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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 533 433 515
Rank change year-on-year -100 +82 +1
Contract jobs citing Gradle 96 76 62
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.26% 0.14%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.64% 1.87% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 52 41
10th Percentile £277 £407 £300
25th Percentile £356 £509 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% -3.00% -18.52%
75th Percentile £588 £578 £606
90th Percentile £726 £723 £634
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £530 £575
% change year-on-year -24.53% -7.83% +12.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 2 1
10th Percentile £46.00 - -
25th Percentile £52.50 £87.50 £77.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £90.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.89% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £61.25 £92.50 £82.50
90th Percentile £80.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £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 5,845 4,069 5,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.74% 13.93% 11.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,886 2,737 3,489
10th Percentile £340 £340 £356
25th Percentile £405 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £581 £603 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 71 175
10th Percentile £39.53 £26.25 £32.23
25th Percentile £60.00 £51.16 £45.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.47% +6.67% -2.44%
75th Percentile £75.00 £75.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £85.25 £81.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% +4.84% +0.81%

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 10 April 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 10 April 2026.

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 10 April 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 -69 93 £518 -3.00% 16
UK excluding London -75 54 £400 -24.53% 6
London -62 35 £528 -2.31% 10
South East -22 30 £360 -43.49% 2
North of England -70 19 £402 -24.15% 2
North West -25 17 £402 -24.15% 2
Work from Home -46 15 £325 -39.08% 5
Midlands -66 3 £575 +35.29%
East Midlands -33 2 - -
Yorkshire -53 2 - -
West Midlands -65 1 £575 +26.37%
South West - 1 £500 - 1
East of England - 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 (5.21%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.17%) Apache
3 3 (3.13%) Confluence
4 2 (2.08%) Camunda
5 1 (1.04%) JBoss
5 1 (1.04%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.04%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Shopify
2 1 (1.04%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 37 (38.54%) AWS
2 33 (34.38%) GitHub
3 19 (19.79%) GitHub Actions
4 9 (9.38%) Azure
5 7 (7.29%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (6.25%) Amazon S3
6 6 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (6.25%) Serverless
7 5 (5.21%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (5.21%) Datadog
7 5 (5.21%) OpenShift
8 4 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (3.13%) AWS Fargate
9 3 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (3.13%) Firebase
9 3 (3.13%) GCP
9 3 (3.13%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.13%) DSL
2 2 (2.08%) Bluetooth
2 2 (2.08%) HTTP
2 2 (2.08%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (23.96%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (9.38%) DynamoDB
2 9 (9.38%) NoSQL
3 8 (8.33%) Relational Database
4 7 (7.29%) MySQL
5 6 (6.25%) MongoDB
6 5 (5.21%) HBase
7 3 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (3.13%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (2.08%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.04%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (1.04%) Big Data
9 1 (1.04%) Flink
Development Applications
1 39 (40.63%) Maven
2 36 (37.50%) Git
3 35 (36.46%) JUnit
4 30 (31.25%) Jenkins
5 21 (21.88%) GitLab
6 14 (14.58%) Cucumber
7 13 (13.54%) IntelliJ
7 13 (13.54%) Mockito
8 9 (9.38%) Android Studio
9 8 (8.33%) CircleCI
9 8 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (7.29%) Artifactory
10 7 (7.29%) Gatling
10 7 (7.29%) Liquibase
11 6 (6.25%) Bitbucket
11 6 (6.25%) JIRA
11 6 (6.25%) Postman
11 6 (6.25%) REST Assured
11 6 (6.25%) Selenium
11 6 (6.25%) TestNG
General
1 16 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 11 (11.46%) Finance
3 10 (10.42%) Public Sector
4 8 (8.33%) Banking
5 3 (3.13%) Law
6 2 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.08%) Front Office
6 2 (2.08%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.04%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 50 (52.08%) Developer
2 29 (30.21%) Java Developer
3 28 (29.17%) Java Engineer
4 21 (21.88%) Software Engineer
5 20 (20.83%) Senior
6 16 (16.67%) Android Developer
6 16 (16.67%) Java Software Engineer
7 10 (10.42%) Senior Developer
8 9 (9.38%) Senior Java Developer
9 6 (6.25%) Android Engineer
10 5 (5.21%) Senior Java Engineer
11 4 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
12 3 (3.13%) AWS Developer
12 3 (3.13%) Lead
13 2 (2.08%) AWS Engineer
13 2 (2.08%) Backend Developer
13 2 (2.08%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
13 2 (2.08%) Server Engineer
13 2 (2.08%) Software Engineering Manager
13 2 (2.08%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (59.38%) Spring
2 50 (52.08%) Spring Boot
3 21 (21.88%) Kafka
3 21 (21.88%) REST
4 16 (16.67%) OpenTelemetry
5 15 (15.63%) RESTful
6 14 (14.58%) GraphQL
7 13 (13.54%) Android Jetpack
7 13 (13.54%) Jetpack Compose
7 13 (13.54%) React
8 12 (12.50%) OpenAPI
8 12 (12.50%) Swagger
9 7 (7.29%) RxJava
10 6 (6.25%) Dagger
10 6 (6.25%) OkHttp
10 6 (6.25%) RAML
11 5 (5.21%) AngularJS
11 5 (5.21%) JPA
11 5 (5.21%) Playwright
11 5 (5.21%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.42%) Product Ownership
2 7 (7.29%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.29%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (6.25%) Legacy Code
3 6 (6.25%) Mobile App
4 5 (5.21%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (5.21%) Virtual Team
5 3 (3.13%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.08%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.08%) Derivative
6 2 (2.08%) Equities
6 2 (2.08%) TWAP
6 2 (2.08%) VWAP
7 1 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.04%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.04%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.04%) Video on Demand
7 1 (1.04%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 21 (21.88%) Android
2 6 (6.25%) Linux
3 4 (4.17%) Windows
4 3 (3.13%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (53.13%) CI/CD
2 32 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 31 (32.29%) Microservices
4 28 (29.17%) DevOps
5 27 (28.13%) Software Engineering
6 25 (26.04%) Agile
7 24 (25.00%) TDD
8 21 (21.88%) Containerisation
9 15 (15.63%) Android Development
9 15 (15.63%) Event-Driven
9 15 (15.63%) Unit Testing
10 14 (14.58%) Observability
10 14 (14.58%) User Experience
11 12 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
11 12 (12.50%) Design Patterns
11 12 (12.50%) OOP
12 10 (10.42%) Architectural Patterns
12 10 (10.42%) Performance Analysis
13 9 (9.38%) API Design
13 9 (9.38%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 75 (78.13%) Java
2 36 (37.50%) Kotlin
3 20 (20.83%) SQL
4 8 (8.33%) TypeScript
5 7 (7.29%) Python
6 3 (3.13%) Go
6 3 (3.13%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.08%) Bash
7 2 (2.08%) C++
7 2 (2.08%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.08%) Scala
7 2 (2.08%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.08%) Swift
8 1 (1.04%) BrightScript
8 1 (1.04%) Groovy
8 1 (1.04%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 16 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 11 (11.46%) SC Cleared
3 10 (10.42%) Degree
4 8 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (6.25%) OCP
5 6 (6.25%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.04%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.04%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.04%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (15.63%) QA
2 6 (6.25%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.08%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.08%) NCSC
4 1 (1.04%) SEPA
4 1 (1.04%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (31.25%) Docker
2 1 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 35 (36.46%) Kubernetes
2 22 (22.92%) Grafana
3 7 (7.29%) Prometheus
3 7 (7.29%) Terraform
4 6 (6.25%) Ansible
5 2 (2.08%) Puppet
6 1 (1.04%) Podman
6 1 (1.04%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 7 (7.29%) Oracle
1 7 (7.29%) Splunk
2 4 (4.17%) Dynatrace
2 4 (4.17%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.13%) Google
4 2 (2.08%) New Relic
4 2 (2.08%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.04%) Adobe
5 1 (1.04%) Roku