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 5 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 494 422 495
Rank change year-on-year -72 +73 -27
Contract jobs citing Gradle 93 57 45
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.24% 0.23% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.83% 1.71% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 40 27
10th Percentile £291 £400 £285
25th Percentile £358 £506 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £534 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.59% +1.62% -22.22%
75th Percentile £588 £578 £588
90th Percentile £726 £753 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -1.59% -3.00% -18.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 0 1
10th Percentile £46.00 - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - £77.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £80.00
75th Percentile £61.25 - £82.50
90th Percentile £80.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £90.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -38.89% +12.50% +6.67%

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 5,083 3,324 4,191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.12% 13.64% 11.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,405 2,223 2,922
10th Percentile £340 £340 £358
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -6.67%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £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 206 65 159
10th Percentile £39.53 £26.12 £32.74
25th Percentile £60.25 £51.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.47% +2.40% +1.63%
75th Percentile £76.31 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.43 £88.75
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +5.47% +6.67% -2.44%

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 5 April 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 5 April 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 5 April 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 -49 35 £530 -1.85% 10
South East -21 30 £382 -40.08% 2
North of England -65 19 £402 -24.15% 2
North West -36 17 £402 -24.15% 2
Midlands -67 4 £575 +35.29%
East Midlands -33 2 - -
Yorkshire -56 2 - -
West Midlands -57 2 £575 +26.37%
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 (4.30%) Apache
1 4 (4.30%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.23%) Confluence
3 2 (2.15%) Camunda
3 2 (2.15%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.08%) JBoss
4 1 (1.08%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (2.15%) Shopify
2 1 (1.08%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 37 (39.78%) AWS
2 33 (35.48%) GitHub
3 18 (19.35%) GitHub Actions
4 11 (11.83%) Azure
5 7 (7.53%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (6.45%) Amazon S3
6 6 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (6.45%) Datadog
6 6 (6.45%) OpenShift
6 6 (6.45%) Serverless
7 5 (5.38%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (5.38%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (5.38%) GCP
8 4 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (3.23%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (3.23%) AWS Fargate
9 3 (3.23%) Firebase
9 3 (3.23%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (3.23%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.23%) Kerberos
2 2 (2.15%) Bluetooth
2 2 (2.15%) DSL
2 2 (2.15%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (22.58%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (10.75%) DynamoDB
2 10 (10.75%) NoSQL
3 8 (8.60%) MongoDB
4 7 (7.53%) Relational Database
5 6 (6.45%) HBase
5 6 (6.45%) MySQL
6 3 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (3.23%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (2.15%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.08%) Big Data
8 1 (1.08%) Flink
8 1 (1.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 38 (40.86%) Maven
2 37 (39.78%) JUnit
3 35 (37.63%) Git
4 30 (32.26%) Jenkins
5 20 (21.51%) GitLab
6 15 (16.13%) Cucumber
7 13 (13.98%) IntelliJ
8 12 (12.90%) Mockito
9 10 (10.75%) Sonatype Nexus
10 9 (9.68%) Android Studio
10 9 (9.68%) Artifactory
10 9 (9.68%) CircleCI
11 7 (7.53%) Gatling
11 7 (7.53%) Postman
11 7 (7.53%) Selenium
12 6 (6.45%) Bitbucket
12 6 (6.45%) JIRA
12 6 (6.45%) Liquibase
12 6 (6.45%) REST Assured
12 6 (6.45%) TestNG
General
1 16 (17.20%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.90%) Finance
3 9 (9.68%) Banking
3 9 (9.68%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.23%) Law
5 2 (2.15%) Front Office
5 2 (2.15%) Retail Banking
6 1 (1.08%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 48 (51.61%) Developer
2 28 (30.11%) Java Developer
2 28 (30.11%) Java Engineer
3 20 (21.51%) Senior
3 20 (21.51%) Software Engineer
4 16 (17.20%) Android Developer
4 16 (17.20%) Java Software Engineer
5 12 (12.90%) Senior Developer
6 11 (11.83%) Senior Java Developer
7 5 (5.38%) Android Engineer
7 5 (5.38%) Senior Java Engineer
8 4 (4.30%) AWS Developer
9 3 (3.23%) Senior Software Engineer
10 2 (2.15%) Applications Developer
10 2 (2.15%) AWS Engineer
10 2 (2.15%) DevOps Engineer
10 2 (2.15%) Engineering Manager
10 2 (2.15%) Java Applications Developer
10 2 (2.15%) Server Engineer
10 2 (2.15%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (59.14%) Spring
2 48 (51.61%) Spring Boot
3 21 (22.58%) Kafka
4 20 (21.51%) REST
5 16 (17.20%) OpenTelemetry
6 15 (16.13%) RESTful
7 12 (12.90%) Android Jetpack
7 12 (12.90%) GraphQL
7 12 (12.90%) Jetpack Compose
7 12 (12.90%) React
8 11 (11.83%) OpenAPI
8 11 (11.83%) Swagger
9 7 (7.53%) RxJava
10 6 (6.45%) AngularJS
10 6 (6.45%) Dagger
10 6 (6.45%) Hibernate
10 6 (6.45%) JSON
10 6 (6.45%) OkHttp
10 6 (6.45%) RAML
11 5 (5.38%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.68%) Product Ownership
2 7 (7.53%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (6.45%) Cloud Native
3 6 (6.45%) Legacy Code
3 6 (6.45%) Mobile App
4 5 (5.38%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (5.38%) Virtual Team
5 3 (3.23%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.15%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.15%) Derivative
6 2 (2.15%) Equities
6 2 (2.15%) Private Cloud
6 2 (2.15%) TWAP
6 2 (2.15%) VWAP
7 1 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.08%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.08%) Synthetic Data
7 1 (1.08%) Video on Demand
7 1 (1.08%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 20 (21.51%) Android
2 7 (7.53%) Linux
3 4 (4.30%) Windows
4 3 (3.23%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (51.61%) CI/CD
2 32 (34.41%) Test Automation
3 30 (32.26%) Microservices
4 26 (27.96%) DevOps
4 26 (27.96%) Software Engineering
5 21 (22.58%) Agile
5 21 (22.58%) Containerisation
6 20 (21.51%) TDD
7 16 (17.20%) Event-Driven
8 15 (16.13%) Android Development
8 15 (16.13%) Observability
9 14 (15.05%) User Experience
10 13 (13.98%) Design Patterns
10 13 (13.98%) OOP
10 13 (13.98%) Unit Testing
11 12 (12.90%) Continuous Integration
12 10 (10.75%) API Design
12 10 (10.75%) Architectural Patterns
12 10 (10.75%) Performance Analysis
13 9 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 72 (77.42%) Java
2 35 (37.63%) Kotlin
3 17 (18.28%) SQL
4 7 (7.53%) Python
4 7 (7.53%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.15%) Bash
5 2 (2.15%) C++
5 2 (2.15%) Go
5 2 (2.15%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.15%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.15%) Swift
6 1 (1.08%) BrightScript
6 1 (1.08%) Groovy
6 1 (1.08%) Objective-C
6 1 (1.08%) Scala
6 1 (1.08%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (17.20%) Security Cleared
2 10 (10.75%) Degree
2 10 (10.75%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.60%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (7.53%) OCP
4 7 (7.53%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (2.15%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (16.13%) QA
2 5 (5.38%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.15%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.15%) NCSC
4 1 (1.08%) SEPA
4 1 (1.08%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (31.18%) Docker
2 1 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 36 (38.71%) Kubernetes
2 24 (25.81%) Grafana
3 7 (7.53%) Prometheus
3 7 (7.53%) Terraform
4 6 (6.45%) Ansible
5 3 (3.23%) Puppet
6 2 (2.15%) Podman
6 2 (2.15%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 7 (7.53%) Oracle
1 7 (7.53%) Splunk
2 4 (4.30%) Dynatrace
2 4 (4.30%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.23%) Google
4 2 (2.15%) New Relic
4 2 (2.15%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.08%) Adobe
5 1 (1.08%) Roku