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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 519 426 524
Rank change year-on-year -93 +98 -8
Contract jobs citing Gradle 106 93 63
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.32% 0.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.83% 2.24% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 61 41
10th Percentile £283 £381 £410
25th Percentile £400 £485 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -7.83% -14.81%
75th Percentile £572 £560 £625
90th Percentile £665 £620 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £407 £520 £581
% change year-on-year -21.65% -10.58% +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 5,777 4,146 5,128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.11% 14.26% 12.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,778 2,775 3,435
10th Percentile £349 £338 £354
25th Percentile £408 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £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 241 72 204
10th Percentile £35.00 £25.33 £32.10
25th Percentile £59.25 £47.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £67.00 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.67% -7.69% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.67 £79.04
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £61.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +9.76% -5.38% +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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -89 103 £504 -5.00% 26
UK excluding London -66 57 £407 -21.65% 14
London -62 42 £525 -0.94% 13
North of England -54 27 £426 -18.84% 4
North West -27 20 £402 -24.15% 1
South East - 17 £354 - 5
Work from Home -36 16 £325 -39.08% 9
East of England - 9 £495 - 4
Yorkshire -55 6 - - 1
Midlands -68 3 £575 +35.29% 1
East Midlands -28 2 - - 1
South West - 2 £500 -
West Midlands -63 1 £575 +26.37%
North East - 1 £450 - 2

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 (4.72%) Apache
1 5 (4.72%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.83%) Confluence
3 2 (1.89%) Camunda
4 1 (0.94%) JBoss
4 1 (0.94%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.94%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (1.89%) Shopify
2 1 (0.94%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 36 (33.96%) GitHub
2 34 (32.08%) AWS
3 26 (24.53%) GitHub Actions
4 16 (15.09%) Azure
5 10 (9.43%) GCP
6 7 (6.60%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (5.66%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 5 (4.72%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (4.72%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (3.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (3.77%) Amazon S3
9 4 (3.77%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (3.77%) Apigee
9 4 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (3.77%) Cloud Run
9 4 (3.77%) Kong
9 4 (3.77%) OpenShift
9 4 (3.77%) Serverless
10 3 (2.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (2.83%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.83%) DSL
1 3 (2.83%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (1.89%) HTTP
3 1 (0.94%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (21.70%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (11.32%) Relational Database
3 8 (7.55%) DynamoDB
4 7 (6.60%) MongoDB
5 6 (5.66%) MySQL
6 5 (4.72%) RDBMS
7 4 (3.77%) Flink
7 4 (3.77%) Hazelcast
7 4 (3.77%) NoSQL
7 4 (3.77%) Redis
8 3 (2.83%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.83%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.94%) HBase
9 1 (0.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 44 (41.51%) Git
2 41 (38.68%) Maven
3 36 (33.96%) JUnit
4 33 (31.13%) GitLab
5 32 (30.19%) Jenkins
6 18 (16.98%) Mockito
7 13 (12.26%) IntelliJ
7 13 (12.26%) Liquibase
8 9 (8.49%) CircleCI
9 8 (7.55%) Cucumber
10 6 (5.66%) fastlane
10 6 (5.66%) REST Assured
10 6 (5.66%) SonarQube
11 5 (4.72%) Android Studio
11 5 (4.72%) JIRA
11 5 (4.72%) Selenium
11 5 (4.72%) Snyk
12 4 (3.77%) Bitbucket
12 4 (3.77%) Gatling
12 4 (3.77%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (14.15%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.49%) Finance
2 9 (8.49%) Public Sector
3 8 (7.55%) Banking
4 6 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.77%) Law
6 2 (1.89%) Front Office
6 2 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.89%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 54 (50.94%) Developer
2 35 (33.02%) Java Developer
3 29 (27.36%) Java Engineer
4 26 (24.53%) Software Engineer
5 24 (22.64%) Senior
6 18 (16.98%) Java Software Engineer
7 14 (13.21%) Android Developer
7 14 (13.21%) Senior Developer
8 13 (12.26%) Senior Java Developer
9 6 (5.66%) Android Engineer
9 6 (5.66%) Senior Java Engineer
10 5 (4.72%) Backend Developer
11 4 (3.77%) Java Software Developer
11 4 (3.77%) Senior Backend Developer
11 4 (3.77%) Software Developer
12 3 (2.83%) Senior Software Engineer
13 2 (1.89%) DevOps Engineer
13 2 (1.89%) Java Applications Developer
13 2 (1.89%) Server Engineer
13 2 (1.89%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (64.15%) Spring
2 66 (62.26%) Spring Boot
3 25 (23.58%) Kafka
4 23 (21.70%) REST
5 22 (20.75%) React
6 20 (18.87%) OpenTelemetry
7 18 (16.98%) OpenAPI
7 18 (16.98%) Swagger
8 16 (15.09%) RESTful
9 15 (14.15%) Android Jetpack
9 15 (14.15%) Jetpack Compose
10 12 (11.32%) GraphQL
11 11 (10.38%) WireMock
12 8 (7.55%) JPA
12 8 (7.55%) RxJava
13 6 (5.66%) Dagger
13 6 (5.66%) OkHttp
13 6 (5.66%) Playwright
13 6 (5.66%) RAML
14 5 (4.72%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.43%) Product Ownership
2 9 (8.49%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.49%) Mobile App
3 8 (7.55%) Legacy Code
4 7 (6.60%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (4.72%) Virtual Team
6 4 (3.77%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.83%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.89%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.89%) Derivative
8 2 (1.89%) Equities
8 2 (1.89%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.89%) TWAP
8 2 (1.89%) VWAP
9 1 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.94%) PKI
9 1 (0.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.94%) Synthetic Data
9 1 (0.94%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 19 (17.92%) Android
2 7 (6.60%) Linux
3 3 (2.83%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.89%) Windows
5 1 (0.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (57.55%) CI/CD
2 45 (42.45%) Software Engineering
3 44 (41.51%) Microservices
4 39 (36.79%) TDD
5 37 (34.91%) Agile
6 34 (32.08%) Containerisation
6 34 (32.08%) DevOps
7 33 (31.13%) Test Automation
8 19 (17.92%) Observability
9 16 (15.09%) Continuous Integration
10 15 (14.15%) Design Patterns
10 15 (14.15%) Event-Driven
11 14 (13.21%) Unit Testing
11 14 (13.21%) User Experience
12 13 (12.26%) Android Development
12 13 (12.26%) Architectural Patterns
13 12 (11.32%) Secure Coding
14 11 (10.38%) Computer Science
15 10 (9.43%) High Availability
15 10 (9.43%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 84 (79.25%) Java
2 38 (35.85%) Kotlin
3 37 (34.91%) SQL
4 16 (15.09%) TypeScript
5 2 (1.89%) Bash
5 2 (1.89%) Go
5 2 (1.89%) Python
5 2 (1.89%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.89%) Swift
6 1 (0.94%) BrightScript
6 1 (0.94%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.94%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 19 (17.92%) Security Cleared
2 13 (12.26%) Degree
3 12 (11.32%) SC Cleared
4 11 (10.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.94%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.94%) OCP
5 1 (0.94%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.26%) QA
2 8 (7.55%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.83%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.89%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.89%) NCSC
4 2 (1.89%) WCAG
5 1 (0.94%) GDPR
5 1 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.94%) SEPA
System Software
1 36 (33.96%) Docker
2 1 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 37 (34.91%) Kubernetes
2 22 (20.75%) Grafana
3 13 (12.26%) Ansible
4 9 (8.49%) Prometheus
4 9 (8.49%) Terraform
5 4 (3.77%) Argo
6 1 (0.94%) Istio
6 1 (0.94%) Podman
6 1 (0.94%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.94%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (6.60%) Oracle
1 7 (6.60%) Splunk
2 6 (5.66%) Dynatrace
3 3 (2.83%) Google
3 3 (2.83%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.89%) New Relic
4 2 (1.89%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.94%) Roku