Gradle
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Gradle skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Gradle over the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 709 832 779
Rank change year-on-year +123 -53 -352
Permanent jobs citing Gradle 25 57 118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.042% 0.057% 0.14%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.44% 0.65% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 15 36 96
10th Percentile £46,600 £40,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £69,375 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% +14.29% -3.45%
75th Percentile - £100,000 £90,000
90th Percentile - £110,556 £101,185
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,250 £80,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year -10.94% +22.42% +7.13%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,699 8,760 11,568
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.48% 8.76% 13.71%
Number of salaries quoted 3,329 5,851 7,754
10th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

Gradle
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Gradle as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Gradle in the UK

Gradle
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Gradle.

Salary trend for Gradle in the UK

Gradle
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Gradle over the 6 months to 18 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Gradle in the UK

Gradle
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Gradle within the UK over the 6 months to 18 July 2025. 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
England +107 16 £110,000 +37.50% 34
UK excluding London +119 13 £71,250 -10.94% 23
London +91 12 £110,000 +29.41% 15
Scotland +85 8 - - 2
Work from Home +76 3 £75,000 -11.76% 27
South East +50 2 £73,750 -15.71% 6
North of England +20 1 £75,000 +7.14% 2
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 3
Yorkshire - 1 £75,000 - 2
East Midlands - 1 £58,000 - 2
Midlands - 1 £58,000 - 6

Gradle
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (24.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (8.00%) OpenStack
3 1 (4.00%) JBoss
3 1 (4.00%) nginx
3 1 (4.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 13 (52.00%) AWS
2 5 (20.00%) Azure
2 5 (20.00%) GCP
3 2 (8.00%) PaaS
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.00%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (4.00%) GitHub
4 1 (4.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (4.00%) Serverless
4 1 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) HTTP
1 1 (4.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (28.00%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (24.00%) MySQL
3 5 (20.00%) Apache Hive
3 5 (20.00%) Big Data
3 5 (20.00%) Hadoop
3 5 (20.00%) HBase
3 5 (20.00%) MongoDB
3 5 (20.00%) NoSQL
4 2 (8.00%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (8.00%) CouchDB
4 2 (8.00%) Relational Database
5 1 (4.00%) DB2
5 1 (4.00%) DynamoDB
5 1 (4.00%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 17 (68.00%) Git
2 16 (64.00%) Maven
3 9 (36.00%) Jenkins
4 4 (16.00%) GitLab
5 3 (12.00%) JUnit
6 2 (8.00%) Mockito
6 2 (8.00%) Subversion
7 1 (4.00%) Cucumber
7 1 (4.00%) JIRA
7 1 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (4.00%) TeamCity
General
1 15 (60.00%) Finance
2 10 (40.00%) Banking
3 9 (36.00%) Social Skills
4 8 (32.00%) Front Office
5 6 (24.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (20.00%) Law
6 5 (20.00%) Marketing
7 2 (8.00%) Retail
7 2 (8.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (92.00%) Developer
1 23 (92.00%) Java Developer
2 8 (32.00%) Electronic Trading Developer
2 8 (32.00%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
3 5 (20.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (20.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 5 (20.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Java Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Java Software Developer
3 5 (20.00%) Java Software Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Software Developer
3 5 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Senior
4 4 (16.00%) Senior Developer
4 4 (16.00%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Junior
5 2 (8.00%) Junior Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Junior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (56.00%) Spring
2 9 (36.00%) RESTful
3 8 (32.00%) JPA
3 8 (32.00%) REST
3 8 (32.00%) Spring Boot
4 6 (24.00%) AngularJS
5 5 (20.00%) Hibernate
5 5 (20.00%) Kafka
5 5 (20.00%) React
6 3 (12.00%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (12.00%) Spring MVC
7 2 (8.00%) CSS
7 2 (8.00%) GraphQL
7 2 (8.00%) HTML
7 2 (8.00%) Spring Cloud
7 2 (8.00%) Web Services
8 1 (4.00%) JWT
8 1 (4.00%) Micronaut
8 1 (4.00%) PySpark
8 1 (4.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (44.00%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (32.00%) Equities
2 8 (32.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 7 (28.00%) Algorithms
4 6 (24.00%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
5 1 (4.00%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (4.00%) Mainframe
5 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 11 (44.00%) Linux
2 6 (24.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (92.00%) CI/CD
2 17 (68.00%) Agile
3 15 (60.00%) TDD
4 14 (56.00%) Test Automation
5 12 (48.00%) Software Engineering
6 11 (44.00%) Microservices
7 9 (36.00%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (32.00%) Algorithmic Trading
8 8 (32.00%) BDD
8 8 (32.00%) Electronic Trading
8 8 (32.00%) SDLC
9 7 (28.00%) Quantitative Research
10 5 (20.00%) Clean Code
10 5 (20.00%) Containerisation
10 5 (20.00%) Decision-Making
10 5 (20.00%) DevOps
10 5 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
10 5 (20.00%) Machine Learning
10 5 (20.00%) Open Source
10 5 (20.00%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 24 (96.00%) Java
2 21 (84.00%) SQL
3 5 (20.00%) PL/SQL
4 3 (12.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (12.00%) Python
5 2 (8.00%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.00%) Groovy
6 1 (4.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (8.00%) Degree
1 2 (8.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) QA
System Software
1 8 (32.00%) Docker
2 5 (20.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 5 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.00%) Ansible
2 2 (8.00%) Terraform
3 1 (4.00%) Grafana
3 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Cloudera
1 5 (20.00%) Databricks
2 2 (8.00%) Google
2 2 (8.00%) Oracle
3 1 (4.00%) Splunk