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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 423 474 504
Rank change year-on-year +51 +30 -63
Contract jobs citing Gradle 117 47 73
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.39% 0.15% 0.18%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.56% 1.14% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 30 54
10th Percentile £358 £521 £304
25th Percentile £397 £550 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £713 £680
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% +4.78% +2.84%
75th Percentile £588 £863 £738
90th Percentile £615 £914 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £700 £650
% change year-on-year -25.00% +7.69% -1.52%
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

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 4,573 4,130 5,097
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.36% 13.26% 12.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,194 2,597 3,617
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 £540
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 126 227
10th Percentile £39.00 £37.55 £45.88
25th Percentile £54.94 £51.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.50 £70.00 £77.02
90th Percentile £79.25 £74.72 £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 8 November 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 8 November 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 +29 53 £547 -21.93% 21
North of England 0 35 £375 - 2
North West +7 27 £375 - 2
South East +13 15 £473 -34.19% 26
Midlands -23 9 £508 -32.23%
Yorkshire - 8 £358 -
West Midlands - 6 £575 -
East Midlands -15 3 £429 -42.80%
South West -1 1 - - 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 8 (6.84%) Tomcat
2 7 (5.98%) Confluence
2 7 (5.98%) JBoss
3 4 (3.42%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.71%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.85%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 42 (35.90%) GitHub
2 34 (29.06%) Azure
3 33 (28.21%) AWS
4 21 (17.95%) GCP
5 14 (11.97%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (11.97%) Datadog
5 14 (11.97%) OpenShift
6 11 (9.40%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 10 (8.55%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (6.84%) Apigee
9 7 (5.98%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (5.98%) Figma
9 7 (5.98%) Serverless
10 6 (5.13%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (5.13%) Amazon EMR
10 6 (5.13%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (5.13%) Azure AKS
10 6 (5.13%) SaaS
11 5 (4.27%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (4.27%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.42%) Kerberos
2 2 (1.71%) DMZ
2 2 (1.71%) Internet
2 2 (1.71%) MQTT
3 1 (0.85%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.85%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (15.38%) NoSQL
2 15 (12.82%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (12.82%) Relational Database
3 13 (11.11%) MongoDB
4 10 (8.55%) DynamoDB
5 8 (6.84%) RDBMS
6 6 (5.13%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (5.13%) HBase
6 6 (5.13%) MySQL
7 5 (4.27%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (4.27%) BigQuery
7 5 (4.27%) Redis
8 4 (3.42%) Big Data
8 4 (3.42%) SQL Server
9 3 (2.56%) Data Lake
9 3 (2.56%) HPCC
10 2 (1.71%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.85%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 56 (47.86%) Jenkins
2 54 (46.15%) Maven
3 49 (41.88%) Git
4 34 (29.06%) JUnit
5 25 (21.37%) Sonatype Nexus
6 22 (18.80%) GitLab
7 16 (13.68%) JIRA
7 16 (13.68%) Xcode
8 15 (12.82%) SonarQube
9 13 (11.11%) Android Studio
10 12 (10.26%) Artifactory
11 10 (8.55%) Mockito
11 10 (8.55%) Selenium
12 9 (7.69%) Cucumber
13 8 (6.84%) Bitbucket
14 7 (5.98%) Postman
14 7 (5.98%) Storybook
15 6 (5.13%) CircleCI
16 5 (4.27%) SonarLint
17 4 (3.42%) Snyk
General
1 26 (22.22%) Finance
2 21 (17.95%) Banking
3 20 (17.09%) Social Skills
4 6 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.27%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.56%) Retail
6 3 (2.56%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.71%) Front Office
7 2 (1.71%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.71%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.85%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.85%) Law
8 1 (0.85%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 73 (62.39%) Developer
2 34 (29.06%) Java Developer
3 19 (16.24%) Android Developer
4 16 (13.68%) Senior
5 14 (11.97%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (10.26%) Senior Developer
6 12 (10.26%) Senior Java Developer
7 10 (8.55%) Java Engineer
8 9 (7.69%) React Developer
9 8 (6.84%) AWS Developer
9 8 (6.84%) Java Software Engineer
9 8 (6.84%) Software Engineer
10 7 (5.98%) Architect
10 7 (5.98%) Lead
11 6 (5.13%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (5.13%) iOS Developer
12 5 (4.27%) Java Architect
12 5 (4.27%) Java Technical Architect
12 5 (4.27%) Lead Developer
12 5 (4.27%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (31.62%) Spring
2 33 (28.21%) Spring Boot
3 22 (18.80%) RESTful
4 21 (17.95%) Kafka
4 21 (17.95%) REST
5 14 (11.97%) HTML
5 14 (11.97%) JSON
6 11 (9.40%) CSS
7 9 (7.69%) React
7 9 (7.69%) React Native
8 8 (6.84%) GraphQL
8 8 (6.84%) RxJava
8 8 (6.84%) Spring Cloud
9 7 (5.98%) Android Jetpack
9 7 (5.98%) D3.js
9 7 (5.98%) Jetpack Compose
9 7 (5.98%) Micronaut
9 7 (5.98%) OAuth
9 7 (5.98%) SOAP
9 7 (5.98%) SVG
Miscellaneous
1 23 (19.66%) Mobile App
2 13 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.98%) Mobile Banking
4 6 (5.13%) Product Ownership
5 5 (4.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (4.27%) N-Tier
6 4 (3.42%) Data Centre
6 4 (3.42%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (3.42%) Private Cloud
7 3 (2.56%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.56%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.56%) IVR
8 2 (1.71%) Derivative
8 2 (1.71%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.71%) IoT
8 2 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.71%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.71%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.85%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 36 (30.77%) Android
2 22 (18.80%) Linux
3 17 (14.53%) Unix
4 16 (13.68%) Apple iOS
5 4 (3.42%) Solaris
5 4 (3.42%) Windows
6 3 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (47.01%) CI/CD
2 46 (39.32%) DevOps
3 42 (35.90%) Agile
4 37 (31.62%) Microservices
5 34 (29.06%) Design Patterns
6 32 (27.35%) Containerisation
7 28 (23.93%) TDD
8 24 (20.51%) Software Engineering
9 21 (17.95%) Android Development
10 20 (17.09%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (17.09%) Test Automation
11 19 (16.24%) BDD
12 17 (14.53%) Architectural Patterns
13 16 (13.68%) User Experience
14 14 (11.97%) Continuous Integration
14 14 (11.97%) Event-Driven
15 13 (11.11%) Scrum
16 12 (10.26%) Infrastructure as Code
16 12 (10.26%) MVVM
16 12 (10.26%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 84 (71.79%) Java
2 31 (26.50%) Python
3 25 (21.37%) Kotlin
4 22 (18.80%) SQL
5 16 (13.68%) C++
6 15 (12.82%) JavaScript
6 15 (12.82%) TypeScript
7 11 (9.40%) C
8 9 (7.69%) Scala
8 9 (7.69%) Shell Script
9 7 (5.98%) Bash
9 7 (5.98%) Objective-C
9 7 (5.98%) Ruby
9 7 (5.98%) Swift
10 4 (3.42%) PL/SQL
10 4 (3.42%) PowerShell
11 3 (2.56%) Rust
12 2 (1.71%) Groovy
12 2 (1.71%) JSX
13 1 (0.85%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 14 (11.97%) Security Cleared
2 8 (6.84%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.13%) Degree
3 6 (5.13%) OCP
3 6 (5.13%) Oracle Certification
4 4 (3.42%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.42%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.85%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.85%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.98%) Accessibility
2 5 (4.27%) QA
3 1 (0.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 38 (32.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 40 (34.19%) Kubernetes
2 24 (20.51%) Terraform
3 13 (11.11%) Ansible
4 12 (10.26%) Grafana
5 9 (7.69%) Puppet
6 8 (6.84%) Prometheus
7 6 (5.13%) Progress Chef
8 5 (4.27%) Argo
9 4 (3.42%) Podman
10 3 (2.56%) Istio
11 1 (0.85%) Kibana
11 1 (0.85%) logstash
Vendors
1 13 (11.11%) Oracle
2 10 (8.55%) Google
2 10 (8.55%) Microsoft
3 9 (7.69%) Splunk
4 5 (4.27%) Gigya
5 4 (3.42%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.56%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.71%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.85%) Adobe
8 1 (0.85%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.85%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.85%) Foundry
8 1 (0.85%) Palantir