Grails Contract Job Trends in London

Grails
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Grails skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 371 - 423
Rank change year-on-year - - +162
Contract jobs citing Grails 5 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.037% - 0.005%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.14% - 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.70%
75th Percentile £475 - £563
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £450 - £575

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,516 4,245 5,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.23% 26.87% 25.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,388 2,796 4,076
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £713 £713
90th Percentile £788 £850 £810
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 22 38
10th Percentile £31.52 £36.30 £35.00
25th Percentile £34.67 £39.19 £40.20
Median hourly rate £52.72 £47.25 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.58% -21.25% -7.69%
75th Percentile £62.19 £62.23 £73.24
90th Percentile £87.63 £74.60 £90.00
England median hourly rate £54.70 £65.00 £55.56
% change year-on-year -15.85% +16.99% -14.52%

Grails
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Grails job vacancy trend in London

Grails
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Grails

Grails
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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