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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 530 402 514
Rank change year-on-year -128 +112 -4
Contract jobs citing Gradle 115 123 67
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.42% 0.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.94% 2.86% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 84 40
10th Percentile £314 £358 £410
25th Percentile £402 £421 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £530 £581
Median % change year-on-year -9.91% -8.82% -13.89%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £634
90th Percentile £588 £617 £864
UK excluding London median daily rate £431 £401 £588
% change year-on-year +7.54% -31.74% +11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 1
10th Percentile - £73.50 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £78.75 £77.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £90.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.89% +12.50% +1.39%
75th Percentile £76.00 £92.50 £82.50
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% -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 5,931 4,307 5,294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.84% 14.56% 12.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,838 2,876 3,523
10th Percentile £350 £331 £353
25th Percentile £409 £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 £686 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 83 240
10th Percentile £26.29 £20.85 £31.66
25th Percentile £59.00 £46.59 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.55% -11.15% +4.84%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.37 £75.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £59.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.45% -8.46% +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 14 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 14 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 14 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 -100 109 £495 -6.60% 8
UK excluding London -101 55 £431 +7.54% 5
London -76 54 £525 -0.94% 5
North of England -70 24 £450 +11.94%
Work from Home -64 16 £375 -29.71% 8
North West -50 14 £451 +21.07%
South East -50 14 £339 - 2
East of England - 11 £495 -
Yorkshire -49 6 - -
North East - 4 £450 -
Scotland -19 3 £331 -6.50% 1
East Midlands -26 2 - -
Midlands -64 2 - -
South West - 2 £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 4 (3.48%) Apache
1 4 (3.48%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.61%) Camunda
2 3 (2.61%) Confluence
3 2 (1.74%) Anypoint
3 2 (1.74%) Mule
4 1 (0.87%) JBoss
4 1 (0.87%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (1.74%) Shopify
2 1 (0.87%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 44 (38.26%) GitHub
2 35 (30.43%) GitHub Actions
3 34 (29.57%) AWS
4 24 (20.87%) Azure
5 14 (12.17%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (8.70%) GCP
7 6 (5.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 6 (5.22%) Google Play
7 6 (5.22%) OpenShift
8 5 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (4.35%) Apigee
8 5 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (4.35%) Firebase
9 4 (3.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (3.48%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (3.48%) Apple Pay
9 4 (3.48%) Cloud Run
9 4 (3.48%) Kong
10 3 (2.61%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (2.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.48%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (2.61%) DSL
3 2 (1.74%) Firewall
3 2 (1.74%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (22.61%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (10.43%) MongoDB
2 12 (10.43%) Relational Database
3 8 (6.96%) DynamoDB
4 7 (6.09%) MySQL
5 4 (3.48%) Flink
5 4 (3.48%) Hazelcast
5 4 (3.48%) NoSQL
5 4 (3.48%) RDBMS
5 4 (3.48%) Redis
6 3 (2.61%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.61%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (2.61%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.87%) Db2
Development Applications
1 50 (43.48%) Git
2 45 (39.13%) JUnit
3 44 (38.26%) Maven
4 41 (35.65%) Jenkins
5 33 (28.70%) GitLab
6 22 (19.13%) Mockito
7 16 (13.91%) Liquibase
8 11 (9.57%) CircleCI
9 8 (6.96%) Cucumber
9 8 (6.96%) fastlane
9 8 (6.96%) REST Assured
10 7 (6.09%) Android Studio
10 7 (6.09%) IntelliJ
10 7 (6.09%) SonarQube
11 6 (5.22%) TestNG
12 5 (4.35%) Crashlytics
12 5 (4.35%) Gatling
12 5 (4.35%) JIRA
13 4 (3.48%) GoCD
13 4 (3.48%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (14.78%) Social Skills
2 13 (11.30%) Public Sector
3 12 (10.43%) Finance
4 9 (7.83%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.96%) Banking
6 5 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.35%) Law
7 1 (0.87%) Front Office
7 1 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (53.91%) Developer
2 43 (37.39%) Java Developer
3 26 (22.61%) Senior
4 25 (21.74%) Java Engineer
5 22 (19.13%) Software Engineer
6 14 (12.17%) Android Developer
6 14 (12.17%) Java Software Engineer
7 13 (11.30%) Senior Developer
8 12 (10.43%) Senior Java Developer
9 8 (6.96%) Android Engineer
10 7 (6.09%) Senior Java Engineer
11 6 (5.22%) Java Software Developer
11 6 (5.22%) Software Developer
12 5 (4.35%) Backend Developer
13 4 (3.48%) Applications Engineer
13 4 (3.48%) Senior Backend Developer
14 3 (2.61%) SC Cleared Java Developer
14 3 (2.61%) Senior Software Engineer
15 2 (1.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 2 (1.74%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (61.74%) Spring Boot
2 70 (60.87%) Spring
3 32 (27.83%) Kafka
4 30 (26.09%) React
5 29 (25.22%) REST
6 25 (21.74%) RESTful
7 21 (18.26%) OpenAPI
7 21 (18.26%) Swagger
8 19 (16.52%) Android Jetpack
9 18 (15.65%) Jetpack Compose
10 14 (12.17%) OpenTelemetry
11 11 (9.57%) RxJava
11 11 (9.57%) WireMock
12 10 (8.70%) GraphQL
12 10 (8.70%) JPA
13 9 (7.83%) Hibernate
14 7 (6.09%) Dagger
15 6 (5.22%) RAML
15 6 (5.22%) Retrofit
16 5 (4.35%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.04%) Product Ownership
2 14 (12.17%) Mobile App
3 9 (7.83%) Cloud Native
4 8 (6.96%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (6.96%) Legacy Code
5 7 (6.09%) Virtual Team
6 5 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (3.48%) Data Structures
7 4 (3.48%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.61%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (2.61%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.74%) PKI
10 1 (0.87%) Derivative
10 1 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.87%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 1 (0.87%) Synthetic Data
10 1 (0.87%) TWAP
10 1 (0.87%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 22 (19.13%) Android
2 7 (6.09%) Linux
3 3 (2.61%) Unix
4 2 (1.74%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.87%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (66.09%) CI/CD
2 53 (46.09%) Microservices
3 50 (43.48%) Agile
4 48 (41.74%) TDD
5 45 (39.13%) DevOps
6 44 (38.26%) Test Automation
7 42 (36.52%) Software Engineering
8 36 (31.30%) Containerisation
9 21 (18.26%) Observability
10 18 (15.65%) Architectural Patterns
11 17 (14.78%) Android Development
12 16 (13.91%) Event-Driven
12 16 (13.91%) Secure Coding
13 15 (13.04%) Continuous Integration
14 13 (11.30%) API Development
14 13 (11.30%) API Integration
14 13 (11.30%) Design Patterns
14 13 (11.30%) Full-Stack Development
14 13 (11.30%) Scrum
14 13 (11.30%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 92 (80.00%) Java
2 46 (40.00%) SQL
3 33 (28.70%) Kotlin
4 19 (16.52%) TypeScript
5 6 (5.22%) Python
6 4 (3.48%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.61%) Bash
7 3 (2.61%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.74%) Go
8 2 (1.74%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.87%) BrightScript
9 1 (0.87%) Korn
9 1 (0.87%) Swift
Qualifications
1 21 (18.26%) Security Cleared
2 16 (13.91%) SC Cleared
3 12 (10.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (10.43%) Degree
4 1 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (15.65%) QA
2 9 (7.83%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.35%) WCAG
4 4 (3.48%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.74%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.74%) NCSC
6 1 (0.87%) GDPR
6 1 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.87%) SEPA
System Software
1 37 (32.17%) Docker
2 1 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (26.09%) Kubernetes
2 18 (15.65%) Ansible
3 14 (12.17%) Grafana
4 8 (6.96%) Prometheus
5 6 (5.22%) Terraform
6 4 (3.48%) Argo
7 2 (1.74%) Control-M
7 2 (1.74%) Istio
Vendors
1 12 (10.43%) Oracle
2 10 (8.70%) Dynatrace
3 7 (6.09%) Google
4 6 (5.22%) Splunk
5 5 (4.35%) Microsoft
6 4 (3.48%) MuleSoft
7 3 (2.61%) IBM
8 2 (1.74%) New Relic
8 2 (1.74%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.74%) Sybase
9 1 (0.87%) Roku
9 1 (0.87%) Solace
9 1 (0.87%) TIBCO
9 1 (0.87%) Veracode