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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 519 380 480
Rank change year-on-year -139 +100 +16
Contract jobs citing Gradle 118 119 52
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.43% 0.16%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.23% 2.91% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 89 31
10th Percentile £319 £358 £525
25th Percentile £406 £393 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £530 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.60% -24.29% -
75th Percentile £538 £577 £863
90th Percentile £603 £615 £913
UK median daily rate £455 £530 £627
% change year-on-year -14.15% -15.40% -3.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Median hourly rate £76.00 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% - -
UK median hourly rate £76.00 £90.00 -
% change year-on-year -15.56% - -

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 5,288 4,094 4,358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.42% 14.93% 13.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,342 2,830 2,789
10th Percentile £355 £325 £350
25th Percentile £418 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £630
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 92 169
10th Percentile £24.62 £42.50 £37.39
25th Percentile £51.25 £51.94 £54.36
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.38 £77.50 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 22 September 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
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 22 September 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 -62 71 £500 -7.41% 55
North of England -91 24 £500 +33.33% 13
Yorkshire -42 12 £500 -3.80% 6
East of England - 11 £495 - 4
North West -79 8 £537 +43.20% 7
South East -59 7 £270 -57.48% 7
North East - 4 £450 -
South West -36 2 - - 6
Midlands -56 2 £455 +3.03% 3
East Midlands -16 1 £335 -21.91% 1
West Midlands -52 1 £575 - 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 9 (7.63%) Confluence
2 8 (6.78%) Camunda
3 4 (3.39%) Apache
3 4 (3.39%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.69%) Anypoint
4 2 (1.69%) Mule
5 1 (0.85%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.85%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (1.69%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 37 (31.36%) Azure
2 36 (30.51%) GitHub
3 32 (27.12%) AWS
4 27 (22.88%) GitHub Actions
5 23 (19.49%) OpenShift
6 21 (17.80%) GCP
7 18 (15.25%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (9.32%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 7 (5.93%) Cloud Run
10 6 (5.08%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (5.08%) Apigee
10 6 (5.08%) Firebase
10 6 (5.08%) Google Play
10 6 (5.08%) Kong
11 4 (3.39%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (3.39%) Apple Pay
12 3 (2.54%) Anthropic Claude
12 3 (2.54%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (2.54%) Google Ads
12 3 (2.54%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.39%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (1.69%) Firewall
3 1 (0.85%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.85%) DSL
3 1 (0.85%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (24.58%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (20.34%) Relational Database
3 17 (14.41%) MongoDB
4 12 (10.17%) SQL Server
5 10 (8.47%) NoSQL
6 7 (5.93%) MySQL
7 6 (5.08%) RDBMS
8 5 (4.24%) Hazelcast
8 5 (4.24%) Redis
9 4 (3.39%) DynamoDB
9 4 (3.39%) Flink
10 3 (2.54%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (2.54%) BigQuery
10 3 (2.54%) Db2
10 3 (2.54%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (2.54%) Pinecone
10 3 (2.54%) Weaviate
11 2 (1.69%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.85%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.85%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 64 (54.24%) Jenkins
2 62 (52.54%) Git
3 58 (49.15%) Maven
4 46 (38.98%) JUnit
5 37 (31.36%) GitLab
6 27 (22.88%) Mockito
7 21 (17.80%) SonarQube
8 14 (11.86%) REST Assured
9 12 (10.17%) Cucumber
9 12 (10.17%) Liquibase
10 11 (9.32%) JIRA
10 11 (9.32%) Sonatype Nexus
11 8 (6.78%) Bitbucket Server
12 7 (5.93%) CircleCI
12 7 (5.93%) Selenium
13 5 (4.24%) Android Studio
13 5 (4.24%) fastlane
13 5 (4.24%) Snyk
14 4 (3.39%) Bitbucket
14 4 (3.39%) Crashlytics
General
1 26 (22.03%) Finance
2 22 (18.64%) Banking
3 20 (16.95%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (16.95%) Social Skills
4 8 (6.78%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (5.93%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.69%) Law
7 1 (0.85%) Games
7 1 (0.85%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 82 (69.49%) Developer
2 65 (55.08%) Java Developer
3 22 (18.64%) Senior
4 14 (11.86%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 13 (11.02%) Java Engineer
5 13 (11.02%) Senior Developer
5 13 (11.02%) Senior Java Developer
5 13 (11.02%) Software Developer
6 11 (9.32%) Software Engineer
7 9 (7.63%) Java Software Developer
8 8 (6.78%) Android Developer
9 6 (5.08%) Backend Developer
10 5 (4.24%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (4.24%) Java Software Engineer
10 5 (4.24%) Mid-Level Java Developer
11 4 (3.39%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 4 (3.39%) Oracle Developer
11 4 (3.39%) Senior Backend Developer
11 4 (3.39%) Senior Java Engineer
12 3 (2.54%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (77.97%) Spring Boot
2 83 (70.34%) Spring
3 60 (50.85%) Kafka
4 46 (38.98%) React
5 38 (32.20%) REST
6 29 (24.58%) RESTful
7 26 (22.03%) Hibernate
8 22 (18.64%) Redux
9 18 (15.25%) JPA
10 17 (14.41%) HTML
10 17 (14.41%) OpenAPI
10 17 (14.41%) Swagger
11 16 (13.56%) CSS
12 13 (11.02%) Android Jetpack
13 12 (10.17%) Jetpack Compose
14 9 (7.63%) RabbitMQ
14 9 (7.63%) XML
15 8 (6.78%) Spring MVC
15 8 (6.78%) Terraform
15 8 (6.78%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.71%) Product Ownership
2 13 (11.02%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (10.17%) Mobile App
3 12 (10.17%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (6.78%) Data Structures
5 6 (5.08%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (4.24%) Client/Server
6 5 (4.24%) Cloud Native
7 3 (2.54%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.54%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 2 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.69%) Legacy Code
8 2 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.69%) PKI
8 2 (1.69%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.85%) Equities
9 1 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.85%) IoT
9 1 (0.85%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.85%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (13.56%) Linux
2 13 (11.02%) Android
3 12 (10.17%) Unix
4 2 (1.69%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (80.51%) CI/CD
2 76 (64.41%) Agile
3 66 (55.93%) Microservices
4 55 (46.61%) DevOps
5 52 (44.07%) TDD
6 50 (42.37%) Test Automation
7 45 (38.14%) Containerisation
8 38 (32.20%) Software Engineering
9 31 (26.27%) Clean Code
10 27 (22.88%) Problem-Solving
10 27 (22.88%) Scrum
11 23 (19.49%) Event-Driven
12 21 (17.80%) Computer Science
12 21 (17.80%) Observability
12 21 (17.80%) User Stories
13 18 (15.25%) Unit Testing
14 16 (13.56%) Design Patterns
15 15 (12.71%) Continuous Improvement
16 14 (11.86%) Architectural Patterns
17 13 (11.02%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 110 (93.22%) Java
2 74 (62.71%) SQL
3 22 (18.64%) JavaScript
4 16 (13.56%) Kotlin
5 15 (12.71%) TypeScript
6 13 (11.02%) PL/SQL
7 10 (8.47%) Python
8 4 (3.39%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.54%) Scala
10 2 (1.69%) Bash
10 2 (1.69%) Korn
11 1 (0.85%) C#
Qualifications
1 42 (35.59%) Security Cleared
2 36 (30.51%) SC Cleared
3 21 (17.80%) Degree
4 19 (16.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.39%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (1.69%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (16.95%) QA
2 8 (6.78%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.39%) ISO 20022
3 4 (3.39%) PCI DSS
3 4 (3.39%) WCAG
4 1 (0.85%) GDPR
4 1 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.85%) SEPA
System Software
1 49 (41.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 42 (35.59%) Kubernetes
2 17 (14.41%) Ansible
3 12 (10.17%) Control-M
4 11 (9.32%) Grafana
4 11 (9.32%) Prometheus
5 5 (4.24%) Argo
6 2 (1.69%) Istio
7 1 (0.85%) Podman
7 1 (0.85%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.85%) Puppet
Vendors
1 28 (23.73%) Oracle
2 14 (11.86%) Google
3 11 (9.32%) IBM
4 8 (6.78%) Splunk
4 8 (6.78%) Veracode
5 6 (5.08%) Dynatrace
6 4 (3.39%) Sybase
7 3 (2.54%) MuleSoft
7 3 (2.54%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.69%) Microsoft
9 1 (0.85%) Confluent
9 1 (0.85%) Databricks
9 1 (0.85%) Solace
9 1 (0.85%) TIBCO