Gherkin Contracts with Work from Home Options

Gherkin
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 330 429 513
Rank change year-on-year +99 +84 -124
Contract jobs citing Gherkin 17 38 106
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.15% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.47% 0.60% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 34 89
10th Percentile £363 £293 £363
25th Percentile £413 £402 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% - -
75th Percentile £496 £497 £540
90th Percentile £535 £568 £618
UK median daily rate £445 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -6.26% - +11.76%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and 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 3,628 6,337 13,079
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 24.03% 25.22% 29.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,546 4,711 9,657
10th Percentile £331 £395 £400
25th Percentile £429 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +13.40%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £788 £750 £731
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 80 116
10th Percentile £24.68 £22.50 £21.00
25th Percentile - £43.60 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +27.55% +8.89%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £60.31
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £67.65
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.65
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.93% +10.32%

Gherkin
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Gherkin as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Gherkin trend for jobs with a WFH option

Gherkin
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Gherkin.

Gherkin daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Gherkin
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Gherkin over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Gherkin daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Gherkin
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (11.76%) nginx
1 2 (11.76%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) AWS
1 6 (35.29%) Azure
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (11.76%) SaaS
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (5.88%) IaaS
3 1 (5.88%) PaaS
3 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (11.76%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (11.76%) MariaDB
1 2 (11.76%) MySQL
1 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (70.59%) Cucumber
2 10 (58.82%) Selenium
3 6 (35.29%) JMeter
4 5 (29.41%) Postman
5 4 (23.53%) WebDriver
6 3 (17.65%) Jenkins
6 3 (17.65%) JUnit
7 2 (11.76%) Bitbucket
7 2 (11.76%) Cypress.io
7 2 (11.76%) EasyMock
7 2 (11.76%) Git
7 2 (11.76%) Maven
7 2 (11.76%) Mockito
7 2 (11.76%) REST Assured
7 2 (11.76%) SonarQube
7 2 (11.76%) TestNG
7 2 (11.76%) Visual Studio
8 1 (5.88%) Appium
8 1 (5.88%) Rational Performance Tester
8 1 (5.88%) SpecFlow
General
1 4 (23.53%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Front Office
3 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Tester
2 5 (29.41%) Developer
3 4 (23.53%) Automation Tester
4 2 (11.76%) Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Developer in Test
4 2 (11.76%) Java Automation Tester
4 2 (11.76%) Lead
4 2 (11.76%) Senior
4 2 (11.76%) Software Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Test Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Test Leader
5 1 (5.88%) C# Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Front Office Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Manual Tester
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Test Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Software Tester
5 1 (5.88%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) REST
2 3 (17.65%) .NET
2 3 (17.65%) Kafka
2 3 (17.65%) RESTful
3 2 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (11.76%) Guice
3 2 (11.76%) JAX-RS
3 2 (11.76%) Mustache
3 2 (11.76%) OpenAPI
3 2 (11.76%) Spring
3 2 (11.76%) Spring Boot
3 2 (11.76%) Swagger
3 2 (11.76%) WireMock
4 1 (5.88%) .NET Core
4 1 (5.88%) ADO
4 1 (5.88%) gRPC
4 1 (5.88%) Jest
4 1 (5.88%) Playwright
4 1 (5.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (5.88%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (94.12%) Test Automation
2 8 (47.06%) Agile
2 8 (47.06%) CI/CD
3 5 (29.41%) BDD
3 5 (29.41%) Scenario Testing
3 5 (29.41%) Software Testing
3 5 (29.41%) User Stories
4 4 (23.53%) Analytics
4 4 (23.53%) API Testing
4 4 (23.53%) Test Strategy
5 3 (17.65%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (17.65%) Defect Tracking
5 3 (17.65%) DevOps
5 3 (17.65%) Microservices
5 3 (17.65%) Performance Testing
5 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (17.65%) SDET
5 3 (17.65%) Test Planning
5 3 (17.65%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) Java
2 4 (23.53%) C#
3 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
4 2 (11.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (41.18%) QA
2 2 (11.76%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.88%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) Kubernetes
2 3 (17.65%) Terraform
3 2 (11.76%) Ansible
3 2 (11.76%) Kustomize
3 2 (11.76%) Packer
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle
1 2 (11.76%) Red Hat
2 1 (5.88%) HP
2 1 (5.88%) IBM