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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 548 420 509
Rank change year-on-year -128 +89 +19
Contract jobs citing Gradle 135 138 57
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.42% 0.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.17% 2.78% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 100 38
10th Percentile £330 £358 £479
25th Percentile £400 £398 £543
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £530 £601
Median % change year-on-year -13.68% -11.78% -11.00%
75th Percentile £538 £566 £825
90th Percentile £576 £615 £886
UK excluding London median daily rate £440 £384 £650
% change year-on-year +14.66% -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 6,233 4,958 5,033
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.58% 15.11% 12.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,003 3,341 3,265
10th Percentile £354 £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 £589 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 114 197
10th Percentile £35.00 £28.08 £25.99
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £73.75 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £84.58 £72.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - +2.46%

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 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 22 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 -124 106 £500 -5.66% 16
London -67 62 £525 -2.10% 14
UK excluding London -105 60 £440 +14.66% 8
Work from Home -60 28 £500 -6.28% 11
North of England -91 21 £475 +26.67% 1
Scotland -2 18 £377 +6.50% 1
Yorkshire -34 12 £500 +13.93%
East of England - 11 £495 -
South East -65 6 £270 -57.48% 2
North West -81 5 £488 +30.00% 1
North East - 4 £450 -
Midlands -52 3 £455 +6.06% 1
East Midlands -18 2 £335 -21.91% 1
South West -40 2 - - 3
West Midlands -49 1 £575 +17.95%

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 (2.96%) Apache
1 4 (2.96%) Apache Spark
1 4 (2.96%) Confluence
2 2 (1.48%) Anypoint
2 2 (1.48%) Camunda
2 2 (1.48%) Mule
3 1 (0.74%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (1.48%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 49 (36.30%) AWS
2 42 (31.11%) Azure
3 41 (30.37%) GitHub
4 30 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
5 22 (16.30%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (14.81%) GCP
7 17 (12.59%) OpenShift
8 12 (8.89%) Google Play
9 9 (6.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 6 (4.44%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (4.44%) Apigee
10 6 (4.44%) Firebase
10 6 (4.44%) Kong
11 5 (3.70%) Cloud Run
12 4 (2.96%) Apple Pay
13 3 (2.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (2.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (2.22%) Azure Monitor
13 3 (2.22%) GitHub Copilot
13 3 (2.22%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.96%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (1.48%) Firewall
3 1 (0.74%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.74%) DSL
3 1 (0.74%) HTTP
3 1 (0.74%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (25.19%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (18.52%) Relational Database
3 18 (13.33%) MongoDB
4 13 (9.63%) MySQL
5 7 (5.19%) NoSQL
6 6 (4.44%) RDBMS
6 6 (4.44%) SQL Server
7 5 (3.70%) DynamoDB
7 5 (3.70%) Hazelcast
7 5 (3.70%) Redis
8 4 (2.96%) Flink
9 3 (2.22%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (2.22%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (2.22%) MariaDB
10 2 (1.48%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.74%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.74%) Db2
11 1 (0.74%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 76 (56.30%) Git
2 75 (55.56%) Jenkins
3 65 (48.15%) Maven
4 50 (37.04%) JUnit
5 33 (24.44%) GitLab
6 23 (17.04%) Mockito
7 17 (12.59%) Liquibase
8 12 (8.89%) Android Studio
8 12 (8.89%) SonarQube
9 11 (8.15%) GoCD
10 10 (7.41%) Selenium
11 9 (6.67%) JIRA
11 9 (6.67%) REST Assured
12 7 (5.19%) CircleCI
12 7 (5.19%) Cucumber
12 7 (5.19%) JProfiler
13 6 (4.44%) fastlane
14 5 (3.70%) Crashlytics
14 5 (3.70%) Snyk
14 5 (3.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 25 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
1 25 (18.52%) Social Skills
2 19 (14.07%) Banking
2 19 (14.07%) Finance
2 19 (14.07%) Public Sector
3 7 (5.19%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (3.70%) Law
5 1 (0.74%) Games
5 1 (0.74%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 92 (68.15%) Developer
2 72 (53.33%) Java Developer
3 24 (17.78%) Senior
4 17 (12.59%) Software Engineer
5 15 (11.11%) Java Engineer
6 14 (10.37%) Android Developer
6 14 (10.37%) Senior Developer
7 13 (9.63%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 13 (9.63%) Senior Java Developer
8 12 (8.89%) Software Developer
9 9 (6.67%) Java Software Developer
10 7 (5.19%) Java Software Engineer
10 7 (5.19%) Lead
11 6 (4.44%) Backend Developer
11 6 (4.44%) Lead Developer
11 6 (4.44%) Lead Java Developer
12 5 (3.70%) Mid-Level Java Developer
13 4 (2.96%) Oracle Developer
13 4 (2.96%) Senior Backend Developer
13 4 (2.96%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (71.85%) Spring Boot
2 93 (68.89%) Spring
3 57 (42.22%) Kafka
4 52 (38.52%) React
5 48 (35.56%) REST
6 47 (34.81%) RESTful
7 20 (14.81%) Hibernate
7 20 (14.81%) OpenAPI
7 20 (14.81%) Redux
7 20 (14.81%) Swagger
8 19 (14.07%) Android Jetpack
9 18 (13.33%) Jetpack Compose
10 16 (11.85%) Node.js
11 13 (9.63%) HTML
11 13 (9.63%) JPA
12 11 (8.15%) CSS
12 11 (8.15%) Retrofit
13 10 (7.41%) Spring MVC
13 10 (7.41%) Terraform
14 9 (6.67%) FreeMarker
Miscellaneous
1 23 (17.04%) Product Ownership
2 18 (13.33%) Mobile App
3 11 (8.15%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (8.15%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (7.41%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (5.19%) Cloud Native
6 5 (3.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 4 (2.96%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.96%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.48%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.48%) Legacy Code
9 2 (1.48%) PKI
9 2 (1.48%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.74%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.74%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.74%) IoT
10 1 (0.74%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.74%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (14.07%) Android
2 11 (8.15%) Linux
3 4 (2.96%) Unix
4 1 (0.74%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (77.78%) CI/CD
2 88 (65.19%) Agile
3 79 (58.52%) Microservices
4 58 (42.96%) DevOps
5 53 (39.26%) Test Automation
6 51 (37.78%) TDD
7 45 (33.33%) Containerisation
8 43 (31.85%) Software Engineering
9 40 (29.63%) Scrum
10 38 (28.15%) Problem-Solving
11 28 (20.74%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (18.52%) Design Patterns
13 23 (17.04%) Clean Code
14 22 (16.30%) Event-Driven
14 22 (16.30%) Observability
15 18 (13.33%) Android Development
16 17 (12.59%) Full-Stack Development
17 16 (11.85%) API Development
18 15 (11.11%) OOP
18 15 (11.11%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 127 (94.07%) Java
2 71 (52.59%) SQL
3 24 (17.78%) JavaScript
4 22 (16.30%) TypeScript
5 21 (15.56%) Kotlin
6 12 (8.89%) PL/SQL
7 10 (7.41%) Python
8 5 (3.70%) Bash
8 5 (3.70%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.96%) Ruby
10 3 (2.22%) Groovy
11 2 (1.48%) Korn
12 1 (0.74%) C#
Qualifications
1 44 (32.59%) Security Cleared
2 38 (28.15%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.19%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (5.19%) Degree
4 4 (2.96%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.74%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (17.78%) QA
2 12 (8.89%) Accessibility
3 6 (4.44%) ISO 20022
4 5 (3.70%) WCAG
5 4 (2.96%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.48%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.74%) GDPR
7 1 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.74%) SEPA
System Software
1 57 (42.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 42 (31.11%) Kubernetes
2 25 (18.52%) Ansible
3 12 (8.89%) Control-M
4 11 (8.15%) Grafana
4 11 (8.15%) Prometheus
5 5 (3.70%) Argo
6 2 (1.48%) Istio
7 1 (0.74%) Podman
7 1 (0.74%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.74%) Puppet
Vendors
1 43 (31.85%) Oracle
2 18 (13.33%) Google
3 8 (5.93%) Splunk
4 7 (5.19%) Dynatrace
4 7 (5.19%) MuleSoft
5 4 (2.96%) IBM
6 2 (1.48%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.48%) Sybase
6 2 (1.48%) Veracode
7 1 (0.74%) Confluent
7 1 (0.74%) Databricks
7 1 (0.74%) Solace
7 1 (0.74%) TIBCO