Gradle Contract Job Trends in the South East

Gradle
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East 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 167 178 208
Rank change year-on-year +11 +30 +35
Contract jobs citing Gradle 3 2 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.085% 0.046% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.72% 0.38% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £628 £775 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 £800 £525
Median % change year-on-year -20.63% +52.38% -20.00%
75th Percentile £643 £825 £538
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £530 £713 £700
% change year-on-year -25.61% +1.79% +4.09%

All Development Application Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 419 521 714
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.90% 11.87% 12.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 321 474
10th Percentile £270 £330 £375
25th Percentile £375 £390 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -11.63% +2.38%
75th Percentile £547 £590 £615
90th Percentile £619 £650 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 31 44
10th Percentile - £50.75 £48.60
25th Percentile £50.00 £55.25 £53.90
Median hourly rate £55.00 £66.00 £58.25
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +13.30% -10.38%
75th Percentile £74.50 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.30 £73.75 £76.07
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

Gradle
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Gradle in the South East

Gradle
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Gradle

Gradle
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Gradle

Gradle
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Gradle within the South East 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
Thames Valley +6 2 - -
Berkshire - 2 - -
Middlesex - 1 £635 -
Gradle
England

Gradle
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (33.33%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Maven
2 2 (66.67%) Git
3 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
3 1 (33.33%) Eclipse
3 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Java Web Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Web Developer
3 1 (33.33%) HTML CSS Developer
3 1 (33.33%) HTML Developer
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript Developer
3 1 (33.33%) JSP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) CSS
1 2 (66.67%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) Ajax
2 1 (33.33%) DWR
2 1 (33.33%) JDBC
2 1 (33.33%) jQuery
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) JSP
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) React
2 1 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) Servlets
2 1 (33.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Web Development
2 1 (33.33%) Application Security
2 1 (33.33%) BDD
2 1 (33.33%) Build Automation
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Programming
2 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Pair Programming
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle