Gradle Contracts in the North of England

Gradle
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 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 149 181 204
Rank change year-on-year +32 +23 +19
Contract jobs citing Gradle 17 4 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.52% 0.084% 0.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.41% 0.79% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 12
10th Percentile £402 - £420
25th Percentile £515 - £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £445
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +23.60% -14.22%
75th Percentile £545 - £534
90th Percentile - - £680
England median daily rate £530 £550 £675
% change year-on-year -3.64% -18.52% -2.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
England median hourly rate - £80.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year - - +3.65%

All Development Application Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 498 505 814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.11% 10.59% 13.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 348 369 620
10th Percentile £335 £375 £350
25th Percentile £400 £419 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £582 £600
90th Percentile £625 £646 £700
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 17
10th Percentile £52.13 £44.09 £37.80
25th Percentile £54.48 £45.88 £42.81
Median hourly rate £73.75 £53.09 £49.88
Median % change year-on-year +38.92% +6.45% +17.35%
75th Percentile £77.81 £70.31 £56.00
90th Percentile £80.70 £81.15 £60.50
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Gradle in the North of England

Gradle
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Gradle in the North of England

Gradle
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Gradle in the North of England

Gradle
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Gradle in the North of England

Gradle
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England 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
North West +27 13 £530 -3.64% 2
Yorkshire - 4 £520 -
Gradle
England

Gradle
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 5 (29.41%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) GitHub
2 1 (5.88%) AWS
2 1 (5.88%) Azure
2 1 (5.88%) Datadog
2 1 (5.88%) GCP
2 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (58.82%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (58.82%) Relational Database
2 3 (17.65%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 17 (100.00%) JUnit
2 16 (94.12%) Jenkins
3 11 (64.71%) Mockito
4 10 (58.82%) Liquibase
5 7 (41.18%) Maven
6 6 (35.29%) HP UFT
6 6 (35.29%) IntelliJ
6 6 (35.29%) JIRA
6 6 (35.29%) Selenium
7 5 (29.41%) Cucumber
7 5 (29.41%) GitLab
8 4 (23.53%) Git
9 2 (11.76%) CA Release Automation
9 2 (11.76%) NetBeans
9 2 (11.76%) Subversion
General
1 10 (58.82%) Electronics
1 10 (58.82%) Finance
1 10 (58.82%) Manufacturing
1 10 (58.82%) Marketing
1 10 (58.82%) Public Sector
1 10 (58.82%) Telecoms
2 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Developer
1 6 (35.29%) Java Developer
1 6 (35.29%) Java Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Java Software Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) React Developer
2 5 (29.41%) SC Cleared Java Developer
2 5 (29.41%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Software Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Test Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Java Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (76.47%) Kafka
1 13 (76.47%) Spring Boot
2 12 (70.59%) Spring
3 10 (58.82%) OpenAPI
3 10 (58.82%) React
3 10 (58.82%) Swagger
4 2 (11.76%) Hibernate
4 2 (11.76%) J2EE
4 2 (11.76%) Spring Integration
4 2 (11.76%) Spring MVC
4 2 (11.76%) Web Services
5 1 (5.88%) Ajax
5 1 (5.88%) AngularJS
5 1 (5.88%) Bootstrap
5 1 (5.88%) CSS
5 1 (5.88%) HTML
5 1 (5.88%) HTML5
5 1 (5.88%) jQuery
5 1 (5.88%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.88%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (88.24%) TDD
2 14 (82.35%) DevOps
3 12 (70.59%) Agile
3 12 (70.59%) CI/CD
3 12 (70.59%) Microservices
4 10 (58.82%) Business Intelligence
4 10 (58.82%) Containerisation
4 10 (58.82%) Digital Marketing
4 10 (58.82%) Migration
4 10 (58.82%) Programme Management
4 10 (58.82%) Software Engineering
5 6 (35.29%) Event-Driven
5 6 (35.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 5 (29.41%) BDD
6 5 (29.41%) Build Automation
6 5 (29.41%) Clean Code
6 5 (29.41%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (29.41%) Test Automation
7 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (23.53%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) Java
2 11 (64.71%) TypeScript
3 10 (58.82%) SQL
4 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 10 (58.82%) SC Cleared
1 10 (58.82%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) QA
System Software
1 10 (58.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Progress Chef
1 2 (11.76%) Puppet
2 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) SAP
2 2 (11.76%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (5.88%) Confluent
3 1 (5.88%) New Relic