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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 518 413 510
Rank change year-on-year -105 +97 +20
Contract jobs citing Gradle 155 141 50
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.43% 0.13%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.42% 2.77% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 108 32
10th Percentile £331 £358 £502
25th Percentile £400 £402 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £528 £675
Median % change year-on-year -13.65% -21.85% +3.85%
75th Percentile £537 £586 £863
90th Percentile £569 £615 £909
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £403 £750
% change year-on-year +11.80% -46.33% +42.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Median hourly rate £76.00 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% - -
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 6,409 5,084 5,004
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.67% 15.40% 13.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,104 3,434 3,127
10th Percentile £352 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 111 171
10th Percentile £22.68 £16.84 £33.07
25th Percentile £48.75 £46.88 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% -2.31% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £75.00 £74.00
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 7 October 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 7 October 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 -119 121 £495 -6.16% 105
London -66 75 £500 -7.88% 73
UK excluding London -109 65 £450 +11.80% 45
Work from Home -66 35 £480 -10.28% 43
North of England -88 23 £500 +33.33% 12
Scotland -8 21 £377 +5.31% 14
East of England - 11 £495 - 3
Yorkshire -35 10 £500 -3.80% 5
North West -62 9 £537 +43.20% 7
South East -63 7 £270 -42.22% 8
North East - 4 £450 -
South West -41 2 - - 1
Midlands -52 2 £455 -10.49% 5
East Midlands -19 1 £335 -21.91% 2
West Midlands -53 1 £575 - 3

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 11 (7.10%) Confluence
2 9 (5.81%) Camunda
3 3 (1.94%) Apache
3 3 (1.94%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.29%) Anypoint
4 2 (1.29%) Mule
5 1 (0.65%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.65%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.65%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Finacle
1 1 (0.65%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.65%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.65%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 57 (36.77%) AWS
2 51 (32.90%) Azure
3 41 (26.45%) GitHub
4 32 (20.65%) GCP
4 32 (20.65%) GitHub Actions
5 26 (16.77%) OpenShift
6 20 (12.90%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (7.74%) Google Play
8 11 (7.10%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 7 (4.52%) Cloud Run
9 7 (4.52%) Firebase
10 6 (3.87%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (3.87%) Apigee
10 6 (3.87%) Kong
11 4 (2.58%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (2.58%) Amazon S3
11 4 (2.58%) Apple Pay
11 4 (2.58%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.58%) Serverless
12 3 (1.94%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.58%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (1.29%) Firewall
3 1 (0.65%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.65%) DSL
3 1 (0.65%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (25.81%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (21.94%) Relational Database
3 23 (14.84%) MongoDB
4 18 (11.61%) MySQL
5 14 (9.03%) SQL Server
6 9 (5.81%) NoSQL
7 7 (4.52%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (3.87%) RDBMS
9 5 (3.23%) Hazelcast
9 5 (3.23%) Redis
10 4 (2.58%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (1.94%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.94%) Db2
11 3 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.94%) Flink
11 3 (1.94%) MariaDB
11 3 (1.94%) Oracle Database
11 3 (1.94%) Pinecone
11 3 (1.94%) Weaviate
12 2 (1.29%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 90 (58.06%) Git
2 85 (54.84%) Jenkins
3 82 (52.90%) Maven
4 57 (36.77%) JUnit
5 40 (25.81%) GitLab
6 31 (20.00%) Mockito
7 22 (14.19%) SonarQube
8 16 (10.32%) JIRA
9 14 (9.03%) REST Assured
10 12 (7.74%) Cucumber
10 12 (7.74%) Liquibase
10 12 (7.74%) Sonatype Nexus
11 11 (7.10%) Android Studio
11 11 (7.10%) GoCD
12 9 (5.81%) Bitbucket Server
13 8 (5.16%) Selenium
14 7 (4.52%) CircleCI
14 7 (4.52%) JProfiler
15 6 (3.87%) fastlane
16 5 (3.23%) Snyk
General
1 34 (21.94%) Finance
2 31 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (19.35%) Banking
4 27 (17.42%) Social Skills
5 18 (11.61%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (4.52%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.29%) Law
8 1 (0.65%) Back Office
8 1 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.65%) Games
8 1 (0.65%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.65%) Marketing
8 1 (0.65%) Publishing
8 1 (0.65%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 109 (70.32%) Developer
2 85 (54.84%) Java Developer
3 26 (16.77%) Senior
4 17 (10.97%) Java Engineer
5 16 (10.32%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 14 (9.03%) Android Developer
6 14 (9.03%) Software Engineer
7 13 (8.39%) Software Developer
8 12 (7.74%) Senior Developer
8 12 (7.74%) Senior Java Developer
9 9 (5.81%) Java Software Developer
9 9 (5.81%) Senior Java Engineer
10 8 (5.16%) Lead
11 7 (4.52%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (4.52%) Lead Developer
11 7 (4.52%) Lead Java Developer
12 6 (3.87%) Backend Developer
13 5 (3.23%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 5 (3.23%) Java Software Engineer
13 5 (3.23%) Mid-Level Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (76.13%) Spring Boot
2 109 (70.32%) Spring
3 68 (43.87%) Kafka
4 64 (41.29%) REST
5 60 (38.71%) React
6 49 (31.61%) RESTful
7 34 (21.94%) Hibernate
8 28 (18.06%) Redux
9 26 (16.77%) HTML
9 26 (16.77%) JPA
10 24 (15.48%) CSS
11 21 (13.55%) Android Jetpack
12 20 (12.90%) Jetpack Compose
12 20 (12.90%) Node.js
13 17 (10.97%) OpenAPI
13 17 (10.97%) Swagger
14 15 (9.68%) Spring MVC
15 13 (8.39%) XML
16 12 (7.74%) Terraform
17 11 (7.10%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 25 (16.13%) Product Ownership
2 17 (10.97%) Mobile App
3 12 (7.74%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (7.74%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (7.10%) Data Structures
5 10 (6.45%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (5.16%) Cloud Native
7 5 (3.23%) Client/Server
7 5 (3.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 3 (1.94%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.29%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.29%) Legacy Code
9 2 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.29%) PKI
9 2 (1.29%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.65%) Derivative
10 1 (0.65%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.65%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.65%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 21 (13.55%) Android
2 20 (12.90%) Linux
3 13 (8.39%) Unix
4 3 (1.94%) Mac OS X
5 2 (1.29%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 108 (69.68%) Agile
3 89 (57.42%) Microservices
4 66 (42.58%) DevOps
5 58 (37.42%) Test Automation
6 57 (36.77%) TDD
7 53 (34.19%) Scrum
8 51 (32.90%) Containerisation
9 47 (30.32%) Problem-Solving
10 41 (26.45%) Software Engineering
11 35 (22.58%) Clean Code
12 29 (18.71%) Continuous Improvement
13 26 (16.77%) Design Patterns
14 24 (15.48%) Event-Driven
15 23 (14.84%) User Stories
16 22 (14.19%) Computer Science
16 22 (14.19%) Observability
17 20 (12.90%) Unit Testing
18 18 (11.61%) OO
18 18 (11.61%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 145 (93.55%) Java
2 85 (54.84%) SQL
3 39 (25.16%) JavaScript
4 24 (15.48%) Kotlin
5 18 (11.61%) TypeScript
6 13 (8.39%) PL/SQL
7 12 (7.74%) Python
8 8 (5.16%) Shell Script
9 6 (3.87%) Bash
10 4 (2.58%) Ruby
11 3 (1.94%) Groovy
11 3 (1.94%) Scala
12 2 (1.29%) Korn
12 2 (1.29%) Swift
13 1 (0.65%) C#
Qualifications
1 53 (34.19%) Security Cleared
2 46 (29.68%) SC Cleared
3 22 (14.19%) Degree
4 20 (12.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (4.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (3.23%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.58%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.94%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.65%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (16.77%) QA
2 12 (7.74%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.23%) ISO 20022
4 4 (2.58%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.58%) WCAG
5 2 (1.29%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.65%) GDPR
6 1 (0.65%) PSD2
6 1 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 63 (40.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 54 (34.84%) Kubernetes
2 26 (16.77%) Ansible
3 12 (7.74%) Control-M
4 10 (6.45%) Grafana
4 10 (6.45%) Prometheus
5 5 (3.23%) Argo
6 2 (1.29%) Istio
7 1 (0.65%) Podman
7 1 (0.65%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.65%) Puppet
Vendors
1 48 (30.97%) Oracle
2 24 (15.48%) Google
3 12 (7.74%) IBM
4 9 (5.81%) Veracode
5 7 (4.52%) Dynatrace
5 7 (4.52%) MuleSoft
5 7 (4.52%) Splunk
6 4 (2.58%) Sybase
7 3 (1.94%) Microsoft
7 3 (1.94%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.65%) Confluent
8 1 (0.65%) Databricks
8 1 (0.65%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.65%) Ping Identity
8 1 (0.65%) Solace
8 1 (0.65%) Temenos
8 1 (0.65%) TIBCO