Gradle Contracts in the Midlands

Gradle
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 132 162
Rank change year-on-year +26 +30 +47
Contract jobs citing Gradle 5 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.26% 0.036% 0.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.94% 0.39% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £346 - -
25th Percentile £376 £410 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £420 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.19% -30.00% +21.21%
75th Percentile £455 £430 -
90th Percentile £473 - -
England median daily rate £530 £550 £675
% change year-on-year -3.64% -18.52% -2.53%

All Development Application Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 258 258 465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.48% 9.36% 13.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 187 361
10th Percentile £313 £260 £290
25th Percentile £410 £357 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £440 £480
Median % change year-on-year +7.95% -8.33% +1.05%
75th Percentile £537 £536 £550
90th Percentile £627 £560 £638
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 12 4
10th Percentile £22.01 £10.50 £33.21
25th Percentile £27.71 £43.88 £35.49
Median hourly rate £37.85 £56.25 £49.25
Median % change year-on-year -32.71% +14.21% +26.28%
75th Percentile £48.61 £58.75 £62.19
90th Percentile £54.70 - £66.13
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.34
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.97% +21.46%

Gradle
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Gradle in the Midlands

Gradle
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Gradle in the Midlands

Gradle
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Gradle in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Gradle in the Midlands

Gradle
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Gradle within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
West Midlands +16 3 £455 +8.33% 1
East Midlands - 2 £326 -
Gradle
England

Gradle
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (40.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (60.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (20.00%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) JUnit
1 5 (100.00%) Maven
2 3 (60.00%) Cucumber
2 3 (60.00%) Mockito
3 2 (40.00%) CA Release Automation
3 2 (40.00%) HP UFT
3 2 (40.00%) IntelliJ
3 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (40.00%) JIRA
3 2 (40.00%) NetBeans
3 2 (40.00%) Selenium
3 2 (40.00%) Subversion
4 1 (20.00%) Ant
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Spring
2 3 (60.00%) J2EE
2 3 (60.00%) RESTful
3 2 (40.00%) Ajax
3 2 (40.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (40.00%) Bootstrap
3 2 (40.00%) CSS
3 2 (40.00%) Hibernate
3 2 (40.00%) HTML
3 2 (40.00%) HTML5
3 2 (40.00%) jQuery
3 2 (40.00%) Kafka
3 2 (40.00%) Node.js
3 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (40.00%) Spring Integration
3 2 (40.00%) Spring MVC
3 2 (40.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (40.00%) Mainframe
3 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) TDD
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) API Development
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Data Transformation
2 2 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) MVC
2 2 (40.00%) Open Source
2 2 (40.00%) Pair Programming
2 2 (40.00%) Responsive Web Design
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Batch Processing
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Data Extraction
3 1 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (20.00%) Python
4 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Progress Chef
1 2 (40.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (20.00%) Sybase