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 27 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 465 491 530
Rank change year-on-year +26 +39 -41
Contract jobs citing Gradle 128 34 63
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.11% 0.14%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.34% 0.81% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 24 37
10th Percentile £326 £461 £294
25th Percentile £384 £513 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.68% -4.35% -14.81%
75th Percentile £588 £738 £634
90th Percentile £626 £871 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £610 £550
% change year-on-year -30.35% +10.94% +5.06%
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 5,468 4,215 5,408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.36% 13.56% 12.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,754 2,647 3,772
10th Percentile £350 £331 £363
25th Percentile £409 £410 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -6.25%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £634
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 139 70 213
10th Percentile £39.00 £26.48 £41.92
25th Percentile £52.50 £48.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £76.53
90th Percentile £85.00 £76.38 £89.75
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 27 January 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 27 January 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 27 January 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 +24 121 £519 -11.32% 12
UK excluding London +4 75 £425 -30.35% 6
London +6 46 £548 -0.45% 8
North of England -21 38 £390 -36.04% 1
North West -1 32 £393 - 1
Work from Home +3 30 £543 -14.90% 4
South East -7 27 £462 -27.61% 4
Yorkshire -40 6 £350 -42.64%
West Midlands -30 5 £575 +26.37%
Midlands -50 5 £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 5 (3.91%) OpenStack
2 4 (3.13%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.34%) Apache
4 2 (1.56%) Camunda
4 2 (1.56%) Confluence
5 1 (0.78%) JBoss
5 1 (0.78%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (1.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 44 (34.38%) GitHub
2 42 (32.81%) AWS
3 26 (20.31%) Azure
4 17 (13.28%) Datadog
4 17 (13.28%) GCP
5 15 (11.72%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (10.16%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (8.59%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (8.59%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (8.59%) Serverless
8 10 (7.81%) OpenShift
9 9 (7.03%) Figma
10 8 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (6.25%) AWS Fargate
11 7 (5.47%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 6 (4.69%) Amazon S3
12 6 (4.69%) Apigee
12 6 (4.69%) Azure AKS
12 6 (4.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.91%) Kerberos
2 2 (1.56%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.78%) DSL
3 1 (0.78%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (19.53%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (14.06%) NoSQL
3 16 (12.50%) Relational Database
4 14 (10.94%) DynamoDB
5 12 (9.38%) MySQL
6 11 (8.59%) MongoDB
7 9 (7.03%) HBase
7 9 (7.03%) RDBMS
8 8 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (4.69%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (3.91%) BigQuery
10 5 (3.91%) Redis
11 3 (2.34%) SQL Server
12 1 (0.78%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.78%) Big Data
12 1 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.78%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.78%) Spark SQL
12 1 (0.78%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 52 (40.63%) Maven
2 51 (39.84%) Git
3 42 (32.81%) Jenkins
4 38 (29.69%) JUnit
5 29 (22.66%) GitLab
6 20 (15.63%) Sonatype Nexus
7 15 (11.72%) Cucumber
7 15 (11.72%) IntelliJ
8 14 (10.94%) Android Studio
8 14 (10.94%) Artifactory
9 12 (9.38%) SonarQube
10 11 (8.59%) Bitbucket
10 11 (8.59%) Mockito
10 11 (8.59%) Xcode
11 10 (7.81%) CircleCI
12 9 (7.03%) Selenium
13 7 (5.47%) Cypress.io
13 7 (5.47%) Postman
13 7 (5.47%) Storybook
14 6 (4.69%) JIRA
General
1 26 (20.31%) Finance
2 19 (14.84%) Banking
3 17 (13.28%) Social Skills
4 12 (9.38%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.69%) Retail Banking
6 4 (3.13%) Front Office
7 1 (0.78%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.78%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.78%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.78%) Law
7 1 (0.78%) Marketing
7 1 (0.78%) Private Banking
7 1 (0.78%) Retail
7 1 (0.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 71 (55.47%) Developer
2 35 (27.34%) Java Developer
3 25 (19.53%) Java Engineer
3 25 (19.53%) Senior
4 24 (18.75%) Android Developer
5 19 (14.84%) Software Engineer
6 15 (11.72%) Java Software Engineer
7 14 (10.94%) DevOps Engineer
8 12 (9.38%) Senior Developer
8 12 (9.38%) Senior Java Developer
9 8 (6.25%) React Developer
10 6 (4.69%) AWS Developer
10 6 (4.69%) Senior Java Engineer
11 5 (3.91%) Architect
11 5 (3.91%) Java Architect
11 5 (3.91%) Java Technical Architect
11 5 (3.91%) Lead
11 5 (3.91%) Senior Software Engineer
11 5 (3.91%) Technical Architect
12 4 (3.13%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (42.19%) Spring
2 51 (39.84%) Spring Boot
3 23 (17.97%) RESTful
4 21 (16.41%) Kafka
4 21 (16.41%) REST
5 15 (11.72%) GraphQL
5 15 (11.72%) OpenTelemetry
6 12 (9.38%) Android Jetpack
6 12 (9.38%) Jetpack Compose
6 12 (9.38%) React
7 11 (8.59%) JSON
8 10 (7.81%) React Native
9 9 (7.03%) CSS
9 9 (7.03%) HTML
9 9 (7.03%) Micronaut
10 7 (5.47%) AngularJS
10 7 (5.47%) D3.js
10 7 (5.47%) OAuth
10 7 (5.47%) RxJava
10 7 (5.47%) SVG
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.84%) Mobile App
2 12 (9.38%) Cloud Native
3 10 (7.81%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.91%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (3.91%) N-Tier
4 5 (3.91%) Private Cloud
5 4 (3.13%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.13%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.13%) Legacy Code
5 4 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.13%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.13%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.34%) Derivative
6 3 (2.34%) Equities
6 3 (2.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (2.34%) Mobile Banking
6 3 (2.34%) TWAP
6 3 (2.34%) VWAP
7 2 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 34 (26.56%) Android
2 15 (11.72%) Linux
3 13 (10.16%) Apple iOS
4 5 (3.91%) Unix
5 4 (3.13%) Windows
6 3 (2.34%) Solaris
7 2 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (49.22%) CI/CD
2 49 (38.28%) DevOps
3 34 (26.56%) Microservices
3 34 (26.56%) Test Automation
4 33 (25.78%) Agile
4 33 (25.78%) Software Engineering
5 31 (24.22%) Containerisation
6 26 (20.31%) TDD
7 25 (19.53%) Design Patterns
8 23 (17.97%) Android Development
9 18 (14.06%) Event-Driven
9 18 (14.06%) User Experience
10 17 (13.28%) OOP
11 16 (12.50%) Unit Testing
12 14 (10.94%) Continuous Integration
12 14 (10.94%) Mentoring
12 14 (10.94%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (10.16%) API Design
14 12 (9.38%) Mobile Development
14 12 (9.38%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 91 (71.09%) Java
2 39 (30.47%) Kotlin
3 24 (18.75%) Python
4 18 (14.06%) SQL
5 15 (11.72%) TypeScript
6 8 (6.25%) C++
6 8 (6.25%) JavaScript
7 6 (4.69%) Bash
7 6 (4.69%) Scala
7 6 (4.69%) Swift
8 5 (3.91%) Objective-C
8 5 (3.91%) PowerShell
8 5 (3.91%) Rust
9 4 (3.13%) Go
10 3 (2.34%) C
10 3 (2.34%) Ruby
10 3 (2.34%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.56%) Groovy
12 1 (0.78%) Clojure
12 1 (0.78%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (17.19%) Security Cleared
2 11 (8.59%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.03%) OCP
3 9 (7.03%) Oracle Certification
4 7 (5.47%) Degree
5 5 (3.91%) DV Cleared
6 4 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.56%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.78%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.78%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.38%) Accessibility
2 9 (7.03%) QA
3 2 (1.56%) NCSC
System Software
1 37 (28.91%) Docker
2 1 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 54 (42.19%) Kubernetes
2 25 (19.53%) Grafana
3 23 (17.97%) Terraform
4 15 (11.72%) Ansible
5 8 (6.25%) Prometheus
5 8 (6.25%) Puppet
6 6 (4.69%) Progress Chef
7 5 (3.91%) Podman
8 2 (1.56%) Argo
9 1 (0.78%) Istio
Vendors
1 12 (9.38%) Splunk
2 10 (7.81%) Oracle
3 7 (5.47%) Google
3 7 (5.47%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.91%) Gigya
4 5 (3.91%) Red Hat
5 4 (3.13%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.56%) New Relic
7 1 (0.78%) Adobe
7 1 (0.78%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.78%) Apple
7 1 (0.78%) Foundry
7 1 (0.78%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.78%) Palantir
7 1 (0.78%) Roku