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

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 471 496 538
Rank change year-on-year +25 +42 -49
Contract jobs citing Gradle 123 38 56
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.25% 0.90% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 25 34
10th Percentile £325 £464 £290
25th Percentile £400 £513 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -20.37%
75th Percentile £588 £750 £625
90th Percentile £638 £870 £698
UK excluding London median daily rate £462 £610 £575
% change year-on-year -24.36% +6.11% +10.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 0 4
10th Percentile £46.00 - £76.63
25th Percentile £52.50 - £77.19
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £80.00
75th Percentile £61.25 - £84.38
90th Percentile £80.00 - £87.75
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 5,470 4,201 5,434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.13% 13.61% 12.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,755 2,622 3,797
10th Percentile £344 £338 £363
25th Percentile £406 £409 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £631
90th Percentile £700 £725 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £478 £500
% change year-on-year -0.52% -4.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 67 214
10th Percentile £39.00 £26.40 £40.38
25th Percentile £52.50 £47.50 £50.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £75.25
90th Percentile £85.00 £76.75 £88.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 +9 116 £525 -12.15% 11
UK excluding London -4 71 £462 -24.36% 5
London 0 45 £550 -3.08% 8
North of England -28 35 £402 -34.12% 2
North West -5 31 £395 - 2
Work from Home +10 30 £543 -14.90% 5
South East -2 27 £462 -27.61% 2
West Midlands -35 4 £575 +26.37%
Yorkshire -46 4 £575 -5.76%
Midlands -55 4 £575 +26.37%
Scotland - 3 £550 - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £425 -
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 (3.25%) Apache Spark
1 4 (3.25%) OpenStack
2 3 (2.44%) Apache
3 2 (1.63%) Camunda
3 2 (1.63%) Confluence
4 1 (0.81%) JBoss
4 1 (0.81%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.81%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (1.63%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 42 (34.15%) AWS
2 41 (33.33%) GitHub
3 23 (18.70%) Azure
4 16 (13.01%) Datadog
5 15 (12.20%) GCP
5 15 (12.20%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (8.94%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (8.94%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (8.94%) Serverless
7 10 (8.13%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (7.32%) OpenShift
9 8 (6.50%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (6.50%) AWS Fargate
10 7 (5.69%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (5.69%) Figma
11 6 (4.88%) Amazon S3
11 6 (4.88%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (4.88%) PaaS
11 6 (4.88%) SaaS
12 5 (4.07%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.07%) Kerberos
2 2 (1.63%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.81%) DSL
3 1 (0.81%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (21.14%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (14.63%) NoSQL
3 16 (13.01%) Relational Database
4 14 (11.38%) DynamoDB
5 13 (10.57%) MySQL
6 11 (8.94%) MongoDB
7 9 (7.32%) HBase
7 9 (7.32%) RDBMS
8 8 (6.50%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (4.88%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (4.07%) BigQuery
10 5 (4.07%) Redis
11 3 (2.44%) SQL Server
12 1 (0.81%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.81%) Big Data
12 1 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.81%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.81%) Spark SQL
12 1 (0.81%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 51 (41.46%) Maven
2 49 (39.84%) Git
3 42 (34.15%) Jenkins
4 38 (30.89%) JUnit
5 27 (21.95%) GitLab
6 19 (15.45%) Sonatype Nexus
7 15 (12.20%) Cucumber
7 15 (12.20%) IntelliJ
8 13 (10.57%) Artifactory
9 12 (9.76%) Android Studio
9 12 (9.76%) Mockito
10 11 (8.94%) SonarQube
11 10 (8.13%) Bitbucket
12 9 (7.32%) CircleCI
12 9 (7.32%) Xcode
13 8 (6.50%) Selenium
14 6 (4.88%) Cypress.io
14 6 (4.88%) JIRA
14 6 (4.88%) Postman
15 5 (4.07%) SonarLint
General
1 24 (19.51%) Finance
2 19 (15.45%) Banking
3 17 (13.82%) Social Skills
4 12 (9.76%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.88%) Retail Banking
6 4 (3.25%) Front Office
7 1 (0.81%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.81%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.81%) Law
7 1 (0.81%) Marketing
7 1 (0.81%) Private Banking
7 1 (0.81%) Retail
Job Titles
1 67 (54.47%) Developer
2 36 (29.27%) Java Developer
3 25 (20.33%) Java Engineer
3 25 (20.33%) Senior
4 22 (17.89%) Android Developer
5 19 (15.45%) Software Engineer
6 15 (12.20%) Java Software Engineer
7 13 (10.57%) DevOps Engineer
8 12 (9.76%) Senior Developer
8 12 (9.76%) Senior Java Developer
9 6 (4.88%) AWS Developer
9 6 (4.88%) React Developer
9 6 (4.88%) Senior Java Engineer
10 5 (4.07%) Architect
10 5 (4.07%) Java Architect
10 5 (4.07%) Java Technical Architect
10 5 (4.07%) Lead
10 5 (4.07%) Senior Software Engineer
10 5 (4.07%) Technical Architect
11 4 (3.25%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (44.72%) Spring
2 52 (42.28%) Spring Boot
3 22 (17.89%) RESTful
4 21 (17.07%) Kafka
5 20 (16.26%) REST
6 15 (12.20%) OpenTelemetry
7 14 (11.38%) GraphQL
8 12 (9.76%) Android Jetpack
8 12 (9.76%) Jetpack Compose
8 12 (9.76%) React
9 9 (7.32%) CSS
9 9 (7.32%) HTML
9 9 (7.32%) Micronaut
10 8 (6.50%) JSON
10 8 (6.50%) React Native
11 7 (5.69%) AngularJS
11 7 (5.69%) Hibernate
11 7 (5.69%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (5.69%) RxJava
12 6 (4.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.20%) Mobile App
2 12 (9.76%) Cloud Native
3 10 (8.13%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.07%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (4.07%) N-Tier
5 4 (3.25%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.25%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.25%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.25%) Legacy Code
5 4 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.25%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.25%) Private Cloud
5 4 (3.25%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.44%) Derivative
6 3 (2.44%) Equities
6 3 (2.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (2.44%) Mobile Banking
6 3 (2.44%) TWAP
6 3 (2.44%) VWAP
7 2 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 30 (24.39%) Android
2 14 (11.38%) Linux
3 11 (8.94%) Apple iOS
4 5 (4.07%) Unix
5 4 (3.25%) Windows
6 3 (2.44%) Solaris
7 2 (1.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (51.22%) CI/CD
2 43 (34.96%) DevOps
3 34 (27.64%) Microservices
4 33 (26.83%) Test Automation
5 32 (26.02%) Software Engineering
6 30 (24.39%) Agile
7 29 (23.58%) Containerisation
8 26 (21.14%) TDD
9 22 (17.89%) Design Patterns
10 21 (17.07%) Android Development
11 18 (14.63%) Event-Driven
11 18 (14.63%) OOP
11 18 (14.63%) User Experience
12 17 (13.82%) Unit Testing
13 14 (11.38%) Continuous Integration
13 14 (11.38%) Mentoring
13 14 (11.38%) Problem-Solving
14 13 (10.57%) API Design
15 12 (9.76%) BDD
15 12 (9.76%) Mobile Development
Programming Languages
1 90 (73.17%) Java
2 37 (30.08%) Kotlin
3 23 (18.70%) Python
4 19 (15.45%) SQL
5 13 (10.57%) TypeScript
6 8 (6.50%) C++
6 8 (6.50%) JavaScript
7 6 (4.88%) Scala
7 6 (4.88%) Swift
8 5 (4.07%) Bash
8 5 (4.07%) Objective-C
8 5 (4.07%) PowerShell
8 5 (4.07%) Rust
9 3 (2.44%) C
9 3 (2.44%) Go
9 3 (2.44%) Ruby
9 3 (2.44%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.63%) Groovy
11 1 (0.81%) Clojure
11 1 (0.81%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (17.07%) Security Cleared
2 11 (8.94%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.32%) OCP
3 9 (7.32%) Oracle Certification
4 6 (4.88%) Degree
5 4 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.25%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.63%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.81%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.81%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.13%) Accessibility
2 9 (7.32%) QA
3 2 (1.63%) NCSC
System Software
1 35 (28.46%) Docker
2 1 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 52 (42.28%) Kubernetes
2 24 (19.51%) Grafana
3 21 (17.07%) Terraform
4 13 (10.57%) Ansible
5 7 (5.69%) Prometheus
6 6 (4.88%) Puppet
7 5 (4.07%) Progress Chef
8 4 (3.25%) Podman
9 2 (1.63%) Argo
Vendors
1 11 (8.94%) Oracle
2 10 (8.13%) Splunk
3 6 (4.88%) Google
4 5 (4.07%) Gigya
4 5 (4.07%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.07%) Red Hat
5 4 (3.25%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.63%) New Relic
7 1 (0.81%) Adobe
7 1 (0.81%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.81%) Apple
7 1 (0.81%) Foundry
7 1 (0.81%) Palantir
7 1 (0.81%) Roku