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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 535 427 517
Rank change year-on-year -108 +90 +14
Contract jobs citing Gradle 140 138 56
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.42% 0.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.28% 2.76% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 100 36
10th Percentile £336 £358 £509
25th Percentile £400 £393 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £530 £602
Median % change year-on-year -9.43% -12.00% -7.35%
75th Percentile £538 £570 £834
90th Percentile £574 £615 £894
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £384 £650
% change year-on-year +17.26% -40.96% +23.81%
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 6,140 4,992 5,053
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.42% 15.15% 13.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,939 3,363 3,279
10th Percentile £356 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 115 180
10th Percentile £35.63 £28.65 £27.80
25th Percentile £54.84 £50.00 £51.19
Median hourly rate £67.49 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.82% - -
75th Percentile £71.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.36 £86.60 £71.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - -

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 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 31 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 -123 110 £500 -5.66% 43
London -59 64 £525 -1.87% 35
UK excluding London -88 62 £450 +17.26% 23
Work from Home -50 31 £490 -8.15% 24
North of England -92 24 £500 +33.33% 2
Scotland -5 18 £377 +6.50% 7
Yorkshire -40 12 £500 +13.93% 2
East of England - 11 £495 -
North West -79 8 £537 +43.20%
South East -64 6 £270 -57.48% 3
North East - 4 £450 -
South West -40 2 - - 7
Midlands -54 2 £455 +4.53% 3
East Midlands -15 1 £335 -21.91% 1
West Midlands -47 1 £575 - 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 8 (5.71%) Confluence
2 7 (5.00%) Camunda
3 4 (2.86%) Apache
3 4 (2.86%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.43%) Anypoint
4 2 (1.43%) Mule
5 1 (0.71%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (1.43%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.71%) Finacle
2 1 (0.71%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.71%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 51 (36.43%) AWS
2 44 (31.43%) Azure
3 40 (28.57%) GitHub
4 29 (20.71%) GitHub Actions
5 24 (17.14%) OpenShift
6 22 (15.71%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (15.71%) GCP
7 12 (8.57%) Google Play
8 9 (6.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 6 (4.29%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (4.29%) Apigee
9 6 (4.29%) Firebase
9 6 (4.29%) Kong
10 5 (3.57%) Cloud Run
11 4 (2.86%) Apple Pay
12 3 (2.14%) Amazon Kinesis
12 3 (2.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (2.14%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (2.14%) GitHub Copilot
12 3 (2.14%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.86%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (1.43%) Firewall
3 1 (0.71%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.71%) DSL
3 1 (0.71%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (18.57%) Relational Database
3 18 (12.86%) MongoDB
4 14 (10.00%) MySQL
5 11 (7.86%) SQL Server
6 7 (5.00%) NoSQL
7 6 (4.29%) RDBMS
8 5 (3.57%) DynamoDB
8 5 (3.57%) Hazelcast
8 5 (3.57%) Redis
9 4 (2.86%) Flink
10 3 (2.14%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (2.14%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (2.14%) MariaDB
10 3 (2.14%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.71%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.71%) Db2
11 1 (0.71%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 82 (58.57%) Jenkins
2 77 (55.00%) Git
3 71 (50.71%) Maven
4 55 (39.29%) JUnit
5 37 (26.43%) GitLab
6 28 (20.00%) Mockito
7 18 (12.86%) SonarQube
8 17 (12.14%) Liquibase
9 13 (9.29%) JIRA
9 13 (9.29%) REST Assured
10 12 (8.57%) Android Studio
11 11 (7.86%) GoCD
12 10 (7.14%) Selenium
12 10 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
13 8 (5.71%) Cucumber
14 7 (5.00%) Bitbucket Server
14 7 (5.00%) CircleCI
14 7 (5.00%) JProfiler
15 6 (4.29%) fastlane
16 5 (3.57%) Crashlytics
General
1 26 (18.57%) Analytical Skills
1 26 (18.57%) Banking
2 25 (17.86%) Finance
2 25 (17.86%) Social Skills
3 19 (13.57%) Public Sector
4 7 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (3.57%) Law
6 1 (0.71%) Games
6 1 (0.71%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 99 (70.71%) Developer
2 75 (53.57%) Java Developer
3 24 (17.14%) Senior
4 17 (12.14%) Software Engineer
5 14 (10.00%) Android Developer
5 14 (10.00%) Java Engineer
5 14 (10.00%) Senior Developer
6 13 (9.29%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 13 (9.29%) Senior Java Developer
6 13 (9.29%) Software Developer
7 9 (6.43%) Java Software Developer
8 7 (5.00%) Java Software Engineer
8 7 (5.00%) Lead
9 6 (4.29%) Backend Developer
9 6 (4.29%) Lead Developer
9 6 (4.29%) Lead Java Developer
10 5 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (3.57%) Mid-Level Java Developer
11 4 (2.86%) Senior Backend Developer
11 4 (2.86%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (74.29%) Spring Boot
2 96 (68.57%) Spring
3 64 (45.71%) Kafka
4 59 (42.14%) React
5 48 (34.29%) RESTful
6 46 (32.86%) REST
7 27 (19.29%) Hibernate
8 26 (18.57%) Redux
9 19 (13.57%) Android Jetpack
9 19 (13.57%) HTML
9 19 (13.57%) JPA
9 19 (13.57%) OpenAPI
9 19 (13.57%) Swagger
10 18 (12.86%) Jetpack Compose
11 17 (12.14%) CSS
11 17 (12.14%) Node.js
12 11 (7.86%) Retrofit
13 10 (7.14%) Spring MVC
13 10 (7.14%) Terraform
13 10 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (16.43%) Product Ownership
2 17 (12.14%) Mobile App
3 12 (8.57%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (8.57%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (5.71%) Data Structures
6 7 (5.00%) Cloud Native
7 6 (4.29%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 3 (2.14%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.43%) Legacy Code
9 2 (1.43%) PKI
9 2 (1.43%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.71%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.71%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.71%) IoT
10 1 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.71%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.71%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (13.57%) Android
2 11 (7.86%) Linux
3 4 (2.86%) Unix
4 1 (0.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (79.29%) CI/CD
2 95 (67.86%) Agile
3 86 (61.43%) Microservices
4 62 (44.29%) DevOps
5 58 (41.43%) Test Automation
6 57 (40.71%) TDD
7 46 (32.86%) Containerisation
7 46 (32.86%) Scrum
8 43 (30.71%) Software Engineering
9 40 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
10 28 (20.00%) Clean Code
11 27 (19.29%) Continuous Improvement
12 24 (17.14%) Design Patterns
13 23 (16.43%) Event-Driven
14 21 (15.00%) Observability
15 19 (13.57%) Full-Stack Development
16 18 (12.86%) Android Development
17 16 (11.43%) API Development
17 16 (11.43%) OOP
17 16 (11.43%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 132 (94.29%) Java
2 78 (55.71%) SQL
3 30 (21.43%) JavaScript
4 22 (15.71%) TypeScript
5 19 (13.57%) Kotlin
6 13 (9.29%) PL/SQL
7 10 (7.14%) Python
8 5 (3.57%) Bash
8 5 (3.57%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.86%) Ruby
10 3 (2.14%) Groovy
11 2 (1.43%) Korn
12 1 (0.71%) C#
Qualifications
1 46 (32.86%) Security Cleared
2 40 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 13 (9.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (9.29%) Degree
4 7 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.86%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.43%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (15.71%) QA
2 12 (8.57%) Accessibility
3 7 (5.00%) ISO 20022
4 5 (3.57%) WCAG
5 4 (2.86%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.43%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.71%) GDPR
7 1 (0.71%) PSD2
7 1 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.71%) SEPA
System Software
1 57 (40.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 44 (31.43%) Kubernetes
2 25 (17.86%) Ansible
3 12 (8.57%) Control-M
4 11 (7.86%) Grafana
4 11 (7.86%) Prometheus
5 5 (3.57%) Argo
6 2 (1.43%) Istio
7 1 (0.71%) Podman
7 1 (0.71%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.71%) Puppet
Vendors
1 45 (32.14%) Oracle
2 19 (13.57%) Google
3 9 (6.43%) IBM
4 8 (5.71%) Splunk
5 7 (5.00%) Dynatrace
5 7 (5.00%) MuleSoft
5 7 (5.00%) Veracode
6 2 (1.43%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.43%) Sybase
7 1 (0.71%) Confluent
7 1 (0.71%) Databricks
7 1 (0.71%) Solace
7 1 (0.71%) Temenos
7 1 (0.71%) TIBCO