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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 542 422 512
Rank change year-on-year -120 +90 0
Contract jobs citing Gradle 128 129 60
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.39% 0.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.07% 2.63% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 92 42
10th Percentile £334 £354 £433
25th Percentile £400 £405 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £530 £594
Median % change year-on-year -9.91% -10.74% -12.04%
75th Percentile £538 £553 £756
90th Percentile £574 £615 £874
UK excluding London median daily rate £440 £375 £605
% change year-on-year +17.33% -38.02% +15.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
Median hourly rate £76.00 £90.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year +8.57% - -

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 6,185 4,896 5,018
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.70% 14.88% 12.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,963 3,319 3,304
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -0.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 109 214
10th Percentile £27.19 £25.24 £26.59
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £46.20
Median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.34 £84.05 £73.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - +2.46%

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 4 August 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
Top 15 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 4 August 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 -112 102 £500 -5.66% 31
UK excluding London -90 59 £440 +17.33% 15
London -54 58 £525 -1.41% 22
Work from Home -61 22 £500 -6.28% 15
North of England -72 19 £475 +26.67% 4
Scotland -1 16 £377 +6.50% 6
Yorkshire -38 11 £500 -3.80% 2
East of England - 11 £495 -
South East -60 9 £272 -57.24% 2
North West -73 4 £500 +34.23% 2
North East - 4 £450 -
Midlands -56 3 £575 +38.72% 3
East Midlands -11 2 - -
South West -42 2 - -
West Midlands -58 1 £575 +17.95% 3

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 (3.13%) Apache
1 4 (3.13%) Apache Spark
1 4 (3.13%) Confluence
2 2 (1.56%) Anypoint
2 2 (1.56%) Camunda
2 2 (1.56%) Mule
3 1 (0.78%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (1.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 45 (35.16%) AWS
2 42 (32.81%) GitHub
3 37 (28.91%) Azure
4 32 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
5 19 (14.84%) GCP
6 18 (14.06%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (12.50%) OpenShift
8 12 (9.38%) Google Play
9 7 (5.47%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 6 (4.69%) Firebase
11 5 (3.91%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (3.91%) Apigee
12 4 (3.13%) Apple Pay
12 4 (3.13%) Cloud Run
12 4 (3.13%) Kong
13 3 (2.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (2.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (2.34%) Azure Monitor
13 3 (2.34%) GitHub Copilot
13 3 (2.34%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (1.56%) Firewall
2 2 (1.56%) HTTP
3 1 (0.78%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.78%) DSL
3 1 (0.78%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (26.56%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (17.97%) Relational Database
3 17 (13.28%) MongoDB
4 11 (8.59%) MySQL
5 6 (4.69%) SQL Server
6 5 (3.91%) DynamoDB
6 5 (3.91%) NoSQL
7 4 (3.13%) Flink
7 4 (3.13%) Hazelcast
7 4 (3.13%) RDBMS
7 4 (3.13%) Redis
8 3 (2.34%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.56%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.78%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.78%) Db2
10 1 (0.78%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.78%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 67 (52.34%) Git
2 65 (50.78%) Jenkins
3 56 (43.75%) Maven
4 51 (39.84%) JUnit
5 32 (25.00%) GitLab
6 22 (17.19%) Mockito
7 17 (13.28%) Liquibase
8 12 (9.38%) Android Studio
9 11 (8.59%) GoCD
9 11 (8.59%) SonarQube
10 10 (7.81%) CircleCI
11 9 (7.03%) REST Assured
12 7 (5.47%) JProfiler
13 6 (4.69%) Cucumber
13 6 (4.69%) fastlane
13 6 (4.69%) JIRA
13 6 (4.69%) Selenium
14 5 (3.91%) Crashlytics
14 5 (3.91%) Snyk
14 5 (3.91%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 24 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 22 (17.19%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 15 (11.72%) Banking
4 15 (11.72%) Finance
5 7 (5.47%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (3.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.91%) Law
7 1 (0.78%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 88 (68.75%) Developer
2 67 (52.34%) Java Developer
3 22 (17.19%) Senior
4 14 (10.94%) Android Developer
4 14 (10.94%) Senior Developer
5 13 (10.16%) Java Engineer
5 13 (10.16%) Senior Java Developer
5 13 (10.16%) Software Engineer
6 12 (9.38%) Software Developer
7 11 (8.59%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 9 (7.03%) Java Software Developer
9 7 (5.47%) Lead
9 7 (5.47%) Lead Developer
10 6 (4.69%) Java Software Engineer
10 6 (4.69%) Lead Java Developer
11 5 (3.91%) Android Engineer
11 5 (3.91%) Backend Developer
11 5 (3.91%) Mid-Level Java Developer
12 4 (3.13%) Full-Stack Developer
12 4 (3.13%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (70.31%) Spring Boot
2 87 (67.97%) Spring
3 49 (38.28%) Kafka
4 48 (37.50%) React
5 46 (35.94%) REST
6 41 (32.03%) RESTful
7 21 (16.41%) Android Jetpack
8 20 (15.63%) Jetpack Compose
8 20 (15.63%) OpenAPI
8 20 (15.63%) Swagger
9 19 (14.84%) Hibernate
10 18 (14.06%) Redux
11 14 (10.94%) Node.js
12 12 (9.38%) HTML
13 11 (8.59%) JPA
13 11 (8.59%) Retrofit
14 10 (7.81%) CSS
15 9 (7.03%) RxJava
15 9 (7.03%) Spring MVC
15 9 (7.03%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 23 (17.97%) Product Ownership
2 19 (14.84%) Mobile App
3 11 (8.59%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (7.81%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (7.03%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (5.47%) Cloud Native
7 5 (3.91%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (3.91%) Legacy Code
8 4 (3.13%) Data Structures
8 4 (3.13%) Virtual Team
9 3 (2.34%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.56%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.56%) PKI
10 2 (1.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 1 (0.78%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.78%) IoT
11 1 (0.78%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.78%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.78%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 22 (17.19%) Android
2 8 (6.25%) Linux
3 3 (2.34%) Unix
4 1 (0.78%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 82 (64.06%) Agile
3 72 (56.25%) Microservices
4 51 (39.84%) DevOps
5 50 (39.06%) TDD
6 48 (37.50%) Test Automation
7 42 (32.81%) Containerisation
8 38 (29.69%) Scrum
9 36 (28.13%) Software Engineering
10 34 (26.56%) Problem-Solving
11 27 (21.09%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (16.41%) Design Patterns
13 20 (15.63%) Clean Code
13 20 (15.63%) Observability
14 18 (14.06%) Android Development
14 18 (14.06%) Event-Driven
15 16 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
16 15 (11.72%) Secure Coding
17 14 (10.94%) API Development
17 14 (10.94%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 117 (91.41%) Java
2 64 (50.00%) SQL
3 25 (19.53%) Kotlin
4 20 (15.63%) TypeScript
5 19 (14.84%) JavaScript
6 12 (9.38%) PL/SQL
7 7 (5.47%) Python
8 4 (3.13%) Ruby
9 3 (2.34%) Bash
9 3 (2.34%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.56%) Korn
11 1 (0.78%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 39 (30.47%) Security Cleared
2 34 (26.56%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (8.59%) Degree
4 6 (4.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.78%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.78%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (17.97%) QA
2 11 (8.59%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.91%) WCAG
4 4 (3.13%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.34%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.78%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.78%) GDPR
6 1 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.78%) SEPA
System Software
1 49 (38.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 37 (28.91%) Kubernetes
2 25 (19.53%) Ansible
3 12 (9.38%) Control-M
4 10 (7.81%) Grafana
4 10 (7.81%) Prometheus
5 9 (7.03%) Terraform
6 4 (3.13%) Argo
7 2 (1.56%) Istio
8 1 (0.78%) Podman
8 1 (0.78%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.78%) Puppet
Vendors
1 39 (30.47%) Oracle
2 18 (14.06%) Google
3 8 (6.25%) Dynatrace
4 7 (5.47%) MuleSoft
4 7 (5.47%) Splunk
5 4 (3.13%) IBM
6 2 (1.56%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.56%) Sybase
6 2 (1.56%) Veracode
7 1 (0.78%) Solace
7 1 (0.78%) TIBCO