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 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 470 507 538
Rank change year-on-year +37 +31 -47
Contract jobs citing Gradle 114 37 67
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.11% 0.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.06% 0.82% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 26 44
10th Percentile £345 £516 £300
25th Percentile £404 £550 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £620 £535
Median % change year-on-year -12.94% +15.93% -18.94%
75th Percentile £588 £853 £691
90th Percentile £642 £888 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £462 £719 £528
% change year-on-year -35.79% +36.26% +1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 3
10th Percentile £40.00 - £76.50
25th Percentile £49.38 - £76.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £80.00
75th Percentile £63.44 - £86.25
90th Percentile £70.00 - £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 5,525 4,538 5,756
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.00% 13.27% 13.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,795 2,867 3,981
10th Percentile £342 £331 £363
25th Percentile £409 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -4.74% -3.93%
75th Percentile £600 £629 £638
90th Percentile £692 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £513
% change year-on-year -2.56% -4.88% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 89 215
10th Percentile £39.00 £38.30 £45.88
25th Percentile £53.75 £51.00 £50.00
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 £77.02
90th Percentile £83.80 £75.00 £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 19 December 2025.

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 19 December 2025.

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 19 December 2025. 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 +42 106 £540 -15.29% 33
UK excluding London +18 63 £462 -35.79% 32
London +9 45 £545 -9.62% 6
North of England -23 31 £384 - 10
Work from Home +20 29 £543 -24.52% 25
North West -6 24 £390 - 7
South East -5 22 £473 -34.19% 9
Yorkshire - 7 £354 - 3
Midlands - 5 £575 - 4
West Midlands - 5 £575 - 1
Scotland - 3 £550 - 3
South West - 1 - - 3
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 (4.39%) OpenStack
2 4 (3.51%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.63%) Apache
4 2 (1.75%) Confluence
5 1 (0.88%) JBoss
5 1 (0.88%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 37 (32.46%) GitHub
2 33 (28.95%) AWS
3 26 (22.81%) Azure
4 20 (17.54%) GCP
5 17 (14.91%) Datadog
6 13 (11.40%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (9.65%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (8.77%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 9 (7.89%) Figma
10 8 (7.02%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (7.02%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (7.02%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (7.02%) OpenShift
10 8 (7.02%) Serverless
11 6 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (5.26%) Apigee
11 6 (5.26%) Azure AKS
11 6 (5.26%) PaaS
11 6 (5.26%) SaaS
12 5 (4.39%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.39%) Kerberos
2 2 (1.75%) Bluetooth
2 2 (1.75%) MQTT
3 1 (0.88%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (17.54%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 14 (12.28%) Relational Database
4 12 (10.53%) MongoDB
5 11 (9.65%) DynamoDB
6 9 (7.89%) HBase
6 9 (7.89%) RDBMS
7 7 (6.14%) MySQL
8 6 (5.26%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (4.39%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (4.39%) BigQuery
9 5 (4.39%) Redis
10 4 (3.51%) SQL Server
11 2 (1.75%) Big Data
12 1 (0.88%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.88%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.88%) HPCC
12 1 (0.88%) Spark SQL
12 1 (0.88%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 44 (38.60%) Jenkins
1 44 (38.60%) Maven
2 39 (34.21%) Git
3 28 (24.56%) JUnit
4 27 (23.68%) GitLab
5 20 (17.54%) Sonatype Nexus
6 15 (13.16%) SonarQube
7 14 (12.28%) Android Studio
7 14 (12.28%) Artifactory
8 13 (11.40%) Cucumber
8 13 (11.40%) Selenium
9 11 (9.65%) Xcode
10 10 (8.77%) Bitbucket
11 9 (7.89%) IntelliJ
12 8 (7.02%) CircleCI
12 8 (7.02%) Mockito
12 8 (7.02%) Postman
13 7 (6.14%) Storybook
14 5 (4.39%) Snyk
14 5 (4.39%) SonarLint
General
1 25 (21.93%) Finance
2 17 (14.91%) Banking
3 15 (13.16%) Social Skills
4 10 (8.77%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.26%) Retail Banking
6 3 (2.63%) Front Office
7 2 (1.75%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.88%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.88%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.88%) Law
8 1 (0.88%) Marketing
8 1 (0.88%) Private Banking
8 1 (0.88%) Retail
8 1 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 67 (58.77%) Developer
2 36 (31.58%) Java Developer
3 20 (17.54%) Android Developer
4 18 (15.79%) Senior
5 14 (12.28%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (12.28%) Java Engineer
6 11 (9.65%) Senior Developer
6 11 (9.65%) Senior Java Developer
6 11 (9.65%) Software Engineer
7 10 (8.77%) Java Software Engineer
8 8 (7.02%) React Developer
9 6 (5.26%) AWS Developer
10 5 (4.39%) Architect
10 5 (4.39%) Backend Developer
10 5 (4.39%) Java Architect
10 5 (4.39%) Java Technical Architect
10 5 (4.39%) Lead
10 5 (4.39%) Technical Architect
11 4 (3.51%) GCP Engineer
11 4 (3.51%) iOS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (35.09%) Spring
2 39 (34.21%) Spring Boot
3 22 (19.30%) Kafka
3 22 (19.30%) RESTful
4 18 (15.79%) REST
5 14 (12.28%) JSON
6 10 (8.77%) React Native
7 9 (7.89%) Android Jetpack
7 9 (7.89%) GraphQL
7 9 (7.89%) Jetpack Compose
7 9 (7.89%) OpenTelemetry
8 8 (7.02%) HTML
9 7 (6.14%) CSS
9 7 (6.14%) D3.js
9 7 (6.14%) Micronaut
9 7 (6.14%) OAuth
9 7 (6.14%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (6.14%) React
9 7 (6.14%) SVG
10 6 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 20 (17.54%) Mobile App
2 12 (10.53%) Cloud Native
3 8 (7.02%) Product Ownership
4 6 (5.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (4.39%) N-Tier
5 5 (4.39%) Private Cloud
6 4 (3.51%) Data Centre
6 4 (3.51%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (3.51%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (3.51%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.63%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.63%) Derivative
7 3 (2.63%) Mobile Banking
8 2 (1.75%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.75%) Equities
8 2 (1.75%) IoT
8 2 (1.75%) Legacy Code
8 2 (1.75%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.75%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 30 (26.32%) Android
2 15 (13.16%) Linux
3 12 (10.53%) Apple iOS
4 7 (6.14%) Unix
5 5 (4.39%) Windows
6 3 (2.63%) Solaris
7 2 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (51.75%) CI/CD
2 46 (40.35%) DevOps
3 34 (29.82%) Agile
4 32 (28.07%) Containerisation
5 31 (27.19%) Microservices
6 29 (25.44%) Software Engineering
7 25 (21.93%) Design Patterns
7 25 (21.93%) Test Automation
8 24 (21.05%) TDD
9 19 (16.67%) Android Development
10 15 (13.16%) BDD
10 15 (13.16%) Event-Driven
10 15 (13.16%) Mentoring
10 15 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (13.16%) User Experience
11 14 (12.28%) Infrastructure as Code
11 14 (12.28%) OOP
12 13 (11.40%) Continuous Integration
13 12 (10.53%) Mobile Development
13 12 (10.53%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 85 (74.56%) Java
2 29 (25.44%) Kotlin
3 25 (21.93%) Python
4 21 (18.42%) SQL
5 14 (12.28%) TypeScript
6 13 (11.40%) C++
7 9 (7.89%) JavaScript
8 6 (5.26%) Scala
9 5 (4.39%) Bash
9 5 (4.39%) C
9 5 (4.39%) Objective-C
9 5 (4.39%) PowerShell
9 5 (4.39%) Rust
9 5 (4.39%) Swift
10 4 (3.51%) PL/SQL
11 3 (2.63%) Ruby
11 3 (2.63%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.75%) Go
12 2 (1.75%) Groovy
13 1 (0.88%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 17 (14.91%) Security Cleared
2 9 (7.89%) OCP
2 9 (7.89%) Oracle Certification
3 7 (6.14%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.26%) Degree
5 5 (4.39%) DV Cleared
6 4 (3.51%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.75%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.88%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.88%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.53%) Accessibility
2 6 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 37 (32.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 52 (45.61%) Kubernetes
2 26 (22.81%) Terraform
3 21 (18.42%) Grafana
4 15 (13.16%) Ansible
5 10 (8.77%) Prometheus
6 8 (7.02%) Puppet
7 7 (6.14%) Progress Chef
8 5 (4.39%) Argo
8 5 (4.39%) Podman
9 1 (0.88%) Istio
9 1 (0.88%) Kibana
9 1 (0.88%) logstash
Vendors
1 10 (8.77%) Google
2 9 (7.89%) Oracle
3 8 (7.02%) Splunk
4 5 (4.39%) Gigya
4 5 (4.39%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.63%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.75%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.88%) Adobe
7 1 (0.88%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.88%) Apple
7 1 (0.88%) Foundry
7 1 (0.88%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.88%) Palantir