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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 519 407 505
Rank change year-on-year -112 +98 +12
Contract jobs citing Gradle 112 111 62
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.38% 0.14%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.91% 2.61% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 74 38
10th Percentile £293 £375 £400
25th Percentile £400 £440 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.13% -3.64% -18.52%
75th Percentile £568 £550 £632
90th Percentile £614 £620 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £435 £588
% change year-on-year +3.38% -25.91% +13.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 3 1
10th Percentile - £73.50 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £78.75 £77.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £90.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.89% +12.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £70.00 £92.50 £82.50
90th Percentile £83.60 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% -12.50% -

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 5,867 4,261 5,148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.99% 14.63% 11.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,821 2,856 3,453
10th Percentile £350 £340 £350
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 £600 £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 255 74 224
10th Percentile £35.00 £22.10 £26.77
25th Percentile £55.63 £47.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.69 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.07 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +7.20% -3.85% +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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -83 109 £500 -5.66% 20
UK excluding London -66 59 £450 +3.38% 10
London -68 46 £525 -0.94% 11
North of England -68 29 £450 -13.42% 3
North West -43 20 £402 - 2
Work from Home -59 17 £389 -27.18% 10
South East - 15 £354 - 1
East of England - 11 £495 - 1
Yorkshire -58 6 - -
Midlands -59 3 £575 +34.66% 2
North East - 3 £450 - 1
East Midlands -29 2 - - 1
South West - 2 £500 - 1
West Midlands -59 1 £575 +35.29% 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 (3.57%) Apache
1 4 (3.57%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.68%) Camunda
2 3 (2.68%) Confluence
3 1 (0.89%) JBoss
3 1 (0.89%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.89%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (1.79%) Shopify
2 1 (0.89%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 40 (35.71%) GitHub
2 32 (28.57%) AWS
2 32 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
3 20 (17.86%) Azure
4 11 (9.82%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (8.93%) GCP
6 6 (5.36%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 5 (4.46%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (4.46%) Firebase
7 5 (4.46%) Google Play
7 5 (4.46%) OpenShift
8 4 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (3.57%) Apigee
8 4 (3.57%) Apple Pay
8 4 (3.57%) Cloud Run
8 4 (3.57%) Kong
9 3 (2.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (2.68%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (2.68%) DSL
3 2 (1.79%) HTTP
4 1 (0.89%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (10.71%) Relational Database
3 8 (7.14%) DynamoDB
4 7 (6.25%) MongoDB
5 6 (5.36%) MySQL
6 5 (4.46%) RDBMS
7 4 (3.57%) Flink
7 4 (3.57%) Hazelcast
7 4 (3.57%) NoSQL
7 4 (3.57%) Redis
8 3 (2.68%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.68%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 44 (39.29%) Git
2 41 (36.61%) JUnit
3 40 (35.71%) Maven
4 38 (33.93%) GitLab
5 36 (32.14%) Jenkins
6 22 (19.64%) Mockito
7 16 (14.29%) Liquibase
8 13 (11.61%) IntelliJ
9 11 (9.82%) CircleCI
10 8 (7.14%) fastlane
11 7 (6.25%) Android Studio
11 7 (6.25%) Cucumber
11 7 (6.25%) REST Assured
11 7 (6.25%) SonarQube
12 5 (4.46%) Crashlytics
12 5 (4.46%) JIRA
12 5 (4.46%) Selenium
12 5 (4.46%) Snyk
13 4 (3.57%) Postman
13 4 (3.57%) TestNG
General
1 14 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 10 (8.93%) Public Sector
3 9 (8.04%) Finance
4 7 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (6.25%) Banking
5 5 (4.46%) Law
6 4 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.79%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.89%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 55 (49.11%) Developer
2 35 (31.25%) Java Developer
3 30 (26.79%) Java Engineer
4 27 (24.11%) Software Engineer
5 26 (23.21%) Senior
6 19 (16.96%) Java Software Engineer
7 15 (13.39%) Android Developer
8 13 (11.61%) Senior Developer
9 12 (10.71%) Senior Java Developer
10 7 (6.25%) Android Engineer
10 7 (6.25%) Senior Java Engineer
11 6 (5.36%) Backend Developer
12 5 (4.46%) Java Software Developer
12 5 (4.46%) Software Developer
13 4 (3.57%) Senior Backend Developer
14 3 (2.68%) Applications Engineer
14 3 (2.68%) Senior Software Engineer
15 2 (1.79%) DevOps Engineer
15 2 (1.79%) Java Applications Developer
15 2 (1.79%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (62.50%) Spring
1 70 (62.50%) Spring Boot
2 28 (25.00%) Kafka
3 27 (24.11%) REST
4 25 (22.32%) React
5 21 (18.75%) OpenAPI
5 21 (18.75%) Swagger
6 20 (17.86%) OpenTelemetry
6 20 (17.86%) RESTful
7 19 (16.96%) Android Jetpack
8 18 (16.07%) Jetpack Compose
9 12 (10.71%) GraphQL
10 11 (9.82%) WireMock
11 9 (8.04%) JPA
11 9 (8.04%) RxJava
12 7 (6.25%) Dagger
13 6 (5.36%) OkHttp
13 6 (5.36%) Playwright
13 6 (5.36%) RAML
13 6 (5.36%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.61%) Mobile App
2 12 (10.71%) Product Ownership
3 9 (8.04%) Cloud Native
4 8 (7.14%) Legacy Code
5 7 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (5.36%) Virtual Team
7 5 (4.46%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.68%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.79%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.89%) Equities
10 1 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.89%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.89%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 1 (0.89%) Synthetic Data
10 1 (0.89%) TWAP
10 1 (0.89%) Video\Live Streaming
10 1 (0.89%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 22 (19.64%) Android
2 7 (6.25%) Linux
3 3 (2.68%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.79%) Windows
5 1 (0.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 49 (43.75%) Microservices
2 49 (43.75%) Software Engineering
3 46 (41.07%) TDD
4 44 (39.29%) Agile
5 39 (34.82%) DevOps
5 39 (34.82%) Test Automation
6 36 (32.14%) Containerisation
7 21 (18.75%) Observability
8 16 (14.29%) Android Development
8 16 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
8 16 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
9 15 (13.39%) Event-Driven
9 15 (13.39%) Secure Coding
9 15 (13.39%) User Experience
10 14 (12.50%) Unit Testing
11 13 (11.61%) Clean Code
11 13 (11.61%) Design Patterns
12 12 (10.71%) Computer Science
13 11 (9.82%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 89 (79.46%) Java
2 42 (37.50%) SQL
3 40 (35.71%) Kotlin
4 19 (16.96%) TypeScript
5 2 (1.79%) Bash
5 2 (1.79%) Go
5 2 (1.79%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.79%) Python
5 2 (1.79%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.79%) Swift
6 1 (0.89%) BrightScript
6 1 (0.89%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 20 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 14 (12.50%) Degree
2 14 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 12 (10.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.89%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (13.39%) QA
2 10 (8.93%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.57%) PCI DSS
3 4 (3.57%) WCAG
4 2 (1.79%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.79%) NCSC
5 1 (0.89%) GDPR
5 1 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.89%) SEPA
System Software
1 38 (33.93%) Docker
2 1 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 37 (33.04%) Kubernetes
2 22 (19.64%) Grafana
3 14 (12.50%) Ansible
4 9 (8.04%) Prometheus
5 8 (7.14%) Terraform
6 4 (3.57%) Argo
7 1 (0.89%) Istio
7 1 (0.89%) Podman
7 1 (0.89%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.89%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (7.14%) Dynatrace
2 7 (6.25%) Oracle
2 7 (6.25%) Splunk
3 5 (4.46%) Google
4 3 (2.68%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.79%) New Relic
5 2 (1.79%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.89%) IBM
6 1 (0.89%) Roku
6 1 (0.89%) Veracode