Gradle
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Gradle skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Gradle over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 535 524 438
Rank change year-on-year -11 -86 -26
Contract jobs citing Gradle 63 196 495
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.33% 0.56%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.23% 2.16% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 146 315
10th Percentile £404 £466 £500
25th Percentile £491 £600 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £675 £693
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -2.53% +31.90%
75th Percentile £625 £743 £750
90th Percentile £638 £775 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £581 £451 £500
% change year-on-year +28.81% -9.75% +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 5
10th Percentile - £71.85 £66.34
25th Percentile £77.50 £75.00 £73.15
Median hourly rate £80.00 £80.00 £77.18
Median % change year-on-year - +3.65% +13.50%
75th Percentile £82.50 £86.25 £78.75
90th Percentile - £90.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 - £63.62
% change year-on-year - - +7.82%

All Development Application Skills
UK

Gradle is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,120 9,058 15,913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.82% 15.15% 17.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,445 6,374 11,232
10th Percentile £356 £385 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.24%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +16.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 250 212
10th Percentile £31.71 £45.00 £37.25
25th Percentile £46.20 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% +21.78% +11.60%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £82.75 £78.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +12.84% +21.11%

Gradle
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Gradle as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Gradle in the UK

Gradle
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Gradle.

Daily rate trend for Gradle in the UK

Gradle
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Gradle over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Gradle in the UK

Gradle
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Gradle.

Hourly rate trend for Gradle in the UK

Gradle
Top 12 Contract 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 27 April 2024. 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 -10 46 £550 -18.52% 18
London -24 33 £563 -16.67% 6
UK excluding London +54 24 £581 +28.81% 13
Work from Home +77 14 £575 -20.69% 25
Scotland +39 13 £623 +46.47% 1
North of England +21 4 £550 +23.60% 1
East of England - 4 - - 2
North West +3 3 £550 +23.60%
South East +18 2 £350 -38.60% 5
West Midlands +26 1 £420 -30.00%
Midlands +19 1 £420 -30.00%
North East - 1 £550 - 1

Gradle
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (6.35%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.59%) Apache
2 1 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.59%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (1.59%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 17 (26.98%) GitHub
2 16 (25.40%) AWS
3 13 (20.63%) Azure
4 11 (17.46%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (15.87%) OpenShift
6 6 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (7.94%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (6.35%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (6.35%) Amazon S3
8 4 (6.35%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (6.35%) GCP
9 3 (4.76%) WhatsApp
10 2 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (3.17%) Datadog
10 2 (3.17%) IaaS
10 2 (3.17%) Serverless
11 1 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (1.59%) Firebase
11 1 (1.59%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.11%) Firewall
2 4 (6.35%) 5G
2 4 (6.35%) NAS
2 4 (6.35%) Radio Access Network
2 4 (6.35%) Wireshark
3 1 (1.59%) DHCP
3 1 (1.59%) DNS
3 1 (1.59%) LAN
3 1 (1.59%) SSH
3 1 (1.59%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.94%) NoSQL
2 4 (6.35%) MySQL
2 4 (6.35%) Relational Database
3 3 (4.76%) Oracle Database
3 3 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.17%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.17%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (3.17%) Hadoop
4 2 (3.17%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.17%) RDBMS
4 2 (3.17%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.59%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.59%) Big Data
5 1 (1.59%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.59%) KDB
5 1 (1.59%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.59%) Power BI
5 1 (1.59%) Redis
5 1 (1.59%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 30 (47.62%) Maven
2 21 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 19 (30.16%) Git
4 17 (26.98%) JUnit
5 14 (22.22%) GitLab
6 7 (11.11%) CircleCI
6 7 (11.11%) Cucumber
7 6 (9.52%) JIRA
7 6 (9.52%) REST Assured
7 6 (9.52%) Selenium
7 6 (9.52%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (9.52%) TeamCity
8 5 (7.94%) WebDriver
9 4 (6.35%) Bitbucket
9 4 (6.35%) gcov
9 4 (6.35%) GDB
9 4 (6.35%) JMeter
9 4 (6.35%) SoapUI
9 4 (6.35%) Subversion
9 4 (6.35%) TestNG
General
1 17 (26.98%) Finance
2 7 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 6 (9.52%) Banking
3 6 (9.52%) Telecoms
4 5 (7.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (7.94%) Law
4 5 (7.94%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.35%) Multimedia
6 1 (1.59%) Front Office
6 1 (1.59%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (22.22%) Developer
2 10 (15.87%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (14.29%) Senior
4 6 (9.52%) Android Engineer
5 5 (7.94%) Java Engineer
5 5 (7.94%) Site Manager
5 5 (7.94%) Site Reliability Manager
6 4 (6.35%) Android Developer
6 4 (6.35%) C++ Developer
6 4 (6.35%) Python Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Data Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Java Developer
7 3 (4.76%) Linux DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Linux Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Linux/Unix DevOps
7 3 (4.76%) Python Developer
7 3 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Software Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Tester
8 2 (3.17%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (41.27%) REST
2 14 (22.22%) Spring
3 13 (20.63%) Spring Boot
4 9 (14.29%) Android Jetpack
5 8 (12.70%) Jetpack Compose
6 7 (11.11%) Dagger
6 7 (11.11%) RAML
7 6 (9.52%) Node.js
8 5 (7.94%) Kafka
8 5 (7.94%) RESTful
8 5 (7.94%) WireMock
9 4 (6.35%) GraphQL
9 4 (6.35%) Ktor
9 4 (6.35%) OkHttp
9 4 (6.35%) RxJava
9 4 (6.35%) SOAP
10 3 (4.76%) .NET
10 3 (4.76%) CSS
10 3 (4.76%) HTML
10 3 (4.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.29%) Legacy Code
2 6 (9.52%) Mobile App
2 6 (9.52%) Virtual Team
3 5 (7.94%) Cloud Native
3 5 (7.94%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (7.94%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.76%) Algorithms
4 3 (4.76%) Data Structures
4 3 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.59%) Derivative
6 1 (1.59%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.59%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 20 (31.75%) Linux
2 14 (22.22%) Android
3 7 (11.11%) Unix
3 7 (11.11%) Windows
4 1 (1.59%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.59%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.59%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (49.21%) CI/CD
2 23 (36.51%) Agile
3 18 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
4 17 (26.98%) DevOps
5 16 (25.40%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (22.22%) Test Automation
7 13 (20.63%) Microservices
8 12 (19.05%) Computer Science
8 12 (19.05%) User Experience
9 11 (17.46%) TDD
10 9 (14.29%) BDD
10 9 (14.29%) Performance Analysis
11 8 (12.70%) Design Patterns
11 8 (12.70%) Mentoring
11 8 (12.70%) Open Source
12 7 (11.11%) MVVM
12 7 (11.11%) OWASP
13 6 (9.52%) Android Development
13 6 (9.52%) Root Cause Analysis
13 6 (9.52%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (50.79%) Java
2 24 (38.10%) Python
3 20 (31.75%) Kotlin
4 12 (19.05%) Shell Script
5 10 (15.87%) C
6 9 (14.29%) Bash
6 9 (14.29%) Ruby
7 8 (12.70%) JavaScript
8 7 (11.11%) Groovy
9 6 (9.52%) C++
10 5 (7.94%) Scala
11 4 (6.35%) SQL
12 3 (4.76%) C#
12 3 (4.76%) Objective-C
12 3 (4.76%) PowerShell
12 3 (4.76%) Swift
13 2 (3.17%) Go
13 2 (3.17%) TypeScript
14 1 (1.59%) PHP
14 1 (1.59%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (25.40%) Degree
2 11 (17.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (12.70%) Security Cleared
4 6 (9.52%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.17%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.59%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.59%) OCP
6 1 (1.59%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.70%) QA
2 2 (3.17%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.17%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.59%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 23 (36.51%) Docker
2 1 (1.59%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (39.68%) Kubernetes
2 15 (23.81%) Terraform
3 9 (14.29%) Ansible
4 4 (6.35%) Kibana
5 3 (4.76%) Grafana
6 2 (3.17%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.59%) Anchore
7 1 (1.59%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (1.59%) Istio
7 1 (1.59%) logstash
7 1 (1.59%) Packer
7 1 (1.59%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.59%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.52%) Oracle
3 4 (6.35%) Klocwork
3 4 (6.35%) Perforce
4 3 (4.76%) Apple
5 2 (3.17%) New Relic
5 2 (3.17%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.17%) SAP
6 1 (1.59%) Confluent
6 1 (1.59%) ION Trading
6 1 (1.59%) Splunk