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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 520 417 522
Rank change year-on-year -103 +105 +3
Contract jobs citing Gradle 160 136 50
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.41% 0.13%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.50% 2.66% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 105 32
10th Percentile £331 £358 £502
25th Percentile £400 £400 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £525 £675
Median % change year-on-year -13.14% -22.22% +3.85%
75th Percentile £537 £586 £863
90th Percentile £578 £615 £909
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £400 £750
% change year-on-year +12.50% -46.67% +42.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Median hourly rate £76.00 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year +8.57% - -

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 6,389 5,110 5,080
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.70% 15.43% 13.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,092 3,463 3,163
10th Percentile £353 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £522
Median % change year-on-year - -4.21% -5.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £494
% change year-on-year - -3.75% -3.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 110 173
10th Percentile £22.68 £16.84 £27.04
25th Percentile £48.75 £43.81 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.17% -1.15% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.30 £75.25 £73.95
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 10 October 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
Top 15 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 10 October 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 -120 124 £495 -5.71% 97
London -64 80 £500 -7.92% 65
UK excluding London -89 64 £450 +12.50% 44
Work from Home -60 35 £480 -10.28% 40
North of England -92 23 £500 +33.33% 9
Scotland -4 22 £377 +5.31% 14
Yorkshire -30 10 £500 -3.80% 4
East of England - 10 £495 - 3
North West -71 9 £537 +43.20% 5
South East -68 6 £270 -42.22% 12
North East - 4 £450 -
South West -27 2 - - 1
Midlands -49 2 £455 -10.49% 4
East Midlands -15 1 £335 -21.91% 3
West Midlands -50 1 £575 - 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 11 (6.88%) Confluence
2 9 (5.63%) Camunda
3 3 (1.88%) Apache
3 3 (1.88%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.25%) Anypoint
4 2 (1.25%) Mule
5 1 (0.63%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.63%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.63%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.63%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Finacle
1 1 (0.63%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.63%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 59 (36.88%) AWS
2 53 (33.13%) Azure
3 43 (26.88%) GitHub
4 34 (21.25%) GCP
4 34 (21.25%) GitHub Actions
5 26 (16.25%) OpenShift
6 20 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (7.50%) Google Play
8 11 (6.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 7 (4.38%) Cloud Run
9 7 (4.38%) Firebase
10 6 (3.75%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (3.75%) Apigee
10 6 (3.75%) Kong
11 4 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (2.50%) Amazon S3
11 4 (2.50%) Apple Pay
11 4 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.50%) Serverless
12 3 (1.88%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (1.25%) Firewall
3 1 (0.63%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.63%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (26.88%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (22.50%) Relational Database
3 25 (15.63%) MongoDB
4 19 (11.88%) MySQL
5 15 (9.38%) SQL Server
6 10 (6.25%) NoSQL
7 7 (4.38%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (3.75%) RDBMS
8 6 (3.75%) Redis
9 5 (3.13%) Hazelcast
10 4 (2.50%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (1.88%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.88%) Db2
11 3 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.88%) Flink
11 3 (1.88%) MariaDB
11 3 (1.88%) Oracle Database
11 3 (1.88%) Pinecone
11 3 (1.88%) Weaviate
12 2 (1.25%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 91 (56.88%) Git
2 87 (54.38%) Jenkins
3 85 (53.13%) Maven
4 61 (38.13%) JUnit
5 40 (25.00%) GitLab
6 33 (20.63%) Mockito
7 23 (14.38%) SonarQube
8 16 (10.00%) JIRA
9 14 (8.75%) REST Assured
10 13 (8.13%) Cucumber
11 12 (7.50%) Liquibase
11 12 (7.50%) Sonatype Nexus
12 11 (6.88%) Android Studio
12 11 (6.88%) GoCD
13 9 (5.63%) Bitbucket Server
13 9 (5.63%) CircleCI
13 9 (5.63%) Selenium
14 7 (4.38%) JProfiler
15 5 (3.13%) Crashlytics
15 5 (3.13%) fastlane
General
1 38 (23.75%) Finance
2 32 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 32 (20.00%) Banking
3 31 (19.38%) Social Skills
4 18 (11.25%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (4.38%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.25%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.25%) Law
7 1 (0.63%) Back Office
7 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.63%) Front Office
7 1 (0.63%) Games
7 1 (0.63%) Marketing
7 1 (0.63%) Publishing
7 1 (0.63%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 111 (69.38%) Developer
2 87 (54.38%) Java Developer
3 26 (16.25%) Senior
4 19 (11.88%) Java Engineer
5 16 (10.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 14 (8.75%) Android Developer
6 14 (8.75%) Software Engineer
7 13 (8.13%) Senior Developer
7 13 (8.13%) Senior Java Developer
8 12 (7.50%) Software Developer
9 9 (5.63%) Lead
9 9 (5.63%) Senior Java Engineer
10 8 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
10 8 (5.00%) Java Software Developer
10 8 (5.00%) Lead Developer
10 8 (5.00%) Lead Java Developer
11 6 (3.75%) Backend Developer
11 6 (3.75%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 5 (3.13%) Java Software Engineer
12 5 (3.13%) Mid-Level Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (75.63%) Spring Boot
2 111 (69.38%) Spring
3 71 (44.38%) Kafka
4 67 (41.88%) REST
5 60 (37.50%) React
6 54 (33.75%) RESTful
7 35 (21.88%) Hibernate
8 28 (17.50%) Redux
9 27 (16.88%) JPA
10 26 (16.25%) HTML
11 24 (15.00%) CSS
12 22 (13.75%) Android Jetpack
13 20 (12.50%) Jetpack Compose
13 20 (12.50%) Node.js
14 18 (11.25%) OpenAPI
14 18 (11.25%) Swagger
15 16 (10.00%) Spring MVC
16 15 (9.38%) XML
17 12 (7.50%) Terraform
18 11 (6.88%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 27 (16.88%) Product Ownership
2 21 (13.13%) Mobile App
3 16 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (8.13%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (7.50%) Cloud Native
5 12 (7.50%) Data Structures
5 12 (7.50%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (3.13%) Client/Server
6 5 (3.13%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 4 (2.50%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.88%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.25%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.25%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.25%) PKI
9 2 (1.25%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.25%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.63%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 22 (13.75%) Android
2 21 (13.13%) Linux
3 14 (8.75%) Unix
4 3 (1.88%) Mac OS X
5 2 (1.25%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.63%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 109 (68.13%) Agile
3 92 (57.50%) Microservices
4 68 (42.50%) DevOps
5 62 (38.75%) Test Automation
6 57 (35.63%) TDD
7 55 (34.38%) Containerisation
8 53 (33.13%) Scrum
9 50 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
10 41 (25.63%) Software Engineering
11 38 (23.75%) Clean Code
12 32 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 27 (16.88%) Design Patterns
14 26 (16.25%) Computer Science
15 25 (15.63%) Event-Driven
16 24 (15.00%) Observability
17 22 (13.75%) User Stories
18 20 (12.50%) Android Development
19 19 (11.88%) OO
19 19 (11.88%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 149 (93.13%) Java
2 85 (53.13%) SQL
3 39 (24.38%) JavaScript
4 27 (16.88%) Kotlin
5 19 (11.88%) TypeScript
6 13 (8.13%) PL/SQL
6 13 (8.13%) Python
7 7 (4.38%) Shell Script
8 6 (3.75%) Bash
8 6 (3.75%) Scala
9 4 (2.50%) Ruby
10 3 (1.88%) Groovy
11 2 (1.25%) Korn
11 2 (1.25%) Swift
12 1 (0.63%) C#
Qualifications
1 55 (34.38%) Security Cleared
2 48 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 26 (16.25%) Degree
4 24 (15.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (4.38%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (3.75%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.50%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.88%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.63%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (18.13%) QA
2 12 (7.50%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.13%) ISO 20022
4 4 (2.50%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.50%) WCAG
5 2 (1.25%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.63%) GDPR
6 1 (0.63%) PSD2
6 1 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 68 (42.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 59 (36.88%) Kubernetes
2 25 (15.63%) Ansible
3 12 (7.50%) Control-M
4 10 (6.25%) Grafana
4 10 (6.25%) Prometheus
5 5 (3.13%) Argo
6 2 (1.25%) Istio
7 1 (0.63%) Podman
7 1 (0.63%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.63%) Puppet
Vendors
1 50 (31.25%) Oracle
2 25 (15.63%) Google
3 12 (7.50%) IBM
4 9 (5.63%) Veracode
5 7 (4.38%) Dynatrace
5 7 (4.38%) MuleSoft
5 7 (4.38%) Splunk
6 4 (2.50%) Microsoft
6 4 (2.50%) Sybase
7 3 (1.88%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.63%) Confluent
8 1 (0.63%) Databricks
8 1 (0.63%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.63%) Ping Identity
8 1 (0.63%) Solace
8 1 (0.63%) Temenos
8 1 (0.63%) TIBCO