Gradle Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Gradle
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Gradle skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 127 141
Rank change year-on-year -17 +14 +49
Contract jobs citing Gradle 8 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.30% 0.11% 0.14%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.11% 1.02% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile £380 - -
25th Percentile £415 £725 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 £750 -
Median % change year-on-year -41.12% - -
75th Percentile £588 £775 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £530 £713 £700
% change year-on-year -25.61% +1.79% +4.09%

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 380 295 251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.13% 11.07% 8.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 205 191
10th Percentile £279 £351 £300
25th Percentile £368 £402 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £575
90th Percentile £634 £681 £655
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £37.88 £57.13 -
25th Percentile £40.69 £58.44 £76.59
Median hourly rate £46.25 £63.75 £78.19
Median % change year-on-year -27.45% -18.46% +64.60%
75th Percentile £52.69 £70.94 £79.78
90th Percentile £56.03 £73.38 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Gradle.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Gradle

Gradle
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Gradle in the Midlands over the 6 months to 30 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Gradle in the Midlands

Gradle
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Gradle.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Gradle

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 30 September 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 - 5 £575 - 1
East Midlands -2 3 £429 -42.80%
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 3 (37.50%) OpenStack
2 1 (12.50%) JBoss
2 1 (12.50%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (87.50%) Azure
3 5 (62.50%) GitHub
3 5 (62.50%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (50.00%) OpenShift
5 3 (37.50%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (37.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (37.50%) Azure AKS
5 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (37.50%) Datadog
5 3 (37.50%) GCP
5 3 (37.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 3 (37.50%) npm
5 3 (37.50%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) DMZ
1 2 (25.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Git
1 6 (75.00%) Jenkins
1 6 (75.00%) Maven
2 4 (50.00%) JUnit
2 4 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (37.50%) Artifactory
3 3 (37.50%) Bitbucket
3 3 (37.50%) CircleCI
3 3 (37.50%) Cypress.io
3 3 (37.50%) GitLab
3 3 (37.50%) Postman
3 3 (37.50%) Selenium
3 3 (37.50%) Snyk
3 3 (37.50%) SonarQube
3 3 (37.50%) webpack
4 2 (25.00%) Android Studio
4 2 (25.00%) Xcode
5 1 (12.50%) JIRA
5 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2 (25.00%) Retail
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
1 3 (37.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) React Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) REST
2 3 (37.50%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (37.50%) JSON
2 3 (37.50%) YAML
3 2 (25.00%) Jest
3 2 (25.00%) React Native
3 2 (25.00%) Redux
3 2 (25.00%) RESTful
3 2 (25.00%) Web Services
4 1 (12.50%) .NET
4 1 (12.50%) .NET Core
4 1 (12.50%) React
4 1 (12.50%) SOAP
4 1 (12.50%) Spring
4 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
4 1 (12.50%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Private Cloud
2 2 (25.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Android
2 2 (25.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 5 (62.50%) Continuous Delivery
2 5 (62.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (62.50%) Software Delivery
3 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (37.50%) Configuration Management
4 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
4 3 (37.50%) Design Patterns
4 3 (37.50%) DevOps
4 3 (37.50%) DevSecOps
4 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (37.50%) Microservices
4 3 (37.50%) SDLC
4 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
4 3 (37.50%) Task Automation
5 2 (25.00%) Adaptive Web Design
5 2 (25.00%) Architectural Design
5 2 (25.00%) Clean Code
5 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) JSX
2 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) Go
3 1 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) DV Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Ansible
1 3 (37.50%) Grafana
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
1 3 (37.50%) Podman
1 3 (37.50%) Progress Chef
1 3 (37.50%) Prometheus
1 3 (37.50%) Puppet
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Splunk
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle