Gherkin Contracts in England

Gherkin
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 454 504 605
Rank change year-on-year +50 +101 +37
Contract jobs citing Gherkin 31 38 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.10% 0.095%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.57% 0.51% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 32 38
10th Percentile £359 £358 £285
25th Percentile £406 £411 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £438 £445
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% -1.69% -6.32%
75th Percentile £547 £545 £619
90th Percentile £656 £643 £750
UK median daily rate £483 £438 £475
% change year-on-year +10.40% -7.89% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,454 7,511 11,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.39% 20.19% 23.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,783 5,341 8,633
10th Percentile £368 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £800 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 218 138
10th Percentile £30.13 £22.27 £28.73
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.00 £48.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.19 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.19 £75.00 £80.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Gherkin
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Gherkin in England

Gherkin
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Gherkin in England

Gherkin
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Gherkin in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Gherkin in England

Gherkin
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Gherkin in England.

Hourly rate trend for Gherkin in England

Gherkin
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Gherkin within the England 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
North of England +19 10 £389 -29.27% 9
London +22 9 £463 +5.71% 5
Yorkshire +10 9 £390 -29.09% 4
Midlands - 4 £483 - 4
West Midlands - 4 £483 - 2
South East +48 3 - - 2
South West - 3 £568 - 4
North West +16 1 £330 -20.00% 5
Gherkin
UK

Gherkin
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (16.13%) Confluence
2 1 (3.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (3.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (29.03%) Azure
2 5 (16.13%) GitHub
3 4 (12.90%) AWS
4 3 (9.68%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (3.23%) BlazeMeter
6 1 (3.23%) BrowserStack
6 1 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (3.23%) GCP
6 1 (3.23%) Miro
6 1 (3.23%) OpenShift
6 1 (3.23%) SaaS
6 1 (3.23%) Smartsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.45%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (3.23%) IDMS
2 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (54.84%) Cucumber
2 10 (32.26%) Selenium
3 8 (25.81%) JIRA
3 8 (25.81%) Visual Studio
4 6 (19.35%) Git
4 6 (19.35%) Jenkins
5 5 (16.13%) JMeter
6 4 (12.90%) SpecFlow
7 3 (9.68%) Postman
7 3 (9.68%) Vagrant
7 3 (9.68%) WebDriver
8 2 (6.45%) Cypress.io
8 2 (6.45%) NUnit
9 1 (3.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (3.23%) Bitbucket
9 1 (3.23%) CA Gen
9 1 (3.23%) LoadRunner
9 1 (3.23%) Maven
9 1 (3.23%) REST Assured
9 1 (3.23%) WebStorm
General
1 13 (41.94%) Finance
2 10 (32.26%) Public Sector
3 5 (16.13%) Social Skills
3 5 (16.13%) Telecoms
4 4 (12.90%) Electronics
4 4 (12.90%) Manufacturing
4 4 (12.90%) Marketing
5 3 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (6.45%) Financial Institution
7 1 (3.23%) Banking
7 1 (3.23%) Front Office
7 1 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (22.58%) Senior
2 6 (19.35%) Developer
2 6 (19.35%) Test Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Tester
4 4 (12.90%) Automation Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Senior Test Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Software Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Analyst
5 3 (9.68%) Automation Tester
5 3 (9.68%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Data Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Developer in Test
5 3 (9.68%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Test Automation Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Business Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Consultant
6 2 (6.45%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Automation Tester
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (19.35%) .NET
2 4 (12.90%) AngularJS
2 4 (12.90%) JSON
3 3 (9.68%) CSS
3 3 (9.68%) HTML
3 3 (9.68%) Playwright
3 3 (9.68%) PySpark
3 3 (9.68%) RESTful
4 2 (6.45%) .NET Framework
4 2 (6.45%) Spring
4 2 (6.45%) Spring Boot
4 2 (6.45%) Web Services
5 1 (3.23%) .NET Core
5 1 (3.23%) GraphQL
5 1 (3.23%) gRPC
5 1 (3.23%) Kafka
5 1 (3.23%) React
5 1 (3.23%) REST
5 1 (3.23%) WPF
5 1 (3.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.45%) Data Structures
1 2 (6.45%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.23%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.23%) Unix
1 1 (3.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (58.06%) Test Automation
2 17 (54.84%) Agile
3 12 (38.71%) CI/CD
4 11 (35.48%) BDD
5 7 (22.58%) DevOps
6 6 (19.35%) Performance Testing
7 5 (16.13%) Scrum
7 5 (16.13%) SDET
7 5 (16.13%) Software Testing
7 5 (16.13%) User Stories
8 4 (12.90%) Acceptance Criteria
8 4 (12.90%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (12.90%) Change Management
8 4 (12.90%) Digital Marketing
8 4 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (12.90%) Programme Management
8 4 (12.90%) Software Engineering
8 4 (12.90%) Test Scripting
9 3 (9.68%) Data Validation
9 3 (9.68%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 9 (29.03%) Python
2 8 (25.81%) SQL
3 5 (16.13%) C#
4 4 (12.90%) JavaScript
5 3 (9.68%) Java
5 3 (9.68%) PowerShell
5 3 (9.68%) Ruby
5 3 (9.68%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.23%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 10 (32.26%) Security Cleared
2 8 (25.81%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.23%) Degree
3 1 (3.23%) ISEB
3 1 (3.23%) ISTQB
3 1 (3.23%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (35.48%) QA
2 4 (12.90%) Data Quality
3 2 (6.45%) Accessibility
4 1 (3.23%) SEPA
4 1 (3.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 3 (9.68%) Docker
1 3 (9.68%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 8 (25.81%) Ansible
2 3 (9.68%) Puppet
3 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (12.90%) Databricks
1 4 (12.90%) SAP
2 3 (9.68%) Splunk
3 2 (6.45%) Microsoft