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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 541 405 519
Rank change year-on-year -136 +114 +10
Contract jobs citing Gradle 112 126 69
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.42% 0.16%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.84% 2.84% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 87 43
10th Percentile £315 £358 £411
25th Percentile £400 £427 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £530 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.15% -11.67% -11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £675
90th Percentile £603 £612 £855
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £401 £623
% change year-on-year +12.22% -35.58% +18.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 1
10th Percentile £51.50 £73.50 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £78.75 £77.50
Median hourly rate £76.00 £90.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +12.50% +1.39%
75th Percentile £85.50 £92.50 £82.50
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 £70.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% -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 6,073 4,432 5,322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.93% 14.65% 12.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,927 2,956 3,545
10th Percentile £350 £332 £355
25th Percentile £413 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £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 257 89 250
10th Percentile £26.05 £20.86 £30.93
25th Percentile £56.25 £46.92 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £59.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.17% -9.23% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.59 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -127 103 £478 -9.91% 9
London -64 56 £525 -1.87% 6
UK excluding London -106 51 £450 +12.22% 6
North of England -75 20 £450 +11.94%
Work from Home -74 15 £375 -29.71% 7
South East -47 12 £355 - 2
East of England - 11 £495 -
North West -58 9 £500 +34.23%
Yorkshire -45 7 - -
Scotland -8 6 £353 -0.28% 3
North East - 4 £450 -
East Midlands -12 2 - -
Midlands -71 2 - -
South West - 1 - - 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 (3.57%) Apache
1 4 (3.57%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.68%) Confluence
3 2 (1.79%) Anypoint
3 2 (1.79%) Camunda
3 2 (1.79%) Mule
Business Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.89%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 44 (39.29%) GitHub
2 34 (30.36%) AWS
3 33 (29.46%) GitHub Actions
4 24 (21.43%) Azure
5 15 (13.39%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (8.93%) GCP
7 8 (7.14%) OpenShift
8 6 (5.36%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 5 (4.46%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (4.46%) Apigee
9 5 (4.46%) Firebase
9 5 (4.46%) Google Play
10 4 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (3.57%) Apple Pay
10 4 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (3.57%) Cloud Run
10 4 (3.57%) Kong
11 3 (2.68%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (2.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (2.68%) DSL
3 2 (1.79%) Firewall
3 2 (1.79%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (22.32%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (11.61%) MongoDB
3 12 (10.71%) Relational Database
4 8 (7.14%) DynamoDB
5 5 (4.46%) MySQL
6 4 (3.57%) Flink
6 4 (3.57%) Hazelcast
6 4 (3.57%) NoSQL
6 4 (3.57%) RDBMS
6 4 (3.57%) Redis
6 4 (3.57%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.68%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.68%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.89%) Db2
8 1 (0.89%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 53 (47.32%) Git
2 48 (42.86%) Jenkins
3 47 (41.96%) JUnit
3 47 (41.96%) Maven
4 30 (26.79%) GitLab
5 22 (19.64%) Mockito
6 16 (14.29%) Liquibase
7 9 (8.04%) CircleCI
8 8 (7.14%) fastlane
8 8 (7.14%) REST Assured
8 8 (7.14%) SonarQube
9 7 (6.25%) Cucumber
9 7 (6.25%) GoCD
10 6 (5.36%) Android Studio
10 6 (5.36%) TestNG
11 5 (4.46%) Crashlytics
11 5 (4.46%) Gatling
11 5 (4.46%) JIRA
12 4 (3.57%) IntelliJ
12 4 (3.57%) Selenium
General
1 21 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 15 (13.39%) Finance
3 11 (9.82%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (9.82%) Public Sector
4 10 (8.93%) Banking
5 5 (4.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (4.46%) Law
6 1 (0.89%) Front Office
6 1 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 66 (58.93%) Developer
2 51 (45.54%) Java Developer
3 24 (21.43%) Senior
4 20 (17.86%) Java Engineer
5 17 (15.18%) Software Engineer
6 13 (11.61%) Senior Developer
7 12 (10.71%) Senior Java Developer
8 11 (9.82%) Android Developer
9 10 (8.93%) Java Software Engineer
10 6 (5.36%) Android Engineer
10 6 (5.36%) Java Software Developer
10 6 (5.36%) Senior Java Engineer
10 6 (5.36%) Software Developer
11 5 (4.46%) Backend Developer
11 5 (4.46%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 4 (3.57%) Applications Engineer
12 4 (3.57%) Mid-Level Java Developer
12 4 (3.57%) Senior Backend Developer
13 3 (2.68%) Lead
13 3 (2.68%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (65.18%) Spring
2 72 (64.29%) Spring Boot
3 36 (32.14%) Kafka
3 36 (32.14%) React
4 29 (25.89%) REST
5 27 (24.11%) RESTful
6 20 (17.86%) OpenAPI
6 20 (17.86%) Swagger
7 16 (14.29%) Android Jetpack
8 15 (13.39%) Jetpack Compose
9 14 (12.50%) Hibernate
10 11 (9.82%) JPA
11 10 (8.93%) OpenTelemetry
12 9 (8.04%) GraphQL
12 9 (8.04%) Redux
12 9 (8.04%) RxJava
12 9 (8.04%) WireMock
13 8 (7.14%) Node.js
14 6 (5.36%) JSF
14 6 (5.36%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 13 (11.61%) Mobile App
3 10 (8.93%) Cloud Native
3 10 (8.93%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (5.36%) Legacy Code
6 5 (4.46%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (4.46%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (4.46%) Virtual Team
7 4 (3.57%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.68%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (2.68%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.79%) PKI
10 1 (0.89%) Derivative
10 1 (0.89%) Equities
10 1 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.89%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 1 (0.89%) Video\Live Streaming
10 1 (0.89%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 18 (16.07%) Android
2 6 (5.36%) Linux
3 2 (1.79%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.79%) Unix
4 1 (0.89%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (73.21%) CI/CD
2 57 (50.89%) Microservices
3 55 (49.11%) Agile
4 51 (45.54%) TDD
5 48 (42.86%) DevOps
6 47 (41.96%) Test Automation
7 38 (33.93%) Software Engineering
8 34 (30.36%) Containerisation
9 20 (17.86%) Observability
10 18 (16.07%) Event-Driven
11 16 (14.29%) Scrum
12 15 (13.39%) Architectural Patterns
12 15 (13.39%) Secure Coding
12 15 (13.39%) Unit Testing
13 14 (12.50%) Android Development
13 14 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
13 14 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
14 13 (11.61%) API Development
15 12 (10.71%) API Integration
15 12 (10.71%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 95 (84.82%) Java
2 50 (44.64%) SQL
3 25 (22.32%) Kotlin
4 19 (16.96%) TypeScript
5 7 (6.25%) JavaScript
6 6 (5.36%) PL/SQL
6 6 (5.36%) Python
7 3 (2.68%) Bash
8 2 (1.79%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.89%) BrightScript
9 1 (0.89%) Go
9 1 (0.89%) Korn
9 1 (0.89%) Ruby
9 1 (0.89%) Swift
Qualifications
1 23 (20.54%) Security Cleared
2 19 (16.96%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (8.93%) Degree
4 1 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (16.07%) QA
2 11 (9.82%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.46%) WCAG
4 4 (3.57%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.79%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.89%) GDPR
6 1 (0.89%) NCSC
6 1 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.89%) SEPA
System Software
1 37 (33.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (23.21%) Kubernetes
2 21 (18.75%) Ansible
3 10 (8.93%) Grafana
4 8 (7.14%) Prometheus
5 6 (5.36%) Control-M
5 6 (5.36%) Terraform
6 4 (3.57%) Argo
7 2 (1.79%) Istio
Vendors
1 19 (16.96%) Oracle
2 9 (8.04%) Dynatrace
3 8 (7.14%) Splunk
4 6 (5.36%) Google
4 6 (5.36%) MuleSoft
5 5 (4.46%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.68%) IBM
7 2 (1.79%) Sybase
8 1 (0.89%) New Relic
8 1 (0.89%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.89%) Roku
8 1 (0.89%) Solace
8 1 (0.89%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.89%) Veracode