Gradle Contracts in the UK excluding London

Gradle
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 313 375 428
Rank change year-on-year +62 +53 +34
Contract jobs citing Gradle 23 24 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.12% 0.14%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.34% 1.06% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 16 21
10th Percentile £339 £410 £413
25th Percentile £414 £488 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £581 £445
Median % change year-on-year -10.58% +30.62% -11.00%
75th Percentile £545 £634 £600
90th Percentile - £654 £680
UK median daily rate £530 £575 £675
% change year-on-year -7.83% -14.81% -2.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
UK median hourly rate £90.00 £80.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year +12.50% - +3.65%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,711 2,265 3,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.40% 10.90% 14.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,133 1,466 2,398
10th Percentile £325 £350 £350
25th Percentile £402 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% - -
75th Percentile £556 £588 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £676
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 169 184
10th Percentile £46.25 £40.00 £45.38
25th Percentile £52.42 £52.50 £52.47
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.36 £85.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

Gradle
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Gradle as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Gradle in the UK excluding London

Gradle
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Gradle in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Gradle in the UK excluding London

Gradle
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Gradle in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Gradle in the UK excluding London

Gradle
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Gradle in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Gradle in the UK excluding London

Gradle
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Gradle within the UK excluding London 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 of England +32 17 £530 -3.64% 2
North West +27 13 £530 -3.64% 2
Midlands +26 5 £425 +1.19% 1
Yorkshire - 4 £520 -
West Midlands +16 3 £455 +8.33% 1
East Midlands - 2 £326 -
Scotland +1 1 £358 -42.49% 3
Gradle
UK

Gradle
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (30.43%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (21.74%) GitHub
2 3 (13.04%) AWS
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (4.35%) Azure
3 1 (4.35%) Datadog
3 1 (4.35%) GCP
3 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (4.35%) OpenShift
3 1 (4.35%) PaaS
3 1 (4.35%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (56.52%) Relational Database
2 10 (43.48%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (21.74%) NoSQL
4 4 (17.39%) MongoDB
5 1 (4.35%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 22 (95.65%) JUnit
2 19 (82.61%) Jenkins
3 14 (60.87%) Mockito
4 13 (56.52%) Maven
5 10 (43.48%) Liquibase
6 8 (34.78%) Cucumber
6 8 (34.78%) HP UFT
6 8 (34.78%) IntelliJ
6 8 (34.78%) JIRA
6 8 (34.78%) Selenium
7 5 (21.74%) GitLab
8 4 (17.39%) CA Release Automation
8 4 (17.39%) Git
8 4 (17.39%) NetBeans
8 4 (17.39%) Subversion
9 1 (4.35%) Ant
General
1 13 (56.52%) Finance
2 10 (43.48%) Electronics
2 10 (43.48%) Manufacturing
2 10 (43.48%) Marketing
2 10 (43.48%) Public Sector
2 10 (43.48%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Financial Institution
3 1 (4.35%) Retail
3 1 (4.35%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) Developer
1 11 (47.83%) Java Developer
2 6 (26.09%) Java Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Java Software Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) React Developer
3 5 (21.74%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 5 (21.74%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Software Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Test Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Senior
6 1 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (4.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Java Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (73.91%) Spring
2 15 (65.22%) Kafka
2 15 (65.22%) Spring Boot
3 10 (43.48%) OpenAPI
3 10 (43.48%) React
3 10 (43.48%) Swagger
4 5 (21.74%) J2EE
5 4 (17.39%) Hibernate
5 4 (17.39%) Spring Integration
5 4 (17.39%) Spring MVC
5 4 (17.39%) Web Services
6 3 (13.04%) Ajax
6 3 (13.04%) AngularJS
6 3 (13.04%) Bootstrap
6 3 (13.04%) CSS
6 3 (13.04%) HTML
6 3 (13.04%) HTML5
6 3 (13.04%) jQuery
6 3 (13.04%) Node.js
6 3 (13.04%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Data Structures
2 3 (13.04%) Mainframe
3 1 (4.35%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (82.61%) TDD
2 15 (65.22%) Agile
2 15 (65.22%) CI/CD
2 15 (65.22%) DevOps
3 14 (60.87%) Microservices
4 10 (43.48%) Business Intelligence
4 10 (43.48%) Containerisation
4 10 (43.48%) Digital Marketing
4 10 (43.48%) Migration
4 10 (43.48%) Programme Management
4 10 (43.48%) Software Engineering
5 8 (34.78%) Test Automation
6 6 (26.09%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (26.09%) Event-Driven
6 6 (26.09%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 5 (21.74%) BDD
7 5 (21.74%) Build Automation
7 5 (21.74%) Clean Code
8 4 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (17.39%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 23 (100.00%) Java
2 13 (56.52%) SQL
2 13 (56.52%) TypeScript
3 3 (13.04%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.35%) Go
4 1 (4.35%) Python
4 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (43.48%) SC Cleared
1 10 (43.48%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) QA
System Software
1 11 (47.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) Progress Chef
1 4 (17.39%) Puppet
2 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (43.48%) SAP
2 4 (17.39%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (4.35%) AppDynamics
3 1 (4.35%) Confluent
3 1 (4.35%) New Relic
3 1 (4.35%) Sybase