Gradle Job Trends in England

Gradle
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Gradle skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 737 627 670
Rank change year-on-year -110 +43 -76
Permanent jobs citing Gradle 25 8 62
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.024% 0.019% 0.095%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.60% 0.24% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 15 6 40
10th Percentile £46,550 £48,250 £52,375
25th Percentile £47,000 £56,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,750 £84,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.38% -25.74% +20.71%
75th Percentile £68,750 £79,063 £115,000
90th Percentile £77,750 £86,250 £116,175
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,750 £84,500
% change year-on-year -4.38% -25.74% +20.71%

All Development Application Skills
England

Gradle falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,185 3,290 5,701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.02% 7.62% 8.69%
Number of salaries quoted 2,598 1,996 3,254
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £47,058
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%

Gradle
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Gradle relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Gradle job vacancy trend in England

Gradle
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Gradle.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Gradle

Gradle
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Gradle in England over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Gradle in England

Gradle
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Gradle within the England region over the 6 months to 6 October 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -60 14 £62,500 -3.85% 70
North of England - 6 £47,000 - 12
North East - 5 £47,000 -
South West - 4 £77,500 - 1
Midlands -56 1 £47,500 -18.10% 5
North West - 1 £70,000 - 7
West Midlands - 1 £47,500 - 3
Gradle
UK

Gradle
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 (8.00%) CMS
1 2 (8.00%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 10 (40.00%) AWS
1 10 (40.00%) Azure
1 10 (40.00%) GitHub
2 9 (36.00%) GitHub Actions
3 6 (24.00%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (24.00%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (24.00%) Serverless
4 5 (20.00%) Firebase
4 5 (20.00%) Google Play
5 4 (16.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (8.00%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (8.00%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (8.00%) Amazon S3
6 2 (8.00%) Anthropic Claude
6 2 (8.00%) BlazeMeter
6 2 (8.00%) Contentful
6 2 (8.00%) Vercel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (8.00%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (8.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (8.00%) NonStop SQL
2 2 (8.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (8.00%) Pinecone
2 2 (8.00%) Weaviate
3 1 (4.00%) MySQL
3 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 12 (48.00%) Git
3 10 (40.00%) Maven
4 5 (20.00%) Android Studio
4 5 (20.00%) Crashlytics
4 5 (20.00%) Cucumber
4 5 (20.00%) fastlane
4 5 (20.00%) JUnit
5 4 (16.00%) Mockito
6 3 (12.00%) Cypress.io
6 3 (12.00%) JMeter
6 3 (12.00%) Selenium
7 2 (8.00%) Claude Code
7 2 (8.00%) GitLab
7 2 (8.00%) Xcode
8 1 (4.00%) Postman
8 1 (4.00%) REST Assured
8 1 (4.00%) Subversion
8 1 (4.00%) TestNG
8 1 (4.00%) WebDriver
General
1 12 (48.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (32.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (24.00%) Public Sector
4 5 (20.00%) Finance
5 3 (12.00%) Financial Institution
5 3 (12.00%) Front Office
6 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (8.00%) Banking
6 2 (8.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 15 (60.00%) Developer
2 6 (24.00%) Java Developer
3 5 (20.00%) Android Developer
4 4 (16.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Senior
5 3 (12.00%) Java Quantitative Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Quantitative Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Senior Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Software Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Android Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Android Software Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Automation Tester
6 2 (8.00%) Backend Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (8.00%) Functional Tester
6 2 (8.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Tester
7 1 (4.00%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Senior Android Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (44.00%) RESTful
2 8 (32.00%) Spring
3 7 (28.00%) Spring Boot
4 6 (24.00%) React
5 5 (20.00%) Android Jetpack
5 5 (20.00%) Android SDK
5 5 (20.00%) Jetpack Compose
5 5 (20.00%) JSON
5 5 (20.00%) Retrofit
6 4 (16.00%) Model Context Protocol
6 4 (16.00%) REST
6 4 (16.00%) Terraform
6 4 (16.00%) YAML
7 3 (12.00%) FIX Protocol
7 3 (12.00%) Hibernate
7 3 (12.00%) Web Services
8 2 (8.00%) .NET
8 2 (8.00%) JPA
8 2 (8.00%) Spring MVC
8 2 (8.00%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Mobile App
2 5 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (20.00%) Public Cloud
3 3 (12.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (8.00%) AI Agents
4 2 (8.00%) Animation
4 2 (8.00%) PropTech
4 2 (8.00%) Smartphone
5 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 7 (28.00%) Android
2 4 (16.00%) Linux
3 2 (8.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (84.00%) CI/CD
2 15 (60.00%) Agile
3 12 (48.00%) DevOps
4 11 (44.00%) Clean Code
4 11 (44.00%) Scrum
4 11 (44.00%) Test Automation
5 9 (36.00%) Architectural Patterns
6 7 (28.00%) AI
6 7 (28.00%) Analytics
6 7 (28.00%) Android Development
6 7 (28.00%) Mobile Device Management
6 7 (28.00%) MVVM
6 7 (28.00%) TDD
6 7 (28.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 6 (24.00%) Computer Science
8 5 (20.00%) Kanban
8 5 (20.00%) OWASP
8 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (20.00%) Technical Analysis
8 5 (20.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 17 (68.00%) Java
2 9 (36.00%) Kotlin
3 5 (20.00%) Python
4 4 (16.00%) SQL
5 3 (12.00%) TypeScript
6 2 (8.00%) C#
6 2 (8.00%) C++
6 2 (8.00%) Groovy
6 2 (8.00%) Scala
7 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 10 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (36.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (32.00%) Degree
4 6 (24.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (28.00%) Accessibility
2 6 (24.00%) QA
3 5 (20.00%) WCAG
4 2 (8.00%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) Ansible
2 3 (12.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (8.00%) Grafana
3 2 (8.00%) Kibana
3 2 (8.00%) logstash
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (8.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Dynatrace
1 5 (20.00%) Google
2 3 (12.00%) Solace
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.00%) OpenAI
3 2 (8.00%) Oracle
3 2 (8.00%) VMware