Gherkin Contracts in London

Gherkin
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 366 478 513
Rank change year-on-year +112 +35 -105
Contract jobs citing Gherkin 25 20 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.14% 0.074% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.56% 0.27% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 18 77
10th Percentile £363 £396 £405
25th Percentile £409 £488 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £625 £525
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +19.05% +23.53%
75th Percentile £493 £750 £600
90th Percentile £650 £806 £685
England median daily rate £438 £445 £475
% change year-on-year -1.69% -6.32% +9.89%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 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 4,471 7,396 12,149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.06% 27.36% 31.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,356 5,505 9,420
10th Percentile £375 £413 £425
25th Percentile £460 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £730 £700
90th Percentile £825 £813 £788
England median daily rate £550 £563 £563
% change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 40 69
10th Percentile £16.25 £30.68 £30.25
25th Percentile £23.80 £37.84 £35.00
Median hourly rate £36.84 £66.00 £48.58
Median % change year-on-year -44.18% +35.86% -0.35%
75th Percentile £57.50 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £68.80 £76.63 £79.60
England median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

Gherkin
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Gherkin in London

Gherkin
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Gherkin in London

Gherkin
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Gherkin in London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Gherkin in London

Gherkin
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Central London +36 6 £450 -35.71% 1
Gherkin
England

Gherkin
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 3 (12.00%) nginx
1 3 (12.00%) Tomcat
2 2 (8.00%) Apache
2 2 (8.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 15 (60.00%) AWS
2 6 (24.00%) Azure
3 5 (20.00%) Serverless
4 4 (16.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (16.00%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (16.00%) OpenShift
5 3 (12.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 3 (12.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 3 (12.00%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (4.00%) Figma
7 1 (4.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 3 (12.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (12.00%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (64.00%) Cucumber
2 12 (48.00%) Selenium
3 9 (36.00%) Postman
4 7 (28.00%) JMeter
4 7 (28.00%) JUnit
5 6 (24.00%) JIRA
6 5 (20.00%) Jenkins
7 3 (12.00%) Bitbucket
7 3 (12.00%) EasyMock
7 3 (12.00%) Maven
7 3 (12.00%) Mockito
7 3 (12.00%) REST Assured
7 3 (12.00%) SonarQube
7 3 (12.00%) TestNG
7 3 (12.00%) WebDriver
8 2 (8.00%) Cypress.io
8 2 (8.00%) GitLab
9 1 (4.00%) Appium
9 1 (4.00%) Git
9 1 (4.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) Tester
2 6 (24.00%) Test Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) QA Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) QA Test Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Manual Tester
4 4 (16.00%) Operations Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Testing Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Automation Tester
5 3 (12.00%) Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Backend Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Java Automation Tester
6 2 (8.00%) Java Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Test Automation Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Test Automation Specialist
6 2 (8.00%) Test Manager
6 2 (8.00%) Test Specialist
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) IT Analyst
7 1 (4.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (36.00%) REST
2 8 (32.00%) Node.js
3 6 (24.00%) Jest
4 4 (16.00%) AWS CDK
4 4 (16.00%) React
5 3 (12.00%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (12.00%) Guice
5 3 (12.00%) JAX-RS
5 3 (12.00%) Kafka
5 3 (12.00%) Mustache
5 3 (12.00%) OpenAPI
5 3 (12.00%) Spring
5 3 (12.00%) Spring Boot
5 3 (12.00%) Swagger
5 3 (12.00%) WireMock
6 2 (8.00%) ADO
6 2 (8.00%) FHIR
6 2 (8.00%) JSON
6 2 (8.00%) SOAP
6 2 (8.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (4.00%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Linux
1 2 (8.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (72.00%) Test Automation
2 10 (40.00%) Agile
2 10 (40.00%) BDD
3 9 (36.00%) DevOps
4 8 (32.00%) CI/CD
5 7 (28.00%) API Testing
5 7 (28.00%) Test Scripting
6 6 (24.00%) Scenario Testing
7 5 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 5 (20.00%) Functional Testing
7 5 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
8 4 (16.00%) Event-Driven
8 4 (16.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 4 (16.00%) Issue Tracking
8 4 (16.00%) Project Management
9 3 (12.00%) Dependency Injection
9 3 (12.00%) MVC
9 3 (12.00%) Performance Improvement
9 3 (12.00%) Regression Testing
9 3 (12.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 11 (44.00%) Java
2 8 (32.00%) TypeScript
3 5 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (8.00%) C#
5 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (48.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (32.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (40.00%) QA
2 3 (12.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (8.00%) HL7
System Software
1 5 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (36.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (28.00%) Terraform
3 3 (12.00%) Ansible
3 3 (12.00%) Kustomize
3 3 (12.00%) Packer
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (4.00%) HP
2 1 (4.00%) IBM
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft