Gherkin Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Gherkin
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of 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 119 112 125
Rank change year-on-year -7 +13 +58
Contract jobs citing Gherkin 5 3 5
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.25% 0.16% 0.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.13% 0.63% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 4
10th Percentile £333 - £415
25th Percentile £363 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £463
Median % change year-on-year - -8.11% -22.92%
75th Percentile £438 £538 £488
90th Percentile - £598 -
Central London median daily rate £398 £425 £450
% change year-on-year -6.47% -5.56% -15.49%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 443 478 500
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.36% 26.19% 21.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 301 302 343
10th Percentile £363 £408 £400
25th Percentile £456 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £675 £683 £700
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £43.83 - -
25th Percentile £45.83 £36.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £51.38 £38.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.46% -18.95% -20.17%
75th Percentile £56.67 £40.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £58.50 - -
Central London median hourly rate £36.00 £40.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -10.00% -15.79% -20.17%

Gherkin
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Gherkin job vacancy trend in the City of London

Gherkin
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Gherkin.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Gherkin

Gherkin
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub
1 2 (40.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (40.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Cucumber
2 3 (60.00%) GitLab
2 3 (60.00%) Selenium
3 2 (40.00%) Git
3 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (40.00%) JIRA
3 2 (40.00%) JMeter
3 2 (40.00%) JUnit
3 2 (40.00%) Mockito
3 2 (40.00%) Postman
3 2 (40.00%) WebDriver
4 1 (20.00%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer in Test
2 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) CSS
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
1 2 (40.00%) JSON
1 2 (40.00%) Kafka
1 2 (40.00%) Playwright
1 2 (40.00%) SOAP
1 2 (40.00%) Spring
1 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (40.00%) Web Services
1 2 (40.00%) WireMock
1 2 (40.00%) YAML
2 1 (20.00%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (80.00%) BDD
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (40.00%) Agile
4 2 (40.00%) API Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Exploratory Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Issue Tracking
4 2 (40.00%) OOP
4 2 (40.00%) Performance Testing
4 2 (40.00%) SDET
4 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
4 2 (40.00%) Webhook
5 1 (20.00%) Manual Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Regression Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C#
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) Kotlin
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes