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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 430 461 512
Rank change year-on-year +31 +51 -42
Contract jobs citing Gradle 114 48 65
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.38% 0.16% 0.16%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.48% 1.19% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 30 46
10th Percentile £356 £521 £300
25th Percentile £393 £550 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £713 £650
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% +9.62% -1.52%
75th Percentile £588 £863 £738
90th Percentile £620 £914 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £669 £575
% change year-on-year -21.50% +16.30% -12.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £43.00 - £76.63
25th Percentile £47.50 - £77.19
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £81.41
75th Percentile £62.50 - £87.42
90th Percentile £67.00 - £88.97
UK median hourly rate £55.00 - £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 4,602 4,023 4,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.28% 13.11% 12.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,214 2,499 3,544
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 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £540
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 121 229
10th Percentile £39.00 £37.55 £46.12
25th Percentile £54.88 £51.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.69%
75th Percentile £69.38 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +6.25%

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 18 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Gradle in England over the 6 months to 18 November 2025.

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 18 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 +22 47 £550 -21.43% 13
North of England -6 34 £375 - 2
North West +4 27 £375 - 2
South East +16 19 £473 -34.19% 12
Midlands -27 9 £508 -32.23%
Yorkshire - 7 £354 -
West Midlands - 6 £575 -
East Midlands -16 3 £429 -42.80%
South West -1 1 - - 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 8 (7.02%) Tomcat
2 7 (6.14%) JBoss
3 4 (3.51%) Confluence
3 4 (3.51%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.75%) Apache
4 2 (1.75%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 39 (34.21%) GitHub
2 35 (30.70%) AWS
3 33 (28.95%) Azure
4 20 (17.54%) GCP
5 15 (13.16%) Datadog
6 13 (11.40%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (11.40%) OpenShift
7 10 (8.77%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (8.77%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 7 (6.14%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (6.14%) Apigee
8 7 (6.14%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (6.14%) Figma
8 7 (6.14%) Serverless
9 6 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (5.26%) Azure AKS
9 6 (5.26%) SaaS
10 5 (4.39%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (4.39%) Amazon EventBridge
10 5 (4.39%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.39%) Kerberos
2 2 (1.75%) Bluetooth
2 2 (1.75%) DMZ
2 2 (1.75%) Internet
2 2 (1.75%) MQTT
3 1 (0.88%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (15.79%) NoSQL
2 17 (14.91%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (12.28%) MongoDB
3 14 (12.28%) Relational Database
4 11 (9.65%) DynamoDB
5 8 (7.02%) HBase
5 8 (7.02%) RDBMS
6 6 (5.26%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (5.26%) MySQL
7 5 (4.39%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (4.39%) BigQuery
7 5 (4.39%) Redis
8 4 (3.51%) Big Data
8 4 (3.51%) SQL Server
9 3 (2.63%) Data Lake
9 3 (2.63%) HPCC
10 2 (1.75%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.88%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 54 (47.37%) Jenkins
2 53 (46.49%) Maven
3 50 (43.86%) Git
4 35 (30.70%) JUnit
5 26 (22.81%) Sonatype Nexus
6 22 (19.30%) GitLab
7 16 (14.04%) Xcode
8 15 (13.16%) SonarQube
9 14 (12.28%) Android Studio
10 13 (11.40%) Artifactory
10 13 (11.40%) JIRA
11 10 (8.77%) Cucumber
11 10 (8.77%) Mockito
11 10 (8.77%) Selenium
12 9 (7.89%) Bitbucket
13 7 (6.14%) Postman
13 7 (6.14%) Storybook
14 6 (5.26%) CircleCI
15 5 (4.39%) SonarLint
16 4 (3.51%) Snyk
General
1 25 (21.93%) Finance
2 19 (16.67%) Banking
2 19 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 6 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.39%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.63%) Retail
6 2 (1.75%) Front Office
6 2 (1.75%) Retail Banking
6 2 (1.75%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.88%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.88%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.88%) Law
7 1 (0.88%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 72 (63.16%) Developer
2 36 (31.58%) Java Developer
3 17 (14.91%) Android Developer
3 17 (14.91%) Senior
4 13 (11.40%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (11.40%) Senior Developer
4 13 (11.40%) Senior Java Developer
5 11 (9.65%) Java Engineer
6 9 (7.89%) AWS Developer
6 9 (7.89%) React Developer
7 8 (7.02%) Java Software Engineer
7 8 (7.02%) Software Engineer
8 7 (6.14%) Architect
8 7 (6.14%) Lead
9 6 (5.26%) iOS Developer
10 5 (4.39%) Azure Engineer
10 5 (4.39%) Java Architect
10 5 (4.39%) Java Technical Architect
10 5 (4.39%) Lead Developer
10 5 (4.39%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (34.21%) Spring
2 35 (30.70%) Spring Boot
3 23 (20.18%) RESTful
4 22 (19.30%) Kafka
5 21 (18.42%) REST
6 14 (12.28%) HTML
6 14 (12.28%) JSON
7 11 (9.65%) CSS
8 9 (7.89%) React
8 9 (7.89%) React Native
9 8 (7.02%) Spring Cloud
10 7 (6.14%) D3.js
10 7 (6.14%) GraphQL
10 7 (6.14%) Micronaut
10 7 (6.14%) OAuth
10 7 (6.14%) RabbitMQ
10 7 (6.14%) SOAP
10 7 (6.14%) SVG
11 6 (5.26%) Android Jetpack
11 6 (5.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (20.18%) Mobile App
2 12 (10.53%) Cloud Native
3 7 (6.14%) Mobile Banking
4 6 (5.26%) Product Ownership
5 5 (4.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (4.39%) N-Tier
6 4 (3.51%) Data Centre
6 4 (3.51%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (3.51%) Private Cloud
7 3 (2.63%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.63%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.75%) Derivative
8 2 (1.75%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.75%) IoT
8 2 (1.75%) IVR
8 2 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.75%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.75%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.88%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 33 (28.95%) Android
2 21 (18.42%) Linux
3 16 (14.04%) Apple iOS
3 16 (14.04%) Unix
4 5 (4.39%) Windows
5 4 (3.51%) Solaris
6 3 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 45 (39.47%) DevOps
3 39 (34.21%) Agile
4 38 (33.33%) Microservices
5 32 (28.07%) Containerisation
5 32 (28.07%) Design Patterns
6 27 (23.68%) TDD
7 24 (21.05%) Software Engineering
8 21 (18.42%) Test Automation
9 20 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (15.79%) Android Development
10 18 (15.79%) BDD
11 15 (13.16%) Event-Driven
11 15 (13.16%) User Experience
12 14 (12.28%) Architectural Patterns
12 14 (12.28%) Continuous Integration
13 13 (11.40%) Scrum
14 12 (10.53%) OOP
14 12 (10.53%) Roadmaps
14 12 (10.53%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 84 (73.68%) Java
2 31 (27.19%) Python
3 23 (20.18%) SQL
4 21 (18.42%) Kotlin
5 17 (14.91%) C++
6 16 (14.04%) JavaScript
7 15 (13.16%) TypeScript
8 11 (9.65%) C
9 9 (7.89%) Scala
9 9 (7.89%) Shell Script
10 7 (6.14%) Bash
10 7 (6.14%) Objective-C
10 7 (6.14%) Ruby
10 7 (6.14%) Swift
11 5 (4.39%) PowerShell
12 4 (3.51%) PL/SQL
13 3 (2.63%) Rust
14 2 (1.75%) Groovy
14 2 (1.75%) JSX
15 1 (0.88%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 15 (13.16%) Security Cleared
2 9 (7.89%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.02%) OCP
3 8 (7.02%) Oracle Certification
4 4 (3.51%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (3.51%) Degree
4 4 (3.51%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.88%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.14%) Accessibility
2 5 (4.39%) QA
System Software
1 37 (32.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 41 (35.96%) Kubernetes
2 23 (20.18%) Terraform
3 13 (11.40%) Grafana
4 12 (10.53%) Ansible
5 8 (7.02%) Prometheus
5 8 (7.02%) Puppet
6 6 (5.26%) Progress Chef
7 5 (4.39%) Argo
8 4 (3.51%) Podman
9 2 (1.75%) Istio
10 1 (0.88%) Kibana
10 1 (0.88%) logstash
Vendors
1 13 (11.40%) Oracle
2 10 (8.77%) Microsoft
3 9 (7.89%) Google
4 8 (7.02%) Splunk
5 5 (4.39%) Gigya
6 4 (3.51%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.75%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.75%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.88%) Adobe
8 1 (0.88%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.88%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.88%) Foundry
8 1 (0.88%) Palantir