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 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 533 414 507
Rank change year-on-year -119 +93 +3
Contract jobs citing Gradle 137 138 54
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.42% 0.14%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.23% 2.79% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 100 35
10th Percentile £331 £358 £510
25th Percentile £400 £398 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £530 £603
Median % change year-on-year -8.49% -12.11% -10.67%
75th Percentile £538 £566 £844
90th Percentile £574 £615 £898
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £384 £650
% change year-on-year +17.26% -40.96% +23.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
Median hourly rate £76.00 £90.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% - -
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 6,139 4,948 5,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.44% 15.11% 12.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,942 3,334 3,262
10th Percentile £355 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £623
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 115 191
10th Percentile £35.88 £28.13 £25.99
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £50.88
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - -
75th Percentile £74.69 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £84.35 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - -

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 25 August 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 25 August 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 -121 108 £500 -5.66% 60
UK excluding London -95 63 £450 +17.26% 20
London -62 61 £525 -2.10% 52
Work from Home -70 28 £500 -6.28% 34
North of England -87 24 £500 +33.33% 4
Scotland +2 18 £377 +6.50% 2
Yorkshire -34 12 £500 +13.93%
East of England - 11 £495 -
North West -68 8 £537 +43.20% 3
South East -63 6 £270 -57.48% 4
North East - 4 £450 - 1
Midlands -65 3 £455 +6.06% 2
East Midlands -19 2 £335 -21.91% 1
South West -41 2 - - 6
West Midlands -47 1 £575 +17.95% 1

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 7 (5.11%) Confluence
2 5 (3.65%) Camunda
3 4 (2.92%) Apache
3 4 (2.92%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.46%) Anypoint
4 2 (1.46%) Mule
5 1 (0.73%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (1.46%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 49 (35.77%) AWS
2 42 (30.66%) Azure
3 41 (29.93%) GitHub
4 30 (21.90%) GitHub Actions
5 22 (16.06%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (14.60%) GCP
6 20 (14.60%) OpenShift
7 12 (8.76%) Google Play
8 9 (6.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 6 (4.38%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (4.38%) Apigee
9 6 (4.38%) Firebase
9 6 (4.38%) Kong
10 5 (3.65%) Cloud Run
11 4 (2.92%) Apple Pay
12 3 (2.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (2.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (2.19%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (2.19%) GitHub Copilot
12 3 (2.19%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.92%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (1.46%) Firewall
3 1 (0.73%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.73%) DSL
3 1 (0.73%) HTTP
3 1 (0.73%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (24.82%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (18.25%) Relational Database
3 18 (13.14%) MongoDB
4 13 (9.49%) MySQL
5 9 (6.57%) SQL Server
6 7 (5.11%) NoSQL
7 6 (4.38%) RDBMS
8 5 (3.65%) DynamoDB
8 5 (3.65%) Hazelcast
8 5 (3.65%) Redis
9 4 (2.92%) Flink
10 3 (2.19%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (2.19%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (2.19%) MariaDB
11 2 (1.46%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.73%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.73%) Db2
12 1 (0.73%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 78 (56.93%) Jenkins
2 76 (55.47%) Git
3 68 (49.64%) Maven
4 53 (38.69%) JUnit
5 36 (26.28%) GitLab
6 26 (18.98%) Mockito
7 17 (12.41%) Liquibase
8 15 (10.95%) SonarQube
9 12 (8.76%) Android Studio
9 12 (8.76%) JIRA
9 12 (8.76%) REST Assured
10 11 (8.03%) GoCD
11 10 (7.30%) Selenium
12 8 (5.84%) Sonatype Nexus
13 7 (5.11%) CircleCI
13 7 (5.11%) Cucumber
13 7 (5.11%) JProfiler
14 6 (4.38%) fastlane
15 5 (3.65%) Bitbucket Server
15 5 (3.65%) Crashlytics
General
1 25 (18.25%) Analytical Skills
1 25 (18.25%) Social Skills
2 22 (16.06%) Banking
2 22 (16.06%) Finance
3 19 (13.87%) Public Sector
4 7 (5.11%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (3.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (3.65%) Law
6 1 (0.73%) Games
6 1 (0.73%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 94 (68.61%) Developer
2 71 (51.82%) Java Developer
3 24 (17.52%) Senior
4 17 (12.41%) Software Engineer
5 15 (10.95%) Java Engineer
6 14 (10.22%) Android Developer
6 14 (10.22%) Senior Developer
7 13 (9.49%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 13 (9.49%) Senior Java Developer
8 12 (8.76%) Software Developer
9 9 (6.57%) Java Software Developer
10 7 (5.11%) Java Software Engineer
10 7 (5.11%) Lead
11 6 (4.38%) Backend Developer
11 6 (4.38%) Lead Developer
11 6 (4.38%) Lead Java Developer
12 5 (3.65%) Mid-Level Java Developer
13 4 (2.92%) Oracle Developer
13 4 (2.92%) Senior Backend Developer
13 4 (2.92%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (72.26%) Spring Boot
2 92 (67.15%) Spring
3 60 (43.80%) Kafka
4 55 (40.15%) React
5 47 (34.31%) REST
5 47 (34.31%) RESTful
6 23 (16.79%) Hibernate
6 23 (16.79%) Redux
7 20 (14.60%) OpenAPI
7 20 (14.60%) Swagger
8 19 (13.87%) Android Jetpack
9 18 (13.14%) Jetpack Compose
10 16 (11.68%) HTML
10 16 (11.68%) JPA
10 16 (11.68%) Node.js
11 14 (10.22%) CSS
12 11 (8.03%) Retrofit
13 10 (7.30%) Spring MVC
13 10 (7.30%) Terraform
14 9 (6.57%) FreeMarker
Miscellaneous
1 23 (16.79%) Product Ownership
2 18 (13.14%) Mobile App
3 11 (8.03%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (8.03%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (7.30%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (5.11%) Cloud Native
6 6 (4.38%) Data Structures
7 5 (3.65%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 4 (2.92%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (2.19%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.46%) Legacy Code
10 2 (1.46%) PKI
10 2 (1.46%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.73%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.73%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.73%) IoT
11 1 (0.73%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.73%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.73%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 19 (13.87%) Android
2 11 (8.03%) Linux
3 4 (2.92%) Unix
4 1 (0.73%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (78.83%) CI/CD
2 91 (66.42%) Agile
3 82 (59.85%) Microservices
4 61 (44.53%) DevOps
5 56 (40.88%) Test Automation
6 54 (39.42%) TDD
7 45 (32.85%) Containerisation
8 43 (31.39%) Scrum
8 43 (31.39%) Software Engineering
9 38 (27.74%) Problem-Solving
10 28 (20.44%) Continuous Improvement
11 26 (18.98%) Clean Code
12 25 (18.25%) Design Patterns
13 22 (16.06%) Event-Driven
13 22 (16.06%) Observability
14 18 (13.14%) Android Development
15 17 (12.41%) Full-Stack Development
16 16 (11.68%) API Development
16 16 (11.68%) OO
17 15 (10.95%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 129 (94.16%) Java
2 74 (54.01%) SQL
3 27 (19.71%) JavaScript
4 22 (16.06%) TypeScript
5 20 (14.60%) Kotlin
6 12 (8.76%) PL/SQL
7 10 (7.30%) Python
8 5 (3.65%) Bash
8 5 (3.65%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.92%) Ruby
10 3 (2.19%) Groovy
11 2 (1.46%) Korn
12 1 (0.73%) C#
Qualifications
1 44 (32.12%) Security Cleared
2 38 (27.74%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (7.30%) Degree
4 7 (5.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.92%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.73%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.73%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (17.52%) QA
2 12 (8.76%) Accessibility
3 6 (4.38%) ISO 20022
4 5 (3.65%) WCAG
5 4 (2.92%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.46%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.73%) GDPR
7 1 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.73%) SEPA
System Software
1 56 (40.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 42 (30.66%) Kubernetes
2 25 (18.25%) Ansible
3 12 (8.76%) Control-M
4 11 (8.03%) Grafana
4 11 (8.03%) Prometheus
5 5 (3.65%) Argo
6 2 (1.46%) Istio
7 1 (0.73%) Podman
7 1 (0.73%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.73%) Puppet
Vendors
1 43 (31.39%) Oracle
2 18 (13.14%) Google
3 8 (5.84%) Splunk
4 7 (5.11%) Dynatrace
4 7 (5.11%) IBM
4 7 (5.11%) MuleSoft
5 5 (3.65%) Veracode
6 2 (1.46%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.46%) Sybase
7 1 (0.73%) Confluent
7 1 (0.73%) Databricks
7 1 (0.73%) Solace
7 1 (0.73%) TIBCO