Gradle Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Gradle
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Gradle skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 633 536 651
Rank change year-on-year -97 +115 -66
Permanent jobs citing Gradle 13 14 16
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.017% 0.040% 0.027%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.46% 0.56% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 11 5 4
10th Percentile £46,250 - £55,625
25th Percentile - £56,500 £58,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £67,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.37% -15.63% +18.52%
75th Percentile £68,125 £77,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,500 -
UK median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% -6.25% +14.29%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,811 2,505 4,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.65% 7.23% 8.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,921 1,506 3,063
10th Percentile £31,500 £34,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,500 £72,750 £69,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.20% +4.17% -7.69%

Gradle
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Gradle job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Gradle
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Gradle.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Gradle

Gradle
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Gradle in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Gradle in the UK excluding London

Gradle
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Gradle within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 August 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
North of England -40 6 £47,000 -37.33% 1
North East - 5 £47,000 -
South West - 4 £77,500 - 1
Scotland +2 1 £62,500 - 4
Midlands -33 1 £47,500 -18.10% 4
Wales - 1 £45,000 -
West Midlands - 1 £47,500 - 3
North West - 1 £70,000 - 1
Gradle
UK

Gradle
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (7.69%) CMS
1 1 (7.69%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) Azure
1 8 (61.54%) GitHub
2 7 (53.85%) Azure DevOps
2 7 (53.85%) GitHub Actions
3 6 (46.15%) Firebase
3 6 (46.15%) Google Play
4 3 (23.08%) AWS
5 2 (15.38%) BlazeMeter
6 1 (7.69%) Contentful
6 1 (7.69%) Vercel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
1 1 (7.69%) MySQL
1 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
1 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (76.92%) Jenkins
2 6 (46.15%) Android Studio
2 6 (46.15%) Crashlytics
2 6 (46.15%) fastlane
2 6 (46.15%) Git
3 4 (30.77%) Maven
4 3 (23.08%) Cucumber
4 3 (23.08%) Cypress.io
4 3 (23.08%) JMeter
4 3 (23.08%) JUnit
4 3 (23.08%) Selenium
5 2 (15.38%) Mockito
6 1 (7.69%) Claude Code
6 1 (7.69%) Postman
6 1 (7.69%) REST Assured
6 1 (7.69%) TestNG
6 1 (7.69%) WebDriver
6 1 (7.69%) Xcode
General
1 7 (53.85%) Public Sector
2 6 (46.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Banking
5 1 (7.69%) Finance
5 1 (7.69%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Developer
2 6 (46.15%) Android Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Senior
3 3 (23.08%) Senior Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Android Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Android Software Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Automation Tester
4 2 (15.38%) Functional Tester
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Android Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Software Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Tester
5 1 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (7.69%) Java Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (76.92%) RESTful
2 6 (46.15%) Android Jetpack
2 6 (46.15%) Android SDK
2 6 (46.15%) Jetpack Compose
2 6 (46.15%) Retrofit
3 2 (15.38%) gRPC
3 2 (15.38%) Protocol Buffers
3 2 (15.38%) React
3 2 (15.38%) REST
4 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
4 1 (7.69%) CSS3
4 1 (7.69%) HTML5
4 1 (7.69%) JPA
4 1 (7.69%) JSON
4 1 (7.69%) Next.js
4 1 (7.69%) React Native
4 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
4 1 (7.69%) Spring MVC
4 1 (7.69%) Spring Security
4 1 (7.69%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (61.54%) Mobile App
2 6 (46.15%) Product Ownership
3 2 (15.38%) Smartphone
4 1 (7.69%) Animation
4 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (7.69%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 8 (61.54%) Android
2 2 (15.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Agile
1 13 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 11 (84.62%) Test Automation
3 10 (76.92%) Scrum
4 9 (69.23%) Architectural Patterns
4 9 (69.23%) Clean Code
5 8 (61.54%) Android Development
5 8 (61.54%) DevOps
5 8 (61.54%) Mobile Device Management
5 8 (61.54%) MVVM
6 7 (53.85%) Analytics
6 7 (53.85%) API Integration
7 6 (46.15%) API Development
7 6 (46.15%) Deployment Automation
7 6 (46.15%) OWASP
7 6 (46.15%) Secure Coding
7 6 (46.15%) TDD
7 6 (46.15%) Technical Analysis
7 6 (46.15%) User Experience
7 6 (46.15%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) Java
2 8 (61.54%) Kotlin
3 4 (30.77%) SQL
4 2 (15.38%) Groovy
5 1 (7.69%) C#
5 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (53.85%) Accessibility
2 6 (46.15%) WCAG
3 3 (23.08%) QA
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kibana
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
1 2 (15.38%) logstash
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Dynatrace
1 6 (46.15%) Google
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) VMware