coding
14 13 (11.93%) Design Patterns
14 13 (11.93%) Unit Testing
15 12 (11.01%) API Development
15 12 (11.01%) API Integration
15 12 (11.01%) Clean Code
15 12 (11.01%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 86 (78.90%) Java
2 42 (38.53%) SQL
3 33 (30.28%) Kotlin
4 17 (15.60%) TypeScript
5 6 (5.50%) Python
6 3 (2.75%) Bash
6 3 (2.75%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.83%) Go
7 2 (1.83%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.83%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.92%) BrightScript
8 1 (0.92%) Korn
8 1 (0.92%) Swift
Qualifications
1 19 (17.43%) Security Cleared
2 14 (12.84%) SC Cleared
3 12 (11.01%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (11.01%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (13.76%) QA
2 6 (5.50%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.59%) WCAG
4 4 (3.67%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.83%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.83%) NCSC
6 1 (0.92%) GDPR
6 1 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.92%) SEPA
System Software
1 34 (31.19%) Docker
2 1 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (25.69%) Kubernetes
2 16 (14.68%) Ansible
3 14 (12.84%) Grafana
4 8 (7.34%) Prometheus
5 6 (5.50%) Terraform
6 4 (3.67%) Argo
7 2 (1.83%) Control-M
7 2 (1.83%) Istio
Vendors
1 10 (9.17%) Dynatrace
2 8 (7.34%) Oracle
3 7 (6.42%) Google
4 5 (4.59%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.59%) Splunk
5 3 (2.75%) IBM
6 2 (1.83%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.83%) New Relic
6 2 (1.83%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.83%) Sybase
7 1 (0.92%) Roku
7 1 (0.92%) Solace
7 1 (0.92%) TIBCO
7 1 (0.92%) Veracode