Gradle Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Gradle
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Gradle skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 110 129
Rank change year-on-year -6 +19 +29
Contract jobs citing Gradle 4 5 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.25% 0.27% 0.57%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.16% 1.98% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 11
10th Percentile £351 £521 £400
25th Percentile £352 £552 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £354 £619 £470
Median % change year-on-year -42.79% +31.65% -1.05%
75th Percentile £356 £675 £530
90th Percentile £357 - £550
UK median daily rate £530 £627 £650
% change year-on-year -15.40% -3.62% -1.52%

All Development Application Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 346 252 443
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 21.69% 13.45% 18.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 162 306
10th Percentile £375 £356 £386
25th Percentile £424 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £480 £476
Median % change year-on-year +2.81% +0.79% +0.26%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £543
90th Percentile £600 £725 £661
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 7
10th Percentile £16.66 - £58.42
25th Percentile £16.84 - £59.03
Median hourly rate £17.45 - £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.09%
75th Percentile £60.94 - £67.66
90th Percentile £65.75 - £70.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

Gradle
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Gradle as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Gradle in Scotland

Gradle
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Gradle.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Gradle

Gradle
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Gradle within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 19 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
Glasgow - 4 £354 - 1
Gradle
UK

Gradle
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 2 (50.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (50.00%) MySQL
1 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (100.00%) Maven
2 2 (50.00%) Git
2 2 (50.00%) GitLab
2 2 (50.00%) JUnit
2 2 (50.00%) Mockito
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (50.00%) JPA
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
1 2 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (50.00%) React
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
1 2 (50.00%) Spring
1 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (50.00%) Spring MVC
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) MVC
2 2 (50.00%) Observability
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) SDLC
2 2 (50.00%) TDD
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) Go
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) AppDynamics
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft