Gradle Contracts

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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 513 505 421
Rank change year-on-year -8 -84 +12
Contract jobs citing Gradle 62 178 515
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.32% 0.59%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.20% 2.20% 3.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 136 349
10th Percentile £400 £511 £475
25th Percentile £453 £600 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £675 £685
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% -1.46% +23.98%
75th Percentile £632 £738 £743
90th Percentile £675 £775 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £588 £525 £513
% change year-on-year +11.90% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 4
10th Percentile - £70.80 £64.12
25th Percentile £77.50 - £67.58
Median hourly rate £80.00 £75.00 £73.25
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +2.39% +10.98%
75th Percentile £82.50 £87.50 £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 5,155 8,073 15,692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.97% 14.40% 17.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,455 5,696 11,047
10th Percentile £351 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £457 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 226 201
10th Percentile £26.77 £44.82 £38.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.14% +8.81%
75th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £82.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +15.79%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -34 46 £545 -19.26% 12
London -19 34 £558 -17.41% 5
UK excluding London +30 21 £588 +11.90% 9
Scotland +37 11 £623 +38.33% 2
Work from Home +69 10 £588 -18.97% 10
East of England - 4 - -
North of England +17 3 £550 +4.76%
North West +15 2 £550 -8.71%
South East +5 2 £350 -41.18% 1
Midlands +19 1 £420 -30.00% 1
West Midlands +10 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 (6.45%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.23%) SAS
3 1 (1.61%) Apache
3 1 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.61%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 18 (29.03%) AWS
2 15 (24.19%) GitHub
3 12 (19.35%) Azure
4 10 (16.13%) Amazon EKS
4 10 (16.13%) OpenShift
5 7 (11.29%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (9.68%) GCP
7 3 (4.84%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (4.84%) Amazon S3
7 3 (4.84%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (4.84%) WhatsApp
8 2 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (3.23%) Datadog
8 2 (3.23%) IaaS
8 2 (3.23%) Serverless
9 1 (1.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.61%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.61%) Firebase
9 1 (1.61%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.29%) Firewall
2 4 (6.45%) 5G
2 4 (6.45%) NAS
2 4 (6.45%) Radio Access Network
2 4 (6.45%) Wireshark
3 1 (1.61%) DHCP
3 1 (1.61%) DNS
3 1 (1.61%) LAN
3 1 (1.61%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.06%) MySQL
1 5 (8.06%) NoSQL
1 5 (8.06%) Relational Database
2 4 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.84%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (4.84%) Oracle Database
4 2 (3.23%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.23%) Hadoop
4 2 (3.23%) KDB
4 2 (3.23%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.23%) RDBMS
4 2 (3.23%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.61%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.61%) Big Data
5 1 (1.61%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.61%) Flink
5 1 (1.61%) Power BI
5 1 (1.61%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 27 (43.55%) Maven
2 18 (29.03%) Git
2 18 (29.03%) Jenkins
3 17 (27.42%) JUnit
4 10 (16.13%) GitLab
5 7 (11.29%) CircleCI
6 6 (9.68%) JIRA
7 5 (8.06%) Bitbucket
7 5 (8.06%) Cucumber
8 4 (6.45%) gcov
8 4 (6.45%) GDB
8 4 (6.45%) REST Assured
8 4 (6.45%) Subversion
8 4 (6.45%) WebDriver
9 3 (4.84%) Ant
9 3 (4.84%) IntelliJ
9 3 (4.84%) Postman
9 3 (4.84%) Selenium
9 3 (4.84%) TeamCity
9 3 (4.84%) TestNG
General
1 15 (24.19%) Finance
2 9 (14.52%) Social Skills
3 7 (11.29%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (9.68%) Telecoms
5 5 (8.06%) Banking
6 4 (6.45%) Multimedia
7 3 (4.84%) Public Sector
8 2 (3.23%) Front Office
8 2 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (3.23%) Law
9 1 (1.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (27.42%) Developer
2 12 (19.35%) Senior
3 7 (11.29%) Java Engineer
4 6 (9.68%) Android Engineer
4 6 (9.68%) Java Developer
5 5 (8.06%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (8.06%) Site Manager
5 5 (8.06%) Site Reliability Manager
6 4 (6.45%) Android Developer
6 4 (6.45%) C++ Developer
6 4 (6.45%) Senior Java Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Data Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Lead
7 3 (4.84%) Linux DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Linux Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Linux/Unix DevOps
7 3 (4.84%) Python Developer
7 3 (4.84%) Senior Software Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Software Engineer
8 2 (3.23%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (40.32%) REST
2 16 (25.81%) Spring
3 15 (24.19%) Spring Boot
4 10 (16.13%) Android Jetpack
5 9 (14.52%) Jetpack Compose
6 8 (12.90%) Dagger
6 8 (12.90%) RAML
6 8 (12.90%) RESTful
7 7 (11.29%) Node.js
7 7 (11.29%) XML
8 6 (9.68%) CSS
8 6 (9.68%) HTML
9 5 (8.06%) JSON
9 5 (8.06%) React
9 5 (8.06%) SOAP
9 5 (8.06%) Web Services
10 4 (6.45%) GraphQL
10 4 (6.45%) Kafka
10 4 (6.45%) Ktor
10 4 (6.45%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.74%) Legacy Code
2 8 (12.90%) Virtual Team
3 6 (9.68%) Mobile App
4 5 (8.06%) Cloud Native
4 5 (8.06%) Product Ownership
5 4 (6.45%) Algorithms
5 4 (6.45%) Data Structures
5 4 (6.45%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.23%) Derivative
6 2 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (3.23%) Fixed Income
6 2 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.61%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 20 (32.26%) Linux
2 14 (22.58%) Android
3 7 (11.29%) Unix
3 7 (11.29%) Windows
4 1 (1.61%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.61%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.61%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (45.16%) CI/CD
2 23 (37.10%) Agile
3 21 (33.87%) Continuous Integration
4 18 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (27.42%) Computer Science
6 15 (24.19%) Microservices
6 15 (24.19%) TDD
7 14 (22.58%) DevOps
8 12 (19.35%) User Experience
9 11 (17.74%) Performance Analysis
10 10 (16.13%) BDD
11 9 (14.52%) Open Source
11 9 (14.52%) Test Automation
12 7 (11.29%) Design Patterns
12 7 (11.29%) MVVM
12 7 (11.29%) OWASP
13 6 (9.68%) Application Security
13 6 (9.68%) Deployment Automation
13 6 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 6 (9.68%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 32 (51.61%) Java
2 22 (35.48%) Kotlin
3 17 (27.42%) Python
4 12 (19.35%) Shell Script
5 10 (16.13%) C
5 10 (16.13%) JavaScript
6 8 (12.90%) Ruby
7 7 (11.29%) Bash
8 6 (9.68%) C++
8 6 (9.68%) Groovy
9 5 (8.06%) Scala
10 3 (4.84%) Objective-C
10 3 (4.84%) SQL
10 3 (4.84%) Swift
10 3 (4.84%) TypeScript
11 2 (3.23%) C#
12 1 (1.61%) Go
12 1 (1.61%) PL/SQL
12 1 (1.61%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (29.03%) Degree
2 15 (24.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (11.29%) Security Cleared
4 5 (8.06%) SC Cleared
5 4 (6.45%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.61%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.61%) OCP
6 1 (1.61%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.90%) QA
2 2 (3.23%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (32.26%) Docker
2 1 (1.61%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (35.48%) Kubernetes
2 11 (17.74%) Terraform
3 8 (12.90%) Ansible
4 4 (6.45%) Kibana
5 2 (3.23%) Grafana
5 2 (3.23%) logstash
6 1 (1.61%) Anchore
6 1 (1.61%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (1.61%) Istio
6 1 (1.61%) Packer
6 1 (1.61%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.61%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (9.68%) Oracle
2 5 (8.06%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.45%) Klocwork
3 4 (6.45%) Perforce
4 3 (4.84%) Apple
5 2 (3.23%) Google
5 2 (3.23%) ION Trading
5 2 (3.23%) New Relic
5 2 (3.23%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.23%) SAP
6 1 (1.61%) Confluent
6 1 (1.61%) Splunk