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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 519 452 542
Rank change year-on-year -67 +90 -29
Contract jobs citing Gradle 93 63 61
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.22% 0.14%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.60% 1.56% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 44 40
10th Percentile £289 £403 £299
25th Percentile £356 £496 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £534 £533
Median % change year-on-year -6.28% +0.19% -21.11%
75th Percentile £588 £578 £606
90th Percentile £733 £743 £634
UK excluding London median daily rate £402 £508 £575
% change year-on-year -20.79% -11.74% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 1 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% +6.67%
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 5,825 4,047 5,184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.08% 13.92% 11.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,901 2,715 3,533
10th Percentile £344 £338 £358
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £580 £606 £627
90th Percentile £688 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 72 182
10th Percentile £39.53 £25.33 £35.00
25th Percentile £60.00 £49.50 £45.88
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +0.81% +0.81%
75th Percentile £76.75 £75.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.67 £82.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +5.47% +2.40% +1.63%

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 31 March 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 31 March 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 31 March 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 -74 89 £510 -4.40% 16
UK excluding London -61 54 £402 -20.79% 6
London -58 32 £528 -2.54% 10
South East -25 30 £382 -40.08% 2
North of England -59 18 £402 -24.15% 2
North West -23 17 £402 -13.73% 2
Work from Home -43 15 £325 -39.08% 5
Midlands -66 4 £575 +35.29%
East Midlands -37 2 - -
West Midlands -56 2 £575 +26.37%
Yorkshire -54 1 - -
South West - 1 £500 - 1
Scotland - 1 £350 - 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 (5.38%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.30%) Apache
3 3 (3.23%) Confluence
4 2 (2.15%) Camunda
4 2 (2.15%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.08%) JBoss
5 1 (1.08%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (2.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 38 (40.86%) AWS
2 34 (36.56%) GitHub
3 20 (21.51%) GitHub Actions
4 8 (8.60%) Azure
5 7 (7.53%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (7.53%) Datadog
6 6 (6.45%) Amazon S3
6 6 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (6.45%) OpenShift
6 6 (6.45%) Serverless
7 5 (5.38%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (5.38%) GCP
8 4 (4.30%) Google Play
9 3 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (3.23%) AWS Fargate
9 3 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (3.23%) Firebase
10 2 (2.15%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.23%) Kerberos
2 2 (2.15%) Bluetooth
2 2 (2.15%) DSL
2 2 (2.15%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (24.73%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (9.68%) NoSQL
3 8 (8.60%) DynamoDB
3 8 (8.60%) Relational Database
4 7 (7.53%) MySQL
5 6 (6.45%) HBase
5 6 (6.45%) MongoDB
6 3 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.15%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.08%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.08%) Big Data
8 1 (1.08%) Flink
8 1 (1.08%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.08%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 37 (39.78%) Maven
2 36 (38.71%) JUnit
3 33 (35.48%) Git
4 31 (33.33%) Jenkins
5 20 (21.51%) GitLab
6 14 (15.05%) Cucumber
7 13 (13.98%) IntelliJ
8 12 (12.90%) Mockito
9 11 (11.83%) Sonatype Nexus
10 9 (9.68%) Android Studio
10 9 (9.68%) Artifactory
10 9 (9.68%) CircleCI
11 7 (7.53%) Bitbucket
11 7 (7.53%) JIRA
12 6 (6.45%) Gatling
12 6 (6.45%) Liquibase
12 6 (6.45%) Postman
12 6 (6.45%) Selenium
13 5 (5.38%) REST Assured
13 5 (5.38%) TestNG
General
1 15 (16.13%) Social Skills
2 13 (13.98%) Finance
3 10 (10.75%) Public Sector
4 9 (9.68%) Banking
5 3 (3.23%) Law
6 2 (2.15%) Front Office
6 2 (2.15%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.08%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.08%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 48 (51.61%) Developer
2 27 (29.03%) Java Developer
2 27 (29.03%) Java Engineer
3 21 (22.58%) Software Engineer
4 19 (20.43%) Senior
5 17 (18.28%) Android Developer
6 16 (17.20%) Java Software Engineer
7 10 (10.75%) Senior Developer
8 9 (9.68%) Senior Java Developer
9 5 (5.38%) Android Engineer
9 5 (5.38%) Senior Java Engineer
10 4 (4.30%) AWS Developer
10 4 (4.30%) Senior Software Engineer
11 3 (3.23%) DevOps Engineer
11 3 (3.23%) Lead
12 2 (2.15%) Backend Developer
12 2 (2.15%) iOS Android Developer
12 2 (2.15%) iOS Developer
12 2 (2.15%) Server Engineer
12 2 (2.15%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (56.99%) Spring
2 46 (49.46%) Spring Boot
3 20 (21.51%) REST
4 18 (19.35%) Kafka
5 14 (15.05%) OpenTelemetry
5 14 (15.05%) RESTful
6 13 (13.98%) GraphQL
6 13 (13.98%) React
7 12 (12.90%) Android Jetpack
7 12 (12.90%) Jetpack Compose
8 10 (10.75%) OpenAPI
8 10 (10.75%) Swagger
9 7 (7.53%) RxJava
10 6 (6.45%) AngularJS
10 6 (6.45%) Dagger
10 6 (6.45%) Hibernate
10 6 (6.45%) JSON
10 6 (6.45%) OkHttp
10 6 (6.45%) RAML
11 5 (5.38%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.68%) Product Ownership
2 7 (7.53%) Mobile App
3 6 (6.45%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (6.45%) Legacy Code
4 5 (5.38%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.38%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (5.38%) Virtual Team
5 3 (3.23%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.15%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.15%) Derivative
6 2 (2.15%) Equities
6 2 (2.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.15%) Private Cloud
6 2 (2.15%) TWAP
6 2 (2.15%) VWAP
7 1 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.08%) Video on Demand
7 1 (1.08%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 21 (22.58%) Android
2 8 (8.60%) Linux
3 4 (4.30%) Apple iOS
3 4 (4.30%) Windows
4 1 (1.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (50.54%) CI/CD
2 29 (31.18%) Test Automation
3 28 (30.11%) Microservices
4 26 (27.96%) DevOps
4 26 (27.96%) Software Engineering
5 23 (24.73%) Agile
6 22 (23.66%) TDD
7 18 (19.35%) Containerisation
8 16 (17.20%) Android Development
9 14 (15.05%) User Experience
10 13 (13.98%) Unit Testing
11 12 (12.90%) Design Patterns
11 12 (12.90%) Event-Driven
11 12 (12.90%) Observability
11 12 (12.90%) OOP
12 11 (11.83%) Continuous Integration
13 10 (10.75%) Architectural Patterns
13 10 (10.75%) Performance Analysis
14 9 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
15 8 (8.60%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 71 (76.34%) Java
2 36 (38.71%) Kotlin
3 17 (18.28%) SQL
4 8 (8.60%) TypeScript
5 7 (7.53%) Python
6 3 (3.23%) Go
6 3 (3.23%) Swift
7 2 (2.15%) Bash
7 2 (2.15%) C++
7 2 (2.15%) Groovy
7 2 (2.15%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.15%) Objective-C
7 2 (2.15%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.15%) Scala
8 1 (1.08%) BrightScript
8 1 (1.08%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (18.28%) Security Cleared
2 11 (11.83%) SC Cleared
3 10 (10.75%) Degree
4 8 (8.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (7.53%) OCP
5 7 (7.53%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (2.15%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.08%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.08%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.98%) QA
2 6 (6.45%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.15%) NCSC
4 1 (1.08%) WCAG
System Software
1 28 (30.11%) Docker
2 1 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 35 (37.63%) Kubernetes
2 22 (23.66%) Grafana
3 8 (8.60%) Terraform
4 7 (7.53%) Ansible
4 7 (7.53%) Prometheus
5 4 (4.30%) Puppet
6 3 (3.23%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.15%) Podman
Vendors
1 8 (8.60%) Oracle
1 8 (8.60%) Splunk
2 4 (4.30%) Dynatrace
2 4 (4.30%) Google
2 4 (4.30%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.15%) New Relic
3 2 (2.15%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.08%) Adobe
4 1 (1.08%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.08%) Apple
4 1 (1.08%) Roku