Gherkin Contracts in Berkshire

Gherkin
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Gherkin skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Gherkin over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 - 129
Rank change year-on-year - - -29
Contract jobs citing Gherkin 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.16% - 0.042%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.01% - 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £566 - -
25th Percentile £572 - £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 - £338
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.78%
75th Percentile £597 - £344
90th Percentile £599 - -
South East median daily rate £575 - £475
% change year-on-year - - +28.38%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Berkshire

Gherkin is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 296 310 407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 15.35% 17.67% 17.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 224 299
10th Percentile £325 £363 £350
25th Percentile £416 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +13.45%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £600
90th Percentile £663 £705 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 8 5
10th Percentile £56.61 £52.90 £30.50
25th Percentile £56.65 £75.06 £35.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £78.75 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.78% +28.05% +64.00%
75th Percentile - £80.25 £68.25
90th Percentile £61.72 £80.48 £75.54
South East median hourly rate £61.60 £67.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -8.74% +50.00% -10.00%

Gherkin
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Gherkin as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Gherkin in Berkshire

Gherkin
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Gherkin in Berkshire

Gherkin
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Gherkin within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 28 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
Reading - 3 £588 -
Gherkin
South East

Gherkin
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (100.00%) JMeter
1 3 (100.00%) Maven
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Test Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Performance Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Test Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) Test Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Test Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 3 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) Python