Grails Contract Job Trends in England

Grails
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Grails skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 522 - 578
Rank change year-on-year - - +179
Contract jobs citing Grails 5 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.018% - 0.007%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.077% - 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - £498
25th Percentile £425 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £575
75th Percentile £475 - £638
90th Percentile - - £653
UK median daily rate £450 - £525
% change year-on-year - - -8.70%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Grails falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,522 6,956 9,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.87% 22.03% 22.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,388 4,445 6,669
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £431 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £736 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £507 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -7.06% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 131 187
10th Percentile £31.05 £27.75 £37.67
25th Percentile £41.88 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.70 £65.00 £55.56
Median % change year-on-year -15.85% +16.99% -14.52%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £74.56 £73.75 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £56.00
% change year-on-year -16.92% +16.07% -13.85%

Grails
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Grails relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Grails job vacancy trend in England

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Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Grails.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Grails

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Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Grails.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Grails

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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 Grails within the England region over the 6 months to 24 October 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 - 5 £450 - 1
Grails
UK

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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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Git
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (80.00%) RPG Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) CSS
2 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (20.00%) Java EE
2 1 (20.00%) jQuery
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Scrum
2 4 (80.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (20.00%) MVC
3 1 (20.00%) OO
3 1 (20.00%) OOP
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (80.00%) RPG
2 4 (80.00%) RPG IV
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft