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 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 536 416 494
Rank change year-on-year -120 +78 +32
Contract jobs citing Gradle 143 138 56
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.42% 0.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.32% 2.79% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 100 36
10th Percentile £339 £358 £509
25th Percentile £400 £393 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £528 £602
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% -12.41% -7.35%
75th Percentile £538 £570 £834
90th Percentile £573 £615 £894
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £384 £650
% change year-on-year +17.26% -40.96% +23.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
Median hourly rate £76.00 £90.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% - -
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 6,159 4,940 5,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.49% 15.20% 13.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,974 3,328 3,251
10th Percentile £356 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £599 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 115 179
10th Percentile £35.00 £28.65 £27.60
25th Percentile £53.00 £50.00 £51.13
Median hourly rate £67.24 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.44% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £85.70 £71.58
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +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 3 September 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 3 September 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 -131 113 £500 -5.66% 78
London -58 67 £525 -1.87% 62
UK excluding London -101 62 £450 +17.26% 37
Work from Home -46 33 £500 -6.28% 44
North of England -81 24 £500 +33.33% 6
Scotland -9 18 £377 +6.50% 8
Yorkshire -36 12 £500 +13.93% 2
East of England - 11 £495 -
North West -76 8 £537 +43.20% 3
South East -62 6 £270 -57.48% 10
North East - 4 £450 - 1
South West -38 2 - - 7
Midlands -54 2 £455 +4.53% 3
East Midlands -21 1 £335 -21.91% 1
West Midlands -52 1 £575 - 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 9 (6.29%) Confluence
2 8 (5.59%) Camunda
3 4 (2.80%) Apache
3 4 (2.80%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.40%) Anypoint
4 2 (1.40%) Mule
5 1 (0.70%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (1.40%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.70%) Finacle
2 1 (0.70%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.70%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 52 (36.36%) AWS
2 45 (31.47%) Azure
3 41 (28.67%) GitHub
4 30 (20.98%) GitHub Actions
5 25 (17.48%) OpenShift
6 22 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (15.38%) GCP
7 12 (8.39%) Google Play
8 9 (6.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 6 (4.20%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (4.20%) Apigee
9 6 (4.20%) Firebase
9 6 (4.20%) Kong
10 5 (3.50%) Cloud Run
11 4 (2.80%) Apple Pay
12 3 (2.10%) Amazon Kinesis
12 3 (2.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (2.10%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (2.10%) GitHub Copilot
12 3 (2.10%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.80%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (1.40%) Firewall
3 1 (0.70%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.70%) DSL
3 1 (0.70%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (25.17%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (18.18%) Relational Database
3 20 (13.99%) MongoDB
4 14 (9.79%) MySQL
5 12 (8.39%) SQL Server
6 8 (5.59%) NoSQL
7 6 (4.20%) RDBMS
8 5 (3.50%) DynamoDB
8 5 (3.50%) Hazelcast
8 5 (3.50%) Redis
9 4 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (2.80%) Flink
10 3 (2.10%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (2.10%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (2.10%) MariaDB
10 3 (2.10%) Oracle Database
11 2 (1.40%) Db2
12 1 (0.70%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.70%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 84 (58.74%) Jenkins
2 78 (54.55%) Git
3 72 (50.35%) Maven
4 57 (39.86%) JUnit
5 38 (26.57%) GitLab
6 30 (20.98%) Mockito
7 19 (13.29%) SonarQube
8 18 (12.59%) Liquibase
9 14 (9.79%) JIRA
9 14 (9.79%) REST Assured
10 12 (8.39%) Android Studio
11 11 (7.69%) GoCD
11 11 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
12 9 (6.29%) Selenium
13 8 (5.59%) Bitbucket Server
13 8 (5.59%) Cucumber
14 7 (4.90%) CircleCI
14 7 (4.90%) JProfiler
15 6 (4.20%) fastlane
16 5 (3.50%) Crashlytics
General
1 27 (18.88%) Analytical Skills
2 26 (18.18%) Banking
2 26 (18.18%) Finance
2 26 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 20 (13.99%) Public Sector
4 7 (4.90%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (4.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.50%) Law
7 1 (0.70%) Games
7 1 (0.70%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 102 (71.33%) Developer
2 78 (54.55%) Java Developer
3 24 (16.78%) Senior
4 17 (11.89%) Software Engineer
5 15 (10.49%) Senior Developer
6 14 (9.79%) Android Developer
6 14 (9.79%) Java Engineer
6 14 (9.79%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 14 (9.79%) Senior Java Developer
7 13 (9.09%) Software Developer
8 9 (6.29%) Java Software Developer
9 7 (4.90%) Java Software Engineer
9 7 (4.90%) Lead
10 6 (4.20%) Backend Developer
10 6 (4.20%) Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (4.20%) Lead Developer
10 6 (4.20%) Lead Java Developer
11 5 (3.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 5 (3.50%) Mid-Level Java Developer
12 4 (2.80%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (75.52%) Spring Boot
2 100 (69.93%) Spring
3 68 (47.55%) Kafka
4 61 (42.66%) React
5 48 (33.57%) RESTful
6 47 (32.87%) REST
7 29 (20.28%) Hibernate
8 27 (18.88%) Redux
9 21 (14.69%) JPA
9 21 (14.69%) OpenAPI
9 21 (14.69%) Swagger
10 20 (13.99%) HTML
11 19 (13.29%) Android Jetpack
12 18 (12.59%) CSS
12 18 (12.59%) Jetpack Compose
13 17 (11.89%) Node.js
14 11 (7.69%) Retrofit
14 11 (7.69%) Spring MVC
15 10 (6.99%) Terraform
15 10 (6.99%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (16.08%) Product Ownership
2 17 (11.89%) Mobile App
3 12 (8.39%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (8.39%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (6.99%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (6.29%) Data Structures
6 7 (4.90%) Cloud Native
7 6 (4.20%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 2 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.40%) Legacy Code
8 2 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.40%) PKI
8 2 (1.40%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.70%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.70%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.70%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.70%) IoT
9 1 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.70%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (13.29%) Android
2 11 (7.69%) Linux
3 5 (3.50%) Unix
4 1 (0.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (79.72%) CI/CD
2 98 (68.53%) Agile
3 88 (61.54%) Microservices
4 64 (44.76%) DevOps
5 59 (41.26%) TDD
6 58 (40.56%) Test Automation
7 48 (33.57%) Containerisation
7 48 (33.57%) Scrum
8 43 (30.07%) Software Engineering
9 41 (28.67%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (20.98%) Clean Code
11 28 (19.58%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (17.48%) Design Patterns
13 24 (16.78%) Event-Driven
14 22 (15.38%) Observability
15 20 (13.99%) Full-Stack Development
16 18 (12.59%) Android Development
17 17 (11.89%) OOP
17 17 (11.89%) User Stories
18 16 (11.19%) OO
Programming Languages
1 136 (95.10%) Java
2 81 (56.64%) SQL
3 31 (21.68%) JavaScript
4 23 (16.08%) TypeScript
5 20 (13.99%) Kotlin
6 13 (9.09%) PL/SQL
7 11 (7.69%) Python
8 6 (4.20%) Shell Script
9 5 (3.50%) Bash
10 4 (2.80%) Ruby
11 3 (2.10%) Groovy
12 2 (1.40%) Korn
13 1 (0.70%) C#
13 1 (0.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 48 (33.57%) Security Cleared
2 42 (29.37%) SC Cleared
3 15 (10.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (10.49%) Degree
4 7 (4.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.80%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.40%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (15.38%) QA
2 12 (8.39%) Accessibility
3 7 (4.90%) ISO 20022
4 5 (3.50%) WCAG
5 4 (2.80%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.40%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.70%) GDPR
7 1 (0.70%) PSD2
7 1 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.70%) SEPA
System Software
1 58 (40.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 46 (32.17%) Kubernetes
2 25 (17.48%) Ansible
3 12 (8.39%) Control-M
4 11 (7.69%) Grafana
4 11 (7.69%) Prometheus
5 5 (3.50%) Argo
6 2 (1.40%) Istio
7 1 (0.70%) Podman
7 1 (0.70%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 46 (32.17%) Oracle
2 19 (13.29%) Google
3 11 (7.69%) IBM
4 8 (5.59%) Splunk
4 8 (5.59%) Veracode
5 7 (4.90%) Dynatrace
5 7 (4.90%) MuleSoft
6 3 (2.10%) Sybase
7 2 (1.40%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.70%) Confluent
8 1 (0.70%) Databricks
8 1 (0.70%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.70%) Solace
8 1 (0.70%) Temenos
8 1 (0.70%) TIBCO