Gradle Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Gradle
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Gradle skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 69 -
Rank change year-on-year -18 - -
Contract jobs citing Gradle 7 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.53% 0.15% -
As % of the Development Applications category 3.50% 1.06% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £475 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £525 £575 -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £520 -
% change year-on-year -3.80% - -

All Development Application Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 200 94 159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 15.16% 14.01% 17.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 58 113
10th Percentile £318 £368 £381
25th Percentile £400 £414 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% +2.70% -9.76%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £550
90th Percentile £590 £600 £600
Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -1.54% +2.63% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £13.50 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £29.25 - -

Gradle
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Gradle relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Gradle job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Gradle
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Gradle.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Gradle

Gradle
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 17 July 2026. 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
Leeds -21 7 £500 -9.09% 2
Gradle
Yorkshire

Gradle
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Amazon SQS
1 4 (57.14%) Apigee
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Run
1 4 (57.14%) GCP
1 4 (57.14%) GitHub
1 4 (57.14%) GitHub Actions
1 4 (57.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 4 (57.14%) Kong
2 3 (42.86%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Hazelcast
1 4 (57.14%) MongoDB
1 4 (57.14%) RDBMS
1 4 (57.14%) Redis
1 4 (57.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (57.14%) Git
2 4 (57.14%) GitLab
2 4 (57.14%) Maven
2 4 (57.14%) Snyk
General
1 2 (28.57%) Banking
1 2 (28.57%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
2 6 (85.71%) Java Developer
3 4 (57.14%) Backend Developer
3 4 (57.14%) Senior
3 4 (57.14%) Senior Backend Developer
3 4 (57.14%) Senior Developer
3 4 (57.14%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (28.57%) Software Developer
5 1 (14.29%) Java Software Developer
5 1 (14.29%) Mid-Level Java Developer
5 1 (14.29%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) Kafka
1 7 (100.00%) Spring
1 7 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 4 (57.14%) Apache Avro
2 4 (57.14%) JPA
2 4 (57.14%) JWT
2 4 (57.14%) OAuth
2 4 (57.14%) OAuth2
2 4 (57.14%) OpenTelemetry
2 4 (57.14%) Protocol Buffers
2 4 (57.14%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (57.14%) Spring WebFlux
2 4 (57.14%) WireMock
3 3 (42.86%) Hibernate
3 3 (42.86%) React
3 3 (42.86%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps
1 5 (71.43%) Microservices
2 4 (57.14%) Functional Programming
2 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (57.14%) Observability
2 4 (57.14%) OWASP
2 4 (57.14%) Software Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) SOLID
2 4 (57.14%) Storage Management
2 4 (57.14%) Validation
2 4 (57.14%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (28.57%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 1 (14.29%) Build Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Dependency Management
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Argo
1 4 (57.14%) Grafana
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
1 4 (57.14%) Prometheus
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
2 3 (42.86%) Control-M
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle