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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 504 483 538
Rank change year-on-year -21 +55 -34
Contract jobs citing Gradle 105 49 58
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.17% 0.13%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.82% 1.21% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 35 39
10th Percentile £307 £404 £297
25th Percentile £391 £493 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.38% +3.33% -22.22%
75th Percentile £588 £633 £594
90th Percentile £613 £813 £634
UK excluding London median daily rate £467 £485 £563
% change year-on-year -3.66% -13.78% +8.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 0 2
10th Percentile £46.00 - £76.38
25th Percentile £52.50 - £76.56
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £78.75
75th Percentile £61.25 - £81.56
90th Percentile £80.00 - £82.13
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 5,780 4,049 5,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.50% 13.74% 11.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,886 2,671 3,586
10th Percentile £342 £330 £357
25th Percentile £405 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £627
90th Percentile £688 £725 £714
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 69 202
10th Percentile £33.58 £24.17 £37.50
25th Percentile £55.00 £47.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £76.94 £71.25 £70.94
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £82.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -30 98 £525 -3.45% 12
UK excluding London -43 59 £467 -3.66% 6
London -31 38 £545 -0.46% 7
South East -25 31 £400 -37.25% 2
Work from Home -18 24 £534 -1.02% 6
North of England -47 19 £489 -3.47% 3
North West -17 18 £489 +21.52% 3
Midlands -65 5 £575 +35.29%
West Midlands -61 3 £575 +26.37%
Scotland - 3 £550 -
East Midlands -33 2 - -
Yorkshire -55 1 - -
South West - 1 £500 -

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 4 (3.81%) Apache Spark
1 4 (3.81%) Confluence
2 3 (2.86%) Apache
2 3 (2.86%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.90%) Camunda
4 1 (0.95%) JBoss
4 1 (0.95%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.95%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (1.90%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 37 (35.24%) AWS
1 37 (35.24%) GitHub
2 21 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 10 (9.52%) Datadog
4 7 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (6.67%) Azure
4 7 (6.67%) OpenShift
5 6 (5.71%) Amazon S3
5 6 (5.71%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (5.71%) Serverless
6 5 (4.76%) GCP
6 5 (4.76%) Google Play
7 4 (3.81%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.86%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (2.86%) Azure AKS
8 3 (2.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 3 (2.86%) npm
8 3 (2.86%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.76%) Kerberos
2 2 (1.90%) Bluetooth
2 2 (1.90%) DSL
2 2 (1.90%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (20.95%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (10.48%) NoSQL
3 9 (8.57%) DynamoDB
3 9 (8.57%) HBase
4 8 (7.62%) MongoDB
4 8 (7.62%) Relational Database
5 7 (6.67%) MySQL
6 3 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.90%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.95%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.95%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.95%) Big Data
8 1 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.95%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.95%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.95%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 38 (36.19%) Maven
2 37 (35.24%) JUnit
3 36 (34.29%) Jenkins
4 33 (31.43%) Git
5 26 (24.76%) GitLab
6 16 (15.24%) Cucumber
7 15 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
8 13 (12.38%) IntelliJ
9 12 (11.43%) Artifactory
10 11 (10.48%) Android Studio
10 11 (10.48%) CircleCI
11 9 (8.57%) Mockito
12 8 (7.62%) Bitbucket
12 8 (7.62%) JIRA
13 7 (6.67%) Postman
13 7 (6.67%) Selenium
14 6 (5.71%) Gatling
15 5 (4.76%) Cypress.io
15 5 (4.76%) REST Assured
15 5 (4.76%) TestNG
General
1 21 (20.00%) Finance
2 15 (14.29%) Banking
3 12 (11.43%) Social Skills
4 10 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.71%) Retail Banking
6 2 (1.90%) Front Office
6 2 (1.90%) Law
7 1 (0.95%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.95%) Marketing
7 1 (0.95%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 54 (51.43%) Developer
2 30 (28.57%) Java Developer
3 27 (25.71%) Java Engineer
4 23 (21.90%) Senior
5 21 (20.00%) Android Developer
6 20 (19.05%) Software Engineer
7 16 (15.24%) Java Software Engineer
8 9 (8.57%) DevOps Engineer
8 9 (8.57%) Senior Developer
8 9 (8.57%) Senior Java Developer
9 6 (5.71%) AWS Developer
9 6 (5.71%) Senior Java Engineer
10 5 (4.76%) Android Engineer
10 5 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
11 4 (3.81%) Lead
11 4 (3.81%) Senior DevOps
11 4 (3.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 3 (2.86%) Applications Developer
12 3 (2.86%) Backend Developer
12 3 (2.86%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (48.57%) Spring
2 44 (41.90%) Spring Boot
3 22 (20.95%) REST
4 17 (16.19%) Kafka
5 15 (14.29%) Android Jetpack
5 15 (14.29%) Jetpack Compose
6 14 (13.33%) RESTful
7 13 (12.38%) GraphQL
7 13 (12.38%) OpenTelemetry
8 10 (9.52%) React
9 9 (8.57%) RxJava
10 7 (6.67%) Dagger
10 7 (6.67%) JSON
10 7 (6.67%) OkHttp
10 7 (6.67%) OpenAPI
10 7 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
10 7 (6.67%) RAML
10 7 (6.67%) Swagger
11 6 (5.71%) AngularJS
11 6 (5.71%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.57%) Mobile App
1 9 (8.57%) Product Ownership
2 8 (7.62%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (6.67%) Legacy Code
4 6 (5.71%) Virtual Team
5 5 (4.76%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.81%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.81%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (3.81%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (3.81%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.86%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.90%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.90%) Derivative
8 2 (1.90%) Equities
8 2 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.90%) TWAP
8 2 (1.90%) VWAP
9 1 (0.95%) NHS
9 1 (0.95%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 25 (23.81%) Android
2 11 (10.48%) Linux
3 4 (3.81%) Apple iOS
3 4 (3.81%) Windows
4 3 (2.86%) Unix
5 1 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.95%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (52.38%) CI/CD
2 32 (30.48%) DevOps
2 32 (30.48%) Test Automation
3 29 (27.62%) Software Engineering
4 25 (23.81%) Microservices
5 21 (20.00%) Agile
6 20 (19.05%) Android Development
7 18 (17.14%) Containerisation
8 17 (16.19%) TDD
9 16 (15.24%) Continuous Integration
9 16 (15.24%) User Experience
10 14 (13.33%) Design Patterns
11 13 (12.38%) Observability
11 13 (12.38%) OOP
11 13 (12.38%) Unit Testing
12 12 (11.43%) Event-Driven
13 11 (10.48%) MVVM
13 11 (10.48%) Performance Analysis
14 10 (9.52%) Analytics
14 10 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 76 (72.38%) Java
2 41 (39.05%) Kotlin
3 17 (16.19%) SQL
4 13 (12.38%) Python
5 9 (8.57%) TypeScript
6 5 (4.76%) C++
6 5 (4.76%) Rust
7 3 (2.86%) Bash
7 3 (2.86%) Go
7 3 (2.86%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.86%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.86%) Scala
7 3 (2.86%) Swift
8 2 (1.90%) Groovy
8 2 (1.90%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.95%) BrightScript
9 1 (0.95%) Clojure
9 1 (0.95%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.95%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (16.19%) Security Cleared
2 10 (9.52%) Degree
2 10 (9.52%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.57%) OCP
3 9 (8.57%) Oracle Certification
4 8 (7.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.86%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.95%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.95%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.38%) QA
2 5 (4.76%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.90%) NCSC
System Software
1 29 (27.62%) Docker
2 1 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 42 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 24 (22.86%) Grafana
3 12 (11.43%) Ansible
4 10 (9.52%) Terraform
5 7 (6.67%) Prometheus
6 5 (4.76%) Puppet
7 4 (3.81%) Progress Chef
8 3 (2.86%) Podman
9 1 (0.95%) Argo
Vendors
1 9 (8.57%) Splunk
2 8 (7.62%) Oracle
3 5 (4.76%) Google
4 4 (3.81%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.86%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.86%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.90%) New Relic
7 1 (0.95%) Adobe
7 1 (0.95%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.95%) Apple
7 1 (0.95%) Foundry
7 1 (0.95%) Palantir
7 1 (0.95%) Roku