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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 527 435 515
Rank change year-on-year -92 +80 +27
Contract jobs citing Gradle 131 127 65
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.39% 0.16%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.11% 2.65% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 87 47
10th Percentile £326 £358 £412
25th Percentile £400 £420 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £530 £588
Median % change year-on-year -13.68% -9.79% -12.96%
75th Percentile £538 £562 £725
90th Percentile £575 £617 £868
UK excluding London median daily rate £426 £375 £623
% change year-on-year +13.67% -39.76% +18.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 0
10th Percentile - £73.50 -
25th Percentile £76.00 £78.75 -
Median hourly rate £85.50 £90.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £95.00 £92.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £85.50 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year +22.14% - -

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 6,212 4,788 5,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.78% 14.66% 12.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,990 3,222 3,427
10th Percentile £350 £325 £351
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 104 232
10th Percentile £26.05 £23.25 £26.20
25th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £46.11
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £84.80 £73.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.75 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.23% - +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 July 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 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Gradle in the UK

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 23 July 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 -118 105 £500 -5.66% 19
UK excluding London -79 61 £426 +13.67% 13
London -64 57 £525 -1.87% 9
Work from Home -69 23 £474 -11.25% 11
North of England -79 21 £450 +20.00% 4
Scotland +7 15 £377 +6.50% 2
East of England - 11 £495 -
Yorkshire -44 10 £500 -3.80% 2
South East -60 10 £273 -57.01% 3
North West -62 7 £500 +34.23% 2
North East - 4 £450 -
Midlands -60 3 £575 +43.75% 4
East Midlands -15 2 - - 1
South West -36 2 - -
West Midlands -62 1 £575 +43.75% 3

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 (3.05%) Apache
1 4 (3.05%) Apache Spark
1 4 (3.05%) Confluence
2 2 (1.53%) Anypoint
2 2 (1.53%) Camunda
2 2 (1.53%) Mule
3 1 (0.76%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (1.53%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 49 (37.40%) AWS
2 45 (34.35%) GitHub
3 36 (27.48%) Azure
4 35 (26.72%) GitHub Actions
5 19 (14.50%) GCP
6 17 (12.98%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (10.69%) OpenShift
8 12 (9.16%) Google Play
9 7 (5.34%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 6 (4.58%) Firebase
11 5 (3.82%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (3.82%) Apigee
12 4 (3.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (3.05%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (3.05%) Apple Pay
12 4 (3.05%) Cloud Run
12 4 (3.05%) Kong
13 3 (2.29%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (2.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (2.29%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.05%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (1.53%) DSL
2 2 (1.53%) Firewall
2 2 (1.53%) HTTP
3 1 (0.76%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.76%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (26.72%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (18.32%) Relational Database
3 16 (12.21%) MongoDB
4 12 (9.16%) MySQL
5 8 (6.11%) DynamoDB
6 6 (4.58%) NoSQL
6 6 (4.58%) SQL Server
7 4 (3.05%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (3.05%) Flink
7 4 (3.05%) Hazelcast
7 4 (3.05%) RDBMS
7 4 (3.05%) Redis
8 3 (2.29%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.53%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.76%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.76%) Db2
10 1 (0.76%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.76%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 72 (54.96%) Git
2 62 (47.33%) Jenkins
3 61 (46.56%) Maven
4 51 (38.93%) JUnit
5 33 (25.19%) GitLab
6 22 (16.79%) Mockito
7 16 (12.21%) Liquibase
8 12 (9.16%) Android Studio
9 11 (8.40%) SonarQube
10 10 (7.63%) CircleCI
10 10 (7.63%) GoCD
11 9 (6.87%) REST Assured
12 7 (5.34%) fastlane
13 6 (4.58%) Cucumber
13 6 (4.58%) JIRA
13 6 (4.58%) JProfiler
13 6 (4.58%) TestNG
14 5 (3.82%) Crashlytics
14 5 (3.82%) Selenium
14 5 (3.82%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 24 (18.32%) Social Skills
2 21 (16.03%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (12.98%) Public Sector
4 15 (11.45%) Finance
5 14 (10.69%) Banking
6 5 (3.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.82%) Law
6 5 (3.82%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.76%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 89 (67.94%) Developer
2 68 (51.91%) Java Developer
3 23 (17.56%) Senior
4 16 (12.21%) Java Engineer
5 15 (11.45%) Android Developer
6 14 (10.69%) Senior Developer
6 14 (10.69%) Software Engineer
7 13 (9.92%) Senior Java Developer
8 10 (7.63%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 10 (7.63%) Software Developer
9 8 (6.11%) Java Software Developer
9 8 (6.11%) Java Software Engineer
10 6 (4.58%) Lead
10 6 (4.58%) Lead Developer
11 5 (3.82%) Android Engineer
11 5 (3.82%) Backend Developer
11 5 (3.82%) Lead Java Developer
11 5 (3.82%) Mid-Level Java Developer
11 5 (3.82%) Senior Java Engineer
12 4 (3.05%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (70.23%) Spring Boot
2 89 (67.94%) Spring
3 47 (35.88%) React
4 45 (34.35%) Kafka
5 44 (33.59%) REST
5 44 (33.59%) RESTful
6 22 (16.79%) Android Jetpack
7 21 (16.03%) Jetpack Compose
8 19 (14.50%) Hibernate
8 19 (14.50%) OpenAPI
8 19 (14.50%) Swagger
9 16 (12.21%) Redux
10 13 (9.92%) JPA
10 13 (9.92%) Node.js
11 12 (9.16%) HTML
12 11 (8.40%) Retrofit
13 10 (7.63%) CSS
13 10 (7.63%) Spring MVC
14 9 (6.87%) RxJava
14 9 (6.87%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 24 (18.32%) Product Ownership
2 19 (14.50%) Mobile App
3 10 (7.63%) Cloud Native
3 10 (7.63%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (6.87%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (6.87%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (4.58%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (3.82%) Data Structures
6 5 (3.82%) Legacy Code
7 4 (3.05%) Virtual Team
8 3 (2.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (2.29%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.53%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.53%) PKI
10 1 (0.76%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.76%) IoT
10 1 (0.76%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.76%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.76%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 1 (0.76%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 23 (17.56%) Android
2 7 (5.34%) Linux
3 3 (2.29%) Unix
4 1 (0.76%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (75.57%) CI/CD
2 79 (60.31%) Agile
3 73 (55.73%) Microservices
4 54 (41.22%) DevOps
5 50 (38.17%) TDD
6 49 (37.40%) Test Automation
7 41 (31.30%) Containerisation
8 38 (29.01%) Scrum
9 37 (28.24%) Software Engineering
10 33 (25.19%) Problem-Solving
11 27 (20.61%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (16.03%) Design Patterns
13 20 (15.27%) Clean Code
14 19 (14.50%) Android Development
14 19 (14.50%) Observability
15 17 (12.98%) Event-Driven
15 17 (12.98%) Full-Stack Development
16 16 (12.21%) OOP
16 16 (12.21%) Secure Coding
17 15 (11.45%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 119 (90.84%) Java
2 63 (48.09%) SQL
3 27 (20.61%) Kotlin
4 19 (14.50%) TypeScript
5 18 (13.74%) JavaScript
6 10 (7.63%) PL/SQL
7 6 (4.58%) Python
8 3 (2.29%) Bash
8 3 (2.29%) Ruby
8 3 (2.29%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.53%) Korn
10 1 (0.76%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 35 (26.72%) Security Cleared
2 30 (22.90%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (8.40%) Degree
4 7 (5.34%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.76%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (18.32%) QA
2 12 (9.16%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.82%) WCAG
4 4 (3.05%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.53%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.76%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.76%) GDPR
6 1 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.76%) SEPA
System Software
1 52 (39.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 38 (29.01%) Kubernetes
2 24 (18.32%) Ansible
3 10 (7.63%) Control-M
3 10 (7.63%) Grafana
3 10 (7.63%) Prometheus
4 9 (6.87%) Terraform
5 4 (3.05%) Argo
6 2 (1.53%) Istio
7 1 (0.76%) Podman
7 1 (0.76%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.76%) Puppet
Vendors
1 37 (28.24%) Oracle
2 18 (13.74%) Google
3 8 (6.11%) Dynatrace
3 8 (6.11%) Splunk
4 7 (5.34%) MuleSoft
5 4 (3.05%) IBM
6 2 (1.53%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.53%) Sybase
6 2 (1.53%) Veracode
7 1 (0.76%) Solace
7 1 (0.76%) TIBCO