Gradle Contracts in the West Midlands

Gradle
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 94 110 134
Rank change year-on-year +16 +24 -
Contract jobs citing Gradle 3 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.22% 0.051% 0.21%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.67% 0.48% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £431 - -
25th Percentile £440 £410 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £420 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -30.00% -
75th Percentile £470 £430 -
90th Percentile £479 - -
England median daily rate £530 £550 £675
% change year-on-year -3.64% -18.52% -2.53%

All Development Application Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 180 210 337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.38% 10.79% 14.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 149 248
10th Percentile £399 £260 £361
25th Percentile £449 £358 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £538
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -16.36% +9.80%
75th Percentile £548 £536 £590
90th Percentile £648 £556 £700
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 12 1
10th Percentile - £10.50 -
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.88 £31.69
Median hourly rate £57.50 £56.25 £33.39
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% +68.49% -14.40%
75th Percentile £58.75 £58.75 £35.08
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.34
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.97% +21.46%

Gradle
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Gradle in the West Midlands

Gradle
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Gradle in the West Midlands

Gradle
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Gradle within the West Midlands 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
Birmingham +19 3 £455 +8.33% 1
Gradle
England

Gradle
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (33.33%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (100.00%) JUnit
1 3 (100.00%) Maven
1 3 (100.00%) Mockito
2 1 (33.33%) Ant
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) RESTful
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
2 1 (33.33%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
1 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Batch Processing
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Data Extraction
2 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Sybase