Gradle Contract Job Trends

Gradle
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Gradle skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 525 406 527
Rank change year-on-year -119 +121 -16
Contract jobs citing Gradle 115 120 63
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.41% 0.14%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.94% 2.79% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 82 36
10th Percentile £304 £358 £405
25th Percentile £402 £426 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.60% -3.64% -18.52%
75th Percentile £541 £550 £634
90th Percentile £599 £619 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £402 £588
% change year-on-year +11.94% -31.57% +11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 3 1
10th Percentile - £73.50 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £78.75 £77.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £90.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.89% +12.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £72.31 £92.50 £82.50
90th Percentile £89.30 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% -12.50% -

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,916 4,302 5,267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.86% 14.65% 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,826 2,879 3,517
10th Percentile £350 £330 £355
25th Percentile £410 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £625
90th Percentile £686 £694 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 80 232
10th Percentile £34.85 £20.74 £31.30
25th Percentile £56.40 £45.82 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £58.38 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.35% -10.19% +5.26%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.04 £77.28
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.67% -7.69% +5.69%

Gradle
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Gradle job vacancy trend in the UK

Gradle
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Gradle.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Gradle

Gradle
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Gradle over the 6 months to 11 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Gradle in the UK

Gradle
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Gradle.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Gradle

Gradle
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Gradle over the 6 months to 11 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Gradle in the UK

Gradle
Top 14 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 11 June 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
England -96 111 £495 -6.60% 12
UK excluding London -83 56 £450 +11.94% 7
London -70 52 £525 -0.94% 6
North of England -79 26 £450 -2.36% 1
North West -50 16 £402 +7.20% 1
Work from Home -67 15 £389 -27.18% 12
South East - 15 £354 - 2
East of England - 11 £495 - 1
Yorkshire -51 6 - -
North East - 4 £450 -
East Midlands -30 2 - -
Midlands -73 2 - -
South West - 2 £500 - 1
Scotland -15 1 - - 2

Gradle
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (3.48%) Apache
1 4 (3.48%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.61%) Camunda
2 3 (2.61%) Confluence
3 2 (1.74%) Anypoint
3 2 (1.74%) Mule
4 1 (0.87%) JBoss
4 1 (0.87%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (1.74%) Shopify
2 1 (0.87%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 41 (35.65%) GitHub
2 34 (29.57%) AWS
3 33 (28.70%) GitHub Actions
4 20 (17.39%) Azure
5 11 (9.57%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (7.83%) GCP
7 6 (5.22%) Google Play
7 6 (5.22%) OpenShift
8 5 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (4.35%) Firebase
8 5 (4.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 4 (3.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (3.48%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (3.48%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (3.48%) Apigee
9 4 (3.48%) Apple Pay
9 4 (3.48%) Cloud Run
9 4 (3.48%) Kong
10 3 (2.61%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.48%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (2.61%) DSL
3 2 (1.74%) HTTP
4 1 (0.87%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (20.87%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (10.43%) Relational Database
3 11 (9.57%) MongoDB
4 8 (6.96%) DynamoDB
5 6 (5.22%) MySQL
6 5 (4.35%) RDBMS
7 4 (3.48%) Flink
7 4 (3.48%) Hazelcast
7 4 (3.48%) NoSQL
7 4 (3.48%) Redis
8 3 (2.61%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.61%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.74%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.87%) Db2
Development Applications
1 46 (40.00%) Git
2 42 (36.52%) JUnit
3 40 (34.78%) Maven
4 39 (33.91%) Jenkins
5 34 (29.57%) GitLab
6 22 (19.13%) Mockito
7 16 (13.91%) Liquibase
8 11 (9.57%) CircleCI
9 10 (8.70%) IntelliJ
10 8 (6.96%) fastlane
11 7 (6.09%) Android Studio
11 7 (6.09%) Cucumber
11 7 (6.09%) REST Assured
12 6 (5.22%) SonarQube
13 5 (4.35%) Crashlytics
13 5 (4.35%) JIRA
14 4 (3.48%) Flyway
14 4 (3.48%) Gatling
14 4 (3.48%) Selenium
14 4 (3.48%) Snyk
General
1 16 (13.91%) Social Skills
2 12 (10.43%) Public Sector
3 11 (9.57%) Finance
4 9 (7.83%) Banking
5 8 (6.96%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.35%) Law
7 2 (1.74%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.87%) Front Office
8 1 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (52.17%) Developer
2 41 (35.65%) Java Developer
3 28 (24.35%) Java Engineer
4 26 (22.61%) Senior
5 25 (21.74%) Software Engineer
6 17 (14.78%) Java Software Engineer
7 14 (12.17%) Android Developer
8 13 (11.30%) Senior Developer
9 12 (10.43%) Senior Java Developer
10 8 (6.96%) Android Engineer
11 7 (6.09%) Senior Java Engineer
12 6 (5.22%) Java Software Developer
12 6 (5.22%) Software Developer
13 5 (4.35%) Backend Developer
14 4 (3.48%) Applications Engineer
14 4 (3.48%) Senior Backend Developer
15 3 (2.61%) SC Cleared Java Developer
15 3 (2.61%) Senior Software Engineer
16 2 (1.74%) Java Applications Developer
16 2 (1.74%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (63.48%) Spring Boot
2 72 (62.61%) Spring
3 31 (26.96%) Kafka
4 28 (24.35%) React
4 28 (24.35%) REST
5 23 (20.00%) RESTful
6 21 (18.26%) OpenAPI
6 21 (18.26%) Swagger
7 19 (16.52%) Android Jetpack
8 18 (15.65%) Jetpack Compose
9 17 (14.78%) OpenTelemetry
10 11 (9.57%) WireMock
11 10 (8.70%) GraphQL
11 10 (8.70%) RxJava
12 9 (7.83%) JPA
13 8 (6.96%) Hibernate
14 7 (6.09%) Dagger
15 6 (5.22%) Playwright
15 6 (5.22%) RAML
15 6 (5.22%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.17%) Mobile App
2 13 (11.30%) Product Ownership
3 9 (7.83%) Cloud Native
4 8 (6.96%) Legacy Code
5 7 (6.09%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (6.09%) Virtual Team
6 5 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.61%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.74%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.87%) Derivative
9 1 (0.87%) Equities
9 1 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.87%) PKI
9 1 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.87%) Synthetic Data
9 1 (0.87%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.87%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 22 (19.13%) Android
2 7 (6.09%) Linux
3 3 (2.61%) Windows
4 2 (1.74%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (65.22%) CI/CD
2 52 (45.22%) Microservices
3 51 (44.35%) Agile
4 47 (40.87%) Software Engineering
4 47 (40.87%) TDD
5 41 (35.65%) DevOps
5 41 (35.65%) Test Automation
6 36 (31.30%) Containerisation
7 21 (18.26%) Observability
8 18 (15.65%) Architectural Patterns
9 17 (14.78%) Android Development
10 16 (13.91%) Continuous Integration
10 16 (13.91%) Secure Coding
11 15 (13.04%) Event-Driven
12 13 (11.30%) Design Patterns
12 13 (11.30%) Unit Testing
13 12 (10.43%) API Development
13 12 (10.43%) Computer Science
13 12 (10.43%) Scrum
13 12 (10.43%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 92 (80.00%) Java
2 45 (39.13%) SQL
3 38 (33.04%) Kotlin
4 19 (16.52%) TypeScript
5 3 (2.61%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.61%) Python
5 3 (2.61%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.74%) Bash
6 2 (1.74%) Go
6 2 (1.74%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.87%) BrightScript
7 1 (0.87%) Korn
7 1 (0.87%) Swift
Qualifications
1 21 (18.26%) Security Cleared
2 16 (13.91%) SC Cleared
3 14 (12.17%) Degree
4 12 (10.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.91%) QA
2 9 (7.83%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.35%) WCAG
4 4 (3.48%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.74%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.74%) NCSC
6 1 (0.87%) GDPR
6 1 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.87%) SEPA
System Software
1 37 (32.17%) Docker
2 1 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 34 (29.57%) Kubernetes
2 17 (14.78%) Grafana
3 16 (13.91%) Ansible
4 8 (6.96%) Prometheus
5 7 (6.09%) Terraform
6 4 (3.48%) Argo
7 2 (1.74%) Control-M
8 1 (0.87%) Istio
Vendors
1 12 (10.43%) Oracle
2 9 (7.83%) Dynatrace
3 6 (5.22%) Google
3 6 (5.22%) Splunk
4 3 (2.61%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.61%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.74%) IBM
5 2 (1.74%) New Relic
5 2 (1.74%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.87%) Roku
6 1 (0.87%) Sybase
6 1 (0.87%) Veracode