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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 320 372 417
Rank change year-on-year +52 +45 +38
Contract jobs citing Gradle 28 23 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.22% 0.11% 0.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.57% 1.03% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 16 22
10th Percentile £343 £410 £413
25th Percentile £369 £488 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £581 £445
Median % change year-on-year -10.58% +30.62% -11.00%
75th Percentile £545 £634 £591
90th Percentile £554 £654 £677
UK median daily rate £530 £575 £675
% change year-on-year -7.83% -14.81% -
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% - +9.22%

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 1,781 2,242 3,198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.72% 11.05% 13.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,181 1,462 2,254
10th Percentile £325 £350 £341
25th Percentile £400 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £625 £675 £676
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 176 166
10th Percentile £24.17 £40.94 £45.45
25th Percentile £50.00 £56.19 £52.50
Median hourly rate £60.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.92% +5.69% +11.82%
75th Percentile £74.38 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.59 £79.59 £79.00
UK median hourly rate £58.88 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -9.42% +5.69% +17.04%

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 17 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 17 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 +35 19 £530 -3.64% 9
North West +29 14 £530 -3.64% 6
Midlands +22 5 £425 +1.19% 8
Yorkshire - 5 £520 - 3
Scotland -1 4 £354 -43.13% 5
West Midlands +9 3 £455 +8.33% 6
East Midlands - 2 £326 - 2
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 (25.00%) Confluence
2 1 (3.57%) JBoss
2 1 (3.57%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.00%) AWS
2 5 (17.86%) GitHub
3 3 (10.71%) Azure
3 3 (10.71%) GCP
3 3 (10.71%) OpenShift
4 2 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (7.14%) PaaS
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (3.57%) Datadog
5 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.57%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (46.43%) Relational Database
2 12 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (25.00%) NoSQL
4 6 (21.43%) MongoDB
5 2 (7.14%) MySQL
6 1 (3.57%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 26 (92.86%) JUnit
2 23 (82.14%) Jenkins
3 17 (60.71%) Maven
4 16 (57.14%) Mockito
5 10 (35.71%) Liquibase
6 9 (32.14%) JIRA
7 8 (28.57%) Cucumber
7 8 (28.57%) HP UFT
7 8 (28.57%) IntelliJ
7 8 (28.57%) Selenium
8 7 (25.00%) Git
8 7 (25.00%) GitLab
9 4 (14.29%) CA Release Automation
9 4 (14.29%) NetBeans
9 4 (14.29%) Subversion
10 1 (3.57%) Ant
10 1 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (46.43%) Finance
2 10 (35.71%) Electronics
2 10 (35.71%) Manufacturing
2 10 (35.71%) Marketing
2 10 (35.71%) Public Sector
2 10 (35.71%) Telecoms
3 5 (17.86%) Social Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Banking
5 1 (3.57%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (50.00%) Developer
1 14 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 6 (21.43%) Java Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) Java Software Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) React Developer
3 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) Software Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Senior
5 3 (10.71%) Senior Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Senior Java Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Test Manager
6 2 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Android Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Senior Java Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (71.43%) Spring
2 18 (64.29%) Spring Boot
3 17 (60.71%) Kafka
4 12 (42.86%) React
5 10 (35.71%) OpenAPI
5 10 (35.71%) Swagger
6 7 (25.00%) Spring MVC
7 6 (21.43%) Hibernate
8 5 (17.86%) AngularJS
8 5 (17.86%) J2EE
8 5 (17.86%) RESTful
9 4 (14.29%) Spring Integration
9 4 (14.29%) Web Services
10 3 (10.71%) Ajax
10 3 (10.71%) Bootstrap
10 3 (10.71%) CSS
10 3 (10.71%) HTML
10 3 (10.71%) HTML5
10 3 (10.71%) jQuery
10 3 (10.71%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Data Structures
2 3 (10.71%) Mainframe
3 1 (3.57%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Linux
2 1 (3.57%) Android
2 1 (3.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (71.43%) TDD
2 18 (64.29%) Agile
2 18 (64.29%) CI/CD
2 18 (64.29%) DevOps
3 17 (60.71%) Microservices
4 12 (42.86%) Containerisation
5 10 (35.71%) Business Intelligence
5 10 (35.71%) Digital Marketing
5 10 (35.71%) Migration
5 10 (35.71%) Programme Management
5 10 (35.71%) Software Engineering
6 9 (32.14%) Test Automation
7 7 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
7 7 (25.00%) MVC
8 6 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (21.43%) Event-Driven
8 6 (21.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 6 (21.43%) Scrum
9 5 (17.86%) Build Automation
9 5 (17.86%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 27 (96.43%) Java
2 15 (53.57%) SQL
3 13 (46.43%) TypeScript
4 3 (10.71%) JavaScript
5 2 (7.14%) Go
5 2 (7.14%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.57%) Kotlin
6 1 (3.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (35.71%) SC Cleared
1 10 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (21.43%) QA
System Software
1 14 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (17.86%) Kubernetes
2 4 (14.29%) Progress Chef
2 4 (14.29%) Puppet
3 2 (7.14%) Terraform
4 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (35.71%) SAP
2 4 (14.29%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (7.14%) AppDynamics
4 1 (3.57%) Confluent
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.57%) New Relic
4 1 (3.57%) Oracle
4 1 (3.57%) Sybase