Gradle Contracts

Gradle
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Gradle skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Gradle over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 408 508 511
Rank change year-on-year +100 +3 -98
Contract jobs citing Gradle 111 64 178
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.15% 0.32%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.60% 1.24% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 40 136
10th Percentile £375 £400 £506
25th Percentile £440 £459 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £563 £675
Median % change year-on-year -5.78% -16.67% -1.46%
75th Percentile £550 £627 £738
90th Percentile £620 £675 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £435 £581 £510
% change year-on-year -25.11% +13.97% -0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 7
10th Percentile £73.50 - £70.80
25th Percentile £78.75 £77.50 -
Median hourly rate £90.00 £80.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +6.67% +2.39%
75th Percentile £92.50 £82.50 £87.50
90th Percentile - - £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £80.00 -
% change year-on-year -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 4,262 5,143 8,099
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.61% 11.99% 14.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,857 3,456 5,699
10th Percentile £340 £350 £375
25th Percentile £410 £425 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £663
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 223 227
10th Percentile £22.10 £26.59 £44.86
25th Percentile £47.50 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +5.69% +17.14%
75th Percentile £74.69 £70.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £82.07 £77.50 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +11.82%

Gradle
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Gradle as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Gradle in the UK

Gradle
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Gradle.

Daily rate trend for Gradle in the UK

Gradle
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Gradle over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Gradle in the UK

Gradle
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Gradle.

Hourly rate trend for Gradle in the UK

Gradle
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Gradle over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Gradle in the UK

Gradle
Top 11 Contract 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 31 May 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 +93 90 £530 -3.64% 45
London +61 47 £530 -7.83% 22
UK excluding London +69 37 £435 -25.11% 35
Work from Home +62 30 £534 -7.22% 37
North of England +39 24 £520 -5.50% 15
North West +27 19 £402 -26.91% 11
Midlands +21 9 £427 +1.67% 7
West Midlands +17 5 £425 +1.19% 7
Yorkshire - 5 £520 - 4
Scotland -3 4 £354 -43.13% 4
East Midlands - 4 £429 -

Gradle
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (12.61%) Confluence
2 4 (3.60%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.60%) JBoss
3 2 (1.80%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.90%) Alfresco
4 1 (0.90%) Apache
4 1 (0.90%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 34 (30.63%) AWS
2 18 (16.22%) GitHub
3 14 (12.61%) Azure
4 8 (7.21%) OpenShift
5 7 (6.31%) GCP
6 6 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (5.41%) Serverless
7 4 (3.60%) Amazon EMR
7 4 (3.60%) Amazon Kinesis
7 4 (3.60%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.80%) Apigee
9 2 (1.80%) Azure AKS
9 2 (1.80%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.80%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (1.80%) PaaS
9 2 (1.80%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.70%) SSH
2 2 (1.80%) DMZ
2 2 (1.80%) Firewall
2 2 (1.80%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (41.44%) Relational Database
2 44 (39.64%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (14.41%) MongoDB
4 11 (9.91%) MySQL
5 10 (9.01%) NoSQL
6 4 (3.60%) Redis
7 2 (1.80%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.90%) GIS
8 1 (0.90%) KDB
8 1 (0.90%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.90%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 79 (71.17%) Jenkins
2 66 (59.46%) JUnit
3 48 (43.24%) Maven
4 45 (40.54%) Mockito
5 36 (32.43%) Liquibase
6 21 (18.92%) JIRA
7 20 (18.02%) Git
8 19 (17.12%) IntelliJ
9 17 (15.32%) GitLab
10 11 (9.91%) Cucumber
10 11 (9.91%) Selenium
11 8 (7.21%) HP UFT
12 7 (6.31%) Sonatype Nexus
13 6 (5.41%) SonarQube
13 6 (5.41%) Subversion
13 6 (5.41%) Xcode
14 5 (4.50%) Artifactory
14 5 (4.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 5 (4.50%) Bitbucket Server
14 5 (4.50%) Eclipse
General
1 44 (39.64%) Finance
2 26 (23.42%) Public Sector
3 23 (20.72%) Telecoms
4 22 (19.82%) Social Skills
5 21 (18.92%) Electronics
5 21 (18.92%) Manufacturing
5 21 (18.92%) Marketing
6 12 (10.81%) Banking
7 7 (6.31%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.70%) Retail
9 2 (1.80%) Front Office
9 2 (1.80%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.90%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 73 (65.77%) Developer
2 46 (41.44%) Java Developer
3 21 (18.92%) Senior
4 19 (17.12%) Senior Developer
5 17 (15.32%) Senior Java Developer
6 16 (14.41%) Lead
7 13 (11.71%) Java Engineer
7 13 (11.71%) React Developer
7 13 (11.71%) Software Engineer
8 12 (10.81%) Java Software Engineer
8 12 (10.81%) Lead Developer
8 12 (10.81%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 10 (9.01%) Lead Java Developer
9 10 (9.01%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
10 9 (8.11%) Android Developer
11 8 (7.21%) DevOps Engineer
12 7 (6.31%) Full-Stack Developer
13 4 (3.60%) iOS Developer
14 3 (2.70%) Java Team Leader
14 3 (2.70%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (63.96%) Spring
2 62 (55.86%) Spring Boot
3 52 (46.85%) Kafka
4 39 (35.14%) OpenAPI
4 39 (35.14%) React
4 39 (35.14%) Swagger
5 16 (14.41%) HTML
6 13 (11.71%) RESTful
7 12 (10.81%) Hibernate
8 10 (9.01%) CSS
8 10 (9.01%) JPA
9 8 (7.21%) REST
9 8 (7.21%) Spring MVC
10 6 (5.41%) AngularJS
10 6 (5.41%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (5.41%) RxJava
10 6 (5.41%) Web Services
11 5 (4.50%) J2EE
11 5 (4.50%) JMS
11 5 (4.50%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.41%) Data Structures
1 6 (5.41%) Mobile App
2 5 (4.50%) PKI
3 4 (3.60%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.60%) Mobile Banking
4 3 (2.70%) Mainframe
5 2 (1.80%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.80%) Equities
5 2 (1.80%) IVR
6 1 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.90%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.90%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (16.22%) Android
2 17 (15.32%) Linux
3 7 (6.31%) Unix
4 6 (5.41%) Apple iOS
5 4 (3.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.80%) Solaris
6 2 (1.80%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 64 (57.66%) Agile
3 60 (54.05%) Microservices
4 59 (53.15%) DevOps
5 58 (52.25%) TDD
6 48 (43.24%) Containerisation
7 46 (41.44%) Software Engineering
8 34 (30.63%) Continuous Integration
8 34 (30.63%) Migration
9 21 (18.92%) Business Intelligence
9 21 (18.92%) Digital Marketing
9 21 (18.92%) Programme Management
10 16 (14.41%) Design Patterns
11 15 (13.51%) Event-Driven
11 15 (13.51%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 15 (13.51%) Test Automation
12 13 (11.71%) Clean Code
12 13 (11.71%) Scrum
12 13 (11.71%) Unit Testing
13 12 (10.81%) Build Automation
Programming Languages
1 99 (89.19%) Java
2 46 (41.44%) TypeScript
3 42 (37.84%) SQL
4 16 (14.41%) Kotlin
5 13 (11.71%) JavaScript
6 12 (10.81%) Python
7 4 (3.60%) Bash
7 4 (3.60%) C
7 4 (3.60%) C++
7 4 (3.60%) Objective-C
7 4 (3.60%) Ruby
7 4 (3.60%) Scala
7 4 (3.60%) Shell Script
7 4 (3.60%) Swift
8 2 (1.80%) Go
8 2 (1.80%) JSX
8 2 (1.80%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 44 (39.64%) SC Cleared
1 44 (39.64%) Security Cleared
2 8 (7.21%) Degree
3 3 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.21%) QA
2 4 (3.60%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.80%) GDPR
3 2 (1.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 61 (54.95%) Docker
2 1 (0.90%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 24 (21.62%) Kubernetes
2 15 (13.51%) Terraform
3 6 (5.41%) Ansible
3 6 (5.41%) Puppet
4 4 (3.60%) Grafana
4 4 (3.60%) Progress Chef
5 3 (2.70%) Kibana
5 3 (2.70%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.80%) Istio
7 1 (0.90%) Argo
Vendors
1 22 (19.82%) SAP
2 7 (6.31%) Google
2 7 (6.31%) Splunk
3 4 (3.60%) CA Agile Central
3 4 (3.60%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.60%) Oracle
4 3 (2.70%) Sybase
5 2 (1.80%) AppDynamics
5 2 (1.80%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.80%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.90%) Adobe
6 1 (0.90%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.90%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.90%) Remedy
6 1 (0.90%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.90%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.90%) Sonatype