Gherkin Contracts in the East Midlands

Gherkin
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 - 76
Rank change year-on-year - - +16
Contract jobs citing Gherkin 1 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.17% - 0.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.92% - 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £341
25th Percentile - - £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £270 - £445
Median % change year-on-year - - +23.61%
75th Percentile - - £483
90th Percentile - - £498
England median daily rate £450 £438 £488
% change year-on-year +2.86% -10.26% +2.63%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 109 129 229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 18.89% 16.75% 22.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 86 216
10th Percentile £260 £258 £308
25th Percentile £313 £325 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £440 £438
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +0.57% -2.78%
75th Percentile £488 £575 £540
90th Percentile £537 £625 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -1.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.67 £10.90 -
Median hourly rate £23.41 £23.37 -
Median % change year-on-year +0.19% - -
75th Percentile £25.16 £28.44 -
90th Percentile - £35.93 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.00%

Gherkin
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Gherkin as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Gherkin in the East Midlands

Gherkin
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Gherkin in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Gherkin in the East Midlands

Gherkin
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Gherkin within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 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
Northamptonshire - 1 £270 -
Gherkin
England

Gherkin
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) DOM
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java