Gherkin Contracts in Scotland

Gherkin
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 139 144
Rank change year-on-year +11 +5 -9
Contract jobs citing Gherkin 3 25 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.14% 0.88% 0.65%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.65% 3.62% 3.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 20 14
10th Percentile £496 £424 £367
25th Percentile £497 £425 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £475 £431
Median % change year-on-year +4.84% +10.14% +7.81%
75th Percentile £499 £488 £469
90th Percentile £500 - £558
UK median daily rate £438 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -7.89% - +11.76%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

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 Scotland 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 464 691 721
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 21.02% 24.21% 20.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 301 527 488
10th Percentile £325 £406 £360
25th Percentile £410 £438 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £547 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 10
10th Percentile £33.58 £49.99 £37.73
25th Percentile £44.94 £53.38 £41.89
Median hourly rate £53.75 £59.03 £47.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.94% +24.93% +12.50%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.52 £49.34
90th Percentile - £67.81 £56.75
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

Gherkin
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Gherkin in Scotland

Gherkin
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Gherkin in Scotland

Gherkin
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Gherkin within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 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
Glasgow +2 3 £498 +4.84%
Gherkin
UK

Gherkin
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) MariaDB
1 3 (100.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
1 3 (100.00%) WebDriver
2 1 (33.33%) Gatling
2 1 (33.33%) JMeter
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Developer in Test
1 2 (66.67%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) BDD
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) SDET
1 3 (100.00%) Service Management
1 3 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Regression Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Load Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle