Gradle Contracts

Gradle
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Gradle skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Gradle over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 424 529 513
Rank change year-on-year +105 -16 -91
Contract jobs citing Gradle 127 66 167
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.15% 0.30%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.76% 1.23% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 42 125
10th Percentile £358 £410 £497
25th Percentile £427 £503 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £569 £675
Median % change year-on-year -6.81% -15.74% -
75th Percentile £550 £675 £738
90th Percentile £612 £859 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £401 £623 £528
% change year-on-year -35.58% +18.01% +5.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 8
10th Percentile £73.50 - £71.85
25th Percentile £78.75 £77.50 £75.00
Median hourly rate £90.00 £80.00 £78.91
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +1.39% +9.59%
75th Percentile £92.50 £82.50 £87.42
90th Percentile - - £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £80.00 -
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -

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 4,603 5,377 7,923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.57% 12.38% 14.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,086 3,567 5,545
10th Percentile £331 £355 £363
25th Percentile £408 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £650
90th Percentile £694 £725 £760
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 248 235
10th Percentile £20.98 £30.28 £45.47
25th Percentile £47.36 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £59.50 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.46% +4.00% +18.60%
75th Percentile £72.81 £70.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £85.94
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +11.82%

Gradle
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Gradle as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Gradle in the UK

Gradle
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Gradle.

Daily rate trend for Gradle in the UK

Gradle
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Gradle over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Gradle in the UK

Gradle
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Gradle.

Hourly rate trend for Gradle in the UK

Gradle
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Gradle over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Gradle in the UK

Gradle
Top 13 Contract 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 4 July 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 +117 106 £530 -3.64% 134
London +55 54 £535 -2.73% 86
UK excluding London +50 45 £401 -35.58% 67
Work from Home +69 35 £534 -20.96% 77
North of England +33 29 £402 -26.91% 4
North West +27 24 £373 -32.27% 3
Midlands +14 10 £425 -27.35% 7
West Midlands +15 5 £425 +1.19% 6
East Midlands +6 5 £395 -47.40% 1
Yorkshire - 5 £520 - 1
Scotland -8 4 £354 -43.13% 15
South East +37 1 - - 23
South West +36 1 - - 10

Gradle
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (11.02%) Confluence
2 10 (7.87%) JBoss
3 9 (7.09%) Tomcat
4 4 (3.15%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.79%) Alfresco
5 1 (0.79%) Apache
5 1 (0.79%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 39 (30.71%) AWS
2 21 (16.54%) GitHub
3 16 (12.60%) Azure
4 14 (11.02%) OpenShift
5 8 (6.30%) GCP
6 6 (4.72%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (3.94%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (3.94%) Serverless
8 4 (3.15%) Amazon EMR
8 4 (3.15%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (3.15%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.36%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.36%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (1.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.57%) Apigee
10 2 (1.57%) Azure AKS
10 2 (1.57%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.57%) PaaS
10 2 (1.57%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.36%) SSH
2 2 (1.57%) DMZ
2 2 (1.57%) Firewall
2 2 (1.57%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (37.80%) Relational Database
2 47 (37.01%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (12.60%) MongoDB
4 12 (9.45%) MySQL
5 10 (7.87%) NoSQL
6 4 (3.15%) Redis
7 2 (1.57%) Big Data
7 2 (1.57%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.57%) HPCC
7 2 (1.57%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.79%) GIS
8 1 (0.79%) KDB
8 1 (0.79%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.79%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.79%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 86 (67.72%) Jenkins
2 75 (59.06%) JUnit
3 57 (44.88%) Maven
4 47 (37.01%) Mockito
5 39 (30.71%) Liquibase
6 27 (21.26%) Git
6 27 (21.26%) JIRA
7 20 (15.75%) GitLab
8 19 (14.96%) IntelliJ
9 13 (10.24%) Sonatype Nexus
10 12 (9.45%) Selenium
11 11 (8.66%) Cucumber
12 8 (6.30%) HP UFT
13 7 (5.51%) SonarQube
14 6 (4.72%) Eclipse
14 6 (4.72%) Subversion
14 6 (4.72%) Xcode
15 5 (3.94%) Artifactory
15 5 (3.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 5 (3.94%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 48 (37.80%) Finance
2 26 (20.47%) Social Skills
3 25 (19.69%) Public Sector
4 23 (18.11%) Telecoms
5 21 (16.54%) Electronics
5 21 (16.54%) Manufacturing
5 21 (16.54%) Marketing
6 14 (11.02%) Banking
7 12 (9.45%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.36%) Retail
9 2 (1.57%) Front Office
9 2 (1.57%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.79%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 83 (65.35%) Developer
2 57 (44.88%) Java Developer
3 23 (18.11%) Senior
4 21 (16.54%) Senior Developer
5 19 (14.96%) Senior Java Developer
6 18 (14.17%) Lead
7 17 (13.39%) Java Engineer
7 17 (13.39%) Software Engineer
8 16 (12.60%) Java Software Engineer
9 14 (11.02%) Lead Developer
10 13 (10.24%) React Developer
11 12 (9.45%) Lead Java Developer
11 12 (9.45%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 10 (7.87%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
13 8 (6.30%) DevOps Engineer
13 8 (6.30%) Full-Stack Developer
14 7 (5.51%) Android Developer
15 5 (3.94%) AWS Developer
15 5 (3.94%) Azure Engineer
16 4 (3.15%) iOS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (65.35%) Spring
2 71 (55.91%) Spring Boot
3 55 (43.31%) Kafka
4 42 (33.07%) OpenAPI
4 42 (33.07%) React
4 42 (33.07%) Swagger
5 19 (14.96%) HTML
6 15 (11.81%) REST
7 13 (10.24%) RESTful
8 12 (9.45%) Hibernate
9 11 (8.66%) CSS
10 10 (7.87%) JPA
11 9 (7.09%) Spring MVC
12 8 (6.30%) SOAP
13 7 (5.51%) Spring Cloud
14 6 (4.72%) AngularJS
14 6 (4.72%) RabbitMQ
14 6 (4.72%) RxJava
14 6 (4.72%) Web Services
15 5 (3.94%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.72%) Data Structures
1 6 (4.72%) Mobile App
2 5 (3.94%) Cloud Native
2 5 (3.94%) PKI
3 4 (3.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (3.15%) Mobile Banking
4 3 (2.36%) Mainframe
5 2 (1.57%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.57%) Equities
5 2 (1.57%) IVR
6 1 (0.79%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.79%) Derivative
6 1 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.79%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.79%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (18.11%) Linux
2 16 (12.60%) Android
2 16 (12.60%) Unix
3 6 (4.72%) Apple iOS
4 4 (3.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.15%) Windows
5 2 (1.57%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (60.63%) CI/CD
2 69 (54.33%) Microservices
3 67 (52.76%) Agile
4 64 (50.39%) DevOps
5 63 (49.61%) TDD
6 54 (42.52%) Software Engineering
7 51 (40.16%) Containerisation
8 37 (29.13%) Migration
9 35 (27.56%) Continuous Integration
10 22 (17.32%) Design Patterns
11 21 (16.54%) Business Intelligence
11 21 (16.54%) Digital Marketing
11 21 (16.54%) Programme Management
12 16 (12.60%) Architectural Patterns
12 16 (12.60%) Event-Driven
12 16 (12.60%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 16 (12.60%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (12.60%) Test Automation
13 13 (10.24%) Build Automation
13 13 (10.24%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 114 (89.76%) Java
2 51 (40.16%) SQL
3 49 (38.58%) TypeScript
4 15 (11.81%) Python
5 14 (11.02%) JavaScript
5 14 (11.02%) Kotlin
6 10 (7.87%) C++
6 10 (7.87%) Shell Script
7 7 (5.51%) C
8 4 (3.15%) Bash
8 4 (3.15%) Objective-C
8 4 (3.15%) Ruby
8 4 (3.15%) Scala
8 4 (3.15%) Swift
9 3 (2.36%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.57%) Go
10 2 (1.57%) JSX
10 2 (1.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 45 (35.43%) SC Cleared
1 45 (35.43%) Security Cleared
2 9 (7.09%) Degree
3 4 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.30%) QA
2 4 (3.15%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.57%) GDPR
3 2 (1.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 65 (51.18%) Docker
2 1 (0.79%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 26 (20.47%) Kubernetes
2 15 (11.81%) Terraform
3 6 (4.72%) Ansible
3 6 (4.72%) Puppet
4 4 (3.15%) Grafana
4 4 (3.15%) Progress Chef
5 3 (2.36%) Kibana
5 3 (2.36%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.57%) Argo
6 2 (1.57%) Istio
Vendors
1 22 (17.32%) SAP
2 11 (8.66%) Oracle
3 8 (6.30%) Microsoft
4 7 (5.51%) Splunk
5 6 (4.72%) Google
6 4 (3.15%) CA Agile Central
7 3 (2.36%) Sybase
8 2 (1.57%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.57%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.57%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.79%) Adobe
9 1 (0.79%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.79%) ION Trading
9 1 (0.79%) Remedy
9 1 (0.79%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.79%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.79%) Sonatype