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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 495 487 541
Rank change year-on-year -8 +54 -35
Contract jobs citing Gradle 111 45 60
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.15% 0.13%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.97% 1.08% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 30 38
10th Percentile £313 £404 £296
25th Percentile £400 £489 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -22.22%
75th Percentile £588 £656 £619
90th Percentile £641 £840 £634
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £548 £563
% change year-on-year -13.62% -2.65% +8.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 0 3
10th Percentile £46.00 - £76.50
25th Percentile £52.50 - £76.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £80.00
75th Percentile £61.25 - £82.50
90th Percentile £80.00 - -
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 5,625 4,171 5,388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.80% 13.57% 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,846 2,682 3,728
10th Percentile £343 £330 £363
25th Percentile £405 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £630
90th Percentile £688 £725 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 152 64 211
10th Percentile £35.40 £26.33 £37.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.44 £47.62
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £79.54 £84.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

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 22 February 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 22 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Gradle in the UK

Gradle
Top 13 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 22 February 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 -6 104 £525 -4.55% 8
UK excluding London -29 62 £473 -13.62% 2
London -18 41 £550 +0.92% 7
South East +2 31 £400 -37.25%
Work from Home -4 25 £543 -8.25% 6
North of England -44 22 £575 -5.76% 1
North West -11 19 £402 - 1
Midlands -50 5 £575 +35.29%
West Midlands -59 4 £575 +26.37%
Yorkshire -58 3 £586 -3.92%
Scotland - 3 £550 -
East Midlands -28 1 - -
South West - 1 £500 -

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 (3.60%) Apache Spark
1 4 (3.60%) OpenStack
2 3 (2.70%) Apache
2 3 (2.70%) Confluence
3 2 (1.80%) Camunda
4 1 (0.90%) JBoss
4 1 (0.90%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.90%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (1.80%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 39 (35.14%) AWS
2 38 (34.23%) GitHub
3 21 (18.92%) GitHub Actions
4 15 (13.51%) Azure
5 11 (9.91%) Datadog
6 9 (8.11%) GCP
7 8 (7.21%) OpenShift
8 7 (6.31%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (5.41%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (5.41%) Amazon S3
9 6 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (5.41%) Serverless
10 5 (4.50%) Azure AKS
10 5 (4.50%) Google Play
11 4 (3.60%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (3.60%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 4 (3.60%) npm
11 4 (3.60%) Pulumi
12 3 (2.70%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.50%) Kerberos
2 2 (1.80%) Bluetooth
2 2 (1.80%) DSL
3 1 (0.90%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (18.92%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (12.61%) NoSQL
3 11 (9.91%) MongoDB
3 11 (9.91%) Relational Database
4 9 (8.11%) DynamoDB
4 9 (8.11%) HBase
5 7 (6.31%) MySQL
6 4 (3.60%) RDBMS
7 3 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.70%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.90%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.90%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.90%) Big Data
8 1 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.90%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.90%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 44 (39.64%) Maven
2 41 (36.94%) JUnit
3 37 (33.33%) Git
4 35 (31.53%) Jenkins
5 27 (24.32%) GitLab
6 19 (17.12%) Sonatype Nexus
7 15 (13.51%) Cucumber
8 13 (11.71%) Artifactory
8 13 (11.71%) IntelliJ
9 12 (10.81%) CircleCI
9 12 (10.81%) Mockito
10 11 (9.91%) Android Studio
11 9 (8.11%) Bitbucket
12 7 (6.31%) JIRA
12 7 (6.31%) Postman
12 7 (6.31%) Selenium
13 6 (5.41%) Cypress.io
14 5 (4.50%) Gatling
14 5 (4.50%) SonarQube
15 4 (3.60%) webpack
General
1 24 (21.62%) Finance
2 16 (14.41%) Banking
3 13 (11.71%) Social Skills
4 10 (9.01%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.41%) Retail Banking
6 2 (1.80%) Front Office
7 1 (0.90%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.90%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.90%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.90%) Law
7 1 (0.90%) Marketing
7 1 (0.90%) Private Banking
7 1 (0.90%) Retail
Job Titles
1 58 (52.25%) Developer
2 33 (29.73%) Java Developer
3 25 (22.52%) Java Engineer
4 24 (21.62%) Senior
5 21 (18.92%) Android Developer
6 19 (17.12%) Software Engineer
7 15 (13.51%) Java Software Engineer
8 13 (11.71%) DevOps Engineer
9 11 (9.91%) Senior Developer
9 11 (9.91%) Senior Java Developer
10 6 (5.41%) AWS Developer
10 6 (5.41%) Senior Java Engineer
11 5 (4.50%) Android Engineer
11 5 (4.50%) Senior Software Engineer
12 4 (3.60%) Backend Developer
12 4 (3.60%) Engineering Manager
12 4 (3.60%) Lead
12 4 (3.60%) Senior DevOps
12 4 (3.60%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 3 (2.70%) Mobile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (49.55%) Spring
2 47 (42.34%) Spring Boot
3 23 (20.72%) REST
4 21 (18.92%) Kafka
5 17 (15.32%) RESTful
6 15 (13.51%) Android Jetpack
6 15 (13.51%) Jetpack Compose
6 15 (13.51%) OpenTelemetry
7 13 (11.71%) GraphQL
8 11 (9.91%) React
9 9 (8.11%) RxJava
10 8 (7.21%) Hibernate
10 8 (7.21%) JSON
11 7 (6.31%) AngularJS
11 7 (6.31%) Dagger
11 7 (6.31%) OkHttp
11 7 (6.31%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (6.31%) RAML
12 6 (5.41%) Vue
12 6 (5.41%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.11%) Mobile App
1 9 (8.11%) Product Ownership
2 7 (6.31%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.31%) Legacy Code
3 6 (5.41%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (5.41%) Virtual Team
4 5 (4.50%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.60%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.60%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.60%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.60%) Private Cloud
6 3 (2.70%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.80%) Derivative
7 2 (1.80%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.80%) Equities
7 2 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.80%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.80%) TWAP
7 2 (1.80%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 26 (23.42%) Android
2 13 (11.71%) Linux
3 5 (4.50%) Apple iOS
3 5 (4.50%) Unix
4 4 (3.60%) Windows
5 3 (2.70%) Solaris
6 2 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (52.25%) CI/CD
2 38 (34.23%) DevOps
3 32 (28.83%) Test Automation
4 31 (27.93%) Software Engineering
5 29 (26.13%) Microservices
6 22 (19.82%) Containerisation
7 21 (18.92%) Agile
8 20 (18.02%) Android Development
9 17 (15.32%) TDD
10 16 (14.41%) Continuous Integration
10 16 (14.41%) Design Patterns
11 15 (13.51%) User Experience
12 14 (12.61%) OOP
13 13 (11.71%) Event-Driven
14 12 (10.81%) Observability
14 12 (10.81%) Unit Testing
15 11 (9.91%) MVVM
15 11 (9.91%) Performance Analysis
16 10 (9.01%) Analytics
16 10 (9.01%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 78 (70.27%) Java
2 39 (35.14%) Kotlin
3 18 (16.22%) SQL
4 15 (13.51%) Python
5 9 (8.11%) TypeScript
6 5 (4.50%) Bash
6 5 (4.50%) C++
6 5 (4.50%) PowerShell
6 5 (4.50%) Rust
7 3 (2.70%) Go
7 3 (2.70%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.70%) Scala
7 3 (2.70%) Swift
8 2 (1.80%) Groovy
8 2 (1.80%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.90%) BrightScript
9 1 (0.90%) Clojure
9 1 (0.90%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.90%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (16.22%) Security Cleared
2 10 (9.01%) Degree
2 10 (9.01%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.11%) OCP
3 9 (8.11%) Oracle Certification
4 8 (7.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.60%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.80%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.90%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.90%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.01%) QA
2 6 (5.41%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.80%) NCSC
System Software
1 29 (26.13%) Docker
2 1 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 46 (41.44%) Kubernetes
2 24 (21.62%) Grafana
3 15 (13.51%) Terraform
4 13 (11.71%) Ansible
5 7 (6.31%) Prometheus
6 6 (5.41%) Puppet
7 5 (4.50%) Progress Chef
8 4 (3.60%) Podman
9 1 (0.90%) Argo
Vendors
1 10 (9.01%) Oracle
1 10 (9.01%) Splunk
2 5 (4.50%) Dynatrace
2 5 (4.50%) Google
2 5 (4.50%) Red Hat
3 4 (3.60%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.80%) New Relic
5 1 (0.90%) Adobe
5 1 (0.90%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.90%) Apple
5 1 (0.90%) Foundry
5 1 (0.90%) Palantir
5 1 (0.90%) Roku