Gradle
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Gradle skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Gradle over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 516 503 428
Rank change year-on-year -13 -75 -15
Contract jobs citing Gradle 63 192 514
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.34% 0.58%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.23% 2.28% 3.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 144 338
10th Percentile £410 £445 £475
25th Percentile £500 £596 £545
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £675 £680
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% -0.74% +23.64%
75th Percentile £627 £738 £743
90th Percentile £675 £775 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £581 £445 £506
% change year-on-year +30.62% -12.10% +8.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 4
10th Percentile - £71.85 £64.12
25th Percentile £77.50 £75.00 £67.58
Median hourly rate £80.00 £80.00 £73.25
Median % change year-on-year - +9.22% +9.32%
75th Percentile £82.50 £86.25 £76.57
90th Percentile - £90.00 £77.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 - £63.62
% change year-on-year - - +0.18%

All Development Application Skills
UK

Gradle is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,125 8,436 15,844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.05% 14.73% 17.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,445 5,951 11,155
10th Percentile £353 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £458 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.83%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 231 207
10th Percentile £32.48 £42.81 £37.15
25th Percentile £46.50 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.14% +14.13%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.89 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.30 £82.50 £76.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +19.57%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Gradle.

Daily rate trend for Gradle in the UK

Gradle
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Gradle over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Gradle in the UK

Gradle
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Gradle.

Hourly rate trend for Gradle in the UK

Gradle
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Gradle within the UK over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -22 47 £550 -18.52% 19
London -18 35 £575 -14.81% 12
UK excluding London +40 22 £581 +30.62% 13
Scotland +46 12 £623 +46.47% 5
Work from Home +62 11 £575 -11.54% 27
East of England - 4 - -
North of England +15 3 £550 +23.60% 1
South East +15 2 £350 -41.18% 3
North West +1 2 £550 +23.60%
West Midlands +17 1 £420 -30.00%
Midlands +14 1 £420 -30.00%
North East - 1 £550 -

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 4 (6.35%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.17%) SAS
3 1 (1.59%) Apache
3 1 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.59%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 16 (25.40%) AWS
2 15 (23.81%) GitHub
3 11 (17.46%) Amazon EKS
4 10 (15.87%) Azure
4 10 (15.87%) OpenShift
5 6 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (6.35%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (6.35%) Amazon S3
6 4 (6.35%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (4.76%) GCP
7 3 (4.76%) WhatsApp
8 2 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (3.17%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (3.17%) IaaS
8 2 (3.17%) Serverless
9 1 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.59%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (1.59%) Firebase
9 1 (1.59%) Route 53
9 1 (1.59%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.11%) Firewall
2 4 (6.35%) 5G
2 4 (6.35%) NAS
2 4 (6.35%) Radio Access Network
2 4 (6.35%) Wireshark
3 1 (1.59%) DHCP
3 1 (1.59%) DNS
3 1 (1.59%) LAN
3 1 (1.59%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.94%) Relational Database
2 4 (6.35%) NoSQL
3 3 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (4.76%) MySQL
3 3 (4.76%) Oracle Database
4 2 (3.17%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.17%) Hadoop
4 2 (3.17%) KDB
4 2 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.17%) RDBMS
4 2 (3.17%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.59%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.59%) Big Data
5 1 (1.59%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.59%) Flink
5 1 (1.59%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.59%) Power BI
5 1 (1.59%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 27 (42.86%) Maven
2 19 (30.16%) Git
2 19 (30.16%) Jenkins
3 16 (25.40%) JUnit
4 12 (19.05%) GitLab
5 7 (11.11%) CircleCI
6 6 (9.52%) Cucumber
6 6 (9.52%) JIRA
6 6 (9.52%) REST Assured
7 5 (7.94%) Bitbucket
7 5 (7.94%) Selenium
7 5 (7.94%) WebDriver
8 4 (6.35%) gcov
8 4 (6.35%) GDB
8 4 (6.35%) JMeter
8 4 (6.35%) SoapUI
8 4 (6.35%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (6.35%) Subversion
8 4 (6.35%) TeamCity
8 4 (6.35%) TestNG
General
1 17 (26.98%) Finance
2 7 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 6 (9.52%) Banking
3 6 (9.52%) Telecoms
4 4 (6.35%) Multimedia
5 3 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.76%) Law
5 3 (4.76%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.17%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 15 (23.81%) Developer
2 11 (17.46%) Senior
3 7 (11.11%) Android Engineer
4 6 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (9.52%) Java Engineer
5 5 (7.94%) Site Manager
5 5 (7.94%) Site Reliability Manager
6 4 (6.35%) Android Developer
6 4 (6.35%) C++ Developer
6 4 (6.35%) Java Developer
7 3 (4.76%) Data Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Linux DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Linux Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Linux/Unix DevOps
7 3 (4.76%) Python Developer
7 3 (4.76%) Python Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Senior Java Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Software Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (41.27%) REST
2 15 (23.81%) Spring
3 13 (20.63%) Spring Boot
4 10 (15.87%) Android Jetpack
5 9 (14.29%) Jetpack Compose
6 8 (12.70%) Dagger
6 8 (12.70%) RAML
7 7 (11.11%) Node.js
8 6 (9.52%) RESTful
9 5 (7.94%) JSON
9 5 (7.94%) WireMock
9 5 (7.94%) XML
10 4 (6.35%) CSS
10 4 (6.35%) GraphQL
10 4 (6.35%) HTML
10 4 (6.35%) Ktor
10 4 (6.35%) OkHttp
10 4 (6.35%) RxJava
10 4 (6.35%) SOAP
11 3 (4.76%) React
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.46%) Legacy Code
2 8 (12.70%) Virtual Team
3 6 (9.52%) Mobile App
4 5 (7.94%) Cloud Native
4 5 (7.94%) Product Ownership
5 4 (6.35%) Algorithms
5 4 (6.35%) Data Structures
5 4 (6.35%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (3.17%) Derivative
7 2 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (3.17%) Fixed Income
8 1 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.59%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 20 (31.75%) Linux
2 15 (23.81%) Android
3 7 (11.11%) Unix
3 7 (11.11%) Windows
4 1 (1.59%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.59%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.59%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 22 (34.92%) Agile
3 21 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 16 (25.40%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (23.81%) Computer Science
6 13 (20.63%) DevOps
6 13 (20.63%) Microservices
7 12 (19.05%) TDD
7 12 (19.05%) Test Automation
7 12 (19.05%) User Experience
8 11 (17.46%) Performance Analysis
9 9 (14.29%) BDD
9 9 (14.29%) Open Source
10 8 (12.70%) Design Patterns
11 7 (11.11%) MVVM
11 7 (11.11%) OWASP
12 6 (9.52%) Android Development
12 6 (9.52%) Integration Patterns
12 6 (9.52%) Root Cause Analysis
12 6 (9.52%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (50.79%) Java
2 23 (36.51%) Kotlin
3 20 (31.75%) Python
4 12 (19.05%) Shell Script
5 10 (15.87%) C
6 9 (14.29%) JavaScript
7 8 (12.70%) Bash
7 8 (12.70%) Ruby
8 6 (9.52%) C++
8 6 (9.52%) Groovy
9 5 (7.94%) Scala
10 3 (4.76%) Objective-C
10 3 (4.76%) SQL
10 3 (4.76%) Swift
10 3 (4.76%) TypeScript
11 2 (3.17%) C#
11 2 (3.17%) PowerShell
12 1 (1.59%) Go
12 1 (1.59%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (26.98%) Degree
2 13 (20.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (11.11%) Security Cleared
4 5 (7.94%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.17%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.59%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.59%) OCP
6 1 (1.59%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.29%) QA
2 2 (3.17%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (1.59%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 12 (19.05%) Terraform
3 8 (12.70%) Ansible
4 4 (6.35%) Kibana
5 2 (3.17%) Grafana
5 2 (3.17%) logstash
6 1 (1.59%) Anchore
6 1 (1.59%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (1.59%) Istio
6 1 (1.59%) Packer
6 1 (1.59%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (9.52%) Microsoft
1 6 (9.52%) Oracle
2 4 (6.35%) Klocwork
2 4 (6.35%) Perforce
3 3 (4.76%) Apple
4 2 (3.17%) ION Trading
4 2 (3.17%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.17%) SAP
5 1 (1.59%) New Relic
5 1 (1.59%) Splunk