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 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 446 512 540
Rank change year-on-year +66 +28 -89
Contract jobs citing Gradle 126 49 96
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.13% 0.20%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.43% 1.01% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 32 68
10th Percentile £358 £502 £363
25th Percentile £393 £550 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £713 £650
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% +9.62% -
75th Percentile £586 £863 £738
90th Percentile £615 £911 £758
UK excluding London median daily rate £393 £750 £525
% change year-on-year -47.60% +42.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £76.63
25th Percentile - - £77.19
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £81.41
75th Percentile - - £87.42
90th Percentile - - £88.97
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 - £78.75

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 5,187 4,849 6,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.40% 13.25% 13.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,524 3,030 4,376
10th Percentile £330 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -0.45%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £645
90th Percentile £688 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £513
% change year-on-year -2.56% -4.88% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 155 238
10th Percentile £20.82 £26.35 £45.50
25th Percentile £44.50 £48.50 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £76.53
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.00 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 27 October 2025.

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
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 27 October 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
England +47 111 £525 -27.59% 49
UK excluding London +21 60 £393 -47.60% 39
London +20 54 £547 -23.30% 21
North of England 0 36 £375 - 3
Work from Home +51 31 £535 -33.13% 34
North West +4 28 £375 - 2
Midlands -14 9 £508 -32.23% 3
Yorkshire - 8 £358 - 1
South East +8 7 £473 -34.19% 18
Scotland +1 6 £450 - 2
West Midlands - 6 £575 - 1
East Midlands -9 3 £429 -42.80% 2
South West +12 1 - - 5
Northern Ireland - 1 £425 -

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 9 (7.14%) Tomcat
2 8 (6.35%) JBoss
3 7 (5.56%) Confluence
4 4 (3.17%) OpenStack
5 3 (2.38%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.79%) Alfresco
6 1 (0.79%) Apache
6 1 (0.79%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 42 (33.33%) GitHub
2 36 (28.57%) AWS
2 36 (28.57%) Azure
3 23 (18.25%) GCP
4 16 (12.70%) OpenShift
5 14 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (11.11%) Datadog
6 11 (8.73%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (8.73%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 8 (6.35%) Apigee
8 7 (5.56%) Amazon EMR
8 7 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (5.56%) Figma
8 7 (5.56%) Serverless
9 6 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (4.76%) Azure AKS
9 6 (4.76%) SaaS
10 5 (3.97%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.17%) Kerberos
2 2 (1.59%) DMZ
2 2 (1.59%) Internet
2 2 (1.59%) MQTT
3 1 (0.79%) Firewall
3 1 (0.79%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (17.46%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 18 (14.29%) Relational Database
4 15 (11.90%) MongoDB
5 11 (8.73%) MySQL
6 9 (7.14%) DynamoDB
7 7 (5.56%) RDBMS
8 6 (4.76%) Redis
9 5 (3.97%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (3.97%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (3.97%) BigQuery
9 5 (3.97%) HBase
10 4 (3.17%) SQL Server
11 3 (2.38%) Big Data
11 3 (2.38%) Data Lake
11 3 (2.38%) HPCC
12 2 (1.59%) Oracle Database
13 1 (0.79%) Apache Cassandra
13 1 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
13 1 (0.79%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 63 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 58 (46.03%) Maven
3 50 (39.68%) Git
4 39 (30.95%) JUnit
5 25 (19.84%) GitLab
6 24 (19.05%) Sonatype Nexus
7 16 (12.70%) JIRA
7 16 (12.70%) Mockito
7 16 (12.70%) Xcode
8 14 (11.11%) SonarQube
9 12 (9.52%) Artifactory
10 10 (7.94%) Android Studio
11 9 (7.14%) Liquibase
11 9 (7.14%) Selenium
12 7 (5.56%) Bitbucket
12 7 (5.56%) Storybook
13 6 (4.76%) CircleCI
13 6 (4.76%) Cucumber
14 5 (3.97%) Postman
14 5 (3.97%) SonarLint
General
1 27 (21.43%) Finance
2 24 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 23 (18.25%) Banking
4 8 (6.35%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.17%) Retail Banking
7 3 (2.38%) Retail
7 3 (2.38%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.59%) Front Office
8 2 (1.59%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.79%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.79%) Law
9 1 (0.79%) Marketing
9 1 (0.79%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 79 (62.70%) Developer
2 40 (31.75%) Java Developer
3 22 (17.46%) Senior
4 17 (13.49%) Android Developer
4 17 (13.49%) DevOps Engineer
5 15 (11.90%) Senior Developer
6 13 (10.32%) Senior Java Developer
7 10 (7.94%) React Developer
8 9 (7.14%) AWS Developer
8 9 (7.14%) Software Engineer
9 8 (6.35%) Java Engineer
9 8 (6.35%) Java Software Engineer
10 7 (5.56%) Architect
10 7 (5.56%) iOS Developer
10 7 (5.56%) Lead
11 6 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (4.76%) Lead Developer
12 5 (3.97%) Java Technical Architect
12 5 (3.97%) Lead Java Developer
12 5 (3.97%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (34.13%) Spring
2 40 (31.75%) Spring Boot
3 29 (23.02%) Kafka
4 24 (19.05%) REST
4 24 (19.05%) RESTful
5 17 (13.49%) React
6 15 (11.90%) HTML
7 14 (11.11%) JSON
8 11 (8.73%) CSS
9 10 (7.94%) React Native
10 9 (7.14%) GraphQL
10 9 (7.14%) OpenAPI
10 9 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
10 9 (7.14%) Spring Cloud
10 9 (7.14%) Swagger
11 8 (6.35%) RxJava
11 8 (6.35%) SOAP
12 7 (5.56%) D3.js
12 7 (5.56%) SVG
12 7 (5.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (19.05%) Mobile App
2 14 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.56%) Mobile Banking
4 6 (4.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (3.97%) N-Tier
5 5 (3.97%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.17%) Data Centre
6 4 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (3.17%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.17%) Private Cloud
7 3 (2.38%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.38%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.38%) IVR
8 2 (1.59%) Derivative
8 2 (1.59%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.59%) IoT
8 2 (1.59%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 34 (26.98%) Android
2 24 (19.05%) Linux
3 18 (14.29%) Unix
4 17 (13.49%) Apple iOS
5 4 (3.17%) Solaris
6 3 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (2.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 52 (41.27%) DevOps
3 49 (38.89%) Agile
4 45 (35.71%) Microservices
5 38 (30.16%) Containerisation
6 35 (27.78%) Design Patterns
6 35 (27.78%) TDD
7 28 (22.22%) Software Engineering
8 22 (17.46%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (15.08%) Android Development
9 19 (15.08%) BDD
10 18 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
11 17 (13.49%) Test Automation
12 16 (12.70%) User Experience
13 15 (11.90%) Continuous Integration
13 15 (11.90%) Mentoring
13 15 (11.90%) Scrum
14 14 (11.11%) Event-Driven
14 14 (11.11%) Front End Development
14 14 (11.11%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 93 (73.81%) Java
2 31 (24.60%) Python
3 27 (21.43%) SQL
4 26 (20.63%) Kotlin
5 23 (18.25%) TypeScript
6 16 (12.70%) C++
7 15 (11.90%) JavaScript
8 11 (8.73%) C
9 10 (7.94%) Scala
9 10 (7.94%) Shell Script
10 8 (6.35%) Objective-C
10 8 (6.35%) Swift
11 7 (5.56%) Bash
11 7 (5.56%) Ruby
12 5 (3.97%) PL/SQL
12 5 (3.97%) Rust
13 3 (2.38%) Go
13 3 (2.38%) PowerShell
14 2 (1.59%) Groovy
14 2 (1.59%) JSX
Qualifications
1 17 (13.49%) Security Cleared
2 11 (8.73%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.56%) Degree
4 4 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.17%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.17%) OCP
4 4 (3.17%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (1.59%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.79%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.79%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.79%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.35%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.97%) QA
3 2 (1.59%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 47 (37.30%) Docker
2 1 (0.79%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 46 (36.51%) Kubernetes
2 27 (21.43%) Terraform
3 15 (11.90%) Ansible
4 11 (8.73%) Grafana
5 9 (7.14%) Prometheus
5 9 (7.14%) Puppet
6 6 (4.76%) Progress Chef
7 5 (3.97%) Argo
8 4 (3.17%) Podman
9 3 (2.38%) Istio
10 1 (0.79%) Kibana
10 1 (0.79%) logstash
Vendors
1 15 (11.90%) Oracle
2 11 (8.73%) Google
3 10 (7.94%) Microsoft
4 9 (7.14%) Splunk
5 5 (3.97%) Gigya
6 4 (3.17%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.38%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.59%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.59%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.79%) Adobe
9 1 (0.79%) Apple
9 1 (0.79%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.79%) Foundry
9 1 (0.79%) Palantir