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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 527 405 520
Rank change year-on-year -122 +115 -8
Contract jobs citing Gradle 116 122 68
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.41% 0.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.93% 2.79% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 83 42
10th Percentile £318 £358 £410
25th Percentile £402 £418 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £530 £581
Median % change year-on-year -9.91% -8.82% -13.89%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £634
90th Percentile £599 £618 £854
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 6,010 4,378 5,295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.87% 14.66% 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,888 2,927 3,523
10th Percentile £350 £331 £355
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 £588 £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 261 84 248
10th Percentile £26.25 £20.85 £27.40
25th Percentile £56.25 £46.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £58.38 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.35% -10.19% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.07 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.67% -7.69% +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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -94 108 £495 -6.60% 12
UK excluding London -97 56 £450 +12.22% 8
London -66 55 £525 -0.94% 8
North of England -81 24 £450 +11.94% 1
Work from Home -67 14 £375 -29.71% 14
South East -50 13 £354 - 2
North West -55 13 £500 +34.23% 1
East of England - 11 £495 -
Yorkshire -57 7 - -
Scotland -7 5 £331 -6.50% 3
North East - 4 £450 -
East Midlands -20 2 - -
Midlands -66 2 - -
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 43 (37.07%) GitHub
2 34 (29.31%) GitHub Actions
3 33 (28.45%) 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%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (2.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
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 13 (11.21%) MongoDB
3 12 (10.34%) Relational Database
4 8 (6.90%) DynamoDB
5 6 (5.17%) MySQL
6 4 (3.45%) Flink
6 4 (3.45%) Hazelcast
6 4 (3.45%) NoSQL
6 4 (3.45%) RDBMS
6 4 (3.45%) Redis
7 3 (2.59%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.59%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (2.59%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.86%) Db2
8 1 (0.86%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 51 (43.97%) Git
2 46 (39.66%) JUnit
3 45 (38.79%) Jenkins
3 45 (38.79%) Maven
4 33 (28.45%) GitLab
5 22 (18.97%) Mockito
6 16 (13.79%) Liquibase
7 10 (8.62%) CircleCI
8 8 (6.90%) Cucumber
8 8 (6.90%) fastlane
8 8 (6.90%) REST Assured
9 7 (6.03%) IntelliJ
9 7 (6.03%) SonarQube
10 6 (5.17%) Android Studio
10 6 (5.17%) GoCD
10 6 (5.17%) TestNG
11 5 (4.31%) Crashlytics
11 5 (4.31%) Gatling
12 4 (3.45%) Bitbucket
12 4 (3.45%) Snyk
General
1 18 (15.52%) Social Skills
2 15 (12.93%) Finance
3 11 (9.48%) Public Sector
4 10 (8.62%) Banking
5 9 (7.76%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.31%) Law
7 1 (0.86%) Front Office
7 1 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 64 (55.17%) Developer
2 47 (40.52%) 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 7 (6.03%) Android Engineer
9 7 (6.03%) Senior Java Engineer
10 6 (5.17%) Java Software Developer
10 6 (5.17%) Software Developer
11 5 (4.31%) Backend Developer
12 4 (3.45%) Applications Engineer
12 4 (3.45%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 4 (3.45%) Senior Backend Developer
13 3 (2.59%) Mid-Level Java Developer
13 3 (2.59%) Senior Software Engineer
14 2 (1.72%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (64.66%) Spring Boot
2 74 (63.79%) Spring
3 35 (30.17%) Kafka
3 35 (30.17%) React
4 30 (25.86%) REST
5 26 (22.41%) RESTful
6 21 (18.10%) OpenAPI
6 21 (18.10%) Swagger
7 17 (14.66%) Android Jetpack
8 16 (13.79%) Jetpack Compose
9 14 (12.07%) OpenTelemetry
10 12 (10.34%) Hibernate
11 11 (9.48%) JPA
12 10 (8.62%) GraphQL
12 10 (8.62%) RxJava
12 10 (8.62%) WireMock
13 7 (6.03%) Node.js
13 7 (6.03%) Redux
14 6 (5.17%) Dagger
14 6 (5.17%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.79%) Product Ownership
2 13 (11.21%) Mobile App
3 10 (8.62%) Cloud Native
4 9 (7.76%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (6.03%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (6.03%) Legacy Code
6 6 (5.17%) Virtual Team
7 5 (4.31%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (3.45%) Data Structures
8 4 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (2.59%) Algorithms
9 3 (2.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (2.59%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.72%) PKI
11 1 (0.86%) Derivative
11 1 (0.86%) Equities
11 1 (0.86%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 1 (0.86%) TWAP
11 1 (0.86%) Video\Live Streaming
11 1 (0.86%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 20 (17.24%) 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 79 (68.10%) CI/CD
2 55 (47.41%) Microservices
3 53 (45.69%) Agile
4 51 (43.97%) TDD
5 47 (40.52%) DevOps
5 47 (40.52%) Test Automation
6 43 (37.07%) Software Engineering
7 35 (30.17%) Containerisation
8 21 (18.10%) Observability
9 18 (15.52%) Event-Driven
10 17 (14.66%) Architectural Patterns
11 16 (13.79%) Android Development
11 16 (13.79%) Secure Coding
12 14 (12.07%) Full-Stack Development
12 14 (12.07%) Scrum
12 14 (12.07%) Unit Testing
13 13 (11.21%) API Integration
13 13 (11.21%) Continuous Integration
14 12 (10.34%) API Development
14 12 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 96 (82.76%) Java
2 50 (43.10%) SQL
3 30 (25.86%) Kotlin
4 19 (16.38%) TypeScript
5 6 (5.17%) JavaScript
5 6 (5.17%) Python
6 5 (4.31%) PL/SQL
7 3 (2.59%) Bash
8 2 (1.72%) Go
8 2 (1.72%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.86%) BrightScript
9 1 (0.86%) Korn
9 1 (0.86%) Swift
Qualifications
1 21 (18.10%) Security Cleared
2 18 (15.52%) SC Cleared
3 11 (9.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (9.48%) Degree
4 1 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (16.38%) QA
2 10 (8.62%) 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 20 (17.24%) 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 16 (13.79%) Oracle
2 10 (8.62%) Dynatrace
3 7 (6.03%) Splunk
4 6 (5.17%) Google
4 6 (5.17%) MuleSoft
5 5 (4.31%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.59%) IBM
7 2 (1.72%) New Relic
7 2 (1.72%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.72%) Sybase
8 1 (0.86%) Roku
8 1 (0.86%) Solace
8 1 (0.86%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.86%) Veracode