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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 529 411 527
Rank change year-on-year -118 +116 -14
Contract jobs citing Gradle 116 122 67
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.41% 0.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.96% 2.83% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 83 41
10th Percentile £299 £358 £410
25th Percentile £401 £418 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £530 £588
Median % change year-on-year -9.91% -9.79% -12.96%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £634
90th Percentile £591 £618 £863
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £401 £605
% change year-on-year +12.22% -33.72% +15.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 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% +1.39%
75th Percentile £76.00 £92.50 £82.50
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
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 5,932 4,307 5,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.79% 14.51% 12.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,845 2,875 3,506
10th Percentile £350 £331 £354
25th Percentile £410 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £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 256 83 243
10th Percentile £26.25 £20.85 £28.65
25th Percentile £56.71 £46.59 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.55% -11.15% +5.26%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.37 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £59.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.45% -8.46% +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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -109 110 £495 -6.60% 33
London -57 55 £525 -0.94% 11
UK excluding London -88 55 £450 +12.22% 31
North of England -72 24 £450 +11.94% 6
South East -44 14 £339 - 6
Work from Home -69 14 £375 -29.71% 34
North West -49 13 £500 +34.23% 3
East of England - 11 £495 - 4
Yorkshire -54 7 - - 2
North East - 4 £450 - 1
Scotland -12 3 £331 -6.50% 5
East Midlands -23 2 - - 2
Midlands -65 2 - - 5
South West - 2 £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 4 (3.45%) Apache
1 4 (3.45%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.59%) Camunda
2 3 (2.59%) Confluence
3 2 (1.72%) Anypoint
3 2 (1.72%) Mule
Business Applications
1 2 (1.72%) Shopify
2 1 (0.86%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 44 (37.93%) GitHub
2 35 (30.17%) GitHub Actions
3 32 (27.59%) AWS
4 24 (20.69%) Azure
5 14 (12.07%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (8.62%) GCP
7 8 (6.90%) OpenShift
8 6 (5.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 5 (4.31%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (4.31%) Apigee
9 5 (4.31%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (4.31%) Firebase
9 5 (4.31%) Google Play
10 4 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (3.45%) Apple Pay
10 4 (3.45%) Cloud Run
10 4 (3.45%) Kong
11 3 (2.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (2.59%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.45%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (2.59%) DSL
3 2 (1.72%) Firewall
3 2 (1.72%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (21.55%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (10.34%) MongoDB
2 12 (10.34%) Relational Database
3 8 (6.90%) DynamoDB
4 7 (6.03%) MySQL
5 4 (3.45%) Flink
5 4 (3.45%) Hazelcast
5 4 (3.45%) NoSQL
5 4 (3.45%) RDBMS
5 4 (3.45%) Redis
6 3 (2.59%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.59%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (2.59%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.86%) Db2
Development Applications
1 50 (43.10%) Git
2 45 (38.79%) JUnit
3 44 (37.93%) Maven
4 43 (37.07%) Jenkins
5 33 (28.45%) GitLab
6 22 (18.97%) Mockito
7 16 (13.79%) Liquibase
8 11 (9.48%) CircleCI
9 8 (6.90%) Cucumber
9 8 (6.90%) fastlane
9 8 (6.90%) REST Assured
10 7 (6.03%) IntelliJ
10 7 (6.03%) SonarQube
11 6 (5.17%) Android Studio
11 6 (5.17%) TestNG
12 5 (4.31%) Crashlytics
12 5 (4.31%) Gatling
13 4 (3.45%) Bitbucket
13 4 (3.45%) GoCD
13 4 (3.45%) Snyk
General
1 17 (14.66%) Social Skills
2 14 (12.07%) Finance
3 11 (9.48%) Public Sector
4 9 (7.76%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (7.76%) Banking
5 5 (4.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (4.31%) Law
6 1 (0.86%) Front Office
6 1 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 63 (54.31%) Developer
2 46 (39.66%) Java Developer
3 26 (22.41%) Senior
4 25 (21.55%) Java Engineer
5 22 (18.97%) Software Engineer
6 14 (12.07%) Java Software Engineer
7 13 (11.21%) Android Developer
7 13 (11.21%) Senior Developer
8 12 (10.34%) Senior Java Developer
9 8 (6.90%) Android Engineer
10 7 (6.03%) Senior Java Engineer
11 6 (5.17%) Java Software Developer
11 6 (5.17%) Software Developer
12 5 (4.31%) Backend Developer
13 4 (3.45%) Applications Engineer
13 4 (3.45%) SC Cleared Java Developer
13 4 (3.45%) Senior Backend Developer
14 3 (2.59%) Mid-Level Java Developer
14 3 (2.59%) Senior Software Engineer
15 2 (1.72%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (63.79%) Spring Boot
2 73 (62.93%) Spring
3 35 (30.17%) Kafka
4 33 (28.45%) React
5 29 (25.00%) REST
6 25 (21.55%) RESTful
7 21 (18.10%) OpenAPI
7 21 (18.10%) Swagger
8 18 (15.52%) Android Jetpack
9 17 (14.66%) Jetpack Compose
10 14 (12.07%) OpenTelemetry
11 12 (10.34%) Hibernate
12 11 (9.48%) RxJava
12 11 (9.48%) WireMock
13 10 (8.62%) GraphQL
13 10 (8.62%) JPA
14 7 (6.03%) Dagger
15 6 (5.17%) RAML
15 6 (5.17%) Redux
15 6 (5.17%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.93%) Product Ownership
2 13 (11.21%) Mobile App
3 10 (8.62%) Cloud Native
4 9 (7.76%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (6.90%) Legacy Code
6 7 (6.03%) Virtual Team
7 6 (5.17%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (4.31%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (3.45%) Data Structures
9 4 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (2.59%) Algorithms
10 3 (2.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (2.59%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (1.72%) PKI
12 1 (0.86%) Derivative
12 1 (0.86%) Equities
12 1 (0.86%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 1 (0.86%) TWAP
12 1 (0.86%) Video\Live Streaming
12 1 (0.86%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 21 (18.10%) Android
2 6 (5.17%) Linux
3 2 (1.72%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.72%) Unix
4 1 (0.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (66.38%) CI/CD
2 54 (46.55%) Microservices
3 51 (43.97%) Agile
4 49 (42.24%) TDD
5 46 (39.66%) DevOps
6 45 (38.79%) Test Automation
7 43 (37.07%) Software Engineering
8 36 (31.03%) Containerisation
9 21 (18.10%) Observability
10 18 (15.52%) Event-Driven
11 17 (14.66%) Architectural Patterns
12 16 (13.79%) Android Development
12 16 (13.79%) Secure Coding
13 14 (12.07%) Continuous Integration
14 13 (11.21%) API Integration
14 13 (11.21%) Full-Stack Development
14 13 (11.21%) Scrum
14 13 (11.21%) Unit Testing
15 12 (10.34%) Clean Code
15 12 (10.34%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 95 (81.90%) Java
2 49 (42.24%) SQL
3 31 (26.72%) Kotlin
4 19 (16.38%) TypeScript
5 6 (5.17%) Python
6 5 (4.31%) PL/SQL
7 4 (3.45%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.59%) Bash
9 2 (1.72%) Go
9 2 (1.72%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.86%) BrightScript
10 1 (0.86%) Korn
10 1 (0.86%) Swift
Qualifications
1 21 (18.10%) Security Cleared
2 18 (15.52%) SC Cleared
3 12 (10.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (10.34%) Degree
4 1 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (16.38%) QA
2 9 (7.76%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.31%) WCAG
4 4 (3.45%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.72%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.72%) NCSC
6 1 (0.86%) GDPR
6 1 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.86%) SEPA
System Software
1 37 (31.90%) Docker
2 1 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (25.86%) Kubernetes
2 18 (15.52%) Ansible
3 14 (12.07%) Grafana
4 8 (6.90%) Prometheus
5 6 (5.17%) Terraform
6 5 (4.31%) Control-M
7 4 (3.45%) Argo
8 2 (1.72%) Istio
Vendors
1 14 (12.07%) Oracle
2 10 (8.62%) Dynatrace
3 7 (6.03%) Splunk
4 6 (5.17%) Google
5 5 (4.31%) Microsoft
6 4 (3.45%) MuleSoft
7 3 (2.59%) IBM
8 2 (1.72%) New Relic
8 2 (1.72%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.72%) Sybase
9 1 (0.86%) Roku
9 1 (0.86%) Solace
9 1 (0.86%) TIBCO
9 1 (0.86%) Veracode