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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 456 492 534
Rank change year-on-year +36 +42 -44
Contract jobs citing Gradle 118 32 65
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.10% 0.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.23% 0.76% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 23 40
10th Percentile £325 £513 £299
25th Percentile £393 £523 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £638 £575
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +10.87% -14.81%
75th Percentile £588 £863 £691
90th Percentile £615 £895 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £443 £638 £525
% change year-on-year -30.47% +21.43% +0.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 0 4
10th Percentile £43.75 - £76.63
25th Percentile £52.50 - £77.19
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £80.00
75th Percentile £57.50 - £84.38
90th Percentile £67.38 - £87.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £80.00

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 5,290 4,220 5,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.60% 13.39% 12.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,625 2,653 3,763
10th Percentile £340 £331 £363
25th Percentile £406 £410 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -6.51% -3.15%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £513
% change year-on-year -0.42% -6.93% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 72 200
10th Percentile £39.00 £28.88 £44.26
25th Percentile £52.50 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £76.15 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

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 12 January 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 12 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Gradle in the UK

Gradle
Top 13 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 12 January 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 +19 111 £525 -21.50% 41
UK excluding London +19 70 £443 -30.47% 40
London +8 42 £544 -24.97% 5
North of England -14 37 £384 - 6
North West -4 30 £390 - 4
Work from Home +7 26 £546 -14.31% 35
South East +5 23 £467 -26.71% 15
Yorkshire - 7 £354 - 1
Midlands - 5 £575 - 3
West Midlands - 5 £575 - 2
Scotland - 3 £550 - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £425 - 1
South West - 1 £500 - 6

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 5 (4.24%) OpenStack
2 4 (3.39%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.54%) Apache
4 2 (1.69%) Camunda
4 2 (1.69%) Confluence
5 1 (0.85%) JBoss
5 1 (0.85%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (1.69%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 38 (32.20%) GitHub
2 37 (31.36%) AWS
3 27 (22.88%) Azure
4 18 (15.25%) GCP
5 17 (14.41%) Datadog
6 13 (11.02%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (10.17%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (8.47%) OpenShift
9 9 (7.63%) Figma
10 8 (6.78%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (6.78%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (6.78%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (6.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 8 (6.78%) Serverless
11 6 (5.08%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (5.08%) Apigee
11 6 (5.08%) Azure AKS
11 6 (5.08%) PaaS
11 6 (5.08%) SaaS
12 5 (4.24%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.24%) Kerberos
2 2 (1.69%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.85%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (19.49%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (16.10%) NoSQL
3 16 (13.56%) Relational Database
4 12 (10.17%) MongoDB
5 11 (9.32%) DynamoDB
6 10 (8.47%) MySQL
7 9 (7.63%) HBase
7 9 (7.63%) RDBMS
8 6 (5.08%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (4.24%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (4.24%) BigQuery
9 5 (4.24%) Redis
10 3 (2.54%) SQL Server
11 2 (1.69%) Big Data
12 1 (0.85%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.85%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.85%) HPCC
12 1 (0.85%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.85%) Spark SQL
12 1 (0.85%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 42 (35.59%) Maven
2 41 (34.75%) Git
2 41 (34.75%) Jenkins
3 32 (27.12%) JUnit
4 31 (26.27%) GitLab
5 20 (16.95%) Sonatype Nexus
6 15 (12.71%) Cucumber
7 14 (11.86%) Android Studio
7 14 (11.86%) Artifactory
7 14 (11.86%) IntelliJ
8 13 (11.02%) SonarQube
9 11 (9.32%) Xcode
10 10 (8.47%) Bitbucket
10 10 (8.47%) CircleCI
10 10 (8.47%) Mockito
10 10 (8.47%) Selenium
11 7 (5.93%) Cypress.io
11 7 (5.93%) Postman
11 7 (5.93%) Storybook
12 5 (4.24%) JIRA
General
1 21 (17.80%) Finance
2 17 (14.41%) Banking
3 15 (12.71%) Social Skills
4 12 (10.17%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.08%) Retail Banking
6 3 (2.54%) Front Office
7 1 (0.85%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.85%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.85%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.85%) Law
7 1 (0.85%) Marketing
7 1 (0.85%) Private Banking
7 1 (0.85%) Retail
7 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 66 (55.93%) Developer
2 31 (26.27%) Java Developer
3 23 (19.49%) Android Developer
3 23 (19.49%) Senior
4 20 (16.95%) Java Engineer
5 17 (14.41%) Software Engineer
6 14 (11.86%) DevOps Engineer
6 14 (11.86%) Java Software Engineer
7 12 (10.17%) Senior Developer
7 12 (10.17%) Senior Java Developer
8 8 (6.78%) React Developer
9 6 (5.08%) AWS Developer
10 5 (4.24%) Architect
10 5 (4.24%) Java Architect
10 5 (4.24%) Java Technical Architect
10 5 (4.24%) Lead
10 5 (4.24%) Technical Architect
11 4 (3.39%) Backend Developer
11 4 (3.39%) Engineering Manager
11 4 (3.39%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (39.83%) Spring
1 47 (39.83%) Spring Boot
2 22 (18.64%) Kafka
2 22 (18.64%) RESTful
3 21 (17.80%) REST
4 15 (12.71%) OpenTelemetry
5 13 (11.02%) JSON
6 11 (9.32%) Android Jetpack
6 11 (9.32%) GraphQL
6 11 (9.32%) Jetpack Compose
7 10 (8.47%) HTML
7 10 (8.47%) React Native
8 9 (7.63%) CSS
8 9 (7.63%) Micronaut
8 9 (7.63%) React
9 7 (5.93%) AngularJS
9 7 (5.93%) D3.js
9 7 (5.93%) OAuth
9 7 (5.93%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (5.93%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 20 (16.95%) Mobile App
2 10 (8.47%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.47%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.24%) N-Tier
3 5 (4.24%) Private Cloud
4 4 (3.39%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (3.39%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.39%) Legacy Code
4 4 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.39%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.39%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.54%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.54%) Mobile Banking
6 2 (1.69%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.69%) Derivative
6 2 (1.69%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.69%) Equities
6 2 (1.69%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.69%) TWAP
6 2 (1.69%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 33 (27.97%) Android
2 14 (11.86%) Linux
3 12 (10.17%) Apple iOS
4 6 (5.08%) Unix
5 5 (4.24%) Windows
6 3 (2.54%) Solaris
7 2 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (45.76%) CI/CD
2 44 (37.29%) DevOps
3 34 (28.81%) Agile
4 32 (27.12%) Containerisation
5 31 (26.27%) Software Engineering
6 29 (24.58%) Microservices
7 27 (22.88%) Test Automation
8 25 (21.19%) Design Patterns
9 23 (19.49%) TDD
10 22 (18.64%) Android Development
11 18 (15.25%) User Experience
12 15 (12.71%) Mentoring
13 14 (11.86%) Event-Driven
13 14 (11.86%) OOP
13 14 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
14 13 (11.02%) Continuous Integration
15 12 (10.17%) BDD
15 12 (10.17%) Infrastructure as Code
15 12 (10.17%) Mobile Development
16 11 (9.32%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 84 (71.19%) Java
2 38 (32.20%) Kotlin
3 24 (20.34%) Python
4 18 (15.25%) SQL
5 14 (11.86%) TypeScript
6 8 (6.78%) C++
6 8 (6.78%) JavaScript
7 6 (5.08%) Scala
8 5 (4.24%) Bash
8 5 (4.24%) Objective-C
8 5 (4.24%) PowerShell
8 5 (4.24%) Rust
8 5 (4.24%) Swift
9 4 (3.39%) C
9 4 (3.39%) Go
10 3 (2.54%) Ruby
10 3 (2.54%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.69%) Groovy
12 1 (0.85%) Clojure
12 1 (0.85%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (16.95%) Security Cleared
2 9 (7.63%) OCP
2 9 (7.63%) Oracle Certification
2 9 (7.63%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.93%) Degree
4 5 (4.24%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.69%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.85%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.85%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.17%) Accessibility
2 8 (6.78%) QA
3 2 (1.69%) NCSC
System Software
1 34 (28.81%) Docker
2 1 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 55 (46.61%) Kubernetes
2 25 (21.19%) Grafana
3 24 (20.34%) Terraform
4 15 (12.71%) Ansible
5 8 (6.78%) Prometheus
5 8 (6.78%) Puppet
6 7 (5.93%) Progress Chef
7 5 (4.24%) Podman
8 3 (2.54%) Argo
9 1 (0.85%) Istio
Vendors
1 8 (6.78%) Google
1 8 (6.78%) Oracle
1 8 (6.78%) Splunk
2 5 (4.24%) Gigya
2 5 (4.24%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.24%) Red Hat
3 4 (3.39%) Dynatrace
4 2 (1.69%) New Relic
5 1 (0.85%) Adobe
5 1 (0.85%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.85%) Apple
5 1 (0.85%) Foundry
5 1 (0.85%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.85%) Palantir