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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 469 508 530
Rank change year-on-year +39 +22 -39
Contract jobs citing Gradle 119 34 65
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.10% 0.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.16% 0.77% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 24 42
10th Percentile £326 £513 £300
25th Percentile £393 £524 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £620 £563
Median % change year-on-year -15.36% +10.27% -15.09%
75th Percentile £588 £863 £697
90th Percentile £641 £893 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £462 £638 £525
% change year-on-year -27.61% +21.43% +0.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 3
10th Percentile £41.25 - £76.50
25th Percentile £52.50 - £76.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £80.00
75th Percentile £58.44 - £86.25
90th Percentile £69.13 - £88.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £78.75

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 5,501 4,402 5,441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.83% 13.27% 12.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,789 2,764 3,791
10th Percentile £334 £327 £363
25th Percentile £406 £410 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -5.20% -2.23%
75th Percentile £600 £627 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £513
% change year-on-year -2.06% -5.46% -2.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 77 205
10th Percentile £39.00 £27.10 £42.59
25th Percentile £52.50 £46.25 £48.47
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 £77.50
90th Percentile £84.00 £75.65 £89.50
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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +40 112 £525 -17.65% 17
UK excluding London +13 69 £462 -27.61% 9
London +6 44 £544 -22.29% 8
North of England -23 35 £384 - 4
North West -2 28 £390 - 4
Work from Home +15 26 £546 -14.31% 12
South East +12 24 £473 -25.80% 3
Yorkshire - 7 £354 -
Midlands - 5 £575 - 1
West Midlands - 5 £575 - 1
Scotland - 3 £550 -
South West - 1 £500 - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £425 -

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 (4.20%) OpenStack
2 4 (3.36%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.52%) Apache
4 2 (1.68%) Confluence
5 1 (0.84%) Camunda
5 1 (0.84%) JBoss
5 1 (0.84%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (1.68%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 38 (31.93%) GitHub
2 36 (30.25%) AWS
3 28 (23.53%) Azure
4 19 (15.97%) GCP
5 17 (14.29%) Datadog
6 13 (10.92%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (10.08%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (7.56%) Figma
8 9 (7.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 9 (7.56%) OpenShift
9 8 (6.72%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (6.72%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (6.72%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (6.72%) Serverless
10 6 (5.04%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (5.04%) Apigee
10 6 (5.04%) Azure AKS
10 6 (5.04%) PaaS
10 6 (5.04%) SaaS
11 5 (4.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.20%) Kerberos
2 2 (1.68%) Bluetooth
2 2 (1.68%) MQTT
3 1 (0.84%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (18.49%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (15.97%) NoSQL
3 15 (12.61%) Relational Database
4 12 (10.08%) MongoDB
5 11 (9.24%) DynamoDB
6 9 (7.56%) HBase
6 9 (7.56%) MySQL
6 9 (7.56%) RDBMS
7 6 (5.04%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (4.20%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (4.20%) BigQuery
8 5 (4.20%) Redis
9 4 (3.36%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.68%) Big Data
11 1 (0.84%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.84%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.84%) HPCC
11 1 (0.84%) Spark SQL
11 1 (0.84%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 45 (37.82%) Maven
2 44 (36.97%) Jenkins
3 41 (34.45%) Git
4 31 (26.05%) JUnit
5 30 (25.21%) GitLab
6 20 (16.81%) Sonatype Nexus
7 14 (11.76%) Android Studio
7 14 (11.76%) Artifactory
7 14 (11.76%) Cucumber
7 14 (11.76%) SonarQube
8 13 (10.92%) IntelliJ
9 12 (10.08%) Selenium
10 11 (9.24%) Xcode
11 10 (8.40%) Bitbucket
11 10 (8.40%) CircleCI
12 9 (7.56%) Mockito
13 8 (6.72%) Postman
14 7 (5.88%) Storybook
15 6 (5.04%) Cypress.io
16 5 (4.20%) JIRA
General
1 21 (17.65%) Finance
2 17 (14.29%) Banking
3 15 (12.61%) Social Skills
4 12 (10.08%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.04%) Retail Banking
6 3 (2.52%) Front Office
7 1 (0.84%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.84%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.84%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.84%) Law
7 1 (0.84%) Marketing
7 1 (0.84%) Private Banking
7 1 (0.84%) Retail
7 1 (0.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 69 (57.98%) Developer
2 34 (28.57%) Java Developer
3 23 (19.33%) Android Developer
4 22 (18.49%) Senior
5 18 (15.13%) Java Engineer
6 14 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
6 14 (11.76%) Software Engineer
7 12 (10.08%) Java Software Engineer
7 12 (10.08%) Senior Developer
7 12 (10.08%) Senior Java Developer
8 8 (6.72%) React Developer
9 6 (5.04%) AWS Developer
10 5 (4.20%) Architect
10 5 (4.20%) Backend Developer
10 5 (4.20%) Java Architect
10 5 (4.20%) Java Technical Architect
10 5 (4.20%) Lead
10 5 (4.20%) Technical Architect
11 4 (3.36%) Engineering Manager
11 4 (3.36%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (37.82%) Spring
1 45 (37.82%) Spring Boot
2 24 (20.17%) Kafka
3 22 (18.49%) REST
3 22 (18.49%) RESTful
4 14 (11.76%) JSON
5 13 (10.92%) OpenTelemetry
6 11 (9.24%) Android Jetpack
6 11 (9.24%) GraphQL
6 11 (9.24%) Jetpack Compose
7 10 (8.40%) HTML
7 10 (8.40%) React Native
8 9 (7.56%) CSS
8 9 (7.56%) Micronaut
9 8 (6.72%) React
10 7 (5.88%) D3.js
10 7 (5.88%) OAuth
10 7 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
10 7 (5.88%) RxJava
10 7 (5.88%) SVG
Miscellaneous
1 20 (16.81%) Mobile App
2 11 (9.24%) Cloud Native
3 10 (8.40%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.20%) N-Tier
4 5 (4.20%) Private Cloud
5 4 (3.36%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.36%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.36%) Legacy Code
5 4 (3.36%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.36%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.36%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.52%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.52%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.52%) Mobile Banking
7 2 (1.68%) Derivative
7 2 (1.68%) Equities
7 2 (1.68%) IoT
7 2 (1.68%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.68%) TWAP
7 2 (1.68%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 33 (27.73%) Android
2 14 (11.76%) Linux
3 12 (10.08%) Apple iOS
4 6 (5.04%) Unix
5 5 (4.20%) Windows
6 3 (2.52%) Solaris
7 2 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (47.06%) CI/CD
2 45 (37.82%) DevOps
3 35 (29.41%) Agile
4 32 (26.89%) Containerisation
4 32 (26.89%) Microservices
5 29 (24.37%) Software Engineering
6 27 (22.69%) Test Automation
7 26 (21.85%) Design Patterns
8 25 (21.01%) TDD
9 22 (18.49%) Android Development
10 17 (14.29%) Mentoring
10 17 (14.29%) User Experience
11 16 (13.45%) Event-Driven
12 15 (12.61%) BDD
13 14 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
13 14 (11.76%) OOP
13 14 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
14 13 (10.92%) Infrastructure as Code
15 12 (10.08%) Mobile Development
16 11 (9.24%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 86 (72.27%) Java
2 36 (30.25%) Kotlin
3 24 (20.17%) Python
4 18 (15.13%) SQL
5 14 (11.76%) TypeScript
6 9 (7.56%) JavaScript
7 8 (6.72%) C++
8 6 (5.04%) Scala
9 5 (4.20%) Bash
9 5 (4.20%) Objective-C
9 5 (4.20%) PowerShell
9 5 (4.20%) Rust
9 5 (4.20%) Swift
10 4 (3.36%) C
11 3 (2.52%) Go
11 3 (2.52%) Ruby
11 3 (2.52%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.68%) Groovy
12 2 (1.68%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.84%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 19 (15.97%) Security Cleared
2 9 (7.56%) OCP
2 9 (7.56%) Oracle Certification
3 8 (6.72%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.88%) Degree
5 5 (4.20%) DV Cleared
6 4 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.68%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.84%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.84%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.84%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.08%) Accessibility
2 8 (6.72%) QA
3 1 (0.84%) NCSC
System Software
1 36 (30.25%) Docker
2 1 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 55 (46.22%) Kubernetes
2 25 (21.01%) Grafana
2 25 (21.01%) Terraform
3 15 (12.61%) Ansible
4 10 (8.40%) Prometheus
5 8 (6.72%) Puppet
6 7 (5.88%) Progress Chef
7 5 (4.20%) Podman
8 4 (3.36%) Argo
9 1 (0.84%) Istio
9 1 (0.84%) Kibana
9 1 (0.84%) logstash
Vendors
1 9 (7.56%) Google
1 9 (7.56%) Oracle
2 8 (6.72%) Splunk
3 5 (4.20%) Gigya
3 5 (4.20%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.36%) Dynatrace
4 4 (3.36%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.68%) New Relic
6 1 (0.84%) Adobe
6 1 (0.84%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.84%) Apple
6 1 (0.84%) Foundry
6 1 (0.84%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.84%) Palantir