Gremlin Contract Job Trends

Gremlin
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Gremlin skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 645 - 585
Rank change year-on-year - - +96
Contract jobs citing Gremlin 10 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.019% - 0.005%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.072% - 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £420 - -
25th Percentile £450 - £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 - £320
Median % change year-on-year - - -44.35%
75th Percentile £638 - £330
90th Percentile £771 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Programming Languages
UK

Gremlin falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 13,842 10,442 13,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.90% 33.72% 30.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,981 7,047 9,322
10th Percentile £358 £350 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.20% -2.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £650
90th Percentile £720 £753 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £491 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +3.37% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 547 253 538
10th Percentile £34.08 £26.46 £31.25
25th Percentile £53.53 £34.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.70 £79.74 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.42% -4.23% +4.00%

Gremlin
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Gremlin relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Gremlin job vacancy trend in the UK

Gremlin
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Gremlin.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Gremlin

Gremlin
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Gremlin over the 6 months to 2 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Gremlin in the UK

Gremlin
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Gremlin within the UK over the 6 months to 2 July 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 - 8 £595 - 3
London - 7 £625 - 3
Work from Home - 3 £508 - 2

Gremlin
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 2 (20.00%) Apache
1 2 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (20.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon Neptune
2 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (50.00%) Serverless
3 4 (40.00%) Amazon S3
3 4 (40.00%) Amazon SageMaker
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon Bedrock
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon EventBridge
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 2 (20.00%) Azure
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) dbt
4 2 (20.00%) GCP
4 2 (20.00%) Vertex AI
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
5 1 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) Neo4j
2 3 (30.00%) Stardog
2 3 (30.00%) TigerGraph
3 2 (20.00%) BigQuery
3 2 (20.00%) Metadata
4 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (10.00%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Git
General
1 7 (70.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Data Scientist
2 3 (30.00%) Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Backend Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Machine Learning Scientist
4 1 (10.00%) Python Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Backend Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) NumPy
1 5 (50.00%) Pandas
1 5 (50.00%) scikit-learn
2 4 (40.00%) GraphQL
2 4 (40.00%) REST
3 2 (20.00%) JSON
3 2 (20.00%) JSON-LD
3 2 (20.00%) Kafka
3 2 (20.00%) LangChain
3 2 (20.00%) NetworkX
3 2 (20.00%) Node.js
4 1 (10.00%) AWS CDK
4 1 (10.00%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (10.00%) SWRL
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Taxonomies
2 2 (20.00%) AI Agents
2 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (10.00%) Data Fabric
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) AI
2 7 (70.00%) Analytics
3 6 (60.00%) Data Science
3 6 (60.00%) Machine Learning
4 5 (50.00%) Anomaly Detection
4 5 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 5 (50.00%) Data Analysis
4 5 (50.00%) Data Matching
4 5 (50.00%) Exploratory Data Analysis
4 5 (50.00%) Validation
5 4 (40.00%) Decision-Making
5 4 (40.00%) Feature Engineering
5 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (40.00%) LLM
5 4 (40.00%) Model Validation
5 4 (40.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 4 (40.00%) Time Series Analysis
5 4 (40.00%) Visualisation
6 3 (30.00%) Graph Visualisation
6 3 (30.00%) Regtech
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Python
2 8 (80.00%) Cypher
3 7 (70.00%) SQL
4 5 (50.00%) SPARQL
5 2 (20.00%) Bash
5 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
5 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
6 1 (10.00%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Terraform
2 3 (30.00%) Podman
3 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (10.00%) Grafana
4 1 (10.00%) Prometheus