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

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 478 498 537
Rank change year-on-year +20 +39 -63
Contract jobs citing Gradle 104 45 71
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.13% 0.16%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.90% 0.95% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 31 46
10th Percentile £357 £521 £300
25th Percentile £411 £550 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £700 £575
Median % change year-on-year -23.21% +21.74% -11.54%
75th Percentile £591 £863 £700
90th Percentile £643 £913 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £462 £750 £530
% change year-on-year -38.47% +41.51% +1.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile - - £76.63
25th Percentile - - £77.19
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £81.41
75th Percentile - - £87.42
90th Percentile - - £88.97
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 - £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 5,481 4,716 5,917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.11% 13.21% 13.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,793 2,957 4,102
10th Percentile £331 £340 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% -2.70%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £693 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £514
% change year-on-year -2.56% -5.07% -2.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 109 224
10th Percentile £30.35 £34.30 £45.88
25th Percentile £50.50 £50.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.00 £89.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 10 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
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 10 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 +15 95 £540 -24.21% 90
UK excluding London +2 54 £462 -38.47% 86
London +9 43 £550 -22.81% 10
Work from Home +13 25 £543 -30.00% 7
North of England -21 24 £378 - 19
South East +3 21 £473 -34.19% 24
North West -2 17 £384 - 11
Yorkshire - 7 £354 - 7
Midlands -30 4 £575 -23.33% 15
West Midlands - 4 £575 - 8
Scotland +7 3 £550 - 4
South West -12 1 - - 10
Northern Ireland - 1 £425 - 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 (3.85%) Apache Spark
1 4 (3.85%) OpenStack
2 3 (2.88%) Apache
3 2 (1.92%) Confluence
3 2 (1.92%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.96%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 36 (34.62%) GitHub
2 29 (27.88%) AWS
3 26 (25.00%) Azure
4 19 (18.27%) GCP
5 16 (15.38%) Datadog
6 12 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (8.65%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (8.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 8 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (7.69%) Serverless
9 7 (6.73%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (6.73%) Figma
9 7 (6.73%) OpenShift
10 6 (5.77%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (5.77%) Apigee
10 6 (5.77%) SaaS
11 5 (4.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (4.81%) Amazon EMR
11 5 (4.81%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.81%) Kerberos
2 2 (1.92%) Bluetooth
2 2 (1.92%) MQTT
3 1 (0.96%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (20.19%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (18.27%) NoSQL
3 14 (13.46%) Relational Database
4 12 (11.54%) MongoDB
5 11 (10.58%) DynamoDB
6 9 (8.65%) HBase
7 8 (7.69%) MySQL
7 8 (7.69%) RDBMS
8 6 (5.77%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (4.81%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (4.81%) BigQuery
9 5 (4.81%) Redis
10 4 (3.85%) SQL Server
11 3 (2.88%) Big Data
12 2 (1.92%) Data Lake
12 2 (1.92%) HPCC
13 1 (0.96%) Apache Cassandra
13 1 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
13 1 (0.96%) Oracle Database
13 1 (0.96%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 44 (42.31%) Maven
2 42 (40.38%) Jenkins
3 39 (37.50%) Git
4 28 (26.92%) JUnit
5 21 (20.19%) GitLab
6 19 (18.27%) Sonatype Nexus
7 14 (13.46%) SonarQube
8 13 (12.50%) Artifactory
9 12 (11.54%) Android Studio
10 11 (10.58%) Cucumber
11 10 (9.62%) Selenium
11 10 (9.62%) Xcode
12 9 (8.65%) Bitbucket
12 9 (8.65%) Mockito
13 7 (6.73%) Postman
13 7 (6.73%) Storybook
14 6 (5.77%) CircleCI
15 5 (4.81%) JIRA
15 5 (4.81%) SonarLint
16 4 (3.85%) TeamCity
General
1 25 (24.04%) Finance
2 15 (14.42%) Banking
2 15 (14.42%) Social Skills
3 9 (8.65%) Public Sector
4 4 (3.85%) Retail Banking
5 3 (2.88%) Front Office
6 1 (0.96%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.96%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.96%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.96%) Law
6 1 (0.96%) Marketing
6 1 (0.96%) Private Banking
6 1 (0.96%) Retail
6 1 (0.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 65 (62.50%) Developer
2 36 (34.62%) Java Developer
3 20 (19.23%) Senior
4 17 (16.35%) Android Developer
5 13 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (12.50%) Senior Developer
6 12 (11.54%) Senior Java Developer
7 10 (9.62%) Java Engineer
8 8 (7.69%) React Developer
9 7 (6.73%) Software Engineer
10 6 (5.77%) AWS Developer
10 6 (5.77%) Java Software Engineer
10 6 (5.77%) Lead
11 5 (4.81%) Architect
11 5 (4.81%) Java Architect
11 5 (4.81%) Java Technical Architect
11 5 (4.81%) Technical Architect
12 4 (3.85%) Backend Developer
12 4 (3.85%) GCP Engineer
12 4 (3.85%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (32.69%) Spring
2 32 (30.77%) Spring Boot
3 24 (23.08%) Kafka
4 22 (21.15%) RESTful
5 15 (14.42%) REST
6 13 (12.50%) JSON
7 9 (8.65%) HTML
7 9 (8.65%) React
8 8 (7.69%) React Native
9 7 (6.73%) CSS
9 7 (6.73%) D3.js
9 7 (6.73%) GraphQL
9 7 (6.73%) Micronaut
9 7 (6.73%) OAuth
9 7 (6.73%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (6.73%) SVG
10 5 (4.81%) Android Jetpack
10 5 (4.81%) J2EE
10 5 (4.81%) JWT
10 5 (4.81%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (17.31%) Mobile App
2 12 (11.54%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (5.77%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.81%) N-Tier
5 4 (3.85%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.85%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.85%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.85%) Private Cloud
6 3 (2.88%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.88%) Derivative
6 3 (2.88%) Mobile Banking
7 2 (1.92%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.92%) Equities
7 2 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.92%) IoT
7 2 (1.92%) TWAP
7 2 (1.92%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 26 (25.00%) Android
2 12 (11.54%) Linux
3 11 (10.58%) Apple iOS
4 8 (7.69%) Unix
5 4 (3.85%) Windows
6 3 (2.88%) Solaris
7 2 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (53.85%) CI/CD
2 44 (42.31%) DevOps
3 34 (32.69%) Agile
4 32 (30.77%) Containerisation
4 32 (30.77%) Microservices
5 24 (23.08%) TDD
6 23 (22.12%) Design Patterns
6 23 (22.12%) Software Engineering
7 22 (21.15%) Test Automation
8 17 (16.35%) Android Development
9 15 (14.42%) BDD
9 15 (14.42%) Event-Driven
9 15 (14.42%) Mentoring
10 14 (13.46%) OOP
10 14 (13.46%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (10.58%) Continuous Integration
11 11 (10.58%) Infrastructure as Code
11 11 (10.58%) SDLC
12 10 (9.62%) Mobile Application Development
12 10 (9.62%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 79 (75.96%) Java
2 26 (25.00%) Python
3 23 (22.12%) SQL
4 17 (16.35%) Kotlin
5 16 (15.38%) TypeScript
6 13 (12.50%) C++
7 10 (9.62%) JavaScript
8 6 (5.77%) C
8 6 (5.77%) Scala
9 5 (4.81%) Bash
9 5 (4.81%) PL/SQL
9 5 (4.81%) PowerShell
9 5 (4.81%) Rust
10 4 (3.85%) Objective-C
10 4 (3.85%) Swift
11 3 (2.88%) Ruby
11 3 (2.88%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.92%) Go
12 2 (1.92%) Groovy
13 1 (0.96%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 16 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 9 (8.65%) OCP
2 9 (8.65%) Oracle Certification
2 9 (8.65%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (3.85%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.88%) Degree
5 2 (1.92%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.96%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.96%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.96%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.69%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 38 (36.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 43 (41.35%) Kubernetes
2 23 (22.12%) Terraform
3 14 (13.46%) Ansible
4 13 (12.50%) Grafana
5 9 (8.65%) Prometheus
6 7 (6.73%) Puppet
7 6 (5.77%) Progress Chef
8 5 (4.81%) Argo
9 4 (3.85%) Podman
10 1 (0.96%) Istio
10 1 (0.96%) Kibana
10 1 (0.96%) logstash
Vendors
1 9 (8.65%) Google
2 8 (7.69%) Oracle
3 7 (6.73%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.73%) Splunk
4 5 (4.81%) Gigya
5 3 (2.88%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.92%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.96%) Adobe
7 1 (0.96%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.96%) Apple
7 1 (0.96%) Foundry
7 1 (0.96%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.96%) Palantir