Gherkin Contracts in the City of London

Gherkin
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 172 188
Rank change year-on-year +50 +16 -43
Contract jobs citing Gherkin 5 6 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.23% 0.16% 0.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.04% 0.56% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 13
10th Percentile £415 £600 £420
25th Percentile £438 £613 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £700 £525
Median % change year-on-year -33.93% +33.33% +25.75%
75th Percentile £488 £750 £553
90th Percentile - £769 £628
Central London median daily rate £438 £700 £525
% change year-on-year -37.50% +33.33% +21.04%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of 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 the City of 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 482 1,064 1,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 21.73% 29.00% 30.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 341 685 1,045
10th Percentile £400 £425 £425
25th Percentile £463 £505 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.60% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £713
90th Percentile £788 £825 £800
Central London median daily rate £551 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -11.92% +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £58.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate - £59.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +25.26% +171.43%
75th Percentile - £60.75 £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - £59.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +25.26% +171.43%

Gherkin
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Gherkin in the City of London

Gherkin
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Gherkin in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Gherkin in the City of London

Gherkin
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (40.00%) nginx
1 2 (40.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (20.00%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (40.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Selenium
2 4 (80.00%) Cucumber
2 4 (80.00%) Postman
3 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (60.00%) JUnit
4 2 (40.00%) Bitbucket
4 2 (40.00%) EasyMock
4 2 (40.00%) JMeter
4 2 (40.00%) Maven
4 2 (40.00%) Mockito
4 2 (40.00%) SonarQube
4 2 (40.00%) TestNG
5 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
5 1 (20.00%) GitLab
5 1 (20.00%) REST Assured
5 1 (20.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Backend Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) QA Test Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) REST
2 2 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (40.00%) Guice
2 2 (40.00%) JAX-RS
2 2 (40.00%) Kafka
2 2 (40.00%) Mustache
2 2 (40.00%) OpenAPI
2 2 (40.00%) Spring
2 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (40.00%) Swagger
2 2 (40.00%) WireMock
3 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (20.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (20.00%) Jest
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) API Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Auto-Scaling
2 2 (40.00%) BDD
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Dependency Injection
2 2 (40.00%) Multithreading
2 2 (40.00%) MVC
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Test Management
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Functional Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) QA Automation
3 1 (20.00%) SFIA
3 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Ansible
2 2 (40.00%) Kustomize
2 2 (40.00%) Packer
2 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat