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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 637 800 692
Rank change year-on-year +163 -108 -287
Permanent jobs citing Gradle 47 85 299
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.090% 0.086% 0.29%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.85% 0.89% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 19 43 121
10th Percentile £44,000 £33,500 £41,117
25th Percentile £55,625 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -0.36%
75th Percentile £110,000 £97,362 £90,000
90th Percentile - £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,250 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +7.69% +17.12%

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 5,498 9,566 15,038
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.54% 9.73% 14.46%
Number of salaries quoted 3,807 6,755 9,183
10th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £96,750 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -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 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Gradle in the UK

Gradle
Top 9 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 30 April 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 +179 43 £75,000 +3.45% 27
London +120 27 £110,000 +18.92% 15
Work from Home +177 20 £75,000 -14.29% 29
UK excluding London +153 20 £61,250 -12.50% 14
South East +111 11 £67,500 -22.86% 5
Scotland +100 4 £85,000 +43.29% 2
East of England - 3 £55,000 - 3
Yorkshire +70 2 £75,000 -
North of England +61 2 £75,000 +7.14% 2

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 3 (6.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 3 (6.38%) Tomcat
2 2 (4.26%) Confluence
2 2 (4.26%) OpenStack
3 1 (2.13%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 27 (57.45%) AWS
2 24 (51.06%) GitHub
3 15 (31.91%) Azure
3 15 (31.91%) GitHub Actions
4 12 (25.53%) GCP
5 9 (19.15%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (17.02%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (4.26%) PaaS
8 1 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.13%) Bluetooth
1 1 (2.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (27.66%) MySQL
2 12 (25.53%) MongoDB
3 11 (23.40%) NoSQL
3 11 (23.40%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (19.15%) Relational Database
5 3 (6.38%) MariaDB
5 3 (6.38%) SQL Server
6 2 (4.26%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (4.26%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 33 (70.21%) Git
2 23 (48.94%) Jenkins
3 19 (40.43%) Maven
4 9 (19.15%) SonarQube
5 8 (17.02%) Artifactory
5 8 (17.02%) Cucumber
5 8 (17.02%) git-flow
6 5 (10.64%) JUnit
6 5 (10.64%) Subversion
7 4 (8.51%) Eclipse
7 4 (8.51%) GitLab
8 3 (6.38%) IntelliJ
9 2 (4.26%) JIRA
9 2 (4.26%) Mockito
10 1 (2.13%) Android Studio
10 1 (2.13%) Bitbucket Server
10 1 (2.13%) CircleCI
10 1 (2.13%) Selenium
10 1 (2.13%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (2.13%) Spinnaker
General
1 34 (72.34%) Social Skills
2 19 (40.43%) Banking
3 17 (36.17%) Finance
4 14 (29.79%) Games
5 9 (19.15%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (17.02%) Front Office
7 5 (10.64%) Retail
8 2 (4.26%) Telecoms
9 1 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 36 (76.60%) Developer
2 20 (42.55%) Java Developer
3 11 (23.40%) Senior
3 11 (23.40%) Senior Developer
4 9 (19.15%) Android Developer
4 9 (19.15%) Lead
5 8 (17.02%) Applications Engineer
5 8 (17.02%) Electronic Trading Developer
5 8 (17.02%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
5 8 (17.02%) iOS Android Developer
5 8 (17.02%) iOS Developer
5 8 (17.02%) Lead Developer
5 8 (17.02%) Principal Engineer
6 7 (14.89%) Lead Android Developer
6 7 (14.89%) Lead iOS Developer
7 6 (12.77%) Senior Software Developer
7 6 (12.77%) Software Developer
8 5 (10.64%) Senior Java Developer
9 2 (4.26%) Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (4.26%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (38.30%) Kafka
2 17 (36.17%) Spring
3 16 (34.04%) RabbitMQ
4 14 (29.79%) Spring Boot
5 13 (27.66%) RESTful
6 12 (25.53%) React
7 8 (17.02%) AngularJS
7 8 (17.02%) Drools
7 8 (17.02%) Unity (Game Engine)
8 6 (12.77%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (8.51%) Hibernate
9 4 (8.51%) JPA
9 4 (8.51%) REST
9 4 (8.51%) Web Services
10 3 (6.38%) JDBC
10 3 (6.38%) JSP
10 3 (6.38%) SOAP
10 3 (6.38%) Struts
10 3 (6.38%) Swing
10 3 (6.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (29.79%) Legacy Systems
1 14 (29.79%) Mobile Games
2 13 (27.66%) Mobile App
3 10 (21.28%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (17.02%) Equities
4 8 (17.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (17.02%) Management Information System
5 7 (14.89%) Algorithms
6 6 (12.77%) Cloud Native
7 2 (4.26%) Product Ownership
8 1 (2.13%) Credit Risk
8 1 (2.13%) Fixed Income
8 1 (2.13%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (2.13%) Legacy Code
8 1 (2.13%) Market Risk
8 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
8 1 (2.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (27.66%) Android
2 12 (25.53%) Apple iOS
3 9 (19.15%) Linux
4 1 (2.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (82.98%) CI/CD
2 33 (70.21%) Agile
3 27 (57.45%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (51.06%) Computer Science
4 24 (51.06%) Design Patterns
5 23 (48.94%) Software Engineering
5 23 (48.94%) Test Automation
6 21 (44.68%) DevOps
7 17 (36.17%) TDD
8 15 (31.91%) BDD
8 15 (31.91%) Migration
9 14 (29.79%) B2B
9 14 (29.79%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
9 14 (29.79%) SOLID
9 14 (29.79%) Sprint Planning
9 14 (29.79%) Sprint Retrospective
10 13 (27.66%) Containerisation
10 13 (27.66%) Microservices
11 11 (23.40%) Android Development
12 10 (21.28%) iOS Development
Programming Languages
1 44 (93.62%) Java
2 22 (46.81%) SQL
3 11 (23.40%) Python
4 8 (17.02%) Kotlin
4 8 (17.02%) Objective-C
4 8 (17.02%) Swift
5 3 (6.38%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.26%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (38.30%) Degree
2 16 (34.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (29.79%) AWS Certification
4 8 (17.02%) OCP
4 8 (17.02%) Oracle Certification
5 6 (12.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.13%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.13%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (38.30%) QA
2 1 (2.13%) Basel III
2 1 (2.13%) GDPR
2 1 (2.13%) IFRS
2 1 (2.13%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 18 (38.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (48.94%) Kubernetes
2 10 (21.28%) Terraform
3 9 (19.15%) Ansible
4 7 (14.89%) Argo
5 6 (12.77%) Prometheus
6 2 (4.26%) Grafana
Vendors
1 14 (29.79%) New Relic
2 9 (19.15%) Google
3 4 (8.51%) Oracle
4 2 (4.26%) Splunk
5 1 (2.13%) Ping Identity