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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 522 413 514
Rank change year-on-year -109 +101 +9
Contract jobs citing Gradle 115 124 66
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.41% 0.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.91% 2.83% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 85 41
10th Percentile £318 £358 £410
25th Percentile £402 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £530 £588
Median % change year-on-year -9.91% -9.79% -12.96%
75th Percentile £538 £560 £634
90th Percentile £599 £618 £863
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £401 £605
% change year-on-year +12.22% -33.72% +15.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 1
10th Percentile £52.00 £73.50 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £78.75 £77.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £90.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.89% +12.50% +1.39%
75th Percentile £76.00 £92.50 £82.50
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% -12.50% -

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 6,011 4,389 5,300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.84% 14.65% 12.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,881 2,928 3,524
10th Percentile £350 £331 £355
25th Percentile £409 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £590 £625
90th Percentile £688 £695 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 86 251
10th Percentile £26.20 £20.86 £28.00
25th Percentile £55.94 £46.42 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.63 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.80% -11.35% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £81.48 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.67% -7.69% +5.69%

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 23 June 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 23 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Gradle in the UK

Gradle
Top 14 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 23 June 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 -117 107 £495 -6.60% 9
London -67 56 £525 -1.64% 5
UK excluding London -94 54 £450 +12.22% 7
North of England -81 22 £450 +11.94%
Work from Home -62 15 £375 -29.71% 7
South East -48 13 £354 - 3
North West -54 11 £500 +34.23%
East of England - 11 £495 -
Yorkshire -50 7 - -
Scotland -13 5 £331 -6.50% 3
North East - 4 £450 -
East Midlands -20 2 - -
Midlands -59 2 - -
South West - 2 £500 - 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 4 (3.48%) Apache
1 4 (3.48%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.61%) Camunda
2 3 (2.61%) Confluence
3 2 (1.74%) Anypoint
3 2 (1.74%) Mule
Business Applications
1 2 (1.74%) Shopify
2 1 (0.87%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 43 (37.39%) GitHub
2 34 (29.57%) AWS
2 34 (29.57%) GitHub Actions
3 25 (21.74%) Azure
4 15 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (8.70%) GCP
6 8 (6.96%) OpenShift
7 6 (5.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 5 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (4.35%) Apigee
8 5 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (4.35%) Firebase
8 5 (4.35%) Google Play
9 4 (3.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (3.48%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (3.48%) Apple Pay
9 4 (3.48%) Cloud Run
9 4 (3.48%) Kong
10 3 (2.61%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (2.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.48%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (2.61%) DSL
3 2 (1.74%) Firewall
3 2 (1.74%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (22.61%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (11.30%) MongoDB
2 13 (11.30%) Relational Database
3 8 (6.96%) DynamoDB
4 6 (5.22%) MySQL
5 4 (3.48%) Flink
5 4 (3.48%) Hazelcast
5 4 (3.48%) NoSQL
5 4 (3.48%) RDBMS
5 4 (3.48%) Redis
5 4 (3.48%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.61%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.61%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.87%) Db2
7 1 (0.87%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 52 (45.22%) Git
2 47 (40.87%) JUnit
3 46 (40.00%) Jenkins
3 46 (40.00%) Maven
4 32 (27.83%) GitLab
5 23 (20.00%) Mockito
6 16 (13.91%) Liquibase
7 10 (8.70%) CircleCI
8 8 (6.96%) Cucumber
8 8 (6.96%) fastlane
8 8 (6.96%) REST Assured
8 8 (6.96%) SonarQube
9 6 (5.22%) Android Studio
9 6 (5.22%) GoCD
9 6 (5.22%) TestNG
10 5 (4.35%) Crashlytics
10 5 (4.35%) Gatling
10 5 (4.35%) IntelliJ
11 4 (3.48%) Bitbucket
11 4 (3.48%) Snyk
General
1 19 (16.52%) Social Skills
2 15 (13.04%) Finance
3 11 (9.57%) Public Sector
4 10 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.70%) Banking
5 5 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (4.35%) Law
6 1 (0.87%) Front Office
6 1 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 65 (56.52%) Developer
2 48 (41.74%) Java Developer
3 26 (22.61%) Senior
4 23 (20.00%) Java Engineer
5 20 (17.39%) Software Engineer
6 13 (11.30%) Android Developer
6 13 (11.30%) Senior Developer
7 12 (10.43%) Java Software Engineer
7 12 (10.43%) Senior Java Developer
8 7 (6.09%) Android Engineer
8 7 (6.09%) Senior Java Engineer
9 6 (5.22%) Java Software Developer
9 6 (5.22%) Software Developer
10 5 (4.35%) Backend Developer
11 4 (3.48%) Applications Engineer
11 4 (3.48%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 4 (3.48%) Senior Backend Developer
12 3 (2.61%) Mid-Level Java Developer
12 3 (2.61%) Senior Software Engineer
13 2 (1.74%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (64.35%) Spring Boot
2 73 (63.48%) Spring
3 36 (31.30%) Kafka
4 35 (30.43%) React
5 31 (26.96%) REST
6 27 (23.48%) RESTful
7 21 (18.26%) OpenAPI
7 21 (18.26%) Swagger
8 17 (14.78%) Android Jetpack
9 16 (13.91%) Jetpack Compose
10 12 (10.43%) Hibernate
10 12 (10.43%) OpenTelemetry
11 11 (9.57%) JPA
12 10 (8.70%) GraphQL
12 10 (8.70%) RxJava
12 10 (8.70%) WireMock
13 7 (6.09%) Node.js
13 7 (6.09%) Redux
14 6 (5.22%) Dagger
14 6 (5.22%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.91%) Product Ownership
2 13 (11.30%) Mobile App
3 10 (8.70%) Cloud Native
4 9 (7.83%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (6.09%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (6.09%) Legacy Code
6 6 (5.22%) Virtual Team
7 5 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (3.48%) Data Structures
8 4 (3.48%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (2.61%) Algorithms
9 3 (2.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (2.61%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.74%) PKI
11 1 (0.87%) Derivative
11 1 (0.87%) Equities
11 1 (0.87%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 1 (0.87%) TWAP
11 1 (0.87%) Video\Live Streaming
11 1 (0.87%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 20 (17.39%) Android
2 6 (5.22%) Linux
3 2 (1.74%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.74%) Unix
4 1 (0.87%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (69.57%) CI/CD
2 56 (48.70%) Microservices
3 54 (46.96%) Agile
4 51 (44.35%) TDD
5 48 (41.74%) DevOps
6 47 (40.87%) Test Automation
7 41 (35.65%) Software Engineering
8 35 (30.43%) Containerisation
9 21 (18.26%) Observability
10 18 (15.65%) Event-Driven
11 17 (14.78%) Architectural Patterns
12 16 (13.91%) Android Development
12 16 (13.91%) Secure Coding
13 15 (13.04%) Scrum
14 14 (12.17%) Full-Stack Development
14 14 (12.17%) Unit Testing
15 13 (11.30%) API Development
15 13 (11.30%) API Integration
15 13 (11.30%) Continuous Integration
15 13 (11.30%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 95 (82.61%) Java
2 50 (43.48%) SQL
3 28 (24.35%) Kotlin
4 19 (16.52%) TypeScript
5 6 (5.22%) JavaScript
5 6 (5.22%) Python
6 5 (4.35%) PL/SQL
7 3 (2.61%) Bash
8 2 (1.74%) Go
8 2 (1.74%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.87%) BrightScript
9 1 (0.87%) Korn
9 1 (0.87%) Swift
Qualifications
1 22 (19.13%) Security Cleared
2 19 (16.52%) SC Cleared
3 11 (9.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (9.57%) Degree
4 1 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (16.52%) QA
2 11 (9.57%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.35%) WCAG
4 4 (3.48%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.74%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.74%) NCSC
6 1 (0.87%) GDPR
6 1 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.87%) SEPA
System Software
1 38 (33.04%) Docker
2 1 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (25.22%) Kubernetes
2 20 (17.39%) Ansible
3 12 (10.43%) Grafana
4 8 (6.96%) Prometheus
5 6 (5.22%) Terraform
6 5 (4.35%) Control-M
7 4 (3.48%) Argo
8 2 (1.74%) Istio
Vendors
1 17 (14.78%) Oracle
2 10 (8.70%) Dynatrace
3 7 (6.09%) Splunk
4 6 (5.22%) Google
4 6 (5.22%) MuleSoft
5 5 (4.35%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.61%) IBM
7 2 (1.74%) New Relic
7 2 (1.74%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.74%) Sybase
8 1 (0.87%) Roku
8 1 (0.87%) Solace
8 1 (0.87%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.87%) Veracode