Gherkin Contracts in Central London

Gherkin
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 169 181
Rank change year-on-year +45 +12 -25
Contract jobs citing Gherkin 6 7 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.25% 0.18% 0.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.12% 0.65% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 16
10th Percentile £370 £600 £405
25th Percentile £400 £625 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £700 £525
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% +33.33% +16.67%
75th Percentile £488 £750 £561
90th Percentile - £765 £638
London median daily rate £438 £600 £522
% change year-on-year -27.08% +15.00% +22.76%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Central London

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 Central London 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 537 1,069 1,375
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 22.14% 27.73% 30.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 388 697 1,113
10th Percentile £413 £415 £419
25th Percentile £456 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £713
90th Percentile £779 £825 £800
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £49.33
25th Percentile - - £53.94
Median hourly rate - - £62.25
Median % change year-on-year - - +255.71%
75th Percentile - - £69.94
90th Percentile - - £74.18
London median hourly rate £37.50 £67.25 £48.58
% change year-on-year -44.24% +38.43% +2.27%

Gherkin
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Gherkin in Central London

Gherkin
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Gherkin in Central London

Gherkin
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Gherkin within the Central London region over the 6 months to 3 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
City of London +47 5 £463 -33.93% 2
Gherkin
London

Gherkin
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 (33.33%) nginx
1 2 (33.33%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Selenium
2 4 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 4 (66.67%) Postman
3 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (50.00%) JUnit
4 2 (33.33%) Bitbucket
4 2 (33.33%) EasyMock
4 2 (33.33%) JMeter
4 2 (33.33%) Maven
4 2 (33.33%) Mockito
4 2 (33.33%) SonarQube
4 2 (33.33%) TestNG
5 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
5 1 (16.67%) GitLab
5 1 (16.67%) REST Assured
5 1 (16.67%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Automation Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Backend Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Manual Tester
2 1 (16.67%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) QA Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) QA Test Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Automation Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) REST
2 2 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (33.33%) Guice
2 2 (33.33%) JAX-RS
2 2 (33.33%) Kafka
2 2 (33.33%) Mustache
2 2 (33.33%) OpenAPI
2 2 (33.33%) Spring
2 2 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 2 (33.33%) Swagger
2 2 (33.33%) WireMock
3 1 (16.67%) ADO
3 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
3 1 (16.67%) GraphQL
3 1 (16.67%) Jest
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Test Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) API Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Auto-Scaling
2 2 (33.33%) BDD
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Dependency Injection
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Multithreading
2 2 (33.33%) MVC
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) Test Management
3 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
3 1 (16.67%) Defect Management
3 1 (16.67%) Epics
3 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) QA Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (16.67%) SFIA
3 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) Ansible
2 2 (33.33%) Kustomize
2 2 (33.33%) Packer
2 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Red Hat