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 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 526 417 514
Rank change year-on-year -109 +97 -25
Contract jobs citing Gradle 109 103 64
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.36% 0.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.86% 2.49% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 68 41
10th Percentile £285 £375 £400
25th Percentile £400 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £530 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.60% -7.83% -14.81%
75th Percentile £569 £562 £625
90th Percentile £625 £620 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £431 £463 £581
% change year-on-year -6.92% -20.29% +30.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 2 1
10th Percentile £51.75 - -
25th Percentile £52.50 £87.50 £77.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £90.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.89% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £92.50 £82.50
90th Percentile £81.70 - -
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 5,845 4,130 5,105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.03% 14.44% 12.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,823 2,783 3,439
10th Percentile £350 £338 £355
25th Percentile £409 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 70 210
10th Percentile £34.74 £24.59 £32.87
25th Percentile £54.06 £47.07 £47.06
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.63 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.80% -11.35% +5.69%
75th Percentile £71.94 £74.69 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.04 £78.08
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.00 £60.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.20% -7.31% +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 23 May 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 23 May 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 23 May 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 -88 106 £498 -6.13% 12
UK excluding London -76 59 £431 -6.92% 10
London -70 43 £525 -0.94% 4
North of England -68 28 £450 -13.42% 3
North West -35 20 £402 -13.73% 1
Work from Home -51 18 £350 -34.40% 7
South East - 16 £354 - 2
East of England - 11 £495 - 2
Yorkshire -60 6 - -
Midlands -75 3 £575 +34.03% 2
East Midlands -32 2 - - 1
North East - 2 £450 - 2
South West - 2 £500 -
West Midlands -65 1 £575 +26.37% 1

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 (3.67%) Apache
1 4 (3.67%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.75%) Confluence
3 2 (1.83%) Camunda
4 1 (0.92%) JBoss
4 1 (0.92%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.92%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (1.83%) Shopify
2 1 (0.92%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 38 (34.86%) GitHub
2 33 (30.28%) AWS
3 28 (25.69%) GitHub Actions
4 18 (16.51%) Azure
5 10 (9.17%) GCP
6 9 (8.26%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (5.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 5 (4.59%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (3.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (3.67%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (3.67%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (3.67%) Apigee
9 4 (3.67%) Apple Pay
9 4 (3.67%) Cloud Run
9 4 (3.67%) Firebase
9 4 (3.67%) Google Play
9 4 (3.67%) Kong
9 4 (3.67%) OpenShift
10 3 (2.75%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (2.75%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.67%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (2.75%) DSL
3 2 (1.83%) HTTP
4 1 (0.92%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (22.02%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (11.01%) Relational Database
3 8 (7.34%) DynamoDB
4 7 (6.42%) MongoDB
5 6 (5.50%) MySQL
6 5 (4.59%) RDBMS
7 4 (3.67%) Flink
7 4 (3.67%) Hazelcast
7 4 (3.67%) NoSQL
7 4 (3.67%) Redis
8 3 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.75%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.92%) HBase
9 1 (0.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 44 (40.37%) Git
2 39 (35.78%) Maven
3 37 (33.94%) JUnit
4 36 (33.03%) GitLab
5 34 (31.19%) Jenkins
6 19 (17.43%) Mockito
7 14 (12.84%) Liquibase
8 13 (11.93%) IntelliJ
9 9 (8.26%) CircleCI
10 8 (7.34%) Cucumber
11 7 (6.42%) fastlane
12 6 (5.50%) Android Studio
12 6 (5.50%) REST Assured
12 6 (5.50%) SonarQube
13 5 (4.59%) JIRA
13 5 (4.59%) Selenium
13 5 (4.59%) Snyk
14 4 (3.67%) Crashlytics
14 4 (3.67%) Gatling
14 4 (3.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 14 (12.84%) Social Skills
2 10 (9.17%) Public Sector
3 9 (8.26%) Finance
4 7 (6.42%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (6.42%) Banking
5 4 (3.67%) Law
6 3 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.83%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.92%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 56 (51.38%) Developer
2 36 (33.03%) Java Developer
3 29 (26.61%) Java Engineer
4 26 (23.85%) Software Engineer
5 24 (22.02%) Senior
6 18 (16.51%) Java Software Engineer
7 15 (13.76%) Android Developer
8 13 (11.93%) Senior Developer
9 12 (11.01%) Senior Java Developer
10 6 (5.50%) Android Engineer
10 6 (5.50%) Backend Developer
10 6 (5.50%) Senior Java Engineer
11 5 (4.59%) Java Software Developer
11 5 (4.59%) Software Developer
12 4 (3.67%) Senior Backend Developer
13 3 (2.75%) Senior Software Engineer
14 2 (1.83%) Applications Developer
14 2 (1.83%) Engineering Manager
14 2 (1.83%) Server Engineer
14 2 (1.83%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (63.30%) Spring
2 68 (62.39%) Spring Boot
3 26 (23.85%) Kafka
4 24 (22.02%) REST
5 22 (20.18%) React
6 20 (18.35%) OpenTelemetry
7 19 (17.43%) OpenAPI
7 19 (17.43%) Swagger
8 17 (15.60%) RESTful
9 16 (14.68%) Android Jetpack
9 16 (14.68%) Jetpack Compose
10 12 (11.01%) GraphQL
11 11 (10.09%) WireMock
12 8 (7.34%) JPA
12 8 (7.34%) RxJava
13 6 (5.50%) Dagger
13 6 (5.50%) OkHttp
13 6 (5.50%) Playwright
13 6 (5.50%) RAML
14 5 (4.59%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.09%) Product Ownership
2 10 (9.17%) Mobile App
3 9 (8.26%) Cloud Native
4 8 (7.34%) Legacy Code
5 7 (6.42%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (4.59%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (4.59%) Virtual Team
7 3 (2.75%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.83%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.83%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.92%) Equities
9 1 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.92%) PKI
9 1 (0.92%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.92%) Synthetic Data
9 1 (0.92%) TWAP
9 1 (0.92%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.92%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 20 (18.35%) Android
2 7 (6.42%) Linux
3 3 (2.75%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.83%) Windows
5 1 (0.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (59.63%) CI/CD
2 48 (44.04%) Software Engineering
3 46 (42.20%) Microservices
4 42 (38.53%) TDD
5 39 (35.78%) Agile
6 37 (33.94%) Test Automation
7 36 (33.03%) DevOps
8 35 (32.11%) Containerisation
9 20 (18.35%) Observability
10 16 (14.68%) Continuous Integration
11 15 (13.76%) Event-Driven
11 15 (13.76%) User Experience
12 14 (12.84%) Android Development
12 14 (12.84%) Architectural Patterns
12 14 (12.84%) Design Patterns
12 14 (12.84%) Secure Coding
12 14 (12.84%) Unit Testing
13 11 (10.09%) Clean Code
13 11 (10.09%) Computer Science
13 11 (10.09%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 87 (79.82%) Java
2 39 (35.78%) Kotlin
2 39 (35.78%) SQL
3 17 (15.60%) TypeScript
4 2 (1.83%) Bash
4 2 (1.83%) Go
4 2 (1.83%) Python
4 2 (1.83%) Shell Script
4 2 (1.83%) Swift
5 1 (0.92%) BrightScript
5 1 (0.92%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.92%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 20 (18.35%) Security Cleared
2 13 (11.93%) Degree
2 13 (11.93%) SC Cleared
3 11 (10.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.92%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.92%) OCP
4 1 (0.92%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.93%) QA
2 9 (8.26%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.67%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.75%) WCAG
5 2 (1.83%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.83%) NCSC
6 1 (0.92%) GDPR
6 1 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.92%) SEPA
System Software
1 36 (33.03%) Docker
2 1 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 37 (33.94%) Kubernetes
2 22 (20.18%) Grafana
3 14 (12.84%) Ansible
4 9 (8.26%) Prometheus
5 8 (7.34%) Terraform
6 4 (3.67%) Argo
7 1 (0.92%) Istio
7 1 (0.92%) Podman
7 1 (0.92%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.92%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (6.42%) Dynatrace
1 7 (6.42%) Oracle
1 7 (6.42%) Splunk
2 4 (3.67%) Google
3 3 (2.75%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.83%) New Relic
4 2 (1.83%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.92%) Roku