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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 426 464 514
Rank change year-on-year +38 +50 -52
Contract jobs citing Gradle 106 46 63
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.15% 0.16%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.26% 1.13% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 30 44
10th Percentile £347 £525 £300
25th Percentile £390 £550 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £713 £650
Median % change year-on-year -25.12% +9.62% -1.52%
75th Percentile £588 £863 £738
90th Percentile £641 £914 £768
UK median daily rate £534 £700 £575
% change year-on-year -23.79% +21.74% -11.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £76.63
25th Percentile - - £77.19
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £81.41
75th Percentile - - £87.42
90th Percentile - - £88.97
UK median hourly rate £40.00 - £81.41
% change year-on-year - - -4.23%

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 4,700 4,086 4,915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.29% 13.12% 12.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,274 2,526 3,497
10th Percentile £326 £348 £375
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £645
90th Percentile £700 £728 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £540
% change year-on-year -2.91% -4.63% -2.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 117 216
10th Percentile £39.00 £43.69 £45.88
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.08 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £84.20 £75.00 £89.38
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +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 28 November 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
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 28 November 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 +26 47 £547 -23.30% 6
North of England -16 30 £370 - 3
North West 0 23 £375 - 3
South East +16 20 £473 -34.19% 12
Yorkshire - 7 £354 -
Midlands -21 5 £575 -23.33% 1
West Midlands - 4 £575 - 1
South West 0 1 - - 3
East Midlands -13 1 £360 -52.00%
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 8 (7.55%) Tomcat
2 7 (6.60%) JBoss
3 4 (3.77%) OpenStack
4 3 (2.83%) Apache
4 3 (2.83%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.89%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 36 (33.96%) GitHub
2 33 (31.13%) AWS
3 29 (27.36%) Azure
4 20 (18.87%) GCP
5 15 (14.15%) Datadog
6 13 (12.26%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (12.26%) OpenShift
7 10 (9.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 8 (7.55%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (7.55%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (7.55%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (7.55%) Serverless
9 7 (6.60%) Apigee
9 7 (6.60%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (6.60%) Figma
10 6 (5.66%) Azure AKS
10 6 (5.66%) SaaS
11 5 (4.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (4.72%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (4.72%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.72%) Kerberos
2 2 (1.89%) Bluetooth
2 2 (1.89%) MQTT
3 1 (0.94%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (16.98%) NoSQL
2 17 (16.04%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (12.26%) Relational Database
4 12 (11.32%) MongoDB
5 11 (10.38%) DynamoDB
6 8 (7.55%) HBase
6 8 (7.55%) RDBMS
7 6 (5.66%) Amazon Aurora
7 6 (5.66%) MySQL
8 5 (4.72%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (4.72%) BigQuery
8 5 (4.72%) Redis
9 4 (3.77%) Big Data
9 4 (3.77%) SQL Server
10 3 (2.83%) Data Lake
10 3 (2.83%) HPCC
11 2 (1.89%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.94%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 52 (49.06%) Maven
2 46 (43.40%) Git
2 46 (43.40%) Jenkins
3 32 (30.19%) JUnit
4 26 (24.53%) Sonatype Nexus
5 22 (20.75%) GitLab
6 14 (13.21%) SonarQube
7 12 (11.32%) Android Studio
7 12 (11.32%) Artifactory
8 11 (10.38%) JIRA
8 11 (10.38%) Xcode
9 10 (9.43%) Cucumber
9 10 (9.43%) Selenium
10 9 (8.49%) Bitbucket
10 9 (8.49%) Mockito
11 7 (6.60%) Postman
11 7 (6.60%) Storybook
12 6 (5.66%) CircleCI
13 5 (4.72%) SonarLint
14 4 (3.77%) Snyk
General
1 24 (22.64%) Finance
2 16 (15.09%) Banking
2 16 (15.09%) Social Skills
3 6 (5.66%) Public Sector
4 5 (4.72%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.83%) Front Office
6 2 (1.89%) Retail Banking
6 2 (1.89%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.94%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.94%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.94%) Law
7 1 (0.94%) Private Banking
7 1 (0.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 68 (64.15%) Developer
2 37 (34.91%) Java Developer
3 17 (16.04%) Senior
4 16 (15.09%) Android Developer
5 13 (12.26%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (12.26%) Senior Developer
5 13 (12.26%) Senior Java Developer
6 10 (9.43%) Java Engineer
7 9 (8.49%) AWS Developer
8 7 (6.60%) Java Software Engineer
8 7 (6.60%) React Developer
8 7 (6.60%) Software Engineer
9 6 (5.66%) Lead
10 5 (4.72%) Architect
10 5 (4.72%) Azure Engineer
10 5 (4.72%) Java Architect
10 5 (4.72%) Java Technical Architect
10 5 (4.72%) Technical Architect
11 4 (3.77%) Backend Developer
11 4 (3.77%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (35.85%) Spring
2 35 (33.02%) Spring Boot
3 22 (20.75%) RESTful
4 21 (19.81%) Kafka
5 19 (17.92%) REST
6 14 (13.21%) JSON
7 11 (10.38%) HTML
8 8 (7.55%) CSS
8 8 (7.55%) Spring Cloud
9 7 (6.60%) D3.js
9 7 (6.60%) GraphQL
9 7 (6.60%) Micronaut
9 7 (6.60%) OAuth
9 7 (6.60%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (6.60%) React
9 7 (6.60%) React Native
9 7 (6.60%) SOAP
9 7 (6.60%) SVG
10 6 (5.66%) XML
11 5 (4.72%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 18 (16.98%) Mobile App
2 12 (11.32%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.66%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (4.72%) N-Tier
5 4 (3.77%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.77%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.77%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.77%) Mobile Banking
5 4 (3.77%) Private Cloud
6 3 (2.83%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.83%) Derivative
7 2 (1.89%) Equities
7 2 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.89%) IoT
7 2 (1.89%) IVR
7 2 (1.89%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.89%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.89%) TWAP
7 2 (1.89%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 26 (24.53%) Android
2 20 (18.87%) Linux
3 16 (15.09%) Unix
4 11 (10.38%) Apple iOS
5 5 (4.72%) Windows
6 4 (3.77%) Solaris
7 3 (2.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (49.06%) CI/CD
2 45 (42.45%) DevOps
3 36 (33.96%) Microservices
4 34 (32.08%) Agile
5 31 (29.25%) Containerisation
6 30 (28.30%) Design Patterns
7 24 (22.64%) TDD
8 22 (20.75%) Software Engineering
9 21 (19.81%) Test Automation
10 17 (16.04%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (15.09%) Android Development
12 15 (14.15%) BDD
12 15 (14.15%) Event-Driven
13 14 (13.21%) OOP
14 13 (12.26%) Architectural Patterns
14 13 (12.26%) Mentoring
15 12 (11.32%) Continuous Integration
15 12 (11.32%) Infrastructure as Code
16 11 (10.38%) SDLC
17 10 (9.43%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 78 (73.58%) Java
2 28 (26.42%) Python
3 23 (21.70%) SQL
4 17 (16.04%) Kotlin
5 14 (13.21%) C++
6 12 (11.32%) TypeScript
7 11 (10.38%) JavaScript
8 9 (8.49%) Shell Script
9 8 (7.55%) C
10 7 (6.60%) Bash
11 6 (5.66%) Scala
12 5 (4.72%) PowerShell
13 4 (3.77%) Objective-C
13 4 (3.77%) PL/SQL
13 4 (3.77%) Ruby
13 4 (3.77%) Swift
14 3 (2.83%) Rust
15 2 (1.89%) Groovy
16 1 (0.94%) Clojure
16 1 (0.94%) Go
Qualifications
1 14 (13.21%) Security Cleared
2 8 (7.55%) OCP
2 8 (7.55%) Oracle Certification
3 7 (6.60%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.77%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (3.77%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.83%) Degree
6 2 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.94%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.94%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.60%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.77%) QA
System Software
1 35 (33.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 42 (39.62%) Kubernetes
2 24 (22.64%) Terraform
3 13 (12.26%) Ansible
3 13 (12.26%) Grafana
4 8 (7.55%) Prometheus
4 8 (7.55%) Puppet
5 6 (5.66%) Progress Chef
6 5 (4.72%) Argo
7 4 (3.77%) Podman
8 2 (1.89%) Istio
9 1 (0.94%) Kibana
9 1 (0.94%) logstash
Vendors
1 13 (12.26%) Oracle
2 10 (9.43%) Microsoft
3 9 (8.49%) Google
4 8 (7.55%) Splunk
5 5 (4.72%) Gigya
6 4 (3.77%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.89%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.89%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.94%) Adobe
8 1 (0.94%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.94%) Foundry
8 1 (0.94%) Palantir