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 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 16 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	521	436	513
Rank change year-on-year	-85	+77	+32
Contract jobs citing Gradle	170	129	51
As % of all contract jobs in the UK	0.31%	0.39%	0.14%
As % of the Development Applications category	2.61%	2.52%	1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted	117	102	33
10^th Percentile	£331	£358	£504
25^th Percentile	£400	£395	£550
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£450	£522	£725
Median % change year-on-year	-13.85%	-27.95%	+11.54%
75^th Percentile	£535	£587	£863
90^th Percentile	£580	£615	£910
UK excluding London median daily rate	£440	£393	£750
% change year-on-year	+11.96%	-47.60%	+42.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted	3	1	0
10^th Percentile	£55.60	-	-
25^th Percentile	£63.25	-	-
Median hourly rate	£76.00	£70.00	-
Median % change year-on-year	+8.57%	-	-
75^th Percentile	-	-	-
90^th 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.

	6 months to 16 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills	6,507	5,129	5,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	11.76%	15.42%	13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted	4,181	3,467	3,142
10^th Percentile	£352	£330	£350
25^th Percentile	£413	£406	£413
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£500	£500	£520
Median % change year-on-year	-	-3.85%	-5.45%
75^th Percentile	£600	£600	£625
90^th Percentile	£688	£688	£722
UK excluding London median daily rate	£475	£475	£494
% change year-on-year	-	-3.85%	-3.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted	280	119	165
10^th Percentile	£22.68	£20.03	£28.09
25^th Percentile	£50.00	£45.38	£51.00
Median hourly rate	£65.00	£65.00	£65.00
75^th Percentile	£70.00	£69.38	£70.00
90^th Percentile	£76.00	£75.50	£71.88
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 Daily Rate Trend

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 16 October 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.

Gradle Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Gradle over the 6 months to 16 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Gradle in the UK

Gradle Top 15 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 16 October 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	-118	134	£460	-12.38%	73
London	-60	83	£500	-8.51%	47
UK excluding London	-85	71	£440	+11.96%	38
Work from Home	-70	38	£461	-13.83%	29
North of England	-80	23	£500	+33.33%	9
Scotland	-12	22	£377	+5.31%	12
Yorkshire	-33	10	£500	-3.80%	3
South East	-54	10	£335	-28.30%	6
East of England	-	10	£495	-	6
North West	-64	9	£537	+43.20%	6
Midlands	-52	5	£402	-20.91%	2
East Midlands	-5	4	£402	-6.29%	1
North East	-	4	£450	-
South West	-34	2	-	-	1
West Midlands	-50	1	£575	-	1

Gradle Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 16 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Gradle also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads with a requirement for Gradle.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Java	92.9%	158
2	CI/CD	80.0%	136
3	Spring Boot	73.5%	125
4	Spring	69.4%	118
5	Agile	67.1%	114
6	Microservices	58.8%	100
7	Git	53.5%	91
8	Jenkins	51.8%	88
8	Maven	51.8%	88
10	SQL	50.0%	85
11	Kafka	44.1%	75
12	Docker	41.8%	71
13	REST	41.2%	70
14	DevOps	40.6%	69
14	Test Automation	40.6%	69
16	JUnit	38.8%	66
17	React	35.9%	61
17	TDD	35.9%	61
19	Kubernetes	35.3%	60
20	AWS	34.7%	59
21	Scrum	34.1%	58
22	RESTful	32.9%	56
23	Containerisation	32.4%	55
23	Security Cleared	32.4%	55
25	Azure	31.2%	53
26	GitHub	30.0%	51
27	Oracle	29.4%	50
27	Problem-Solving	29.4%	50
29	SC Cleared	28.2%	48
30	Software Engineering	27.1%	46

Gradle Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Development Applications

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Git	53.5%	91
2	Jenkins	51.8%	88
2	Maven	51.8%	88
4	JUnit	38.8%	66
5	GitLab	25.3%	43
6	Mockito	19.4%	33
7	SonarQube	13.5%	23
8	JIRA	9.4%	16
9	REST Assured	8.8%	15
10	CircleCI	8.2%	14
11	Cucumber	7.6%	13
12	Liquibase	7.1%	12
12	Sonatype Nexus	7.1%	12
14	Android Studio	6.5%	11
14	GoCD	6.5%	11
16	Bitbucket Server	5.3%	9
16	Selenium	5.3%	9
18	JProfiler	4.1%	7
19	Crashlytics	2.9%	5
19	fastlane	2.9%	5