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 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 499 551 506
Rank change year-on-year +52 -45 +126
Permanent jobs citing Gradle 7 21 61
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.017% 0.059% 0.18%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.32% 0.59% 1.54%
Number of salaries quoted 4 9 37
10th Percentile £57,925 £42,750 £44,600
25th Percentile £60,063 £52,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% -12.50% +23.08%
75th Percentile £80,625 £75,000 £91,934
90th Percentile £81,750 £80,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £84,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +10.34%

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 2,178 3,539 3,949
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.16% 9.87% 11.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,371 1,983 3,075
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £33,250 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £86,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -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 13 January 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 13 January 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
South West - 4 £71,250 - 3
South East +13 2 £80,000 +10.34% 13
East Midlands - 1 £58,000 - 1
Midlands - 1 £58,000 - 3
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 2 (28.57%) Confluence
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
2 1 (14.29%) Camunda
2 1 (14.29%) JBoss
2 1 (14.29%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub
2 2 (28.57%) OpenShift
2 2 (28.57%) Slack
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (14.29%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) CockroachDB
2 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (14.29%) DB2
3 1 (14.29%) DocumentDB
3 1 (14.29%) DynamoDB
3 1 (14.29%) MariaDB
3 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
3 1 (14.29%) MySQL
3 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
3 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Jenkins
1 5 (71.43%) JUnit
1 5 (71.43%) Maven
2 3 (42.86%) Cypress.io
2 3 (42.86%) Git
2 3 (42.86%) GitLab
2 3 (42.86%) JIRA
2 3 (42.86%) Mockito
2 3 (42.86%) TestNG
3 2 (28.57%) Checkstyle
3 2 (28.57%) Cucumber
3 2 (28.57%) ESLint
3 2 (28.57%) Selenium
3 2 (28.57%) SonarQube
4 1 (14.29%) Ant
4 1 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Applications Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Applications Support
3 1 (14.29%) Applications Support Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) Spring
2 6 (85.71%) Spring Boot
3 5 (71.43%) REST
4 4 (57.14%) Spring MVC
5 2 (28.57%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (28.57%) JWT
5 2 (28.57%) OAuth
5 2 (28.57%) OAuth2
5 2 (28.57%) OpenAPI
5 2 (28.57%) Spring Security
5 2 (28.57%) Swagger
6 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
6 1 (14.29%) Bootstrap
6 1 (14.29%) Drools
6 1 (14.29%) HTML
6 1 (14.29%) Nightwatchjs
6 1 (14.29%) React
6 1 (14.29%) RESTful
6 1 (14.29%) Spring Cloud
6 1 (14.29%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Private Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps
1 5 (71.43%) Test Automation
2 4 (57.14%) MVC
3 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (42.86%) Data Modelling
3 3 (42.86%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (42.86%) Migration
4 2 (28.57%) Agile Project Management
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) Code Quality
4 2 (28.57%) Dependency Management
4 2 (28.57%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (28.57%) Microservices
4 2 (28.57%) Project Management
4 2 (28.57%) Static Code Analysis
4 2 (28.57%) Task Automation
4 2 (28.57%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Java
2 4 (57.14%) SQL
3 3 (42.86%) Python
4 2 (28.57%) Bash
5 1 (14.29%) Go
5 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
2 3 (42.86%) Prometheus
3 2 (28.57%) Grafana
4 1 (14.29%) Ansible
4 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Oracle
2 3 (42.86%) Google
3 2 (28.57%) Splunk
4 1 (14.29%) Red Hat