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 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 446 484 503
Rank change year-on-year +38 +19 -6
Contract jobs citing Gradle 107 34 53
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.12% 0.14%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.27% 0.89% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 23 36
10th Percentile £345 £522 £293
25th Percentile £402 £550 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £638 £575
Median % change year-on-year -16.08% +10.87% -14.81%
75th Percentile £588 £863 £700
90th Percentile £643 £895 £750
UK median daily rate £535 £638 £535
% change year-on-year -16.08% +19.16% -18.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 3
10th Percentile £40.00 - £76.50
25th Percentile £52.50 - £76.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £80.00
75th Percentile £60.31 - £86.25
90th Percentile £70.00 - £88.50
UK median hourly rate £55.00 - £80.00
% change year-on-year - - -5.88%

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 4,721 3,809 4,545
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.94% 13.30% 12.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,275 2,395 3,231
10th Percentile £335 £337 £375
25th Percentile £410 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% -4.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £601 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £734 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £538
% change year-on-year -2.44% -4.65% -4.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 75 200
10th Percentile £39.53 £46.18 £44.32
25th Percentile £54.94 £54.66 £48.32
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £82.30 £75.15 £90.00
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 23 December 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Gradle in England over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

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 23 December 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 +15 43 £543 -16.65% 15
North of England -16 33 £384 - 11
North West -4 26 £390 - 8
South East +5 22 £473 -34.19% 14
Yorkshire - 7 £354 - 3
Midlands - 5 £575 - 8
West Midlands - 5 £575 - 4
South West - 1 - - 9
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 5 (4.67%) OpenStack
2 3 (2.80%) Apache
2 3 (2.80%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.87%) Confluence
4 1 (0.93%) JBoss
4 1 (0.93%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 36 (33.64%) GitHub
2 33 (30.84%) AWS
3 26 (24.30%) Azure
4 19 (17.76%) GCP
5 16 (14.95%) Datadog
6 13 (12.15%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (9.35%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (8.41%) Figma
8 9 (8.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 8 (7.48%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (7.48%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (7.48%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (7.48%) OpenShift
9 8 (7.48%) Serverless
10 6 (5.61%) Apigee
10 6 (5.61%) Azure AKS
10 6 (5.61%) PaaS
10 6 (5.61%) SaaS
11 5 (4.67%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (4.67%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.67%) Kerberos
2 2 (1.87%) Bluetooth
2 2 (1.87%) MQTT
3 1 (0.93%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (16.82%) NoSQL
2 17 (15.89%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (11.21%) MongoDB
3 12 (11.21%) Relational Database
4 11 (10.28%) DynamoDB
5 9 (8.41%) HBase
5 9 (8.41%) RDBMS
6 6 (5.61%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (5.61%) MySQL
7 5 (4.67%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (4.67%) BigQuery
7 5 (4.67%) Redis
8 4 (3.74%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.87%) Big Data
10 1 (0.93%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.93%) HPCC
10 1 (0.93%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.93%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 42 (39.25%) Maven
2 41 (38.32%) Jenkins
3 39 (36.45%) Git
4 27 (25.23%) JUnit
5 26 (24.30%) GitLab
6 20 (18.69%) Sonatype Nexus
7 14 (13.08%) Android Studio
7 14 (13.08%) Artifactory
7 14 (13.08%) SonarQube
8 13 (12.15%) Cucumber
9 12 (11.21%) Selenium
10 11 (10.28%) IntelliJ
10 11 (10.28%) Xcode
11 10 (9.35%) Bitbucket
12 8 (7.48%) CircleCI
12 8 (7.48%) Postman
13 7 (6.54%) Mockito
13 7 (6.54%) Storybook
14 5 (4.67%) Cypress.io
14 5 (4.67%) JIRA
General
1 22 (20.56%) Finance
2 15 (14.02%) Banking
3 14 (13.08%) Social Skills
4 9 (8.41%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.74%) Retail Banking
6 3 (2.80%) Front Office
7 1 (0.93%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.93%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.93%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.93%) Law
7 1 (0.93%) Private Banking
7 1 (0.93%) Retail
7 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 63 (58.88%) Developer
2 32 (29.91%) Java Developer
3 19 (17.76%) Android Developer
4 16 (14.95%) Java Engineer
4 16 (14.95%) Senior
5 12 (11.21%) DevOps Engineer
5 12 (11.21%) Java Software Engineer
5 12 (11.21%) Senior Developer
5 12 (11.21%) Senior Java Developer
5 12 (11.21%) Software Engineer
6 7 (6.54%) React Developer
7 6 (5.61%) AWS Developer
8 5 (4.67%) Architect
8 5 (4.67%) Backend Developer
8 5 (4.67%) Java Architect
8 5 (4.67%) Java Technical Architect
8 5 (4.67%) Technical Architect
9 4 (3.74%) Engineering Manager
9 4 (3.74%) Lead
10 3 (2.80%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (37.38%) Spring
1 40 (37.38%) Spring Boot
2 21 (19.63%) RESTful
3 20 (18.69%) Kafka
4 17 (15.89%) REST
5 14 (13.08%) JSON
6 11 (10.28%) OpenTelemetry
7 9 (8.41%) Android Jetpack
7 9 (8.41%) HTML
7 9 (8.41%) Jetpack Compose
7 9 (8.41%) React Native
8 8 (7.48%) CSS
8 8 (7.48%) GraphQL
9 7 (6.54%) D3.js
9 7 (6.54%) Micronaut
9 7 (6.54%) OAuth
9 7 (6.54%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (6.54%) SVG
10 6 (5.61%) Elastic Stack
11 5 (4.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 19 (17.76%) Mobile App
2 11 (10.28%) Cloud Native
3 8 (7.48%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (4.67%) N-Tier
4 5 (4.67%) Private Cloud
5 4 (3.74%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.74%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.80%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.80%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.80%) Mobile Banking
7 2 (1.87%) Derivative
7 2 (1.87%) Equities
7 2 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.87%) IoT
7 2 (1.87%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.87%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.87%) TWAP
7 2 (1.87%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.87%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 29 (27.10%) Android
2 14 (13.08%) Linux
3 11 (10.28%) Apple iOS
4 6 (5.61%) Unix
5 5 (4.67%) Windows
6 3 (2.80%) Solaris
7 2 (1.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (49.53%) CI/CD
2 41 (38.32%) DevOps
3 32 (29.91%) Agile
4 29 (27.10%) Containerisation
4 29 (27.10%) Microservices
5 27 (25.23%) Software Engineering
6 25 (23.36%) Design Patterns
7 23 (21.50%) Test Automation
8 22 (20.56%) TDD
9 18 (16.82%) Android Development
10 16 (14.95%) User Experience
11 14 (13.08%) BDD
11 14 (13.08%) Event-Driven
11 14 (13.08%) Mentoring
12 13 (12.15%) Infrastructure as Code
12 13 (12.15%) OOP
12 13 (12.15%) Problem-Solving
13 12 (11.21%) Continuous Integration
14 11 (10.28%) Mobile Development
14 11 (10.28%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 78 (72.90%) Java
2 30 (28.04%) Kotlin
3 23 (21.50%) Python
4 19 (17.76%) SQL
5 12 (11.21%) C++
6 10 (9.35%) TypeScript
7 9 (8.41%) JavaScript
8 5 (4.67%) Bash
8 5 (4.67%) C
8 5 (4.67%) PowerShell
8 5 (4.67%) Scala
9 4 (3.74%) Objective-C
9 4 (3.74%) Swift
10 3 (2.80%) PL/SQL
10 3 (2.80%) Ruby
10 3 (2.80%) Rust
10 3 (2.80%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.87%) Groovy
12 1 (0.93%) Clojure
12 1 (0.93%) Go
Qualifications
1 15 (14.02%) Security Cleared
2 9 (8.41%) OCP
2 9 (8.41%) Oracle Certification
3 5 (4.67%) Degree
3 5 (4.67%) DV Cleared
3 5 (4.67%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.74%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.93%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.28%) Accessibility
2 6 (5.61%) QA
System Software
1 32 (29.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 50 (46.73%) Kubernetes
2 24 (22.43%) Terraform
3 23 (21.50%) Grafana
4 13 (12.15%) Ansible
5 9 (8.41%) Prometheus
6 8 (7.48%) Puppet
7 7 (6.54%) Progress Chef
8 5 (4.67%) Podman
9 4 (3.74%) Argo
10 1 (0.93%) Istio
10 1 (0.93%) Kibana
10 1 (0.93%) logstash
Vendors
1 8 (7.48%) Google
1 8 (7.48%) Oracle
1 8 (7.48%) Splunk
2 5 (4.67%) Gigya
2 5 (4.67%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.80%) Red Hat
4 2 (1.87%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.93%) Adobe
5 1 (0.93%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.93%) Foundry
5 1 (0.93%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.93%) Palantir