Gherkin Contract Job Trends in Central London

Gherkin
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Gherkin skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 120 128
Rank change year-on-year -4 +8 +57
Contract jobs citing Gherkin 6 3 6
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.28% 0.14% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.26% 0.58% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 5
10th Percentile £330 - £405
25th Percentile £356 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £398 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.47% -5.56% -15.49%
75th Percentile £438 £538 £488
90th Percentile - £598 -
London median daily rate £425 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -18.18%

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 478 520 540
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 22.11% 25.12% 21.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 325 335 372
10th Percentile £363 £408 £413
25th Percentile £459 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £653 £684 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £799
London median daily rate £538 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.52% - -6.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £24.20 £37.20 -
25th Percentile £26.00 £37.88 £46.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £40.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -15.79% -20.17%
75th Percentile £50.56 £41.38 £48.75
90th Percentile £56.06 £41.60 -
London median hourly rate £50.50 £52.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -3.81% +23.53% -34.62%

Gherkin
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Gherkin job vacancy trend in Central London

Gherkin
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Gherkin.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Gherkin

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 25 February 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
City of London -7 5 £425 - 1
Gherkin
London

Gherkin
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) CMS
1 1 (16.67%) Sitecore CMS
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (33.33%) GitHub
1 2 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (33.33%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Cucumber
1 4 (66.67%) Selenium
2 3 (50.00%) Git
2 3 (50.00%) GitLab
3 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 2 (33.33%) JIRA
3 2 (33.33%) JMeter
3 2 (33.33%) JUnit
3 2 (33.33%) Mockito
3 2 (33.33%) Postman
3 2 (33.33%) WebDriver
4 1 (16.67%) NUnit
4 1 (16.67%) SpecFlow
4 1 (16.67%) TeamCity
4 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Automation Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer in Test
2 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) CSS
1 2 (33.33%) HTML
1 2 (33.33%) JSON
1 2 (33.33%) Kafka
1 2 (33.33%) Playwright
1 2 (33.33%) SOAP
1 2 (33.33%) Spring
1 2 (33.33%) Spring Boot
1 2 (33.33%) Web Services
1 2 (33.33%) WireMock
1 2 (33.33%) YAML
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Web Forms
2 1 (16.67%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (66.67%) BDD
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (33.33%) API Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Exploratory Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Issue Tracking
4 2 (33.33%) Manual Testing
4 2 (33.33%) OOP
4 2 (33.33%) Performance Testing
4 2 (33.33%) SDET
4 2 (33.33%) Test Scripting
4 2 (33.33%) Webhook
5 1 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
5 1 (16.67%) Agile Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Defect Management
5 1 (16.67%) Regression Testing
5 1 (16.67%) User Experience
5 1 (16.67%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) Kotlin
3 1 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Sitecore