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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 539 420 528
Rank change year-on-year -119 +108 -10
Contract jobs citing Gradle 120 130 65
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.40% 0.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.93% 2.74% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 90 44
10th Percentile £326 £358 £411
25th Percentile £405 £432 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £530 £569
Median % change year-on-year -9.91% -6.81% -15.74%
75th Percentile £538 £566 £675
90th Percentile £586 £620 £851
UK excluding London median daily rate £445 £402 £623
% change year-on-year +10.70% -35.42% +18.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 0
10th Percentile £60.40 £73.50 -
25th Percentile - £78.75 -
Median hourly rate £76.00 £90.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% - -
75th Percentile £95.00 £92.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
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 6,229 4,751 5,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.82% 14.54% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,012 3,193 3,531
10th Percentile £350 £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 £588 £588 £625
90th Percentile £688 £690 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 101 247
10th Percentile £26.25 £22.05 £29.95
25th Percentile £56.25 £47.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.40% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £63.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +7.09% -2.31% +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 13 July 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 13 July 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 13 July 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 -115 107 £495 -6.60% 33
London -62 60 £525 -1.87% 23
UK excluding London -89 51 £445 +10.70% 21
Work from Home -71 20 £474 -11.25% 23
North of England -87 18 £450 +11.94% 4
South East -64 12 £355 -44.09% 3
East of England - 11 £495 -
Scotland -11 7 £375 +5.93% 9
Yorkshire -50 7 - - 2
North West -69 7 £500 +34.23% 2
North East - 4 £450 -
East Midlands -17 2 - - 3
South West -31 2 - -
Midlands -57 2 - - 4

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 (3.33%) Apache
1 4 (3.33%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.50%) Confluence
3 2 (1.67%) Anypoint
3 2 (1.67%) Mule
4 1 (0.83%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 2 (1.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 47 (39.17%) GitHub
2 42 (35.00%) AWS
3 35 (29.17%) GitHub Actions
4 30 (25.00%) Azure
5 16 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (13.33%) GCP
6 8 (6.67%) OpenShift
7 6 (5.00%) Firebase
7 6 (5.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 6 (5.00%) Google Play
8 5 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (4.17%) Apigee
9 4 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (3.33%) Apple Pay
9 4 (3.33%) Cloud Run
9 4 (3.33%) Kong
10 3 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (2.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (2.50%) DSL
3 2 (1.67%) Firewall
3 2 (1.67%) HTTP
4 1 (0.83%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.83%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (25.83%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (15.83%) Relational Database
3 13 (10.83%) MongoDB
4 11 (9.17%) MySQL
5 8 (6.67%) DynamoDB
6 5 (4.17%) SQL Server
7 4 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (3.33%) Flink
7 4 (3.33%) Hazelcast
7 4 (3.33%) NoSQL
7 4 (3.33%) RDBMS
7 4 (3.33%) Redis
8 3 (2.50%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.67%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.83%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.83%) Db2
10 1 (0.83%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.83%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 63 (52.50%) Git
2 57 (47.50%) Maven
3 54 (45.00%) Jenkins
4 50 (41.67%) JUnit
5 30 (25.00%) GitLab
6 22 (18.33%) Mockito
7 16 (13.33%) Liquibase
8 9 (7.50%) CircleCI
8 9 (7.50%) SonarQube
9 8 (6.67%) fastlane
9 8 (6.67%) GoCD
9 8 (6.67%) REST Assured
10 7 (5.83%) Android Studio
11 6 (5.00%) Cucumber
11 6 (5.00%) TestNG
12 5 (4.17%) Crashlytics
12 5 (4.17%) Gatling
12 5 (4.17%) JIRA
13 4 (3.33%) Selenium
13 4 (3.33%) Snyk
General
1 24 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 19 (15.83%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (13.33%) Finance
4 15 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 12 (10.00%) Banking
6 5 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.17%) Law
7 2 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Front Office
8 1 (0.83%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 77 (64.17%) Developer
2 63 (52.50%) Java Developer
3 23 (19.17%) Senior
4 17 (14.17%) Java Engineer
5 15 (12.50%) Software Engineer
6 14 (11.67%) Senior Developer
7 13 (10.83%) Senior Java Developer
8 11 (9.17%) Android Developer
9 9 (7.50%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 8 (6.67%) Java Software Engineer
11 7 (5.83%) Java Software Developer
11 7 (5.83%) Software Developer
12 5 (4.17%) Android Engineer
12 5 (4.17%) Backend Developer
12 5 (4.17%) Mid-Level Java Developer
12 5 (4.17%) Senior Java Engineer
13 4 (3.33%) Applications Engineer
13 4 (3.33%) Lead
13 4 (3.33%) Lead Developer
13 4 (3.33%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (68.33%) Spring
2 81 (67.50%) Spring Boot
3 39 (32.50%) React
4 38 (31.67%) Kafka
5 37 (30.83%) RESTful
6 33 (27.50%) REST
7 19 (15.83%) OpenAPI
7 19 (15.83%) Swagger
8 17 (14.17%) Android Jetpack
9 16 (13.33%) Hibernate
9 16 (13.33%) Jetpack Compose
10 12 (10.00%) JPA
10 12 (10.00%) Redux
11 10 (8.33%) Node.js
11 10 (8.33%) Spring MVC
12 9 (7.50%) HTML
12 9 (7.50%) RxJava
12 9 (7.50%) WireMock
13 8 (6.67%) GraphQL
13 8 (6.67%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.83%) Product Ownership
2 15 (12.50%) Mobile App
3 11 (9.17%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (8.33%) Cloud Native
5 8 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (4.17%) Legacy Code
8 4 (3.33%) Data Structures
8 4 (3.33%) Virtual Team
9 3 (2.50%) Algorithms
9 3 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.67%) PKI
11 1 (0.83%) Derivative
11 1 (0.83%) Equities
11 1 (0.83%) IoT
11 1 (0.83%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 1 (0.83%) Video\Live Streaming
11 1 (0.83%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 19 (15.83%) Android
2 6 (5.00%) Linux
3 2 (1.67%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.67%) Unix
4 1 (0.83%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (78.33%) CI/CD
2 68 (56.67%) Microservices
3 65 (54.17%) Agile
4 52 (43.33%) TDD
5 51 (42.50%) DevOps
6 48 (40.00%) Test Automation
7 36 (30.00%) Containerisation
7 36 (30.00%) Software Engineering
8 25 (20.83%) Scrum
9 24 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (15.83%) Design Patterns
10 19 (15.83%) Observability
11 18 (15.00%) Event-Driven
11 18 (15.00%) Unit Testing
12 16 (13.33%) Clean Code
12 16 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
12 16 (13.33%) OOP
13 15 (12.50%) Android Development
13 15 (12.50%) API Development
13 15 (12.50%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 106 (88.33%) Java
2 57 (47.50%) SQL
3 23 (19.17%) Kotlin
4 20 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 14 (11.67%) JavaScript
6 7 (5.83%) PL/SQL
6 7 (5.83%) Python
7 4 (3.33%) Bash
8 3 (2.50%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.67%) Korn
10 1 (0.83%) BrightScript
10 1 (0.83%) Groovy
10 1 (0.83%) Ruby
10 1 (0.83%) Swift
Qualifications
1 31 (25.83%) Security Cleared
2 27 (22.50%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (8.33%) Degree
4 2 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (16.67%) QA
2 12 (10.00%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.17%) WCAG
4 4 (3.33%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.67%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.83%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.83%) GDPR
6 1 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.83%) SEPA
System Software
1 45 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (25.83%) Kubernetes
2 22 (18.33%) Ansible
3 8 (6.67%) Grafana
3 8 (6.67%) Prometheus
4 7 (5.83%) Control-M
4 7 (5.83%) Terraform
5 4 (3.33%) Argo
6 2 (1.67%) Istio
Vendors
1 29 (24.17%) Oracle
2 11 (9.17%) Google
3 9 (7.50%) Splunk
4 8 (6.67%) Dynatrace
5 7 (5.83%) MuleSoft
6 5 (4.17%) Microsoft
7 3 (2.50%) IBM
8 2 (1.67%) Sybase
9 1 (0.83%) Roku
9 1 (0.83%) Solace
9 1 (0.83%) TIBCO
9 1 (0.83%) Veracode