Gradle Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Gradle
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 279 331 409
Rank change year-on-year +52 +78 +36
Contract jobs citing Gradle 25 14 68
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.25% 0.091% 0.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.69% 0.76% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 9 46
10th Percentile £394 £443 £443
25th Percentile £513 £513 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £575 £725
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% -20.69% +4.69%
75th Percentile £581 £625 £775
90th Percentile £631 - -
UK median daily rate £530 £575 £675
% change year-on-year -7.83% -14.81% -2.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £87.50 £77.50 £64.50
Median hourly rate £90.00 £80.00 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +19.40% -10.06%
75th Percentile £92.50 £82.50 £69.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £90.00 £80.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year +12.50% - +3.65%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

Gradle falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,482 1,853 3,954
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 14.96% 12.08% 15.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,067 1,324 2,836
10th Percentile £340 £360 £395
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% +2.86%
75th Percentile £615 £600 £650
90th Percentile £750 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 43 114
10th Percentile £27.28 £28.99 £45.00
25th Percentile £58.81 £47.38 £54.06
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +30.00%
75th Percentile £80.38 £90.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.25 - £81.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

Gradle
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Gradle as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Gradle trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Gradle
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Gradle.

Gradle daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Gradle
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Gradle over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Gradle daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Gradle
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Gradle.

Gradle hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Gradle
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (8.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (28.00%) AWS
2 3 (12.00%) Azure
2 3 (12.00%) GCP
3 2 (8.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (8.00%) Serverless
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (48.00%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (44.00%) Relational Database
3 3 (12.00%) MongoDB
3 3 (12.00%) MySQL
3 3 (12.00%) NoSQL
3 3 (12.00%) Redis
4 2 (8.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (8.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 15 (60.00%) Jenkins
1 15 (60.00%) JUnit
2 12 (48.00%) Mockito
3 11 (44.00%) Maven
4 9 (36.00%) Liquibase
5 6 (24.00%) IntelliJ
6 4 (16.00%) JIRA
6 4 (16.00%) Selenium
7 3 (12.00%) Ant
7 3 (12.00%) CA Release Automation
7 3 (12.00%) Eclipse
7 3 (12.00%) HP UFT
7 3 (12.00%) NetBeans
7 3 (12.00%) Subversion
7 3 (12.00%) TestNG
8 2 (8.00%) Android Studio
8 2 (8.00%) Git
9 1 (4.00%) JMeter
General
1 3 (12.00%) Finance
1 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (68.00%) Developer
2 13 (52.00%) Java Developer
3 12 (48.00%) Lead
4 10 (40.00%) Senior
5 8 (32.00%) Lead Developer
5 8 (32.00%) Lead Java Developer
5 8 (32.00%) Senior Developer
6 7 (28.00%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (12.00%) Digital Developer
7 3 (12.00%) Java Team Leader
7 3 (12.00%) Team Leader
7 3 (12.00%) Technical Leader
7 3 (12.00%) Technical Team Leader
8 2 (8.00%) Android Developer
8 2 (8.00%) Senior DevOps
8 2 (8.00%) Software Engineer
9 1 (4.00%) Java Software Engineer
9 1 (4.00%) Lead Software Engineer
9 1 (4.00%) Senior Software Engineer
9 1 (4.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (80.00%) Spring
1 20 (80.00%) Spring Boot
2 16 (64.00%) Kafka
3 12 (48.00%) OpenAPI
3 12 (48.00%) Swagger
4 9 (36.00%) React
5 6 (24.00%) Hibernate
6 5 (20.00%) CSS
6 5 (20.00%) HTML
6 5 (20.00%) RESTful
7 3 (12.00%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (12.00%) J2EE
7 3 (12.00%) JSP
7 3 (12.00%) JWT
7 3 (12.00%) OAuth
7 3 (12.00%) Spring Integration
7 3 (12.00%) Spring MVC
7 3 (12.00%) Thymeleaf
7 3 (12.00%) Web Services
8 2 (8.00%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (8.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Android
2 1 (4.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 17 (68.00%) Agile
3 14 (56.00%) Containerisation
3 14 (56.00%) Continuous Integration
3 14 (56.00%) Microservices
4 13 (52.00%) Software Engineering
5 11 (44.00%) DevOps
6 9 (36.00%) Migration
6 9 (36.00%) TDD
7 6 (24.00%) MVC
7 6 (24.00%) Scrum
8 5 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
8 5 (20.00%) Mentoring
9 4 (16.00%) Technical Leadership
10 3 (12.00%) API Design
10 3 (12.00%) API Development
10 3 (12.00%) Data Transformation
10 3 (12.00%) Deployment Automation
10 3 (12.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 3 (12.00%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 25 (100.00%) Java
2 16 (64.00%) TypeScript
3 9 (36.00%) SQL
4 5 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (8.00%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 11 (44.00%) SC Cleared
1 11 (44.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) GDPR
1 2 (8.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (64.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Grafana
1 3 (12.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (12.00%) Progress Chef
1 3 (12.00%) Prometheus
1 3 (12.00%) Puppet
2 2 (8.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Google
2 3 (12.00%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft