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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 473 517 534
Rank change year-on-year +44 +17 -42
Contract jobs citing Gradle 116 37 67
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.11% 0.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.11% 0.82% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 26 43
10th Percentile £329 £513 £300
25th Percentile £401 £531 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £620 £540
Median % change year-on-year -13.87% +14.86% -18.18%
75th Percentile £588 £853 £694
90th Percentile £642 £888 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £462 £719 £528
% change year-on-year -35.79% +36.26% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 3
10th Percentile £40.00 - £76.50
25th Percentile £52.50 - £76.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £80.00
75th Percentile £59.38 - £86.25
90th Percentile £70.00 - £88.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £78.75

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 5,509 4,493 5,558
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.85% 13.26% 12.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,801 2,831 3,853
10th Percentile £340 £330 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -4.74% -3.06%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £513
% change year-on-year -2.56% -4.97% -2.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 82 207
10th Percentile £39.00 £41.38 £45.37
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.06 £49.24
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.69 £77.50
90th Percentile £84.20 £75.23 £89.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

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 25 December 2025.

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 25 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Gradle in the UK

Gradle
Top 13 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 25 December 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 +36 109 £534 -16.20% 65
UK excluding London +14 68 £462 -35.79% 57
London +13 42 £544 -16.50% 12
North of England -23 34 £384 - 14
North West -7 27 £390 - 9
Work from Home +17 26 £546 -14.31% 61
South East -9 23 £473 -34.19% 13
Yorkshire - 7 £354 - 4
Midlands - 5 £575 - 13
West Midlands - 5 £575 - 7
Scotland - 3 £550 - 2
South West - 2 £500 - 9
Northern Ireland - 1 £425 - 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 5 (4.31%) OpenStack
2 4 (3.45%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.59%) Apache
4 2 (1.72%) Confluence
5 1 (0.86%) JBoss
5 1 (0.86%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.86%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 38 (32.76%) GitHub
2 34 (29.31%) AWS
3 27 (23.28%) Azure
4 19 (16.38%) GCP
5 17 (14.66%) Datadog
6 13 (11.21%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (10.34%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (7.76%) Figma
8 9 (7.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 8 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (6.90%) OpenShift
9 8 (6.90%) Serverless
10 6 (5.17%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (5.17%) Apigee
10 6 (5.17%) Azure AKS
10 6 (5.17%) PaaS
10 6 (5.17%) SaaS
11 5 (4.31%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.31%) Kerberos
2 2 (1.72%) Bluetooth
2 2 (1.72%) MQTT
3 1 (0.86%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (17.24%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (16.38%) NoSQL
3 14 (12.07%) Relational Database
4 12 (10.34%) MongoDB
5 11 (9.48%) DynamoDB
6 9 (7.76%) HBase
6 9 (7.76%) RDBMS
7 8 (6.90%) MySQL
8 6 (5.17%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (4.31%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (4.31%) BigQuery
9 5 (4.31%) Redis
10 4 (3.45%) SQL Server
11 2 (1.72%) Big Data
12 1 (0.86%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.86%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.86%) HPCC
12 1 (0.86%) Spark SQL
12 1 (0.86%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 44 (37.93%) Jenkins
1 44 (37.93%) Maven
2 40 (34.48%) Git
3 29 (25.00%) GitLab
3 29 (25.00%) JUnit
4 20 (17.24%) Sonatype Nexus
5 14 (12.07%) Android Studio
5 14 (12.07%) Artifactory
5 14 (12.07%) SonarQube
6 13 (11.21%) Cucumber
7 12 (10.34%) IntelliJ
7 12 (10.34%) Selenium
8 11 (9.48%) Xcode
9 10 (8.62%) Bitbucket
10 9 (7.76%) CircleCI
11 8 (6.90%) Mockito
11 8 (6.90%) Postman
12 7 (6.03%) Storybook
13 5 (4.31%) Cypress.io
13 5 (4.31%) JIRA
General
1 22 (18.97%) Finance
2 17 (14.66%) Banking
3 15 (12.93%) Social Skills
4 11 (9.48%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.17%) Retail Banking
6 3 (2.59%) Front Office
7 1 (0.86%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.86%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.86%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.86%) Law
7 1 (0.86%) Marketing
7 1 (0.86%) Private Banking
7 1 (0.86%) Retail
7 1 (0.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 67 (57.76%) Developer
2 34 (29.31%) Java Developer
3 22 (18.97%) Android Developer
4 20 (17.24%) Senior
5 17 (14.66%) Java Engineer
6 14 (12.07%) DevOps Engineer
7 13 (11.21%) Software Engineer
8 12 (10.34%) Java Software Engineer
8 12 (10.34%) Senior Developer
8 12 (10.34%) Senior Java Developer
9 8 (6.90%) React Developer
10 6 (5.17%) AWS Developer
11 5 (4.31%) Architect
11 5 (4.31%) Backend Developer
11 5 (4.31%) Java Architect
11 5 (4.31%) Java Technical Architect
11 5 (4.31%) Lead
11 5 (4.31%) Technical Architect
12 4 (3.45%) iOS Developer
12 4 (3.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (37.07%) Spring
1 43 (37.07%) Spring Boot
2 23 (19.83%) Kafka
3 22 (18.97%) RESTful
4 20 (17.24%) REST
5 14 (12.07%) JSON
6 12 (10.34%) OpenTelemetry
7 10 (8.62%) Android Jetpack
7 10 (8.62%) GraphQL
7 10 (8.62%) Jetpack Compose
7 10 (8.62%) React Native
8 9 (7.76%) HTML
9 8 (6.90%) CSS
9 8 (6.90%) Micronaut
10 7 (6.03%) D3.js
10 7 (6.03%) OAuth
10 7 (6.03%) RabbitMQ
10 7 (6.03%) React
10 7 (6.03%) SVG
11 6 (5.17%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 20 (17.24%) Mobile App
2 11 (9.48%) Cloud Native
3 9 (7.76%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.31%) N-Tier
4 5 (4.31%) Private Cloud
5 4 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.45%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.45%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.59%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.59%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (2.59%) Legacy Code
6 3 (2.59%) Mobile Banking
6 3 (2.59%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.72%) Derivative
7 2 (1.72%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.72%) Equities
7 2 (1.72%) IoT
7 2 (1.72%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 32 (27.59%) Android
2 14 (12.07%) Linux
3 12 (10.34%) Apple iOS
4 6 (5.17%) Unix
5 5 (4.31%) Windows
6 3 (2.59%) Solaris
7 2 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (49.14%) CI/CD
2 44 (37.93%) DevOps
3 34 (29.31%) Agile
4 32 (27.59%) Containerisation
4 32 (27.59%) Microservices
5 29 (25.00%) Software Engineering
6 26 (22.41%) Design Patterns
7 25 (21.55%) Test Automation
8 24 (20.69%) TDD
9 21 (18.10%) Android Development
10 16 (13.79%) Mentoring
10 16 (13.79%) User Experience
11 15 (12.93%) BDD
11 15 (12.93%) Event-Driven
12 14 (12.07%) OOP
12 14 (12.07%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (11.21%) Continuous Integration
13 13 (11.21%) Infrastructure as Code
14 12 (10.34%) Mobile Development
15 11 (9.48%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 85 (73.28%) Java
2 33 (28.45%) Kotlin
3 25 (21.55%) Python
4 18 (15.52%) SQL
5 14 (12.07%) TypeScript
6 10 (8.62%) C++
7 9 (7.76%) JavaScript
8 6 (5.17%) Scala
9 5 (4.31%) Bash
9 5 (4.31%) C
9 5 (4.31%) Objective-C
9 5 (4.31%) PowerShell
9 5 (4.31%) Rust
9 5 (4.31%) Swift
10 3 (2.59%) Ruby
10 3 (2.59%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.72%) Go
11 2 (1.72%) Groovy
11 2 (1.72%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.86%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 17 (14.66%) Security Cleared
2 9 (7.76%) OCP
2 9 (7.76%) Oracle Certification
3 7 (6.03%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.17%) Degree
5 5 (4.31%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.72%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.86%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.86%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.86%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.34%) Accessibility
2 7 (6.03%) QA
System Software
1 36 (31.03%) Docker
2 1 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 54 (46.55%) Kubernetes
2 25 (21.55%) Terraform
3 24 (20.69%) Grafana
4 15 (12.93%) Ansible
5 10 (8.62%) Prometheus
6 8 (6.90%) Puppet
7 7 (6.03%) Progress Chef
8 5 (4.31%) Podman
9 4 (3.45%) Argo
10 1 (0.86%) Istio
10 1 (0.86%) Kibana
10 1 (0.86%) logstash
Vendors
1 9 (7.76%) Google
1 9 (7.76%) Oracle
2 8 (6.90%) Splunk
3 5 (4.31%) Gigya
3 5 (4.31%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.59%) Dynatrace
4 3 (2.59%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.86%) Adobe
5 1 (0.86%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.86%) Apple
5 1 (0.86%) Foundry
5 1 (0.86%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.86%) New Relic
5 1 (0.86%) Palantir