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 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 466 500 544
Rank change year-on-year +34 +44 -75
Contract jobs citing Gradle 117 48 76
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.13% 0.17%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.12% 1.01% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 31 51
10th Percentile £346 £521 £300
25th Percentile £393 £550 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £700 £575
Median % change year-on-year -24.39% +21.74% -11.54%
75th Percentile £588 £863 £738
90th Percentile £635 £913 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £403 £750 £528
% change year-on-year -46.33% +42.18% -1.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £43.00 - £76.63
25th Percentile £47.50 - £77.19
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £81.41
75th Percentile £62.50 - £87.42
90th Percentile £67.00 - £88.97
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 5,520 4,756 6,002
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.32% 13.04% 13.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,805 2,943 4,178
10th Percentile £331 £341 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £541
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -3.92% -1.60%
75th Percentile £600 £627 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £513
% change year-on-year -2.56% -4.88% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 125 229
10th Percentile £29.63 £29.13 £45.88
25th Percentile £51.38 £47.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.12 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £74.78 £87.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 26 November 2025.

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 26 November 2025.

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 26 November 2025. 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 +41 108 £534 -25.12% 20
UK excluding London +9 62 £403 -46.33% 17
London +17 46 £543 -23.79% 10
North of England -20 31 £370 - 1
Work from Home +30 29 £534 -31.06% 5
North West 0 24 £375 - 1
South East +11 20 £473 -34.19% 14
Yorkshire - 7 £354 -
Midlands -27 6 £575 -23.33%
West Midlands - 5 £575 -
Scotland -1 3 £550 - 2
South West -4 1 - -
East Midlands -14 1 £360 -52.00%
Northern Ireland - 1 £425 -

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 (6.84%) Tomcat
2 7 (5.98%) JBoss
3 4 (3.42%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.42%) OpenStack
4 3 (2.56%) Apache
5 2 (1.71%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 37 (31.62%) GitHub
2 35 (29.91%) AWS
3 30 (25.64%) Azure
4 20 (17.09%) GCP
5 16 (13.68%) Datadog
6 13 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (11.11%) OpenShift
7 10 (8.55%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (8.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 8 (6.84%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (6.84%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (6.84%) Serverless
9 7 (5.98%) Apigee
9 7 (5.98%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (5.98%) Figma
10 6 (5.13%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (5.13%) Azure AKS
10 6 (5.13%) SaaS
11 5 (4.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (4.27%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.27%) Kerberos
2 2 (1.71%) Bluetooth
2 2 (1.71%) MQTT
3 1 (0.85%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (18.80%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (16.24%) NoSQL
3 16 (13.68%) Relational Database
4 12 (10.26%) MongoDB
5 11 (9.40%) DynamoDB
6 8 (6.84%) HBase
6 8 (6.84%) MySQL
6 8 (6.84%) RDBMS
7 6 (5.13%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (4.27%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (4.27%) BigQuery
8 5 (4.27%) Redis
9 4 (3.42%) Big Data
9 4 (3.42%) SQL Server
10 3 (2.56%) Data Lake
10 3 (2.56%) HPCC
11 2 (1.71%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.85%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.85%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 55 (47.01%) Maven
2 50 (42.74%) Jenkins
3 48 (41.03%) Git
4 36 (30.77%) JUnit
5 26 (22.22%) Sonatype Nexus
6 24 (20.51%) GitLab
7 15 (12.82%) SonarQube
8 13 (11.11%) Android Studio
8 13 (11.11%) Artifactory
9 12 (10.26%) Xcode
10 11 (9.40%) JIRA
10 11 (9.40%) Mockito
11 10 (8.55%) Bitbucket
11 10 (8.55%) Cucumber
11 10 (8.55%) Selenium
12 7 (5.98%) Postman
12 7 (5.98%) Storybook
13 6 (5.13%) CircleCI
13 6 (5.13%) Liquibase
14 5 (4.27%) SonarLint
General
1 25 (21.37%) Finance
2 20 (17.09%) Social Skills
3 17 (14.53%) Banking
4 9 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.27%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.42%) Retail Banking
7 3 (2.56%) Front Office
8 2 (1.71%) Retail
8 2 (1.71%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.85%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.85%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.85%) Law
9 1 (0.85%) Marketing
9 1 (0.85%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 74 (63.25%) Developer
2 42 (35.90%) Java Developer
3 22 (18.80%) Senior
4 16 (13.68%) Android Developer
5 15 (12.82%) DevOps Engineer
5 15 (12.82%) Senior Developer
6 14 (11.97%) Senior Java Developer
7 11 (9.40%) Java Engineer
8 9 (7.69%) AWS Developer
8 9 (7.69%) React Developer
8 9 (7.69%) Software Engineer
9 8 (6.84%) Java Software Engineer
9 8 (6.84%) Lead
10 6 (5.13%) Lead Developer
11 5 (4.27%) Architect
11 5 (4.27%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (4.27%) Java Architect
11 5 (4.27%) Java Technical Architect
11 5 (4.27%) Lead Java Developer
11 5 (4.27%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (36.75%) Spring
2 39 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 25 (21.37%) Kafka
4 23 (19.66%) RESTful
5 22 (18.80%) REST
6 14 (11.97%) JSON
7 11 (9.40%) HTML
7 11 (9.40%) React
8 9 (7.69%) React Native
9 8 (6.84%) CSS
9 8 (6.84%) GraphQL
9 8 (6.84%) Spring Cloud
10 7 (5.98%) D3.js
10 7 (5.98%) Micronaut
10 7 (5.98%) OAuth
10 7 (5.98%) RabbitMQ
10 7 (5.98%) SOAP
10 7 (5.98%) SVG
11 6 (5.13%) Swagger
11 6 (5.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (17.09%) Mobile App
2 12 (10.26%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (5.13%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.27%) N-Tier
5 4 (3.42%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.42%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.42%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.42%) Mobile Banking
5 4 (3.42%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.42%) Private Cloud
6 3 (2.56%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.56%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.56%) Derivative
7 2 (1.71%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.71%) Equities
7 2 (1.71%) IoT
7 2 (1.71%) IVR
7 2 (1.71%) TWAP
7 2 (1.71%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 27 (23.08%) Android
2 21 (17.95%) Linux
3 16 (13.68%) Unix
4 13 (11.11%) Apple iOS
5 5 (4.27%) Windows
6 4 (3.42%) Solaris
7 3 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (51.28%) CI/CD
2 50 (42.74%) DevOps
3 41 (35.04%) Microservices
4 39 (33.33%) Agile
5 36 (30.77%) Containerisation
6 30 (25.64%) Design Patterns
7 28 (23.93%) TDD
8 27 (23.08%) Software Engineering
9 23 (19.66%) Test Automation
10 20 (17.09%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (13.68%) Android Development
11 16 (13.68%) BDD
12 15 (12.82%) Event-Driven
12 15 (12.82%) Mentoring
13 14 (11.97%) OOP
14 13 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
15 12 (10.26%) Architectural Patterns
15 12 (10.26%) Infrastructure as Code
15 12 (10.26%) Migration
16 11 (9.40%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 88 (75.21%) Java
2 30 (25.64%) Python
3 26 (22.22%) SQL
4 19 (16.24%) TypeScript
5 17 (14.53%) Kotlin
6 15 (12.82%) C++
7 12 (10.26%) JavaScript
8 9 (7.69%) Shell Script
9 8 (6.84%) C
10 7 (5.98%) Bash
10 7 (5.98%) Scala
11 5 (4.27%) Objective-C
11 5 (4.27%) PL/SQL
11 5 (4.27%) PowerShell
11 5 (4.27%) Rust
11 5 (4.27%) Swift
12 4 (3.42%) Ruby
13 2 (1.71%) Go
13 2 (1.71%) Groovy
14 1 (0.85%) JSX
Qualifications
1 19 (16.24%) Security Cleared
2 12 (10.26%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.84%) OCP
3 8 (6.84%) Oracle Certification
4 4 (3.42%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (3.42%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.56%) Degree
6 2 (1.71%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.85%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.85%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.84%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.42%) QA
System Software
1 41 (35.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 45 (38.46%) Kubernetes
2 25 (21.37%) Terraform
3 15 (12.82%) Ansible
4 13 (11.11%) Grafana
5 9 (7.69%) Prometheus
6 8 (6.84%) Puppet
7 6 (5.13%) Progress Chef
8 5 (4.27%) Argo
9 4 (3.42%) Podman
10 2 (1.71%) Istio
11 1 (0.85%) Kibana
11 1 (0.85%) logstash
Vendors
1 14 (11.97%) Oracle
2 10 (8.55%) Google
2 10 (8.55%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.84%) Splunk
4 5 (4.27%) Gigya
5 4 (3.42%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.71%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.71%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.85%) Adobe
7 1 (0.85%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.85%) Apple
7 1 (0.85%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.85%) Foundry
7 1 (0.85%) Palantir