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

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 487 427 503
Rank change year-on-year -60 +76 -33
Contract jobs citing Gradle 95 52 47
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.21% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.86% 1.56% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 37 28
10th Percentile £295 £394 £285
25th Percentile £361 £485 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £534 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.34% +1.62% -22.22%
75th Percentile £588 £585 £588
90th Percentile £711 £760 £625
UK median daily rate £500 £534 £533
% change year-on-year -6.28% +0.19% -21.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 0 2
10th Percentile £46.00 - £76.38
25th Percentile £52.50 - £76.56
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £78.75
75th Percentile £61.25 - £81.56
90th Percentile £80.00 - £82.13
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £90.00 £78.75
% change year-on-year -38.89% +14.29% +5.00%

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 5,099 3,324 4,210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.40% 13.60% 11.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,431 2,218 2,931
10th Percentile £340 £340 £358
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% -5.86%
75th Percentile £587 £626 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 67 167
10th Percentile £39.53 £26.17 £35.25
25th Percentile £60.00 £51.72 £47.38
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £76.75 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.28 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% +0.81% +0.81%

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 29 March 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 29 March 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 29 March 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 -51 35 £528 -2.54% 10
South East -15 32 £406 -36.27% 2
North of England -53 19 £489 -7.83% 2
North West -30 18 £489 +4.83% 2
Midlands -67 4 £575 +35.29%
East Midlands -30 2 - -
West Midlands -56 2 £575 +26.37%
Yorkshire -60 1 - -
South West - 1 £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 (4.21%) Apache
1 4 (4.21%) Apache Spark
1 4 (4.21%) Confluence
2 2 (2.11%) Camunda
2 2 (2.11%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.05%) JBoss
3 1 (1.05%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (1.05%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (2.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 37 (38.95%) AWS
2 35 (36.84%) GitHub
3 18 (18.95%) GitHub Actions
4 8 (8.42%) Azure
4 8 (8.42%) Datadog
5 7 (7.37%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (6.32%) Amazon S3
6 6 (6.32%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (6.32%) OpenShift
6 6 (6.32%) Serverless
7 5 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (5.26%) GCP
8 3 (3.16%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (3.16%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (3.16%) AWS Fargate
8 3 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.16%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (3.16%) Firebase
8 3 (3.16%) Google Play
9 2 (2.11%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.26%) Kerberos
2 2 (2.11%) Bluetooth
2 2 (2.11%) DSL
2 2 (2.11%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (23.16%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (10.53%) DynamoDB
2 10 (10.53%) NoSQL
3 8 (8.42%) HBase
3 8 (8.42%) MongoDB
4 6 (6.32%) MySQL
4 6 (6.32%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.11%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.05%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.05%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.05%) Big Data
7 1 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.05%) Flink
7 1 (1.05%) Spark SQL
7 1 (1.05%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 37 (38.95%) JUnit
2 35 (36.84%) Maven
3 33 (34.74%) Jenkins
4 32 (33.68%) Git
5 20 (21.05%) GitLab
6 16 (16.84%) Cucumber
7 13 (13.68%) IntelliJ
7 13 (13.68%) Sonatype Nexus
8 11 (11.58%) Artifactory
8 11 (11.58%) Mockito
9 9 (9.47%) Android Studio
9 9 (9.47%) CircleCI
10 8 (8.42%) JIRA
11 7 (7.37%) Bitbucket
12 6 (6.32%) Gatling
12 6 (6.32%) Postman
12 6 (6.32%) Selenium
13 5 (5.26%) Liquibase
13 5 (5.26%) REST Assured
13 5 (5.26%) TestNG
General
1 17 (17.89%) Finance
2 14 (14.74%) Social Skills
3 12 (12.63%) Banking
4 9 (9.47%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.16%) Law
5 3 (3.16%) Retail Banking
6 2 (2.11%) Front Office
7 1 (1.05%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.05%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 49 (51.58%) Developer
2 28 (29.47%) Java Developer
3 27 (28.42%) Java Engineer
4 21 (22.11%) Senior
5 20 (21.05%) Software Engineer
6 17 (17.89%) Android Developer
7 16 (16.84%) Java Software Engineer
8 12 (12.63%) Senior Developer
9 11 (11.58%) Senior Java Developer
10 6 (6.32%) AWS Developer
11 5 (5.26%) Android Engineer
11 5 (5.26%) Senior Java Engineer
12 4 (4.21%) DevOps Engineer
13 3 (3.16%) Backend Developer
13 3 (3.16%) Senior Software Engineer
14 2 (2.11%) Applications Developer
14 2 (2.11%) Engineering Manager
14 2 (2.11%) Lead
14 2 (2.11%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
14 2 (2.11%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (55.79%) Spring
2 47 (49.47%) Spring Boot
3 19 (20.00%) REST
4 18 (18.95%) Kafka
5 14 (14.74%) OpenTelemetry
6 13 (13.68%) RESTful
7 12 (12.63%) Android Jetpack
7 12 (12.63%) GraphQL
7 12 (12.63%) Jetpack Compose
8 11 (11.58%) React
9 9 (9.47%) OpenAPI
9 9 (9.47%) Swagger
10 8 (8.42%) RxJava
11 6 (6.32%) AngularJS
11 6 (6.32%) Dagger
11 6 (6.32%) Hibernate
11 6 (6.32%) JSON
11 6 (6.32%) OkHttp
11 6 (6.32%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (6.32%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.42%) Product Ownership
2 7 (7.37%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (6.32%) Legacy Code
3 6 (6.32%) Mobile App
4 5 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (5.26%) Virtual Team
5 4 (4.21%) Cloud Native
5 4 (4.21%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.11%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.11%) Derivative
6 2 (2.11%) Equities
6 2 (2.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.11%) Private Cloud
6 2 (2.11%) TWAP
6 2 (2.11%) VWAP
7 1 (1.05%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.05%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 21 (22.11%) Android
2 8 (8.42%) Linux
3 4 (4.21%) Windows
4 3 (3.16%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.05%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (50.53%) CI/CD
2 30 (31.58%) Test Automation
3 28 (29.47%) Microservices
4 26 (27.37%) Software Engineering
5 24 (25.26%) DevOps
6 22 (23.16%) Agile
7 19 (20.00%) TDD
8 18 (18.95%) Containerisation
9 16 (16.84%) Android Development
10 15 (15.79%) User Experience
11 14 (14.74%) Event-Driven
11 14 (14.74%) Observability
12 13 (13.68%) Design Patterns
12 13 (13.68%) OOP
12 13 (13.68%) Unit Testing
13 12 (12.63%) Continuous Integration
14 11 (11.58%) Architectural Patterns
15 10 (10.53%) Performance Analysis
16 9 (9.47%) MVVM
17 8 (8.42%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 72 (75.79%) Java
2 36 (37.89%) Kotlin
3 16 (16.84%) SQL
4 9 (9.47%) Python
5 7 (7.37%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.16%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.11%) Bash
7 2 (2.11%) C++
7 2 (2.11%) Go
7 2 (2.11%) Groovy
7 2 (2.11%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.11%) Swift
8 1 (1.05%) BrightScript
8 1 (1.05%) Objective-C
8 1 (1.05%) Rust
8 1 (1.05%) Scala
8 1 (1.05%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (16.84%) Security Cleared
2 10 (10.53%) Degree
2 10 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 9 (9.47%) OCP
3 9 (9.47%) Oracle Certification
4 8 (8.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.11%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.68%) QA
2 5 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.11%) NCSC
4 1 (1.05%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (27.37%) Docker
2 1 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 36 (37.89%) Kubernetes
2 24 (25.26%) Grafana
3 8 (8.42%) Ansible
4 7 (7.37%) Terraform
5 6 (6.32%) Prometheus
6 4 (4.21%) Puppet
7 3 (3.16%) Progress Chef
8 2 (2.11%) Podman
9 1 (1.05%) Argo
Vendors
1 7 (7.37%) Oracle
1 7 (7.37%) Splunk
2 4 (4.21%) Dynatrace
2 4 (4.21%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.16%) Google
4 2 (2.11%) New Relic
4 2 (2.11%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.05%) Adobe
5 1 (1.05%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.05%) Foundry
5 1 (1.05%) Palantir
5 1 (1.05%) Roku