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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 668 828 756
Rank change year-on-year +160 -72 -353
Permanent jobs citing Gradle 34 79 213
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.061% 0.076% 0.22%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.56% 0.83% 1.58%
Number of salaries quoted 15 37 107
10th Percentile £47,500 £32,500 £47,300
25th Percentile £71,250 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% - -
75th Percentile - £91,250 £86,250
90th Percentile - £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% +13.04%

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 6,028 9,520 13,459
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.79% 9.18% 14.05%
Number of salaries quoted 3,562 6,582 8,354
10th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £41,117
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £58,700 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.62% -9.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,560 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.65% -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 31 May 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 31 May 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 +151 27 £110,000 +57.14% 46
London +118 25 £110,000 +46.67% 22
Work from Home +115 16 £75,000 -6.25% 38
UK excluding London +125 9 £75,000 +7.14% 36
Scotland +96 6 £85,000 +43.29% 4
South East +69 1 £67,500 -22.86% 1
Yorkshire +55 1 £75,000 - 4
North of England +18 1 £75,000 +25.00% 15
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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 2 (5.88%) Apache Spark
1 2 (5.88%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.94%) Confluence
2 1 (2.94%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 14 (41.18%) AWS
2 13 (38.24%) GitHub
3 12 (35.29%) GitHub Actions
4 10 (29.41%) Azure
4 10 (29.41%) GCP
5 2 (5.88%) PaaS
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.94%) Bluetooth
1 1 (2.94%) HTTP
1 1 (2.94%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (29.41%) MongoDB
1 10 (29.41%) MySQL
1 10 (29.41%) NoSQL
1 10 (29.41%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.88%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (5.88%) Apache Hive
2 2 (5.88%) Big Data
2 2 (5.88%) CouchDB
2 2 (5.88%) Hadoop
2 2 (5.88%) HBase
2 2 (5.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (82.35%) Git
2 17 (50.00%) Maven
3 14 (41.18%) Jenkins
4 8 (23.53%) SonarQube
5 4 (11.76%) GitLab
6 3 (8.82%) JUnit
7 2 (5.88%) IntelliJ
7 2 (5.88%) Mockito
7 2 (5.88%) Subversion
8 1 (2.94%) Android Studio
8 1 (2.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (2.94%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (2.94%) JIRA
8 1 (2.94%) TeamCity
8 1 (2.94%) Xcode
General
1 21 (61.76%) Social Skills
2 12 (35.29%) Games
3 10 (29.41%) Banking
3 10 (29.41%) Finance
4 8 (23.53%) Front Office
5 3 (8.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.88%) Law
6 2 (5.88%) Marketing
6 2 (5.88%) Retail
6 2 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (97.06%) Developer
2 20 (58.82%) Java Developer
3 10 (29.41%) Senior
3 10 (29.41%) Senior Developer
4 8 (23.53%) Android Developer
4 8 (23.53%) Electronic Trading Developer
4 8 (23.53%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
4 8 (23.53%) iOS Android Developer
4 8 (23.53%) iOS Developer
5 7 (20.59%) Lead
5 7 (20.59%) Lead Android Developer
5 7 (20.59%) Lead Developer
5 7 (20.59%) Lead iOS Developer
5 7 (20.59%) Software Developer
6 5 (14.71%) Senior Java Developer
6 5 (14.71%) Senior Software Developer
7 2 (5.88%) Java Software Developer
7 2 (5.88%) Java Software Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Junior Developer
7 2 (5.88%) Junior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (44.12%) Spring
2 13 (38.24%) RESTful
3 10 (29.41%) Kafka
4 9 (26.47%) React
5 8 (23.53%) RabbitMQ
6 7 (20.59%) Unity (Game Engine)
7 6 (17.65%) AngularJS
7 6 (17.65%) JPA
7 6 (17.65%) Spring Boot
8 5 (14.71%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (14.71%) Hibernate
9 4 (11.76%) REST
10 2 (5.88%) CSS
10 2 (5.88%) GraphQL
10 2 (5.88%) HTML
10 2 (5.88%) JWT
10 2 (5.88%) Spring MVC
10 2 (5.88%) Web Services
11 1 (2.94%) Redux
11 1 (2.94%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 14 (41.18%) Legacy Systems
2 12 (35.29%) Mobile Games
3 11 (32.35%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (23.53%) Equities
4 8 (23.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (23.53%) Mobile App
5 7 (20.59%) Algorithms
6 5 (14.71%) Cloud Native
7 1 (2.94%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (26.47%) Linux
2 8 (23.53%) Android
2 8 (23.53%) Apple iOS
3 2 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (94.12%) CI/CD
2 25 (73.53%) Agile
3 22 (64.71%) Software Engineering
4 19 (55.88%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (50.00%) DevOps
6 15 (44.12%) Test Automation
7 14 (41.18%) Computer Science
7 14 (41.18%) Design Patterns
8 13 (38.24%) Microservices
8 13 (38.24%) Migration
9 12 (35.29%) B2B
9 12 (35.29%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
9 12 (35.29%) SOLID
9 12 (35.29%) Sprint Planning
9 12 (35.29%) Sprint Retrospective
10 11 (32.35%) TDD
11 10 (29.41%) Containerisation
12 9 (26.47%) Clean Code
13 8 (23.53%) Front End Development
13 8 (23.53%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 32 (94.12%) Java
2 22 (64.71%) SQL
3 7 (20.59%) Kotlin
3 7 (20.59%) Objective-C
3 7 (20.59%) Swift
4 4 (11.76%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.88%) PL/SQL
5 2 (5.88%) Python
6 1 (2.94%) Groovy
6 1 (2.94%) Ruby
6 1 (2.94%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (44.12%) Degree
2 14 (41.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (14.71%) AWS Certification
3 5 (14.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.88%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (44.12%) QA
System Software
1 14 (41.18%) Docker
2 2 (5.88%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 10 (29.41%) Kubernetes
2 6 (17.65%) Argo
3 5 (14.71%) Prometheus
4 2 (5.88%) Grafana
5 1 (2.94%) Ansible
5 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (35.29%) New Relic
2 8 (23.53%) Google
3 2 (5.88%) Cloudera
3 2 (5.88%) Databricks
3 2 (5.88%) Splunk
4 1 (2.94%) Ping Identity