Gherkin Contracts in Berkshire

Gherkin
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Gherkin skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Gherkin over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Gherkin 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.26% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.22% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South East median daily rate - - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Berkshire

Gherkin falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 245 299 327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 20.89% 15.07% 18.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 179 238
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.71% -4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £636
90th Percentile £651 £675 £713
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 15 8
10th Percentile £39.64 £56.56 £52.90
25th Percentile £53.72 £56.65 £75.06
Median hourly rate £77.19 £61.60 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year +25.31% -21.78% +20.23%
75th Percentile £84.85 - £80.25
90th Percentile £89.44 £61.84 £80.48
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £61.60 £70.00
% change year-on-year -6.66% -12.00% +55.56%

Gherkin
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Gherkin in Berkshire

Gherkin
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Gherkin in Berkshire

Gherkin
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Gherkin within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Reading - 3 - -
Gherkin
South East

Gherkin
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 3 (100.00%) Electronics
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 3 (100.00%) Marketing
1 3 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Test Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Automation Tester
2 2 (66.67%) Data Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Automation Tester
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Data Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Test Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Tester
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Data-Driven Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Digital Marketing
1 3 (100.00%) Programme Management
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Data Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) Data Validation
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Process Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) System Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
1 2 (66.67%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Databricks
1 3 (100.00%) SAP