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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 489 406 495
Rank change year-on-year -83 +89 -31
Contract jobs citing Gradle 102 72 46
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.30% 0.13%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.07% 2.18% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 49 27
10th Percentile £282 £398 £424
25th Percentile £400 £495 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -3.64% -18.52%
75th Percentile £573 £550 £600
90th Percentile £679 £700 £665
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £575
% change year-on-year -5.66% -7.83% -14.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 0 1
10th Percentile £51.75 - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - £77.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £80.00
75th Percentile £70.00 - £82.50
90th Percentile £81.70 - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £90.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -38.89% +12.50% -

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 4,928 3,305 4,210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.22% 13.70% 11.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,248 2,221 2,873
10th Percentile £342 £341 £351
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £533
Median % change year-on-year - -6.10% -3.18%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £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 219 64 189
10th Percentile £37.05 £27.63 £32.74
25th Percentile £59.63 £49.50 £55.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £60.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.03% -7.31% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.07 £79.34
UK median hourly rate £66.75 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.25% -7.69% +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 13 May 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 13 May 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 13 May 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 -61 42 £525 -0.94% 14
North of England -67 25 £426 -18.84% 4
North West -30 19 £402 -24.15% 1
South East - 18 £354 - 6
East of England - 9 £495 - 3
Yorkshire -51 5 - - 1
Midlands -56 3 £575 +35.29% 1
East Midlands -28 2 - - 1
West Midlands -59 1 £575 +26.37%
South West - 1 £500 -
North East - 1 £450 - 2
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 6 (5.88%) Apache
1 6 (5.88%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.94%) Confluence
3 2 (1.96%) Camunda
4 1 (0.98%) JBoss
4 1 (0.98%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.98%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (1.96%) Shopify
2 1 (0.98%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 33 (32.35%) AWS
2 32 (31.37%) GitHub
3 23 (22.55%) GitHub Actions
4 14 (13.73%) Azure
5 8 (7.84%) GCP
6 6 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (4.90%) Amazon S3
7 5 (4.90%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (4.90%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (4.90%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (4.90%) Serverless
8 4 (3.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 4 (3.92%) OpenShift
9 3 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (2.94%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (2.94%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (2.94%) Apigee
9 3 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.94%) Firebase
9 3 (2.94%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.94%) DSL
1 3 (2.94%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (1.96%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (19.61%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (8.82%) Relational Database
3 8 (7.84%) DynamoDB
4 6 (5.88%) MongoDB
4 6 (5.88%) MySQL
5 4 (3.92%) Flink
5 4 (3.92%) NoSQL
5 4 (3.92%) RDBMS
6 3 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.94%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (2.94%) Hazelcast
6 3 (2.94%) Redis
7 1 (0.98%) HBase
7 1 (0.98%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 42 (41.18%) Git
2 40 (39.22%) Maven
3 34 (33.33%) JUnit
4 30 (29.41%) GitLab
5 27 (26.47%) Jenkins
6 16 (15.69%) Mockito
7 13 (12.75%) IntelliJ
8 11 (10.78%) Liquibase
9 9 (8.82%) CircleCI
10 7 (6.86%) Cucumber
11 6 (5.88%) fastlane
12 5 (4.90%) Android Studio
12 5 (4.90%) Bitbucket
12 5 (4.90%) JIRA
12 5 (4.90%) REST Assured
12 5 (4.90%) Selenium
12 5 (4.90%) SonarQube
13 4 (3.92%) Postman
13 4 (3.92%) Snyk
13 4 (3.92%) TestNG
General
1 15 (14.71%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.82%) Banking
2 9 (8.82%) Finance
3 8 (7.84%) Public Sector
4 5 (4.90%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.92%) Law
6 2 (1.96%) Front Office
6 2 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.96%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 52 (50.98%) Developer
2 34 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 28 (27.45%) Java Engineer
4 26 (25.49%) Software Engineer
5 22 (21.57%) Senior
6 18 (17.65%) Java Software Engineer
7 14 (13.73%) Android Developer
8 13 (12.75%) Senior Developer
9 12 (11.76%) Senior Java Developer
10 6 (5.88%) Android Engineer
11 5 (4.90%) Senior Java Engineer
12 4 (3.92%) Backend Developer
12 4 (3.92%) Java Software Developer
12 4 (3.92%) Software Developer
13 3 (2.94%) Senior Backend Developer
13 3 (2.94%) Senior Software Engineer
14 2 (1.96%) Applications Developer
14 2 (1.96%) Engineering Manager
14 2 (1.96%) Server Engineer
14 2 (1.96%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (62.75%) Spring
2 62 (60.78%) Spring Boot
3 22 (21.57%) Kafka
3 22 (21.57%) REST
4 19 (18.63%) OpenTelemetry
4 19 (18.63%) React
5 16 (15.69%) OpenAPI
5 16 (15.69%) RESTful
5 16 (15.69%) Swagger
6 15 (14.71%) Android Jetpack
6 15 (14.71%) Jetpack Compose
7 12 (11.76%) GraphQL
8 10 (9.80%) WireMock
9 8 (7.84%) RxJava
10 7 (6.86%) JPA
11 6 (5.88%) Dagger
11 6 (5.88%) OkHttp
11 6 (5.88%) RAML
12 5 (4.90%) Playwright
12 5 (4.90%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.82%) Mobile App
1 9 (8.82%) Product Ownership
2 8 (7.84%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.84%) Legacy Code
3 7 (6.86%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.90%) Virtual Team
5 4 (3.92%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.94%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.96%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.96%) Derivative
7 2 (1.96%) Equities
7 2 (1.96%) TWAP
7 2 (1.96%) VWAP
8 1 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.98%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.98%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.98%) Synthetic Data
8 1 (0.98%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 19 (18.63%) Android
2 6 (5.88%) Linux
3 3 (2.94%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.96%) Windows
5 1 (0.98%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (55.88%) CI/CD
2 44 (43.14%) Software Engineering
3 42 (41.18%) Microservices
4 36 (35.29%) TDD
5 35 (34.31%) Agile
6 34 (33.33%) Containerisation
7 32 (31.37%) Test Automation
8 30 (29.41%) DevOps
9 17 (16.67%) Observability
10 16 (15.69%) Continuous Integration
11 15 (14.71%) Design Patterns
11 15 (14.71%) Event-Driven
12 14 (13.73%) Unit Testing
12 14 (13.73%) User Experience
13 13 (12.75%) Android Development
13 13 (12.75%) Architectural Patterns
14 11 (10.78%) Computer Science
14 11 (10.78%) OOP
14 11 (10.78%) Secure Coding
15 10 (9.80%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 80 (78.43%) Java
2 38 (37.25%) Kotlin
3 34 (33.33%) SQL
4 14 (13.73%) TypeScript
5 2 (1.96%) Go
5 2 (1.96%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.96%) Swift
6 1 (0.98%) Bash
6 1 (0.98%) BrightScript
6 1 (0.98%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.98%) Objective-C
6 1 (0.98%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 13 (12.75%) Degree
3 11 (10.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (9.80%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.98%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.98%) OCP
5 1 (0.98%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.75%) QA
2 7 (6.86%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.94%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.96%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.96%) NCSC
4 2 (1.96%) WCAG
5 1 (0.98%) GDPR
5 1 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.98%) SEPA
System Software
1 33 (32.35%) Docker
2 1 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 34 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 21 (20.59%) Grafana
3 13 (12.75%) Ansible
4 8 (7.84%) Prometheus
4 8 (7.84%) Terraform
5 3 (2.94%) Argo
6 1 (0.98%) Podman
6 1 (0.98%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.98%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (5.88%) Oracle
1 6 (5.88%) Splunk
2 5 (4.90%) Dynatrace
3 3 (2.94%) Google
3 3 (2.94%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.96%) New Relic
4 2 (1.96%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.98%) Roku