Gradle Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Gradle
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England 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 138 162 191
Rank change year-on-year +24 +29 +47
Contract jobs citing Gradle 43 5 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.08% 0.12% 0.16%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.66% 0.93% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 1 4
10th Percentile £336 - £453
25th Percentile £358 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +4.76% -17.65%
75th Percentile £520 - £616
90th Percentile £575 - £711
England median daily rate £530 £713 £700
% change year-on-year -25.61% +1.79% +4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £76.38
25th Percentile - - £76.56
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £78.75
75th Percentile - - £81.56
90th Percentile - - £82.13
England median hourly rate £70.00 - £82.81
% change year-on-year - - +15.01%

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 760 537 594
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 19.05% 13.17% 11.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 576 349 417
10th Percentile £325 £356 £330
25th Percentile £381 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.12% -3.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £639 £638 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 16 40
10th Percentile £44.00 £37.55 £39.42
25th Percentile £54.85 £44.02 -
Median hourly rate £63.40 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +37.29% - -34.03%
75th Percentile £68.35 £49.31 £64.06
90th Percentile £70.08 £65.09 £78.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Gradle.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Gradle

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 30 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Gradle in the North of England

Gradle
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Gradle.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Gradle

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 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
North West +20 33 £375 - 3
Yorkshire - 10 £520 - 2
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 7 (16.28%) JBoss
1 7 (16.28%) Tomcat
2 4 (9.30%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (32.56%) AWS
1 14 (32.56%) GitHub
2 12 (27.91%) Azure
3 7 (16.28%) GCP
3 7 (16.28%) OpenShift
4 6 (13.95%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (13.95%) Figma
5 5 (11.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (11.63%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (11.63%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (11.63%) Amazon EMR
5 5 (11.63%) Amazon EventBridge
5 5 (11.63%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (11.63%) Apigee
5 5 (11.63%) AWS Fargate
5 5 (11.63%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (11.63%) AWS Step Functions
5 5 (11.63%) Datadog
5 5 (11.63%) Loggly
5 5 (11.63%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (30.23%) Relational Database
2 11 (25.58%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (18.60%) NoSQL
4 7 (16.28%) RDBMS
5 5 (11.63%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (11.63%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (11.63%) BigQuery
5 5 (11.63%) DynamoDB
5 5 (11.63%) MySQL
5 5 (11.63%) Redis
6 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 30 (69.77%) Git
1 30 (69.77%) Jenkins
2 21 (48.84%) JUnit
3 18 (41.86%) Maven
4 13 (30.23%) Xcode
5 11 (25.58%) JIRA
6 9 (20.93%) Mockito
7 7 (16.28%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (13.95%) Liquibase
8 6 (13.95%) SonarQube
8 6 (13.95%) Storybook
9 5 (11.63%) SonarLint
10 4 (9.30%) Android Studio
11 3 (6.98%) Cucumber
11 3 (6.98%) GitLab
11 3 (6.98%) HP UFT
11 3 (6.98%) IntelliJ
11 3 (6.98%) Selenium
12 2 (4.65%) Log4j
12 2 (4.65%) Subversion
General
1 11 (25.58%) Social Skills
2 10 (23.26%) Finance
3 9 (20.93%) Banking
4 8 (18.60%) Public Sector
5 6 (13.95%) Electronics
5 6 (13.95%) Manufacturing
5 6 (13.95%) Marketing
5 6 (13.95%) Telecoms
6 5 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (69.77%) Developer
2 11 (25.58%) Java Developer
3 9 (20.93%) React Developer
4 6 (13.95%) iOS Developer
5 5 (11.63%) Android Developer
5 5 (11.63%) Architect
5 5 (11.63%) Java Architect
5 5 (11.63%) Java Technical Architect
5 5 (11.63%) Technical Architect
6 4 (9.30%) Java Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) Java Software Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) Software Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) AWS Developer
7 3 (6.98%) Kafka Developer
7 3 (6.98%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 3 (6.98%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Test Manager
8 2 (4.65%) Software Developer
9 1 (2.33%) Android Engineer
9 1 (2.33%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (48.84%) Spring Boot
2 17 (39.53%) Spring
3 12 (27.91%) RESTful
4 9 (20.93%) Kafka
5 8 (18.60%) Spring Cloud
6 7 (16.28%) CSS
6 7 (16.28%) HTML
6 7 (16.28%) React
6 7 (16.28%) REST
6 7 (16.28%) SOAP
7 6 (13.95%) D3.js
7 6 (13.95%) OAuth
7 6 (13.95%) OpenAPI
7 6 (13.95%) React Native
7 6 (13.95%) SVG
7 6 (13.95%) Swagger
8 5 (11.63%) Dropwizard
8 5 (11.63%) J2EE
8 5 (11.63%) JWT
8 5 (11.63%) Micronaut
Miscellaneous
1 17 (39.53%) Mobile App
2 7 (16.28%) Mobile Banking
3 5 (11.63%) Cloud Native
3 5 (11.63%) N-Tier
4 4 (9.30%) Product Ownership
5 2 (4.65%) Algorithms
5 2 (4.65%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.33%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 18 (41.86%) Android
2 13 (30.23%) Apple iOS
3 8 (18.60%) Linux
4 7 (16.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (55.81%) Agile
2 22 (51.16%) TDD
3 20 (46.51%) Design Patterns
3 20 (46.51%) DevOps
3 20 (46.51%) Microservices
4 15 (34.88%) BDD
5 14 (32.56%) CI/CD
5 14 (32.56%) Containerisation
6 12 (27.91%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (25.58%) Roadmaps
7 11 (25.58%) Technology Roadmap
8 10 (23.26%) Architectural Patterns
9 9 (20.93%) Mobile Application Development
10 8 (18.60%) Clean Code
10 8 (18.60%) Event-Driven
10 8 (18.60%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 8 (18.60%) Mobile Development
10 8 (18.60%) Unit Testing
10 8 (18.60%) User Experience
11 7 (16.28%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 36 (83.72%) Java
2 12 (27.91%) Kotlin
2 12 (27.91%) Python
2 12 (27.91%) TypeScript
3 8 (18.60%) JavaScript
3 8 (18.60%) SQL
4 7 (16.28%) C
4 7 (16.28%) C++
4 7 (16.28%) Objective-C
4 7 (16.28%) Ruby
4 7 (16.28%) Scala
4 7 (16.28%) Shell Script
4 7 (16.28%) Swift
Qualifications
1 9 (20.93%) Security Cleared
2 7 (16.28%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.98%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.95%) Accessibility
2 3 (6.98%) QA
System Software
1 11 (25.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (11.63%) Kubernetes
1 5 (11.63%) Terraform
2 1 (2.33%) Ansible
2 1 (2.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 7 (16.28%) Oracle
2 6 (13.95%) SAP
3 5 (11.63%) Gigya
3 5 (11.63%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.33%) Atlassian