Gradle Contracts in the North West

Gradle
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 136 142
Rank change year-on-year +26 +6 +37
Contract jobs citing Gradle 14 2 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.71% 0.075% 0.55%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.79% 0.69% 4.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 13
10th Percentile £331 - £422
25th Percentile £391 - £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £445
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +23.60% -17.21%
75th Percentile £545 - £563
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 - - +9.22%

All Development Application Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 292 291 378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.89% 10.90% 12.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 222 287
10th Percentile £338 £368 £326
25th Percentile £385 £431 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -10.60% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £519 £600 £600
90th Percentile £600 £693 £650
England median daily rate £500 £527 £550
% change year-on-year -5.12% -4.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 10 11
10th Percentile £54.02 £36.59 £37.80
25th Percentile £63.25 £45.88 £38.70
Median hourly rate £75.00 £52.94 £52.13
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% +1.55% -25.53%
75th Percentile £78.13 £77.50 £54.26
90th Percentile £81.35 £81.15 £56.38
England median hourly rate £60.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -6.92% +5.69% +21.78%

Gradle
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Gradle in the North West

Gradle
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Gradle in the North West

Gradle
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Gradle in the North West over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Gradle in the North West

Gradle
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Gradle in the North West

Gradle
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 19 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
Manchester +26 11 £530 -3.64% 1
Cheshire - 3 £358 - 5
Gradle
England

Gradle
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (7.14%) Confluence
1 1 (7.14%) JBoss
1 1 (7.14%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (7.14%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) Datadog
2 1 (7.14%) GCP
2 1 (7.14%) GitHub
2 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (71.43%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (71.43%) Relational Database
2 3 (21.43%) NoSQL
3 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 14 (100.00%) JUnit
2 13 (92.86%) Jenkins
3 11 (78.57%) Mockito
4 10 (71.43%) Liquibase
5 5 (35.71%) GitLab
6 4 (28.57%) Maven
7 3 (21.43%) JIRA
8 2 (14.29%) CA Release Automation
8 2 (14.29%) HP UFT
8 2 (14.29%) IntelliJ
8 2 (14.29%) NetBeans
8 2 (14.29%) Selenium
8 2 (14.29%) Subversion
9 1 (7.14%) Cucumber
9 1 (7.14%) Git
9 1 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (71.43%) Electronics
1 10 (71.43%) Finance
1 10 (71.43%) Manufacturing
1 10 (71.43%) Marketing
1 10 (71.43%) Public Sector
1 10 (71.43%) Telecoms
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Retail
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Developer
1 7 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 6 (42.86%) Java Engineer
3 5 (35.71%) Java Software Engineer
3 5 (35.71%) React Developer
3 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 5 (35.71%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 13 (92.86%) Kafka
2 13 (92.86%) Spring
3 10 (71.43%) OpenAPI
3 10 (71.43%) React
3 10 (71.43%) Swagger
4 3 (21.43%) Spring MVC
5 2 (14.29%) Hibernate
5 2 (14.29%) J2EE
5 2 (14.29%) Spring Integration
5 2 (14.29%) Web Services
6 1 (7.14%) Ajax
6 1 (7.14%) CSS
6 1 (7.14%) HTML
6 1 (7.14%) HTML5
6 1 (7.14%) jQuery
6 1 (7.14%) Node.js
6 1 (7.14%) REST
6 1 (7.14%) SOAP
6 1 (7.14%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.14%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) Microservices
2 12 (85.71%) Agile
2 12 (85.71%) CI/CD
3 11 (78.57%) TDD
4 10 (71.43%) Business Intelligence
4 10 (71.43%) Containerisation
4 10 (71.43%) DevOps
4 10 (71.43%) Digital Marketing
4 10 (71.43%) Migration
4 10 (71.43%) Programme Management
4 10 (71.43%) Software Engineering
5 6 (42.86%) Event-Driven
5 6 (42.86%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 5 (35.71%) Build Automation
6 5 (35.71%) Clean Code
6 5 (35.71%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (21.43%) MVC
8 2 (14.29%) API Development
8 2 (14.29%) Data Transformation
8 2 (14.29%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) Java
2 11 (78.57%) TypeScript
3 10 (71.43%) SQL
4 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 10 (71.43%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 10 (71.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Progress Chef
1 2 (14.29%) Puppet
2 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (71.43%) SAP
2 2 (14.29%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (7.14%) Confluent
3 1 (7.14%) New Relic
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle