Gherkin Contracts in Central London

Gherkin
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 127 127 165
Rank change year-on-year 0 +38 +17
Contract jobs citing Gherkin 2 6 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.10% 0.25% 0.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.39% 1.12% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 7
10th Percentile - £370 £600
25th Percentile £413 £400 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £700
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -35.71% +33.33%
75th Percentile £438 £488 £750
90th Percentile - - £765
London median daily rate £463 £438 £625
% change year-on-year +5.71% -30.00% +19.05%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 519 535 1,081
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 25.99% 21.87% 28.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 345 386 707
10th Percentile £409 £413 £413
25th Percentile £463 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £551 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.45% -11.92% +4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £738
90th Percentile £775 £775 £825
London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -

Gherkin
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Gherkin in Central London

Gherkin
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Gherkin in Central London

Gherkin
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London 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
City of London +5 2 £425 -8.11%
Gherkin
London

Gherkin
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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:

Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) WebDriver
2 1 (50.00%) JMeter
2 1 (50.00%) WebStorm
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Developer in Test
1 2 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) SDET
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Exploratory Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA