Gherkin Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Gherkin
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Gherkin skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Gherkin 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.12% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.01% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South East median daily rate £550 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 99 26 47
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 12.27% 11.02% 9.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 22 35
10th Percentile £363 £287 £381
25th Percentile £467 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £481 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -3.75% -
75th Percentile £578 £569 £611
90th Percentile £636 £610 £650
South East median daily rate £520 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £57.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +4.35% -6.66% -12.00%

Gherkin
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Gherkin relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

Gherkin job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Gherkin
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Gherkin.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Gherkin

Gherkin
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Gherkin within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 29 April 2026. 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
Milton Keynes - 1 - - 1
Gherkin
South East

Gherkin
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) WebDriver
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) CRM
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 1 (100.00%) SDET
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA