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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 530 448 524
Rank change year-on-year -82 +76 -25
Contract jobs citing Gradle 95 70 60
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.24% 0.14%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.63% 1.72% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 48 39
10th Percentile £291 £405 £297
25th Percentile £358 £496 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £534 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -1.20% -20.00%
75th Percentile £588 £569 £613
90th Percentile £726 £733 £634
UK excluding London median daily rate £407 £530 £575
% change year-on-year -23.16% -7.83% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 2 1
10th Percentile £46.00 - -
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% +6.67%
75th Percentile £61.25 £92.50 £82.50
90th Percentile £80.00 - -
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 5,826 4,061 5,148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.99% 13.97% 11.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,893 2,716 3,502
10th Percentile £343 £339 £358
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £581 £606 £625
90th Percentile £688 £716 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -2.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 73 179
10th Percentile £39.00 £25.41 £34.60
25th Percentile £59.00 £50.00 £45.44
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +0.81% +0.81%
75th Percentile £76.75 £75.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £84.95 £83.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +5.47% +2.40% +1.63%

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 April 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 3 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Gradle in the UK

Gradle
Top 12 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 April 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 -66 92 £525 -1.59% 16
UK excluding London -68 54 £407 -23.16% 6
London -60 34 £528 -2.31% 10
South East -25 30 £382 -40.08% 2
North of England -57 19 £402 -24.15% 2
North West -37 17 £402 -24.15% 2
Work from Home -46 15 £325 -39.08% 5
Midlands -65 4 £575 +35.29%
East Midlands -30 2 - -
Yorkshire -60 2 - -
West Midlands -65 2 £575 +26.37%
South West - 1 £500 - 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 5 (5.26%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.21%) Apache
3 3 (3.16%) Confluence
4 2 (2.11%) Camunda
4 2 (2.11%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.05%) JBoss
5 1 (1.05%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (2.11%) Shopify
2 1 (1.05%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 40 (42.11%) AWS
2 34 (35.79%) GitHub
3 19 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
4 11 (11.58%) Azure
5 7 (7.37%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (7.37%) Datadog
6 6 (6.32%) Amazon S3
6 6 (6.32%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (6.32%) OpenShift
6 6 (6.32%) Serverless
7 5 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (5.26%) GCP
8 4 (4.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (3.16%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (3.16%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (3.16%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (3.16%) Firebase
9 3 (3.16%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.16%) Kerberos
2 2 (2.11%) Bluetooth
2 2 (2.11%) DSL
2 2 (2.11%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (24.21%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (11.58%) NoSQL
3 10 (10.53%) DynamoDB
4 8 (8.42%) MongoDB
4 8 (8.42%) Relational Database
5 7 (7.37%) MySQL
6 6 (6.32%) HBase
7 3 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (3.16%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (2.11%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.05%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (1.05%) Big Data
9 1 (1.05%) Flink
9 1 (1.05%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 40 (42.11%) Maven
2 37 (38.95%) JUnit
3 36 (37.89%) Git
4 31 (32.63%) Jenkins
5 21 (22.11%) GitLab
6 15 (15.79%) Cucumber
7 13 (13.68%) IntelliJ
8 12 (12.63%) Mockito
9 10 (10.53%) Sonatype Nexus
10 9 (9.47%) Android Studio
10 9 (9.47%) Artifactory
10 9 (9.47%) CircleCI
11 7 (7.37%) Gatling
11 7 (7.37%) Postman
11 7 (7.37%) Selenium
12 6 (6.32%) Bitbucket
12 6 (6.32%) JIRA
12 6 (6.32%) Liquibase
12 6 (6.32%) REST Assured
12 6 (6.32%) TestNG
General
1 17 (17.89%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.63%) Finance
3 10 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 9 (9.47%) Banking
5 3 (3.16%) Law
6 2 (2.11%) Front Office
6 2 (2.11%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.05%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.05%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 49 (51.58%) Developer
2 28 (29.47%) Java Developer
2 28 (29.47%) Java Engineer
3 21 (22.11%) Senior
3 21 (22.11%) Software Engineer
4 16 (16.84%) Android Developer
4 16 (16.84%) Java Software Engineer
5 12 (12.63%) Senior Developer
6 11 (11.58%) Senior Java Developer
7 5 (5.26%) Android Engineer
7 5 (5.26%) Senior Java Engineer
8 4 (4.21%) AWS Developer
8 4 (4.21%) Senior Software Engineer
9 3 (3.16%) Lead
10 2 (2.11%) Applications Developer
10 2 (2.11%) Backend Developer
10 2 (2.11%) DevOps Engineer
10 2 (2.11%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
10 2 (2.11%) Server Engineer
10 2 (2.11%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (58.95%) Spring
2 49 (51.58%) Spring Boot
3 22 (23.16%) Kafka
4 21 (22.11%) REST
5 16 (16.84%) OpenTelemetry
5 16 (16.84%) RESTful
6 13 (13.68%) GraphQL
7 12 (12.63%) Android Jetpack
7 12 (12.63%) Jetpack Compose
7 12 (12.63%) React
8 11 (11.58%) OpenAPI
8 11 (11.58%) Swagger
9 7 (7.37%) RxJava
10 6 (6.32%) AngularJS
10 6 (6.32%) Dagger
10 6 (6.32%) Hibernate
10 6 (6.32%) JSON
10 6 (6.32%) OkHttp
10 6 (6.32%) RAML
11 5 (5.26%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.53%) Product Ownership
2 7 (7.37%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.37%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (6.32%) Legacy Code
3 6 (6.32%) Mobile App
4 5 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (5.26%) Virtual Team
5 3 (3.16%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.11%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.11%) Derivative
6 2 (2.11%) Equities
6 2 (2.11%) Private Cloud
6 2 (2.11%) TWAP
6 2 (2.11%) VWAP
7 1 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.05%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.05%) Synthetic Data
7 1 (1.05%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 20 (21.05%) Android
2 7 (7.37%) Linux
3 4 (4.21%) Windows
4 3 (3.16%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.05%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (52.63%) CI/CD
2 32 (33.68%) Test Automation
3 31 (32.63%) Microservices
4 28 (29.47%) DevOps
5 26 (27.37%) Software Engineering
6 23 (24.21%) Agile
7 22 (23.16%) TDD
8 21 (22.11%) Containerisation
9 16 (16.84%) Event-Driven
10 15 (15.79%) Android Development
10 15 (15.79%) Observability
11 14 (14.74%) User Experience
12 13 (13.68%) Design Patterns
12 13 (13.68%) OOP
12 13 (13.68%) Unit Testing
13 11 (11.58%) Continuous Integration
14 10 (10.53%) API Design
14 10 (10.53%) Architectural Patterns
14 10 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
14 10 (10.53%) Performance Analysis
Programming Languages
1 74 (77.89%) Java
2 35 (36.84%) Kotlin
3 18 (18.95%) SQL
4 7 (7.37%) Python
4 7 (7.37%) TypeScript
5 3 (3.16%) Go
6 2 (2.11%) Bash
6 2 (2.11%) C++
6 2 (2.11%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.11%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.11%) Scala
6 2 (2.11%) Swift
7 1 (1.05%) BrightScript
7 1 (1.05%) Groovy
7 1 (1.05%) Objective-C
7 1 (1.05%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (17.89%) Security Cleared
2 11 (11.58%) SC Cleared
3 10 (10.53%) Degree
4 8 (8.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (7.37%) OCP
5 7 (7.37%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (2.11%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.05%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.05%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (15.79%) QA
2 6 (6.32%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.11%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.11%) NCSC
4 1 (1.05%) SEPA
4 1 (1.05%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (32.63%) Docker
2 1 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 24 (25.26%) Grafana
3 8 (8.42%) Prometheus
3 8 (8.42%) Terraform
4 6 (6.32%) Ansible
5 3 (3.16%) Puppet
6 2 (2.11%) Podman
6 2 (2.11%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (8.42%) Oracle
1 8 (8.42%) Splunk
2 4 (4.21%) Dynatrace
2 4 (4.21%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.16%) Google
4 2 (2.11%) New Relic
4 2 (2.11%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.05%) Adobe
5 1 (1.05%) Roku