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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 527 439 517
Rank change year-on-year -88 +78 +5
Contract jobs citing Gradle 103 85 65
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.29% 0.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.77% 2.07% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 57 42
10th Percentile £280 £405 £410
25th Percentile £357 £500 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £530 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.13% -7.83% -14.81%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £625
90th Percentile £699 £652 £671
UK excluding London median daily rate £402 £520 £581
% change year-on-year -22.66% -10.58% +30.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 2 1
10th Percentile £48.00 - -
25th Percentile £52.50 £87.50 £77.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £90.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.89% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £92.50 £82.50
90th Percentile £79.80 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £80.00

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 5,812 4,101 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.30% 14.01% 11.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,853 2,743 3,477
10th Percentile £348 £340 £356
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £717 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £483 £500
% change year-on-year -1.66% -3.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 67 197
10th Percentile £37.71 £26.92 £32.48
25th Percentile £60.00 £51.53 £46.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £86.15 £81.60
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 1 May 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 1 May 2026.

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 1 May 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 -67 100 £500 -5.66% 22
UK excluding London -58 61 £402 -22.66% 14
London -54 35 £525 -0.94% 10
South East - 28 £355 - 7
North of England -60 23 £402 -24.15% 1
North West -35 19 £402 -24.15%
Work from Home -41 17 £325 -39.08% 8
East of England - 6 £473 - 3
Yorkshire -52 4 - - 1
Midlands -78 3 £575 +35.29% 2
East Midlands -30 2 - - 1
West Midlands -64 1 £575 +26.37% 1
South West - 1 £500 - 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 5 (4.85%) Apache
1 5 (4.85%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.91%) Confluence
3 2 (1.94%) Camunda
4 1 (0.97%) JBoss
4 1 (0.97%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.97%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (1.94%) Shopify
2 1 (0.97%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 37 (35.92%) AWS
2 33 (32.04%) GitHub
3 21 (20.39%) GitHub Actions
4 11 (10.68%) Azure
5 7 (6.80%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (5.83%) Amazon S3
6 6 (5.83%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (5.83%) Serverless
7 5 (4.85%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (4.85%) GCP
7 5 (4.85%) OpenShift
8 4 (3.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (3.88%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (3.88%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.91%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (2.91%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (2.91%) AWS Fargate
9 3 (2.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (2.91%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (2.91%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.91%) DSL
2 2 (1.94%) Bluetooth
2 2 (1.94%) HTTP
2 2 (1.94%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.97%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (21.36%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (10.68%) Relational Database
3 9 (8.74%) DynamoDB
4 6 (5.83%) MongoDB
4 6 (5.83%) MySQL
5 5 (4.85%) NoSQL
6 4 (3.88%) RDBMS
7 3 (2.91%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.91%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (2.91%) HBase
8 2 (1.94%) Flink
8 2 (1.94%) Hazelcast
8 2 (1.94%) Redis
9 1 (0.97%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.97%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 42 (40.78%) Git
2 40 (38.83%) Maven
3 35 (33.98%) JUnit
4 29 (28.16%) GitLab
4 29 (28.16%) Jenkins
5 14 (13.59%) Mockito
6 13 (12.62%) IntelliJ
7 12 (11.65%) Cucumber
8 9 (8.74%) Liquibase
9 8 (7.77%) Android Studio
9 8 (7.77%) CircleCI
10 6 (5.83%) Bitbucket
10 6 (5.83%) JIRA
10 6 (5.83%) Postman
10 6 (5.83%) REST Assured
10 6 (5.83%) Selenium
10 6 (5.83%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (5.83%) TestNG
11 5 (4.85%) fastlane
11 5 (4.85%) Gatling
General
1 16 (15.53%) Social Skills
2 12 (11.65%) Finance
3 10 (9.71%) Public Sector
4 8 (7.77%) Banking
5 3 (2.91%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.91%) Law
6 2 (1.94%) Front Office
6 2 (1.94%) Retail Banking
7 1 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 54 (52.43%) Developer
2 33 (32.04%) Java Developer
3 29 (28.16%) Java Engineer
4 23 (22.33%) Software Engineer
5 20 (19.42%) Senior
6 17 (16.50%) Java Software Engineer
7 16 (15.53%) Android Developer
8 11 (10.68%) Senior Developer
9 10 (9.71%) Senior Java Developer
10 6 (5.83%) Android Engineer
11 5 (4.85%) Senior Java Engineer
12 3 (2.91%) Backend Developer
12 3 (2.91%) Senior Software Engineer
13 2 (1.94%) AWS Developer
13 2 (1.94%) AWS Engineer
13 2 (1.94%) Lead
13 2 (1.94%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
13 2 (1.94%) Senior Backend Developer
13 2 (1.94%) Server Engineer
13 2 (1.94%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (61.17%) Spring
2 59 (57.28%) Spring Boot
3 22 (21.36%) REST
4 21 (20.39%) Kafka
5 18 (17.48%) OpenTelemetry
6 17 (16.50%) React
7 15 (14.56%) RESTful
8 14 (13.59%) OpenAPI
8 14 (13.59%) Swagger
9 13 (12.62%) Android Jetpack
9 13 (12.62%) Jetpack Compose
10 12 (11.65%) GraphQL
11 8 (7.77%) WireMock
12 7 (6.80%) JPA
12 7 (6.80%) RxJava
13 6 (5.83%) Dagger
13 6 (5.83%) OkHttp
13 6 (5.83%) RAML
14 5 (4.85%) AngularJS
14 5 (4.85%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.71%) Product Ownership
2 9 (8.74%) Cloud Native
3 7 (6.80%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (6.80%) Legacy Code
3 7 (6.80%) Mobile App
4 5 (4.85%) Virtual Team
5 4 (3.88%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.91%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.94%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.94%) Derivative
7 2 (1.94%) Equities
7 2 (1.94%) TWAP
7 2 (1.94%) VWAP
8 1 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.97%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.97%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.97%) Synthetic Data
8 1 (0.97%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 21 (20.39%) Android
2 6 (5.83%) Linux
3 4 (3.88%) Windows
4 3 (2.91%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.97%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (54.37%) CI/CD
2 36 (34.95%) Microservices
3 35 (33.98%) Software Engineering
3 35 (33.98%) Test Automation
4 31 (30.10%) Agile
4 31 (30.10%) DevOps
5 30 (29.13%) TDD
6 29 (28.16%) Containerisation
7 17 (16.50%) Observability
8 15 (14.56%) Android Development
8 15 (14.56%) Continuous Integration
9 14 (13.59%) Event-Driven
9 14 (13.59%) Unit Testing
10 13 (12.62%) Design Patterns
10 13 (12.62%) User Experience
11 12 (11.65%) OOP
12 10 (9.71%) Architectural Patterns
12 10 (9.71%) Performance Analysis
13 9 (8.74%) API Development
13 9 (8.74%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 82 (79.61%) Java
2 36 (34.95%) Kotlin
3 30 (29.13%) SQL
4 12 (11.65%) TypeScript
5 5 (4.85%) Python
6 3 (2.91%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.94%) C++
7 2 (1.94%) Go
7 2 (1.94%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.94%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.94%) Swift
8 1 (0.97%) Bash
8 1 (0.97%) BrightScript
8 1 (0.97%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 20 (19.42%) Security Cleared
2 13 (12.62%) SC Cleared
3 11 (10.68%) Degree
4 9 (8.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.88%) OCP
5 4 (3.88%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.97%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (14.56%) QA
2 7 (6.80%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.94%) ISO 20022
3 2 (1.94%) NCSC
3 2 (1.94%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.97%) GDPR
4 1 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.97%) SEPA
4 1 (0.97%) WCAG
System Software
1 32 (31.07%) Docker
2 1 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 35 (33.98%) Kubernetes
2 21 (20.39%) Grafana
3 11 (10.68%) Ansible
4 8 (7.77%) Terraform
5 7 (6.80%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.94%) Argo
7 1 (0.97%) Podman
7 1 (0.97%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.97%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (6.80%) Oracle
1 7 (6.80%) Splunk
2 4 (3.88%) Dynatrace
2 4 (3.88%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.94%) Google
3 2 (1.94%) New Relic
3 2 (1.94%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.97%) Roku