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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 534 405 504
Rank change year-on-year -129 +99 +26
Contract jobs citing Gradle 148 136 58
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.42% 0.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.35% 2.75% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 99 36
10th Percentile £330 £358 £509
25th Percentile £400 £393 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £530 £627
Median % change year-on-year -14.15% -15.40% -3.62%
75th Percentile £537 £584 £863
90th Percentile £571 £616 £894
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £388 £650
% change year-on-year +16.13% -40.38% +23.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
Median hourly rate £76.00 £90.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% - -
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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 6,305 4,948 5,054
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.55% 15.23% 13.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,030 3,327 3,222
10th Percentile £355 £325 £350
25th Percentile £414 £406 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £694 £688 £722
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 108 176
10th Percentile £24.08 £29.00 £28.62
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £51.19
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £80.90 £73.88
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 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 22 September 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
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 22 September 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 -139 118 £495 -6.60% 111
London -62 71 £500 -7.41% 80
UK excluding London -102 63 £450 +16.13% 52
Work from Home -52 35 £480 -10.03% 51
North of England -91 24 £500 +33.33% 14
Scotland -10 18 £377 +6.50% 12
Yorkshire -42 12 £500 -3.80% 6
East of England - 11 £495 - 4
North West -79 8 £537 +43.20% 8
South East -59 7 £270 -57.48% 11
North East - 4 £450 -
South West -36 2 - - 6
Midlands -56 2 £455 +3.03% 1
East Midlands -16 1 £335 -21.91% 1
West Midlands -52 1 £575 -

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 9 (6.08%) Confluence
2 8 (5.41%) Camunda
3 4 (2.70%) Apache
3 4 (2.70%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.35%) Anypoint
4 2 (1.35%) Mule
5 1 (0.68%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.68%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (1.35%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.68%) Finacle
2 1 (0.68%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.68%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 52 (35.14%) AWS
2 47 (31.76%) Azure
3 41 (27.70%) GitHub
4 31 (20.95%) GitHub Actions
5 26 (17.57%) GCP
6 25 (16.89%) OpenShift
7 21 (14.19%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (8.11%) Google Play
9 11 (7.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 7 (4.73%) Cloud Run
11 6 (4.05%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (4.05%) Apigee
11 6 (4.05%) Firebase
11 6 (4.05%) Kong
12 4 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (2.70%) Apple Pay
13 3 (2.03%) Anthropic Claude
13 3 (2.03%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (2.03%) Google Ads
13 3 (2.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.70%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (1.35%) Firewall
3 1 (0.68%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.68%) DSL
3 1 (0.68%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (26.35%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (20.95%) Relational Database
3 24 (16.22%) MongoDB
4 16 (10.81%) MySQL
5 12 (8.11%) SQL Server
6 11 (7.43%) NoSQL
7 6 (4.05%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (4.05%) RDBMS
8 5 (3.38%) Hazelcast
8 5 (3.38%) Redis
9 4 (2.70%) DynamoDB
9 4 (2.70%) Flink
10 3 (2.03%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (2.03%) BigQuery
10 3 (2.03%) Db2
10 3 (2.03%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (2.03%) MariaDB
10 3 (2.03%) Oracle Database
10 3 (2.03%) Pinecone
10 3 (2.03%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 88 (59.46%) Git
2 82 (55.41%) Jenkins
3 81 (54.73%) Maven
4 56 (37.84%) JUnit
5 40 (27.03%) GitLab
6 29 (19.59%) Mockito
7 21 (14.19%) SonarQube
8 14 (9.46%) JIRA
8 14 (9.46%) REST Assured
9 13 (8.78%) Liquibase
10 12 (8.11%) Cucumber
11 11 (7.43%) Android Studio
11 11 (7.43%) GoCD
11 11 (7.43%) Sonatype Nexus
12 9 (6.08%) Selenium
13 8 (5.41%) Bitbucket Server
14 7 (4.73%) CircleCI
14 7 (4.73%) JProfiler
15 5 (3.38%) fastlane
15 5 (3.38%) Snyk
General
1 30 (20.27%) Finance
2 28 (18.92%) Analytical Skills
2 28 (18.92%) Social Skills
3 26 (17.57%) Banking
4 18 (12.16%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (4.73%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.35%) Law
7 1 (0.68%) Games
7 1 (0.68%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 106 (71.62%) Developer
2 83 (56.08%) Java Developer
3 24 (16.22%) Senior
4 16 (10.81%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 14 (9.46%) Android Developer
5 14 (9.46%) Java Engineer
5 14 (9.46%) Senior Developer
5 14 (9.46%) Senior Java Developer
5 14 (9.46%) Software Engineer
6 13 (8.78%) Software Developer
7 9 (6.08%) Java Software Developer
8 7 (4.73%) Lead
9 6 (4.05%) Backend Developer
9 6 (4.05%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (4.05%) Lead Developer
9 6 (4.05%) Lead Java Developer
10 5 (3.38%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 5 (3.38%) Java Software Engineer
10 5 (3.38%) Mid-Level Java Developer
10 5 (3.38%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (76.35%) Spring Boot
2 105 (70.95%) Spring
3 67 (45.27%) Kafka
4 59 (39.86%) React
5 56 (37.84%) REST
6 47 (31.76%) RESTful
7 31 (20.95%) Hibernate
8 27 (18.24%) Redux
9 23 (15.54%) JPA
10 22 (14.86%) HTML
11 20 (13.51%) CSS
12 19 (12.84%) Android Jetpack
12 19 (12.84%) Node.js
13 18 (12.16%) Jetpack Compose
13 18 (12.16%) OpenAPI
13 18 (12.16%) Swagger
14 13 (8.78%) Spring MVC
15 12 (8.11%) XML
16 11 (7.43%) JSF
16 11 (7.43%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 26 (17.57%) Product Ownership
2 16 (10.81%) Mobile App
3 14 (9.46%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (8.11%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (6.76%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (6.08%) Data Structures
7 6 (4.05%) Cloud Native
7 6 (4.05%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 5 (3.38%) Client/Server
9 3 (2.03%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.35%) Legacy Code
10 2 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.35%) PKI
10 2 (1.35%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.68%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 1 (0.68%) IoT
11 1 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.68%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (12.84%) Android
2 18 (12.16%) Linux
3 12 (8.11%) Unix
4 2 (1.35%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.68%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (79.73%) CI/CD
2 103 (69.59%) Agile
3 86 (58.11%) Microservices
4 67 (45.27%) DevOps
5 59 (39.86%) Test Automation
6 57 (38.51%) TDD
7 50 (33.78%) Containerisation
8 49 (33.11%) Scrum
9 44 (29.73%) Problem-Solving
10 43 (29.05%) Software Engineering
11 35 (23.65%) Clean Code
12 28 (18.92%) Continuous Improvement
13 25 (16.89%) Design Patterns
13 25 (16.89%) Event-Driven
14 24 (16.22%) Observability
15 21 (14.19%) Computer Science
15 21 (14.19%) User Stories
16 19 (12.84%) Unit Testing
17 18 (12.16%) Android Development
18 17 (11.49%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 140 (94.59%) Java
2 84 (56.76%) SQL
3 34 (22.97%) JavaScript
4 22 (14.86%) Kotlin
5 19 (12.84%) TypeScript
6 13 (8.78%) PL/SQL
7 12 (8.11%) Python
8 7 (4.73%) Shell Script
9 5 (3.38%) Bash
10 4 (2.70%) Ruby
11 3 (2.03%) Groovy
11 3 (2.03%) Scala
12 2 (1.35%) Korn
13 1 (0.68%) C#
Qualifications
1 51 (34.46%) Security Cleared
2 44 (29.73%) SC Cleared
3 21 (14.19%) Degree
4 19 (12.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (4.73%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.70%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.70%) ISTQB
7 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.68%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (18.24%) QA
2 11 (7.43%) Accessibility
3 7 (4.73%) ISO 20022
4 4 (2.70%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.70%) WCAG
5 2 (1.35%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.68%) GDPR
6 1 (0.68%) PSD2
6 1 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.68%) SEPA
System Software
1 61 (41.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 52 (35.14%) Kubernetes
2 25 (16.89%) Ansible
3 12 (8.11%) Control-M
3 12 (8.11%) Grafana
3 12 (8.11%) Prometheus
4 5 (3.38%) Argo
5 2 (1.35%) Istio
6 1 (0.68%) Podman
6 1 (0.68%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.68%) Puppet
Vendors
1 48 (32.43%) Oracle
2 23 (15.54%) Google
3 11 (7.43%) IBM
4 8 (5.41%) Splunk
4 8 (5.41%) Veracode
5 7 (4.73%) MuleSoft
6 6 (4.05%) Dynatrace
7 4 (2.70%) Sybase
8 3 (2.03%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.35%) Microsoft
10 1 (0.68%) Confluent
10 1 (0.68%) Databricks
10 1 (0.68%) Solace
10 1 (0.68%) Temenos
10 1 (0.68%) TIBCO