Gradle Contracts

Gradle
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Gradle skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Gradle over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 435 536 515
Rank change year-on-year +101 -21 -77
Contract jobs citing Gradle 84 64 198
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.15% 0.33%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.05% 1.24% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 41 146
10th Percentile £405 £410 £466
25th Percentile £500 £500 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £675
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% -14.81% -2.53%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £743
90th Percentile £652 £675 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £581 £445
% change year-on-year -10.58% +30.62% -11.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 8
10th Percentile - - £71.85
25th Percentile £87.50 £77.50 £75.00
Median hourly rate £90.00 £80.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - +3.65%
75th Percentile £92.50 £82.50 £86.25
90th Percentile - - £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £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 4,099 5,176 9,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.02% 11.87% 15.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,743 3,476 6,340
10th Percentile £340 £356 £385
25th Percentile £413 £425 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £663
90th Percentile £716 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 195 246
10th Percentile £26.77 £32.23 £45.00
25th Percentile £51.30 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £86.38 £81.90 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%

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 30 April 2025.

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 11 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 30 April 2025. 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 +84 68 £530 -3.64% 27
London +37 36 £530 -7.83% 15
Work from Home +61 25 £534 -7.22% 29
UK excluding London +53 23 £520 -10.58% 14
North of England +41 17 £530 -3.64% 2
North West +21 13 £530 -3.64% 2
Midlands +28 5 £425 +1.19% 1
Yorkshire - 4 £520 -
West Midlands +18 3 £455 +8.33% 1
East Midlands - 2 £326 -
Scotland -3 1 £358 -42.49% 2

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 8 (9.52%) Confluence
2 3 (3.57%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.38%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 25 (29.76%) AWS
2 9 (10.71%) GitHub
3 7 (8.33%) Azure
4 5 (5.95%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (5.95%) Serverless
5 4 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (4.76%) GCP
5 4 (4.76%) OpenShift
6 3 (3.57%) Amazon EMR
6 3 (3.57%) Amazon Kinesis
6 3 (3.57%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.19%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.19%) BigCommerce
8 1 (1.19%) Datadog
8 1 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.19%) PaaS
8 1 (1.19%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.57%) SSH
2 1 (1.19%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (52.38%) Relational Database
2 39 (46.43%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (14.29%) MongoDB
4 8 (9.52%) MySQL
4 8 (9.52%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.57%) Redis
5 3 (3.57%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.19%) DB2
7 1 (1.19%) KDB
7 1 (1.19%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.19%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 59 (70.24%) Jenkins
2 57 (67.86%) JUnit
3 41 (48.81%) Mockito
4 37 (44.05%) Maven
5 33 (39.29%) Liquibase
6 19 (22.62%) IntelliJ
7 14 (16.67%) JIRA
8 12 (14.29%) GitLab
9 11 (13.10%) Cucumber
9 11 (13.10%) Selenium
10 10 (11.90%) Git
11 8 (9.52%) HP UFT
12 6 (7.14%) Subversion
13 5 (5.95%) Ant
13 5 (5.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (5.95%) Bitbucket Server
13 5 (5.95%) Eclipse
13 5 (5.95%) SonarQube
14 4 (4.76%) CA Release Automation
14 4 (4.76%) NetBeans
General
1 39 (46.43%) Finance
2 25 (29.76%) Public Sector
3 21 (25.00%) Electronics
3 21 (25.00%) Manufacturing
3 21 (25.00%) Marketing
3 21 (25.00%) Telecoms
4 12 (14.29%) Social Skills
5 5 (5.95%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.57%) Banking
7 2 (2.38%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.38%) Front Office
7 2 (2.38%) Retail
8 1 (1.19%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 52 (61.90%) Developer
2 40 (47.62%) Java Developer
3 19 (22.62%) Senior
4 16 (19.05%) Lead
4 16 (19.05%) Senior Developer
5 15 (17.86%) Senior Java Developer
6 13 (15.48%) Java Engineer
7 12 (14.29%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 12 (14.29%) Software Engineer
8 11 (13.10%) Java Software Engineer
8 11 (13.10%) Lead Developer
8 11 (13.10%) React Developer
9 10 (11.90%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
10 9 (10.71%) Lead Java Developer
11 6 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
12 4 (4.76%) Android Developer
12 4 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
12 4 (4.76%) Tester
13 3 (3.57%) Technical Leader
13 3 (3.57%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (73.81%) Spring
2 55 (65.48%) Spring Boot
3 47 (55.95%) Kafka
4 36 (42.86%) OpenAPI
4 36 (42.86%) Swagger
5 33 (39.29%) React
6 11 (13.10%) HTML
7 10 (11.90%) RESTful
8 9 (10.71%) Hibernate
9 7 (8.33%) JPA
10 6 (7.14%) CSS
11 5 (5.95%) J2EE
11 5 (5.95%) JMS
12 4 (4.76%) Spring Integration
12 4 (4.76%) Spring MVC
12 4 (4.76%) Web Services
13 3 (3.57%) AngularJS
13 3 (3.57%) Bootstrap
13 3 (3.57%) HTML5
13 3 (3.57%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.14%) Data Structures
2 5 (5.95%) PKI
3 3 (3.57%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.57%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.38%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.38%) Equities
5 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.19%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.19%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.19%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (13.10%) Linux
2 5 (5.95%) Android
3 4 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (3.57%) Unix
5 2 (2.38%) Windows
6 1 (1.19%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (76.19%) CI/CD
2 51 (60.71%) DevOps
2 51 (60.71%) TDD
3 50 (59.52%) Microservices
4 47 (55.95%) Agile
5 44 (52.38%) Software Engineering
6 40 (47.62%) Containerisation
7 33 (39.29%) Migration
8 31 (36.90%) Continuous Integration
9 21 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
9 21 (25.00%) Digital Marketing
9 21 (25.00%) Programme Management
10 15 (17.86%) Event-Driven
10 15 (17.86%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 14 (16.67%) Test Automation
12 12 (14.29%) Build Automation
13 11 (13.10%) Clean Code
14 9 (10.71%) BDD
14 9 (10.71%) Mentoring
15 8 (9.52%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 79 (94.05%) Java
2 42 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 39 (46.43%) SQL
4 7 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 5 (5.95%) Kotlin
5 5 (5.95%) Python
6 2 (2.38%) Bash
6 2 (2.38%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.38%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.19%) Go
Qualifications
1 40 (47.62%) SC Cleared
1 40 (47.62%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.95%) Degree
3 1 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.14%) QA
2 3 (3.57%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.38%) GDPR
3 2 (2.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 50 (59.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (19.05%) Kubernetes
2 9 (10.71%) Terraform
3 4 (4.76%) Grafana
3 4 (4.76%) Progress Chef
3 4 (4.76%) Prometheus
3 4 (4.76%) Puppet
4 3 (3.57%) Ansible
4 3 (3.57%) Kibana
5 1 (1.19%) Argo
Vendors
1 22 (26.19%) SAP
2 5 (5.95%) Google
2 5 (5.95%) Splunk
3 4 (4.76%) CA Agile Central
4 3 (3.57%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.57%) Sybase
5 2 (2.38%) Oracle
6 1 (1.19%) Adobe
6 1 (1.19%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.19%) Confluent
6 1 (1.19%) ION Trading
6 1 (1.19%) New Relic
6 1 (1.19%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.19%) Remedy
6 1 (1.19%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.19%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.19%) Sonatype