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 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 413 476 515
Rank change year-on-year +63 +39 -76
Contract jobs citing Gradle 111 47 78
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.39% 0.15% 0.19%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.54% 1.12% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 31 56
10th Percentile £358 £519 £347
25th Percentile £393 £550 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £725 £680
Median % change year-on-year -27.59% +6.62% +3.03%
75th Percentile £588 £863 £738
90th Percentile £615 £913 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £713 £650
% change year-on-year -26.32% +9.62% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £76.63
25th Percentile - - £77.19
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £81.41
75th Percentile - - £87.42
90th Percentile - - £88.97
UK median hourly rate £70.00 - £81.41
% change year-on-year - - +13.06%

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 4,374 4,211 5,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.34% 13.38% 12.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,028 2,638 3,748
10th Percentile £325 £350 £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 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 149 225
10th Percentile £36.15 £41.51 £46.00
25th Percentile £50.00 £54.36 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.08 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +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 25 October 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 25 October 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 +24 54 £547 -23.30% 21
North of England +1 36 £375 - 2
North West +5 28 £375 - 1
Midlands -25 9 £508 -32.23% 3
Yorkshire - 8 £358 - 1
South East +10 7 £473 -34.19% 16
West Midlands - 6 £575 - 1
East Midlands -7 3 £429 -42.80% 2
South West +9 1 - - 5
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 (8.11%) Tomcat
2 8 (7.21%) JBoss
3 7 (6.31%) Confluence
4 4 (3.60%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.80%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 41 (36.94%) GitHub
2 34 (30.63%) Azure
3 31 (27.93%) AWS
4 21 (18.92%) GCP
5 15 (13.51%) OpenShift
6 14 (12.61%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (11.71%) Datadog
8 11 (9.91%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 10 (9.01%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (7.21%) Apigee
11 7 (6.31%) Amazon EMR
11 7 (6.31%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (6.31%) Figma
11 7 (6.31%) Serverless
12 6 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (5.41%) Azure AKS
12 6 (5.41%) SaaS
13 5 (4.50%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (4.50%) Amazon EventBridge
13 5 (4.50%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.60%) Kerberos
2 2 (1.80%) DMZ
2 2 (1.80%) Internet
2 2 (1.80%) MQTT
3 1 (0.90%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (16.22%) NoSQL
2 15 (13.51%) Relational Database
3 13 (11.71%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (10.81%) MongoDB
5 9 (8.11%) DynamoDB
6 7 (6.31%) RDBMS
7 6 (5.41%) MySQL
8 5 (4.50%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (4.50%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (4.50%) BigQuery
8 5 (4.50%) HBase
8 5 (4.50%) Redis
9 4 (3.60%) SQL Server
10 3 (2.70%) Big Data
10 3 (2.70%) Data Lake
10 3 (2.70%) HPCC
11 2 (1.80%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.90%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 54 (48.65%) Jenkins
2 53 (47.75%) Maven
3 47 (42.34%) Git
4 32 (28.83%) JUnit
5 24 (21.62%) Sonatype Nexus
6 21 (18.92%) GitLab
7 16 (14.41%) JIRA
7 16 (14.41%) Xcode
8 14 (12.61%) SonarQube
9 12 (10.81%) Artifactory
10 10 (9.01%) Android Studio
10 10 (9.01%) Mockito
11 9 (8.11%) Selenium
12 7 (6.31%) Bitbucket
12 7 (6.31%) Storybook
13 6 (5.41%) CircleCI
13 6 (5.41%) Cucumber
14 5 (4.50%) Postman
14 5 (4.50%) SonarLint
15 4 (3.60%) Snyk
General
1 25 (22.52%) Finance
2 21 (18.92%) Banking
3 19 (17.12%) Social Skills
4 7 (6.31%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.70%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.70%) Retail
5 3 (2.70%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.80%) Front Office
6 2 (1.80%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.80%) Retail Banking
7 1 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.90%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.90%) Law
7 1 (0.90%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 69 (62.16%) Developer
2 33 (29.73%) Java Developer
3 16 (14.41%) Android Developer
4 15 (13.51%) Senior
5 14 (12.61%) DevOps Engineer
6 11 (9.91%) Senior Developer
6 11 (9.91%) Senior Java Developer
7 9 (8.11%) React Developer
8 8 (7.21%) AWS Developer
8 8 (7.21%) Java Engineer
8 8 (7.21%) Java Software Engineer
8 8 (7.21%) Software Engineer
9 7 (6.31%) Architect
10 6 (5.41%) Azure Engineer
10 6 (5.41%) iOS Developer
10 6 (5.41%) Lead
11 5 (4.50%) Java Architect
11 5 (4.50%) Java Technical Architect
11 5 (4.50%) Lead Developer
11 5 (4.50%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (31.53%) Spring
2 32 (28.83%) Spring Boot
3 21 (18.92%) Kafka
3 21 (18.92%) REST
3 21 (18.92%) RESTful
4 14 (12.61%) HTML
4 14 (12.61%) JSON
5 11 (9.91%) CSS
6 9 (8.11%) React
6 9 (8.11%) React Native
6 9 (8.11%) Spring Cloud
7 8 (7.21%) GraphQL
7 8 (7.21%) RxJava
7 8 (7.21%) SOAP
8 7 (6.31%) Android Jetpack
8 7 (6.31%) D3.js
8 7 (6.31%) Micronaut
8 7 (6.31%) OAuth
8 7 (6.31%) RabbitMQ
8 7 (6.31%) SVG
Miscellaneous
1 23 (20.72%) Mobile App
2 14 (12.61%) Cloud Native
3 7 (6.31%) Mobile Banking
4 5 (4.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (4.50%) N-Tier
4 5 (4.50%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.60%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.60%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.60%) Private Cloud
6 3 (2.70%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.70%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.70%) IVR
7 2 (1.80%) Derivative
7 2 (1.80%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.80%) IoT
7 2 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.80%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.80%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 33 (29.73%) Android
2 23 (20.72%) Linux
3 18 (16.22%) Unix
4 16 (14.41%) Apple iOS
5 4 (3.60%) Solaris
6 3 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (2.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (46.85%) CI/CD
2 44 (39.64%) DevOps
3 41 (36.94%) Agile
4 36 (32.43%) Microservices
5 35 (31.53%) Design Patterns
6 30 (27.03%) Containerisation
7 28 (25.23%) TDD
8 24 (21.62%) Software Engineering
9 19 (17.12%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (16.22%) Android Development
10 18 (16.22%) Architectural Patterns
10 18 (16.22%) BDD
11 16 (14.41%) User Experience
12 14 (12.61%) Continuous Integration
12 14 (12.61%) Test Automation
13 13 (11.71%) Event-Driven
13 13 (11.71%) Scrum
14 12 (10.81%) Infrastructure as Code
14 12 (10.81%) Roadmaps
14 12 (10.81%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 78 (70.27%) Java
2 29 (26.13%) Python
3 25 (22.52%) Kotlin
4 21 (18.92%) SQL
5 15 (13.51%) C++
5 15 (13.51%) TypeScript
6 14 (12.61%) JavaScript
7 11 (9.91%) C
8 10 (9.01%) Shell Script
9 9 (8.11%) Scala
10 7 (6.31%) Bash
10 7 (6.31%) Objective-C
10 7 (6.31%) Ruby
10 7 (6.31%) Swift
11 4 (3.60%) PL/SQL
12 3 (2.70%) PowerShell
12 3 (2.70%) Rust
13 2 (1.80%) Groovy
13 2 (1.80%) JSX
14 1 (0.90%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 11 (9.91%) Security Cleared
2 7 (6.31%) Degree
3 5 (4.50%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.60%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.60%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.60%) OCP
4 4 (3.60%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (0.90%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.90%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.31%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.70%) QA
3 2 (1.80%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 36 (32.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (35.14%) Kubernetes
2 24 (21.62%) Terraform
3 13 (11.71%) Ansible
4 11 (9.91%) Grafana
5 9 (8.11%) Puppet
6 8 (7.21%) Prometheus
7 6 (5.41%) Progress Chef
8 5 (4.50%) Argo
9 4 (3.60%) Podman
10 3 (2.70%) Istio
11 1 (0.90%) Kibana
11 1 (0.90%) logstash
Vendors
1 14 (12.61%) Oracle
2 10 (9.01%) Google
3 9 (8.11%) Microsoft
3 9 (8.11%) Splunk
4 5 (4.50%) Gigya
5 4 (3.60%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.70%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.80%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.90%) Adobe
8 1 (0.90%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.90%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.90%) Foundry
8 1 (0.90%) Palantir