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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 542 423 521
Rank change year-on-year -119 +98 -11
Contract jobs citing Gradle 120 130 69
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.40% 0.16%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.92% 2.76% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 90 44
10th Percentile £325 £358 £411
25th Percentile £404 £432 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £530 £569
Median % change year-on-year -13.21% -6.81% -15.74%
75th Percentile £538 £566 £675
90th Percentile £588 £620 £851
UK excluding London median daily rate £445 £402 £623
% change year-on-year +10.70% -35.42% +18.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 1
10th Percentile £51.25 £73.50 -
25th Percentile £58.38 £78.75 £77.50
Median hourly rate £76.00 £90.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +12.50% +1.39%
75th Percentile £90.25 £92.50 £82.50
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 £70.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% -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 6,266 4,715 5,384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.85% 14.53% 12.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,037 3,171 3,549
10th Percentile £350 £326 £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 £588 £588 £625
90th Percentile £688 £690 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 101 250
10th Percentile £26.15 £22.05 £30.93
25th Percentile £56.25 £47.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £74.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £63.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.30% -2.31% +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 11 July 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 11 July 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 11 July 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 -105 107 £495 -6.60% 15
London -50 59 £525 -1.87% 8
UK excluding London -95 52 £445 +10.70% 19
Work from Home -67 20 £474 -11.25% 11
North of England -83 19 £450 +11.94% 4
South East -52 12 £355 -44.09% 3
East of England - 11 £495 -
North West -67 8 £500 +34.23% 2
Scotland -4 7 £375 +5.93% 10
Yorkshire -48 7 - - 2
North East - 4 £450 -
East Midlands -23 2 - - 1
South West -33 2 - -
Midlands -66 2 - - 1

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 (3.33%) Apache
1 4 (3.33%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.50%) Confluence
3 2 (1.67%) Anypoint
3 2 (1.67%) Mule
4 1 (0.83%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 2 (1.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 47 (39.17%) GitHub
2 41 (34.17%) AWS
3 35 (29.17%) GitHub Actions
4 29 (24.17%) Azure
5 16 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (12.50%) GCP
7 8 (6.67%) OpenShift
8 6 (5.00%) Firebase
8 6 (5.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 6 (5.00%) Google Play
9 5 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (4.17%) Apigee
10 4 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (3.33%) Apple Pay
10 4 (3.33%) Cloud Run
10 4 (3.33%) Kong
11 3 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (2.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (2.50%) DSL
3 2 (1.67%) Firewall
3 2 (1.67%) HTTP
4 1 (0.83%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.83%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (15.00%) Relational Database
3 13 (10.83%) MongoDB
4 10 (8.33%) MySQL
5 8 (6.67%) DynamoDB
6 5 (4.17%) SQL Server
7 4 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (3.33%) Flink
7 4 (3.33%) Hazelcast
7 4 (3.33%) NoSQL
7 4 (3.33%) RDBMS
7 4 (3.33%) Redis
8 3 (2.50%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.67%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.83%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.83%) Db2
10 1 (0.83%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.83%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 62 (51.67%) Git
2 56 (46.67%) Maven
3 54 (45.00%) Jenkins
4 50 (41.67%) JUnit
5 31 (25.83%) GitLab
6 22 (18.33%) Mockito
7 16 (13.33%) Liquibase
8 9 (7.50%) CircleCI
8 9 (7.50%) SonarQube
9 8 (6.67%) fastlane
9 8 (6.67%) GoCD
9 8 (6.67%) REST Assured
10 7 (5.83%) Android Studio
11 6 (5.00%) Cucumber
11 6 (5.00%) TestNG
12 5 (4.17%) Crashlytics
12 5 (4.17%) Gatling
12 5 (4.17%) JIRA
13 4 (3.33%) Selenium
13 4 (3.33%) Snyk
General
1 24 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 18 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (13.33%) Finance
4 14 (11.67%) Public Sector
5 12 (10.00%) Banking
6 5 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.17%) Law
7 2 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Front Office
8 1 (0.83%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 76 (63.33%) Developer
2 62 (51.67%) Java Developer
3 23 (19.17%) Senior
4 18 (15.00%) Java Engineer
5 16 (13.33%) Software Engineer
6 14 (11.67%) Senior Developer
7 13 (10.83%) Senior Java Developer
8 11 (9.17%) Android Developer
9 9 (7.50%) Java Software Engineer
9 9 (7.50%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 7 (5.83%) Java Software Developer
10 7 (5.83%) Software Developer
11 5 (4.17%) Android Engineer
11 5 (4.17%) Backend Developer
11 5 (4.17%) Mid-Level Java Developer
11 5 (4.17%) Senior Java Engineer
12 4 (3.33%) Applications Engineer
12 4 (3.33%) Lead
12 4 (3.33%) Lead Developer
12 4 (3.33%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (68.33%) Spring
2 81 (67.50%) Spring Boot
3 39 (32.50%) React
4 38 (31.67%) Kafka
5 36 (30.00%) RESTful
6 33 (27.50%) REST
7 19 (15.83%) OpenAPI
7 19 (15.83%) Swagger
8 17 (14.17%) Android Jetpack
9 16 (13.33%) Hibernate
9 16 (13.33%) Jetpack Compose
10 12 (10.00%) JPA
10 12 (10.00%) Redux
11 10 (8.33%) Node.js
12 9 (7.50%) OpenTelemetry
12 9 (7.50%) RxJava
12 9 (7.50%) Spring MVC
12 9 (7.50%) WireMock
13 8 (6.67%) GraphQL
13 8 (6.67%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.83%) Product Ownership
2 15 (12.50%) Mobile App
3 11 (9.17%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (8.33%) Cloud Native
5 8 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (4.17%) Legacy Code
8 4 (3.33%) Data Structures
8 4 (3.33%) Virtual Team
9 3 (2.50%) Algorithms
9 3 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.67%) PKI
11 1 (0.83%) Derivative
11 1 (0.83%) Equities
11 1 (0.83%) IoT
11 1 (0.83%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 1 (0.83%) Video\Live Streaming
11 1 (0.83%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 19 (15.83%) Android
2 6 (5.00%) Linux
3 2 (1.67%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.67%) Unix
4 1 (0.83%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (77.50%) CI/CD
2 67 (55.83%) Microservices
3 64 (53.33%) Agile
4 52 (43.33%) TDD
5 51 (42.50%) DevOps
6 48 (40.00%) Test Automation
7 37 (30.83%) Software Engineering
8 36 (30.00%) Containerisation
9 24 (20.00%) Scrum
10 23 (19.17%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (15.83%) Observability
12 18 (15.00%) Design Patterns
12 18 (15.00%) Event-Driven
12 18 (15.00%) Unit Testing
13 15 (12.50%) Android Development
13 15 (12.50%) API Development
13 15 (12.50%) Clean Code
13 15 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (12.50%) OOP
13 15 (12.50%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 106 (88.33%) Java
2 56 (46.67%) SQL
3 24 (20.00%) Kotlin
4 20 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 13 (10.83%) JavaScript
6 7 (5.83%) PL/SQL
6 7 (5.83%) Python
7 4 (3.33%) Bash
8 3 (2.50%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.67%) Korn
10 1 (0.83%) BrightScript
10 1 (0.83%) Groovy
10 1 (0.83%) Ruby
10 1 (0.83%) Swift
Qualifications
1 30 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 26 (21.67%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (8.33%) Degree
4 2 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (16.67%) QA
2 12 (10.00%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.17%) WCAG
4 4 (3.33%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.67%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.83%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.83%) GDPR
6 1 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.83%) SEPA
System Software
1 44 (36.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (25.83%) Kubernetes
2 22 (18.33%) Ansible
3 9 (7.50%) Grafana
4 8 (6.67%) Prometheus
5 7 (5.83%) Control-M
5 7 (5.83%) Terraform
6 4 (3.33%) Argo
7 2 (1.67%) Istio
Vendors
1 28 (23.33%) Oracle
2 11 (9.17%) Google
3 9 (7.50%) Splunk
4 8 (6.67%) Dynatrace
5 7 (5.83%) MuleSoft
6 5 (4.17%) Microsoft
7 3 (2.50%) IBM
8 2 (1.67%) Sybase
9 1 (0.83%) Roku
9 1 (0.83%) Solace
9 1 (0.83%) TIBCO
9 1 (0.83%) Veracode