Gradle
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Gradle skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 673 596 770
Rank change year-on-year -77 +174 -103
Permanent jobs citing Gradle 29 45 99
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.035% 0.11% 0.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.70% 1.05% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 14 19 58
10th Percentile £40,750 £44,000 £38,375
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,625 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £75,000 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -1.64% +5.17%
75th Percentile £65,000 £110,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £77,750 - £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £61,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year +2.04% -12.50% +7.69%

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 4,148 4,294 9,184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.96% 10.47% 9.94%
Number of salaries quoted 2,750 3,020 6,754
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £76,163 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £91,025 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%

Gradle
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Gradle job vacancy trend in the UK

Gradle
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Gradle.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Gradle

Gradle
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Gradle over the 6 months to 11 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Gradle in the UK

Gradle
Top 8 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 11 April 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
England -90 26 £65,000 -13.33% 16
London -20 15 £65,000 -40.91% 10
UK excluding London -79 13 £62,500 +2.04% 6
South West - 8 £77,500 - 1
Work from Home -7 5 £61,250 -18.33% 5
South East -49 3 £60,000 -11.11% 2
Scotland -18 1 £62,500 -26.47% 1
Wales - 1 £45,000 -

Gradle
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (6.90%) Confluence
2 1 (3.45%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.69%) AWS
2 3 (10.34%) GitHub
3 2 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (6.90%) OpenShift
3 2 (6.90%) Serverless
3 2 (6.90%) Slack
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (3.45%) Azure
4 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.45%) BlazeMeter
4 1 (3.45%) Firebase
4 1 (3.45%) GCP
4 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (3.45%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (13.79%) MySQL
2 4 (13.79%) NonStop SQL
2 4 (13.79%) NoSQL
3 3 (10.34%) CockroachDB
3 3 (10.34%) Relational Database
4 2 (6.90%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.45%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 16 (55.17%) Maven
2 13 (44.83%) Git
3 9 (31.03%) Jenkins
4 6 (20.69%) JUnit
5 4 (13.79%) Cypress.io
5 4 (13.79%) Mockito
6 3 (10.34%) GitLab
6 3 (10.34%) Selenium
6 3 (10.34%) TestNG
7 2 (6.90%) Checkstyle
7 2 (6.90%) Cucumber
7 2 (6.90%) ESLint
7 2 (6.90%) JIRA
7 2 (6.90%) SonarQube
7 2 (6.90%) Subversion
8 1 (3.45%) Android Studio
8 1 (3.45%) Ant
8 1 (3.45%) Crashlytics
8 1 (3.45%) fastlane
8 1 (3.45%) JMeter
General
1 9 (31.03%) Finance
2 8 (27.59%) Social Skills
3 6 (20.69%) Financial Institution
3 6 (20.69%) Front Office
4 2 (6.90%) Law
5 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (55.17%) Developer
2 14 (48.28%) Java Developer
3 4 (13.79%) Software Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Junior
4 2 (6.90%) Junior Developer
4 2 (6.90%) Junior Java Developer
4 2 (6.90%) Mid-Level Java Developer
5 1 (3.45%) Android Developer
5 1 (3.45%) Android Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (3.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Functional Tester
5 1 (3.45%) Java Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Quantitative Strategist
5 1 (3.45%) Senior
5 1 (3.45%) Senior Android Developer
5 1 (3.45%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (79.31%) Spring
2 20 (68.97%) Spring Boot
3 11 (37.93%) React
3 11 (37.93%) RESTful
4 8 (27.59%) REST
5 6 (20.69%) FIX Protocol
5 6 (20.69%) Hibernate
5 6 (20.69%) Spring MVC
5 6 (20.69%) Web Services
6 5 (17.24%) CSS
6 5 (17.24%) HTML
7 4 (13.79%) AngularJS
7 4 (13.79%) Vaadin
8 3 (10.34%) JPA
8 3 (10.34%) JSON
8 3 (10.34%) Spring Security
9 2 (6.90%) Kafka
9 2 (6.90%) OAuth
9 2 (6.90%) Protocol Buffers
9 2 (6.90%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (10.34%) Private Cloud
3 2 (6.90%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.45%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.45%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Android
1 2 (6.90%) Linux
2 1 (3.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (51.72%) CI/CD
2 13 (44.83%) Agile
3 11 (37.93%) DevOps
4 9 (31.03%) Test Automation
5 8 (27.59%) AI
5 8 (27.59%) Code Quality
5 8 (27.59%) Computer Science
6 7 (24.14%) Electronic Trading
6 7 (24.14%) Low Latency
7 6 (20.69%) Algorithmic Trading
7 6 (20.69%) Concurrent Programming
7 6 (20.69%) JVM Tuning
7 6 (20.69%) Market Making
7 6 (20.69%) Mathematics
7 6 (20.69%) MVC
7 6 (20.69%) OO
7 6 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (20.69%) Roadmaps
7 6 (20.69%) Scrum
7 6 (20.69%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 25 (86.21%) Java
2 9 (31.03%) SQL
3 4 (13.79%) C++
3 4 (13.79%) Python
4 3 (10.34%) JavaScript
4 3 (10.34%) Kotlin
5 2 (6.90%) Bash
6 1 (3.45%) Go
6 1 (3.45%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 12 (41.38%) Degree
2 8 (27.59%) Computer Science Degree
2 8 (27.59%) Security Cleared
3 6 (20.69%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.90%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) ISO 20022
2 1 (3.45%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.45%) NCSC
2 1 (3.45%) QA
2 1 (3.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (20.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (20.69%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.90%) Ansible
2 2 (6.90%) Grafana
2 2 (6.90%) Prometheus
2 2 (6.90%) Terraform
3 1 (3.45%) Kibana
3 1 (3.45%) logstash
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) Solace
2 5 (17.24%) Google
3 3 (10.34%) Oracle
4 2 (6.90%) Splunk
5 1 (3.45%) Dynatrace
5 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.45%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.45%) VMware