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 2 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 491 389 505
Rank change year-on-year -102 +116 -34
Contract jobs citing Gradle 109 90 46
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.26% 0.37% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.18% 2.64% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 62 24
10th Percentile £291 £376 £411
25th Percentile £400 £440 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £545
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -2.75% -19.26%
75th Percentile £568 £549 £606
90th Percentile £618 £609 £695
UK median daily rate £498 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -6.13% -3.64% -18.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - £77.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% -12.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £70.00 - £82.50
90th Percentile £83.60 - -
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 5,005 3,404 4,300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.01% 14.14% 11.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,274 2,301 2,912
10th Percentile £349 £350 £350
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £526
Median % change year-on-year - -4.85% -4.45%
75th Percentile £588 £610 £638
90th Percentile £681 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 63 208
10th Percentile £36.00 £27.59 £31.57
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £79.75 £77.65
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% -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 2 June 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 2 June 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 2 June 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 -70 46 £525 -0.94% 10
North of England -72 29 £450 -13.42% 3
North West -39 20 £402 - 2
South East - 15 £354 - 1
East of England - 11 £495 - 1
Yorkshire -60 6 - -
Midlands -63 3 £575 +34.66% 2
North East - 3 £450 - 1
East Midlands -30 2 - - 1
South West - 2 £500 - 1
West Midlands -64 1 £575 +35.29% 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 (3.67%) Apache
1 4 (3.67%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.75%) Camunda
2 3 (2.75%) Confluence
3 1 (0.92%) JBoss
3 1 (0.92%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.92%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (1.83%) Shopify
2 1 (0.92%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 38 (34.86%) GitHub
2 30 (27.52%) AWS
2 30 (27.52%) GitHub Actions
3 19 (17.43%) Azure
4 10 (9.17%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (9.17%) GCP
5 6 (5.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 5 (4.59%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (4.59%) Firebase
6 5 (4.59%) Google Play
6 5 (4.59%) OpenShift
7 4 (3.67%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (3.67%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (3.67%) Apigee
7 4 (3.67%) Apple Pay
7 4 (3.67%) Cloud Run
7 4 (3.67%) Kong
8 3 (2.75%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (2.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (2.75%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.67%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (2.75%) DSL
3 2 (1.83%) HTTP
4 1 (0.92%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (19.27%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (9.17%) Relational Database
3 8 (7.34%) DynamoDB
4 7 (6.42%) MongoDB
5 6 (5.50%) MySQL
6 5 (4.59%) RDBMS
7 4 (3.67%) Flink
7 4 (3.67%) Hazelcast
7 4 (3.67%) NoSQL
7 4 (3.67%) Redis
8 3 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.75%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.83%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 43 (39.45%) Git
2 39 (35.78%) JUnit
2 39 (35.78%) Maven
3 36 (33.03%) GitLab
4 33 (30.28%) Jenkins
5 20 (18.35%) Mockito
6 14 (12.84%) Liquibase
7 13 (11.93%) IntelliJ
8 11 (10.09%) CircleCI
9 8 (7.34%) fastlane
10 7 (6.42%) Android Studio
10 7 (6.42%) Cucumber
10 7 (6.42%) REST Assured
10 7 (6.42%) SonarQube
11 5 (4.59%) Crashlytics
11 5 (4.59%) JIRA
11 5 (4.59%) Selenium
11 5 (4.59%) Snyk
12 4 (3.67%) Gatling
12 4 (3.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (11.93%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.26%) Finance
2 9 (8.26%) Public Sector
3 7 (6.42%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (6.42%) Banking
4 5 (4.59%) Law
5 4 (3.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.83%) Retail Banking
7 1 (0.92%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 53 (48.62%) Developer
2 34 (31.19%) Java Developer
3 29 (26.61%) Java Engineer
4 27 (24.77%) Software Engineer
5 25 (22.94%) Senior
6 19 (17.43%) Java Software Engineer
7 15 (13.76%) Android Developer
8 13 (11.93%) Senior Developer
9 12 (11.01%) Senior Java Developer
10 7 (6.42%) Android Engineer
11 6 (5.50%) Backend Developer
11 6 (5.50%) Senior Java Engineer
12 5 (4.59%) Java Software Developer
12 5 (4.59%) Software Developer
13 4 (3.67%) Senior Backend Developer
14 3 (2.75%) Applications Engineer
14 3 (2.75%) Senior Software Engineer
15 2 (1.83%) Java Applications Developer
15 2 (1.83%) Server Engineer
15 2 (1.83%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (61.47%) Spring
1 67 (61.47%) Spring Boot
2 26 (23.85%) Kafka
2 26 (23.85%) REST
3 23 (21.10%) React
4 20 (18.35%) OpenTelemetry
5 19 (17.43%) Android Jetpack
5 19 (17.43%) OpenAPI
5 19 (17.43%) RESTful
5 19 (17.43%) Swagger
6 18 (16.51%) Jetpack Compose
7 12 (11.01%) GraphQL
8 11 (10.09%) WireMock
9 9 (8.26%) JPA
9 9 (8.26%) RxJava
10 7 (6.42%) Dagger
11 6 (5.50%) OkHttp
11 6 (5.50%) Playwright
11 6 (5.50%) RAML
11 6 (5.50%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.93%) Mobile App
2 11 (10.09%) Product Ownership
3 8 (7.34%) Cloud Native
3 8 (7.34%) Legacy Code
4 7 (6.42%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (5.50%) Virtual Team
6 5 (4.59%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.75%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.83%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.83%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.92%) Equities
9 1 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.92%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.92%) Synthetic Data
9 1 (0.92%) TWAP
9 1 (0.92%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.92%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 22 (20.18%) Android
2 7 (6.42%) Linux
3 3 (2.75%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.83%) Windows
5 1 (0.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (61.47%) CI/CD
2 49 (44.95%) Software Engineering
3 47 (43.12%) Microservices
4 43 (39.45%) TDD
5 41 (37.61%) Agile
6 38 (34.86%) Test Automation
7 36 (33.03%) DevOps
8 35 (32.11%) Containerisation
9 20 (18.35%) Observability
10 16 (14.68%) Android Development
10 16 (14.68%) Architectural Patterns
10 16 (14.68%) Continuous Integration
11 15 (13.76%) Event-Driven
11 15 (13.76%) User Experience
12 14 (12.84%) Secure Coding
12 14 (12.84%) Unit Testing
13 13 (11.93%) Clean Code
13 13 (11.93%) Design Patterns
14 12 (11.01%) Computer Science
15 11 (10.09%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 86 (78.90%) Java
2 40 (36.70%) Kotlin
3 39 (35.78%) SQL
4 17 (15.60%) TypeScript
5 2 (1.83%) Bash
5 2 (1.83%) Go
5 2 (1.83%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.83%) Python
5 2 (1.83%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.83%) Swift
6 1 (0.92%) BrightScript
6 1 (0.92%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 18 (16.51%) Security Cleared
2 14 (12.84%) Degree
3 12 (11.01%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (11.01%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.92%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (13.76%) QA
2 9 (8.26%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.67%) PCI DSS
3 4 (3.67%) WCAG
4 2 (1.83%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.83%) NCSC
5 1 (0.92%) GDPR
5 1 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.92%) SEPA
System Software
1 35 (32.11%) Docker
2 1 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 35 (32.11%) Kubernetes
2 22 (20.18%) Grafana
3 14 (12.84%) Ansible
4 9 (8.26%) Prometheus
5 8 (7.34%) Terraform
6 4 (3.67%) Argo
7 1 (0.92%) Istio
7 1 (0.92%) Podman
7 1 (0.92%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.92%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (7.34%) Dynatrace
2 6 (5.50%) Oracle
2 6 (5.50%) Splunk
3 5 (4.59%) Google
4 3 (2.75%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.83%) New Relic
5 2 (1.83%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.92%) IBM
6 1 (0.92%) Roku
6 1 (0.92%) Veracode