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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 522 427 516
Rank change year-on-year -95 +89 -12
Contract jobs citing Gradle 108 99 63
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.34% 0.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.86% 2.38% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 66 40
10th Percentile £285 £392 £410
25th Percentile £400 £446 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £530 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.60% -7.83% -14.81%
75th Percentile £569 £566 £627
90th Percentile £625 £620 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £431 £502 £581
% change year-on-year -14.16% -13.57% +30.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 2 1
10th Percentile £51.75 - -
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 £70.00 £92.50 £82.50
90th Percentile £81.70 - -
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 5,797 4,162 5,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.01% 14.30% 12.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,797 2,787 3,445
10th Percentile £350 £338 £353
25th Percentile £409 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £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 242 71 207
10th Percentile £35.00 £25.00 £32.48
25th Percentile £56.40 £47.21 £46.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.55% -11.15% +5.69%
75th Percentile £71.94 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.96 £78.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £60.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.57% -6.92% +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 21 May 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 21 May 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 21 May 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 -77 105 £498 -6.13% 16
UK excluding London -75 59 £431 -14.16% 9
London -57 42 £525 -0.94% 6
North of England -60 28 £450 -15.09% 2
North West -32 20 £402 -24.15% 1
Work from Home -60 17 £350 -34.40% 10
South East - 17 £354 - 2
East of England - 10 £495 - 2
Yorkshire -51 6 - -
Midlands -61 3 £575 +34.03% 2
East Midlands -29 2 - - 1
North East - 2 £450 - 1
South West - 2 £500 -
West Midlands -59 1 £575 +26.37% 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 (4.63%) Apache
1 5 (4.63%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.78%) Confluence
3 2 (1.85%) Camunda
4 1 (0.93%) JBoss
4 1 (0.93%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.93%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (1.85%) Shopify
2 1 (0.93%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 37 (34.26%) GitHub
2 34 (31.48%) AWS
3 27 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 17 (15.74%) Azure
5 10 (9.26%) GCP
6 8 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (5.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 5 (4.63%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (4.63%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (3.70%) Amazon S3
9 4 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (3.70%) Apigee
9 4 (3.70%) Apple Pay
9 4 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (3.70%) Cloud Run
9 4 (3.70%) Firebase
9 4 (3.70%) Kong
9 4 (3.70%) OpenShift
9 4 (3.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.70%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (2.78%) DSL
3 2 (1.85%) HTTP
4 1 (0.93%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (21.30%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (11.11%) Relational Database
3 8 (7.41%) DynamoDB
4 7 (6.48%) MongoDB
5 6 (5.56%) MySQL
6 5 (4.63%) RDBMS
7 4 (3.70%) Flink
7 4 (3.70%) Hazelcast
7 4 (3.70%) NoSQL
7 4 (3.70%) Redis
8 3 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.78%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.93%) HBase
9 1 (0.93%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 44 (40.74%) Git
2 40 (37.04%) Maven
3 36 (33.33%) JUnit
4 34 (31.48%) GitLab
5 33 (30.56%) Jenkins
6 18 (16.67%) Mockito
7 13 (12.04%) IntelliJ
7 13 (12.04%) Liquibase
8 9 (8.33%) CircleCI
9 8 (7.41%) Cucumber
10 7 (6.48%) fastlane
11 6 (5.56%) Android Studio
11 6 (5.56%) REST Assured
11 6 (5.56%) SonarQube
12 5 (4.63%) JIRA
12 5 (4.63%) Selenium
12 5 (4.63%) Snyk
13 4 (3.70%) Crashlytics
13 4 (3.70%) Postman
13 4 (3.70%) TestNG
General
1 15 (13.89%) Social Skills
2 10 (9.26%) Public Sector
3 9 (8.33%) Finance
4 8 (7.41%) Banking
5 6 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.70%) Law
7 3 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.85%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.93%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 55 (50.93%) Developer
2 35 (32.41%) Java Developer
3 29 (26.85%) Java Engineer
4 26 (24.07%) Software Engineer
5 24 (22.22%) Senior
6 18 (16.67%) Java Software Engineer
7 15 (13.89%) Android Developer
8 13 (12.04%) Senior Developer
9 12 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
10 6 (5.56%) Android Engineer
10 6 (5.56%) Senior Java Engineer
11 5 (4.63%) Backend Developer
12 4 (3.70%) Java Software Developer
12 4 (3.70%) Senior Backend Developer
12 4 (3.70%) Software Developer
13 3 (2.78%) Senior Software Engineer
14 2 (1.85%) Engineering Manager
14 2 (1.85%) Java Applications Developer
14 2 (1.85%) Server Engineer
14 2 (1.85%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (62.96%) Spring
2 67 (62.04%) Spring Boot
3 25 (23.15%) Kafka
4 23 (21.30%) REST
5 22 (20.37%) React
6 20 (18.52%) OpenTelemetry
7 18 (16.67%) OpenAPI
7 18 (16.67%) Swagger
8 17 (15.74%) RESTful
9 16 (14.81%) Android Jetpack
9 16 (14.81%) Jetpack Compose
10 12 (11.11%) GraphQL
11 11 (10.19%) WireMock
12 8 (7.41%) JPA
12 8 (7.41%) RxJava
13 6 (5.56%) Dagger
13 6 (5.56%) OkHttp
13 6 (5.56%) Playwright
13 6 (5.56%) RAML
14 5 (4.63%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.19%) Product Ownership
2 10 (9.26%) Mobile App
3 9 (8.33%) Cloud Native
4 8 (7.41%) Legacy Code
5 7 (6.48%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (4.63%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (4.63%) Virtual Team
7 3 (2.78%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.85%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.93%) Equities
9 1 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.93%) PKI
9 1 (0.93%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.93%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.93%) Synthetic Data
9 1 (0.93%) TWAP
9 1 (0.93%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.93%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 20 (18.52%) Android
2 7 (6.48%) Linux
3 3 (2.78%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.85%) Windows
5 1 (0.93%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (59.26%) CI/CD
2 46 (42.59%) Software Engineering
3 45 (41.67%) Microservices
4 40 (37.04%) TDD
5 38 (35.19%) Agile
6 36 (33.33%) DevOps
7 35 (32.41%) Containerisation
7 35 (32.41%) Test Automation
8 19 (17.59%) Observability
9 16 (14.81%) Continuous Integration
10 15 (13.89%) Event-Driven
10 15 (13.89%) User Experience
11 14 (12.96%) Android Development
11 14 (12.96%) Architectural Patterns
11 14 (12.96%) Design Patterns
11 14 (12.96%) Unit Testing
12 13 (12.04%) Secure Coding
13 11 (10.19%) Clean Code
13 11 (10.19%) Computer Science
14 10 (9.26%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 86 (79.63%) Java
2 39 (36.11%) Kotlin
2 39 (36.11%) SQL
3 16 (14.81%) TypeScript
4 2 (1.85%) Bash
4 2 (1.85%) Go
4 2 (1.85%) Python
4 2 (1.85%) Shell Script
4 2 (1.85%) Swift
5 1 (0.93%) BrightScript
5 1 (0.93%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.93%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 19 (17.59%) Security Cleared
2 13 (12.04%) Degree
3 12 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 11 (10.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.93%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.93%) OCP
5 1 (0.93%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.04%) QA
2 9 (8.33%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.70%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.78%) WCAG
5 2 (1.85%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.85%) NCSC
6 1 (0.93%) GDPR
6 1 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.93%) SEPA
System Software
1 36 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 37 (34.26%) Kubernetes
2 22 (20.37%) Grafana
3 14 (12.96%) Ansible
4 9 (8.33%) Prometheus
4 9 (8.33%) Terraform
5 4 (3.70%) Argo
6 1 (0.93%) Istio
6 1 (0.93%) Podman
6 1 (0.93%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.93%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (6.48%) Dynatrace
1 7 (6.48%) Oracle
1 7 (6.48%) Splunk
2 4 (3.70%) Google
3 3 (2.78%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.85%) New Relic
4 2 (1.85%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.93%) Roku