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Companies using Gradle_

As of 4 November 2026, 1,420 companies show Gradle: 165 carry it on their website or in their DNS records, 1,259 name it in their own job postings, and 4 do both.

As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.

Largest market
United States · 81 companies
Companies with 51+ staff
37 · 22% of the footprint
Top industry
Technology & software · 61%
Team that names it most
Software engineering · 3,894 postings
Hiring on it, last 30 days
956 companies
Most often alongside
Java · 1,380 companies
1,420companies show Gradle, all sources
165on their website or in DNS records
1,259name it in their own job postings
3,124postings naming Gradle, last 90 days
02 — Two ways we see a tool

Where Gradle shows up

Each population is counted on its own. We never add them up without saying so, because they answer different questions.

Website and DNS footprint165

Companies whose own pages load Gradle's scripts or embeds, or whose domain's mail and hosting records (SPF, DKIM, MX, CNAME) point at Gradle. From our crawl of 41.5M company websites and the DNS sweep behind it. Reach: the tool is in the building.

Job postings1,259

Companies whose own postings say the team works in Gradle. Read hourly from ~70 applicant tracking systems, with the function, a quote and a date. Intent: the team that runs it is hiring.

Both4

Companies in the footprint whose postings also name Gradle. The rest of the posting population (1,255) runs Gradle without a public trace on the site or in DNS, which is where job data earns its place.

03 — Who uses it

Companies on Gradle

Companies with 201+ employees and high-confidence evidence in their own postings; job boards and portals left out.

Seen through the website or DNS only

Companies with 1,000+ employees whose website or DNS carries Gradle but whose postings never name it: the part of the market job data alone misses.

1,420 companies show Gradle; 7 of them have over 1,000 employees.

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04 — Footprint breakdown

By country, company size and industry

The 165 companies with Gradle on their website or in DNS. Click a country for its own page where we have one.

By country
companiesshare
United States
8149%
Germany
159%
France
74%
Switzerland
64%
United Kingdom
53%
Poland
32%
Belgium
21%
Canada
21%
Spain
21%
Hungary
21%
Japan
21%
Netherlands
21%
By company size
companiesshare
Self-employed
5533%
2-10 employees
2515%
11-50 employees
2213%
51-200 employees
159%
201-500 employees
85%
501-1000 employees
42%
1001-5000 employees
95%
5001-10000 employees
11%
By industry
companiesshare
Technology & software
10061%
Media & content
2012%
Business & finance services
74%
Consumer services & leisure
42%
Public, community & associations
21%
Manufacturing & industry
21%
Commerce & trade
11%
Hospitality & travel
11%
Property & construction
11%
Utilities & infrastructure
11%
05 — What their DNS and pages also say

The mail, hosting and web stack of Gradle companies

Other tools found on the same companies' websites or in their DNS records. Mail providers and senders come from SPF, DKIM and MX; the rest from page code.

Google Workspace67 companies · 41%
Cloudflare55 companies · 33%
Microsoft 36555 companies · 33%
Atlassian33 companies · 20%
AWS Route 5333 companies · 20%
apple30 companies · 18%HubSpot29 companies · 18%SendGrid29 companies · 18%Anthropic28 companies · 17%Mailchimp28 companies · 17%
Amazon SES25 companies · 15%
sonatype_ossrh23 companies · 14%
atlassian_statuspage20 companies · 12%
Bluesky19 companies · 12%Zendesk18 companies · 11%
mailchimp_transactional16 companies · 10%
06 — Job-posting evidence

Who runs Gradle inside the company

The 1,259 companies whose postings name Gradle: by country, size and the function of the role. The second number in the function table is companies.

Postings by function
postings · companies
Software engineering
3,894 · 1,532
Data & AI
119 · 105
IT operations & business systems
114 · 74
Engineering (non-software)
52 · 31
Customer service & success
16 · 10
Sales
14 · 6
Product, program & project management
9 · 8
Unclassified
8 · 5
Design & UX
4 · 2
Finance & accounting
4 · 4
Posting companies by country
companiesshare
United States
68654%
United Kingdom
665%
India
655%
Germany
645%
France
393%
Canada
262%
Brazil
202%
Switzerland
202%
Poland
161%
Australia
151%
Sweden
151%
Netherlands
141%
Posting companies by size
companiesshare
Self-employed
282%
2-10 employees
867%
11-50 employees
21417%
51-200 employees
26821%
201-500 employees
14612%
501-1000 employees
1129%
1001-5000 employees
18815%
5001-10000 employees
504%
10,001+ employees
16713%
Hiring on it right now
postings
Postings, last 30 days
2,324
Postings, last 90 days
3,124
All open postings
4,519

956 companies opened a role that names Gradle in the last 30 days. A hiring team that names its tools is the moment to write to the person who owns the stack.

07 — Named alongside

What Gradle teams also ask for

Tools named in the same postings as Gradle. Office software is left out.

08 — build packaging

Gradle against the rest of its category

Ranked by companies naming each tool in postings. Whole category →

Cite this

Quote the sentence with the date and the link. The numbers change daily; the link always shows the current ones.

1,420 companies show Gradle: 165 carry it on their website or in their DNS records, 1,259 name it in their own job postings, and 4 do both. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/tools/gradle)
How we know

Read from the source, not self-reported

Every number on this page can be traced to a page we crawled or a posting we read. Full methodology →

  • Website codeScripts, tags and embeds found on the company's own pages in our crawl of 41.5M sites. A tool counts once per company.
  • DNS recordsSPF includes, DKIM selectors, MX and CNAME records of the company's domain that point at Gradle or another vendor. Swept in cycles; dedicated mail-provider and hosting facets open once coverage passes 80% per country.
  • Job postingsRead hourly from the applicant tracking systems behind company career sites. A tool counts when the employer's own text names it as the team's system; candidate wish-lists and apply boilerplate are excluded. Confidence low, medium or high per company.
  • Sending infrastructureCold-e-mail sending domains are look-alike domains on a provider's infrastructure (DNS records, certificate logs) that redirect to the company. Absence is not evidence: only companies with a found sending domain are counted.
  • CompaniesCountry, size and industry come from the company profile we build from its website; headcount from LinkedIn where known, otherwise estimated. Job boards, portals and aggregators are kept out of lists.
FAQ

Gradle data: questions

How many companies use Gradle?

1,420 as of 4 November 2026: 165 carry Gradle on their website or in their DNS records and 1,259 name it in their own job postings; 4 show up in both. We keep the two counts apart because they measure different things.

What does "website or DNS" mean?

Our crawler finds Gradle's scripts, embeds and tags on the company's own pages, and our DNS sweep reads the domain's mail and hosting records (SPF includes, DKIM selectors, MX, CNAMEs) that point at Gradle. Either one puts the company in the footprint. The sweep is still running, so this number grows week by week.

Why is the job-posting number so much smaller?

A posting only names a tool when the team that will use it is hiring and chooses to say so. That makes it a smaller but stronger signal: it tells you which team runs Gradle, with a quote and a date. The footprint tells you reach.

How fresh is this?

Career sites are read hourly, websites are re-crawled on a rolling schedule and DNS is re-swept in cycles. The date at the top is when these counts were computed.

Can I get the list?

Yes. The first 20 are on this page; the full 1,420 with verified e-mails and a weekly feed of new Gradle users is in the product. Counting is free.

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