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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 530 417 515
Rank change year-on-year -113 +98 +16
Contract jobs citing Gradle 131 128 65
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.39% 0.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.11% 2.70% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 88 45
10th Percentile £325 £358 £411
25th Percentile £400 £428 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.15% -3.64% -18.52%
75th Percentile £538 £562 £675
90th Percentile £575 £617 £848
UK excluding London median daily rate £406 £402 £623
% change year-on-year +1.06% -35.42% +18.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 0
10th Percentile - £73.50 -
25th Percentile £76.00 £78.75 -
Median hourly rate £85.50 £90.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £95.00 £92.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £85.50 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year +22.14% - -

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 6,199 4,744 5,307
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.77% 14.59% 12.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,981 3,188 3,511
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £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 £689 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 103 239
10th Percentile £26.05 £22.64 £26.00
25th Percentile £56.25 £49.00 £46.22
Median hourly rate £66.50 £63.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.72% -2.31% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.60 £72.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +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 July 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 July 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 July 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 -121 107 £495 -6.60% 15
London -76 60 £525 -1.87% 6
UK excluding London -84 59 £406 +1.06% 13
Work from Home -66 22 £500 -6.28% 12
North of England -83 20 £450 +11.94% 4
Scotland +1 14 £376 +6.21% 3
South East -55 11 £299 -52.91% 3
East of England - 11 £495 -
Yorkshire -39 9 £500 -3.80% 2
North West -65 7 £500 +34.23% 2
North East - 4 £450 -
East Midlands -17 2 - - 1
South West -41 2 - -
Midlands -65 2 - - 3

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 (3.05%) Apache
1 4 (3.05%) Apache Spark
1 4 (3.05%) Confluence
2 2 (1.53%) Anypoint
2 2 (1.53%) Camunda
2 2 (1.53%) Mule
Business Applications
1 2 (1.53%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 48 (36.64%) AWS
2 47 (35.88%) GitHub
3 36 (27.48%) GitHub Actions
4 34 (25.95%) Azure
5 18 (13.74%) GCP
6 16 (12.21%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (9.16%) Google Play
7 12 (9.16%) OpenShift
8 6 (4.58%) Firebase
8 6 (4.58%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 5 (3.82%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (3.82%) Apigee
10 4 (3.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (3.05%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (3.05%) Apple Pay
10 4 (3.05%) Cloud Run
10 4 (3.05%) Kong
11 3 (2.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (2.29%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (2.29%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.05%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (1.53%) DSL
2 2 (1.53%) Firewall
2 2 (1.53%) HTTP
3 1 (0.76%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.76%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (26.72%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (17.56%) Relational Database
3 15 (11.45%) MongoDB
4 13 (9.92%) MySQL
5 8 (6.11%) DynamoDB
6 6 (4.58%) NoSQL
6 6 (4.58%) SQL Server
7 4 (3.05%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (3.05%) Flink
7 4 (3.05%) Hazelcast
7 4 (3.05%) RDBMS
7 4 (3.05%) Redis
8 3 (2.29%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.53%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.76%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.76%) Db2
10 1 (0.76%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.76%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 72 (54.96%) Git
2 61 (46.56%) Maven
3 60 (45.80%) Jenkins
4 52 (39.69%) JUnit
5 32 (24.43%) GitLab
6 24 (18.32%) Mockito
7 16 (12.21%) Liquibase
8 13 (9.92%) Android Studio
9 10 (7.63%) SonarQube
10 9 (6.87%) CircleCI
10 9 (6.87%) GoCD
10 9 (6.87%) REST Assured
11 7 (5.34%) fastlane
12 6 (4.58%) Cucumber
12 6 (4.58%) JIRA
12 6 (4.58%) TestNG
13 5 (3.82%) Crashlytics
13 5 (3.82%) Gatling
13 5 (3.82%) JProfiler
14 4 (3.05%) Snyk
General
1 25 (19.08%) Social Skills
2 21 (16.03%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (12.98%) Public Sector
4 15 (11.45%) Finance
5 14 (10.69%) Banking
6 5 (3.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.82%) Law
7 4 (3.05%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.76%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 88 (67.18%) Developer
2 67 (51.15%) Java Developer
3 23 (17.56%) Senior
4 17 (12.98%) Java Engineer
5 16 (12.21%) Android Developer
6 15 (11.45%) Software Engineer
7 14 (10.69%) Senior Developer
8 13 (9.92%) Senior Java Developer
9 10 (7.63%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 9 (6.87%) Software Developer
11 8 (6.11%) Java Software Developer
11 8 (6.11%) Java Software Engineer
12 5 (3.82%) Android Engineer
12 5 (3.82%) Backend Developer
12 5 (3.82%) Lead
12 5 (3.82%) Lead Developer
12 5 (3.82%) Mid-Level Java Developer
12 5 (3.82%) Senior Java Engineer
13 4 (3.05%) Lead Java Developer
13 4 (3.05%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (68.70%) Spring Boot
2 88 (67.18%) Spring
3 44 (33.59%) Kafka
3 44 (33.59%) RESTful
4 43 (32.82%) React
5 40 (30.53%) REST
6 22 (16.79%) Android Jetpack
7 21 (16.03%) Jetpack Compose
8 19 (14.50%) Hibernate
8 19 (14.50%) OpenAPI
8 19 (14.50%) Swagger
9 15 (11.45%) Redux
10 14 (10.69%) JPA
11 12 (9.16%) Spring MVC
12 11 (8.40%) HTML
12 11 (8.40%) Node.js
12 11 (8.40%) Retrofit
13 9 (6.87%) CSS
13 9 (6.87%) RxJava
13 9 (6.87%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 22 (16.79%) Product Ownership
2 19 (14.50%) Mobile App
3 10 (7.63%) Cloud Native
3 10 (7.63%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (6.87%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (6.11%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (3.82%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (3.82%) Data Structures
6 5 (3.82%) Legacy Code
7 4 (3.05%) Virtual Team
8 3 (2.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (2.29%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.53%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.53%) PKI
10 1 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.76%) IoT
10 1 (0.76%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.76%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 1 (0.76%) Synthetic Data
10 1 (0.76%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 24 (18.32%) Android
2 6 (4.58%) Linux
3 2 (1.53%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.53%) Unix
4 1 (0.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (74.81%) CI/CD
2 77 (58.78%) Agile
3 73 (55.73%) Microservices
4 54 (41.22%) DevOps
5 51 (38.93%) TDD
6 49 (37.40%) Test Automation
7 39 (29.77%) Containerisation
8 36 (27.48%) Scrum
8 36 (27.48%) Software Engineering
9 33 (25.19%) Problem-Solving
10 24 (18.32%) Continuous Improvement
11 20 (15.27%) Android Development
11 20 (15.27%) Design Patterns
12 19 (14.50%) Clean Code
12 19 (14.50%) Observability
13 18 (13.74%) Event-Driven
13 18 (13.74%) OOP
14 16 (12.21%) API Development
14 16 (12.21%) Secure Coding
15 15 (11.45%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 118 (90.08%) Java
2 62 (47.33%) SQL
3 28 (21.37%) Kotlin
4 20 (15.27%) TypeScript
5 16 (12.21%) JavaScript
6 9 (6.87%) PL/SQL
7 7 (5.34%) Python
8 4 (3.05%) Bash
9 3 (2.29%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.53%) Korn
10 2 (1.53%) Ruby
11 1 (0.76%) BrightScript
11 1 (0.76%) Groovy
11 1 (0.76%) Swift
Qualifications
1 34 (25.95%) Security Cleared
2 30 (22.90%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (8.40%) Degree
4 6 (4.58%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (17.56%) QA
2 12 (9.16%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.82%) WCAG
4 4 (3.05%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.53%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.76%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.76%) GDPR
6 1 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.76%) SEPA
System Software
1 50 (38.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (27.48%) Kubernetes
2 23 (17.56%) Ansible
3 9 (6.87%) Control-M
3 9 (6.87%) Grafana
3 9 (6.87%) Prometheus
4 8 (6.11%) Terraform
5 4 (3.05%) Argo
6 2 (1.53%) Istio
Vendors
1 36 (27.48%) Oracle
2 18 (13.74%) Google
3 8 (6.11%) Dynatrace
3 8 (6.11%) Splunk
4 7 (5.34%) MuleSoft
5 4 (3.05%) IBM
6 3 (2.29%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.53%) Sybase
7 2 (1.53%) Veracode
8 1 (0.76%) Roku
8 1 (0.76%) Solace
8 1 (0.76%) TIBCO