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 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 439 457 510
Rank change year-on-year +18 +53 -42
Contract jobs citing Gradle 119 32 46
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.36% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.50% 0.89% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 21 28
10th Percentile £323 £450 £285
25th Percentile £393 £521 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +1.74% -14.81%
75th Percentile £588 £775 £700
90th Percentile £649 £875 £758
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -14.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 0 4
10th Percentile £46.00 - £76.63
25th Percentile £52.50 - £77.19
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £80.00
75th Percentile £61.25 - £84.38
90th Percentile £80.00 - £87.75
UK median hourly rate £55.00 - £80.00

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 4,762 3,578 4,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.42% 13.46% 11.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,304 2,213 3,150
10th Percentile £340 £340 £375
25th Percentile £410 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -5.12% -6.52%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 63 203
10th Percentile £39.53 £45.24 £44.68
25th Percentile £52.50 £54.66 £50.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £76.53
90th Percentile £81.60 £76.05 £89.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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 30 January 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 30 January 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 30 January 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 0 46 £550 - 9
North of England -30 36 £398 -34.85% 2
North West +7 32 £393 - 2
South East 0 27 £462 -27.61% 4
West Midlands -35 5 £575 +26.37%
Midlands -49 5 £575 +26.37%
Yorkshire -51 4 £575 -5.76%
South West - 1 £500 -
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 5 (4.20%) OpenStack
2 3 (2.52%) Apache
2 3 (2.52%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.68%) Camunda
3 2 (1.68%) Confluence
4 1 (0.84%) JBoss
4 1 (0.84%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.84%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (1.68%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 43 (36.13%) GitHub
2 42 (35.29%) AWS
3 26 (21.85%) Azure
4 16 (13.45%) Datadog
4 16 (13.45%) GCP
5 15 (12.61%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (10.92%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (9.24%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (9.24%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (9.24%) Serverless
8 10 (8.40%) OpenShift
9 9 (7.56%) Figma
10 8 (6.72%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (6.72%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (6.72%) AWS Fargate
11 6 (5.04%) Amazon S3
11 6 (5.04%) Azure AKS
11 6 (5.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 6 (5.04%) PaaS
11 6 (5.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.20%) Kerberos
2 2 (1.68%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.84%) DSL
3 1 (0.84%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (19.33%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (14.29%) NoSQL
3 14 (11.76%) DynamoDB
3 14 (11.76%) Relational Database
4 11 (9.24%) MongoDB
4 11 (9.24%) MySQL
5 9 (7.56%) HBase
5 9 (7.56%) RDBMS
6 8 (6.72%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (5.04%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (4.20%) BigQuery
8 5 (4.20%) Redis
9 3 (2.52%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.84%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.84%) Big Data
10 1 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.84%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.84%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 50 (42.02%) Maven
2 49 (41.18%) Git
3 40 (33.61%) Jenkins
4 38 (31.93%) JUnit
5 26 (21.85%) GitLab
6 20 (16.81%) Sonatype Nexus
7 15 (12.61%) Cucumber
7 15 (12.61%) IntelliJ
8 14 (11.76%) Artifactory
9 12 (10.08%) Android Studio
9 12 (10.08%) SonarQube
10 11 (9.24%) Bitbucket
10 11 (9.24%) Mockito
10 11 (9.24%) Xcode
11 10 (8.40%) CircleCI
12 9 (7.56%) Selenium
13 7 (5.88%) Cypress.io
13 7 (5.88%) Postman
13 7 (5.88%) Storybook
14 6 (5.04%) JIRA
General
1 24 (20.17%) Finance
2 17 (14.29%) Banking
3 16 (13.45%) Social Skills
4 10 (8.40%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.36%) Front Office
5 4 (3.36%) Retail Banking
6 1 (0.84%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.84%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.84%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.84%) Law
6 1 (0.84%) Private Banking
6 1 (0.84%) Retail
Job Titles
1 66 (55.46%) Developer
2 33 (27.73%) Java Developer
3 25 (21.01%) Java Engineer
4 22 (18.49%) Senior
5 21 (17.65%) Android Developer
6 18 (15.13%) Software Engineer
7 15 (12.61%) Java Software Engineer
8 12 (10.08%) DevOps Engineer
8 12 (10.08%) Senior Developer
8 12 (10.08%) Senior Java Developer
9 7 (5.88%) React Developer
10 6 (5.04%) AWS Developer
10 6 (5.04%) Senior Java Engineer
11 5 (4.20%) Architect
11 5 (4.20%) Java Architect
11 5 (4.20%) Java Technical Architect
11 5 (4.20%) Technical Architect
12 4 (3.36%) Backend Developer
12 4 (3.36%) Engineering Manager
12 4 (3.36%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (44.54%) Spring
2 50 (42.02%) Spring Boot
3 21 (17.65%) RESTful
4 20 (16.81%) REST
5 19 (15.97%) Kafka
6 15 (12.61%) OpenTelemetry
7 13 (10.92%) GraphQL
8 12 (10.08%) Android Jetpack
8 12 (10.08%) Jetpack Compose
9 10 (8.40%) React
10 9 (7.56%) CSS
10 9 (7.56%) HTML
10 9 (7.56%) JSON
10 9 (7.56%) Micronaut
10 9 (7.56%) React Native
11 7 (5.88%) D3.js
11 7 (5.88%) Hibernate
11 7 (5.88%) OAuth
11 7 (5.88%) RxJava
11 7 (5.88%) SVG
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.45%) Mobile App
2 12 (10.08%) Cloud Native
3 10 (8.40%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.20%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (4.20%) N-Tier
4 5 (4.20%) Private Cloud
5 4 (3.36%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.36%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.36%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.36%) Legacy Code
5 4 (3.36%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.52%) Derivative
6 3 (2.52%) Equities
6 3 (2.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (2.52%) Mobile Banking
6 3 (2.52%) TWAP
6 3 (2.52%) VWAP
7 2 (1.68%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 31 (26.05%) Android
2 15 (12.61%) Linux
3 12 (10.08%) Apple iOS
4 5 (4.20%) Unix
5 4 (3.36%) Windows
6 3 (2.52%) Solaris
7 2 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (50.42%) CI/CD
2 43 (36.13%) DevOps
3 32 (26.89%) Test Automation
4 31 (26.05%) Microservices
5 30 (25.21%) Software Engineering
6 29 (24.37%) Agile
7 27 (22.69%) Containerisation
8 24 (20.17%) TDD
9 22 (18.49%) Design Patterns
10 20 (16.81%) Android Development
11 18 (15.13%) Event-Driven
11 18 (15.13%) User Experience
12 17 (14.29%) OOP
12 17 (14.29%) Unit Testing
13 14 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
14 13 (10.92%) API Design
14 13 (10.92%) Mentoring
14 13 (10.92%) Problem-Solving
15 12 (10.08%) SDLC
16 11 (9.24%) Mobile Development
Programming Languages
1 83 (69.75%) Java
2 36 (30.25%) Kotlin
3 22 (18.49%) Python
4 18 (15.13%) SQL
5 11 (9.24%) TypeScript
6 8 (6.72%) C++
6 8 (6.72%) JavaScript
7 6 (5.04%) Bash
8 5 (4.20%) PowerShell
8 5 (4.20%) Scala
8 5 (4.20%) Swift
9 4 (3.36%) Objective-C
10 3 (2.52%) C
10 3 (2.52%) Go
10 3 (2.52%) Ruby
10 3 (2.52%) Rust
10 3 (2.52%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.68%) Groovy
12 1 (0.84%) Clojure
12 1 (0.84%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (16.81%) Security Cleared
2 9 (7.56%) OCP
2 9 (7.56%) Oracle Certification
2 9 (7.56%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.88%) Degree
4 5 (4.20%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.84%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.84%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.24%) Accessibility
2 9 (7.56%) QA
3 2 (1.68%) NCSC
System Software
1 32 (26.89%) Docker
2 1 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 50 (42.02%) Kubernetes
2 25 (21.01%) Grafana
3 21 (17.65%) Terraform
4 12 (10.08%) Ansible
5 7 (5.88%) Prometheus
5 7 (5.88%) Puppet
6 6 (5.04%) Progress Chef
7 5 (4.20%) Podman
8 2 (1.68%) Argo
Vendors
1 11 (9.24%) Splunk
2 10 (8.40%) Oracle
3 7 (5.88%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.20%) Gigya
4 5 (4.20%) Google
4 5 (4.20%) Red Hat
5 4 (3.36%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.68%) New Relic
7 1 (0.84%) Adobe
7 1 (0.84%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.84%) Foundry
7 1 (0.84%) Palantir
7 1 (0.84%) Roku