Gradle Contracts in England

Gradle
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Gradle skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Gradle over the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 410 484 462
Rank change year-on-year +74 -22 -77
Contract jobs citing Gradle 78 47 184
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.32% 0.13% 0.38%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.34% 1.11% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 26 137
10th Percentile £403 £422 £497
25th Percentile £466 £511 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £675
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -18.52% -2.53%
75th Percentile £563 £600 £743
90th Percentile £673 £675 £775
UK median daily rate £530 £575 £675
% change year-on-year -7.83% -14.81% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 8
10th Percentile - - £71.85
25th Percentile - £77.50 £75.00
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £80.00
75th Percentile - £82.50 £86.25
90th Percentile - - £90.00
UK median hourly rate £90.00 £80.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year +12.50% - +9.22%

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 3,336 4,253 7,057
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.77% 11.68% 14.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,249 2,904 5,018
10th Percentile £343 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £609 £638 £675
90th Percentile £728 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 194 204
10th Percentile £27.54 £32.10 £43.35
25th Percentile £48.50 £55.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £59.13 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.04% +5.69% +22.14%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £79.88 £78.53 £84.26
UK median hourly rate £57.75 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -11.15% +5.69% +17.14%

Gradle
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Gradle as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Gradle in England

Gradle
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Gradle in England.

Daily rate trend for Gradle in England

Gradle
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Gradle in England over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Gradle in England

Gradle
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Gradle in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 21 May 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 +46 42 £530 -7.83% 20
North of England +37 19 £530 -3.64% 14
North West +21 14 £530 -3.64% 11
Midlands +22 7 £429 +2.14% 7
Yorkshire - 5 £520 - 3
East Midlands - 4 £429 - 2
West Midlands +12 3 £455 +8.33% 5
Gradle
UK

Gradle
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (14.10%) Confluence
2 4 (5.13%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.28%) JBoss
3 1 (1.28%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 24 (30.77%) AWS
2 14 (17.95%) GitHub
3 10 (12.82%) Azure
4 6 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (7.69%) Serverless
5 5 (6.41%) GCP
5 5 (6.41%) OpenShift
6 4 (5.13%) Amazon EMR
6 4 (5.13%) Amazon Kinesis
6 4 (5.13%) Amazon S3
6 4 (5.13%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.28%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (1.28%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.28%) BigCommerce
8 1 (1.28%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.28%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (1.28%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.85%) SSH
2 2 (2.56%) DMZ
2 2 (2.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (48.72%) Relational Database
2 32 (41.03%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (15.38%) MongoDB
4 9 (11.54%) NoSQL
5 6 (7.69%) MySQL
6 3 (3.85%) Redis
7 1 (1.28%) KDB
7 1 (1.28%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.28%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 56 (71.79%) Jenkins
2 53 (67.95%) JUnit
3 35 (44.87%) Maven
3 35 (44.87%) Mockito
4 27 (34.62%) Liquibase
5 19 (24.36%) IntelliJ
6 17 (21.79%) JIRA
7 13 (16.67%) GitLab
8 12 (15.38%) Cucumber
9 11 (14.10%) Selenium
10 10 (12.82%) Git
11 8 (10.26%) HP UFT
12 6 (7.69%) Subversion
13 5 (6.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (6.41%) Bitbucket Server
13 5 (6.41%) Eclipse
13 5 (6.41%) SonarQube
14 4 (5.13%) CA Release Automation
14 4 (5.13%) git-flow
14 4 (5.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 39 (50.00%) Finance
2 22 (28.21%) Telecoms
3 21 (26.92%) Electronics
3 21 (26.92%) Manufacturing
3 21 (26.92%) Marketing
3 21 (26.92%) Public Sector
4 16 (20.51%) Social Skills
5 7 (8.97%) Banking
6 6 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.56%) Front Office
7 2 (2.56%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.56%) Retail
8 1 (1.28%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 49 (62.82%) Developer
2 39 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 17 (21.79%) Senior
4 15 (19.23%) Senior Developer
5 14 (17.95%) Senior Java Developer
6 12 (15.38%) Java Engineer
7 11 (14.10%) React Developer
7 11 (14.10%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 10 (12.82%) Java Software Engineer
8 10 (12.82%) Lead
8 10 (12.82%) Lead Developer
8 10 (12.82%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 10 (12.82%) Software Engineer
9 9 (11.54%) Lead Java Developer
10 5 (6.41%) Android Developer
11 4 (5.13%) DevOps Engineer
12 3 (3.85%) Android Engineer
12 3 (3.85%) Digital Developer
12 3 (3.85%) Test Manager
12 3 (3.85%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (65.38%) Spring
2 44 (56.41%) Spring Boot
3 42 (53.85%) Kafka
4 30 (38.46%) OpenAPI
4 30 (38.46%) Swagger
5 27 (34.62%) React
6 9 (11.54%) Hibernate
6 9 (11.54%) RESTful
7 7 (8.97%) JPA
8 6 (7.69%) HTML
8 6 (7.69%) Web Services
9 5 (6.41%) J2EE
9 5 (6.41%) JMS
9 5 (6.41%) Spring MVC
10 4 (5.13%) Node.js
10 4 (5.13%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (5.13%) REST
10 4 (5.13%) RxJava
10 4 (5.13%) Spring Integration
11 3 (3.85%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.69%) Data Structures
2 4 (5.13%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.85%) Mainframe
3 3 (3.85%) PKI
4 2 (2.56%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.56%) Equities
5 1 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.28%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.28%) IVR
5 1 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.28%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.28%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (12.82%) Linux
2 8 (10.26%) Android
3 5 (6.41%) Unix
4 3 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.56%) Windows
6 1 (1.28%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (64.10%) CI/CD
2 46 (58.97%) Microservices
3 44 (56.41%) DevOps
4 43 (55.13%) TDD
5 40 (51.28%) Agile
6 36 (46.15%) Software Engineering
7 33 (42.31%) Containerisation
8 28 (35.90%) Migration
9 22 (28.21%) Continuous Integration
10 21 (26.92%) Business Intelligence
10 21 (26.92%) Digital Marketing
10 21 (26.92%) Programme Management
11 15 (19.23%) Event-Driven
11 15 (19.23%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 12 (15.38%) Build Automation
12 12 (15.38%) Design Patterns
12 12 (15.38%) Test Automation
13 11 (14.10%) Clean Code
14 9 (11.54%) BDD
14 9 (11.54%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 71 (91.03%) Java
2 32 (41.03%) SQL
3 30 (38.46%) TypeScript
4 8 (10.26%) Kotlin
5 6 (7.69%) Python
6 3 (3.85%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.85%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.56%) Bash
7 2 (2.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 33 (42.31%) SC Cleared
1 33 (42.31%) Security Cleared
2 8 (10.26%) Degree
3 3 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.41%) QA
2 4 (5.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 43 (55.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (20.51%) Kubernetes
2 8 (10.26%) Terraform
3 5 (6.41%) Ansible
3 5 (6.41%) Puppet
4 4 (5.13%) Grafana
4 4 (5.13%) Progress Chef
4 4 (5.13%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.28%) Argo
5 1 (1.28%) Istio
5 1 (1.28%) Kibana
Vendors
1 22 (28.21%) SAP
2 6 (7.69%) Splunk
3 4 (5.13%) CA Agile Central
3 4 (5.13%) Google
4 3 (3.85%) Oracle
4 3 (3.85%) Sybase
5 1 (1.28%) Adobe
5 1 (1.28%) Confluent
5 1 (1.28%) ION Trading
5 1 (1.28%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.28%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.28%) New Relic
5 1 (1.28%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.28%) Remedy
5 1 (1.28%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.28%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.28%) Sonatype