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 28 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 470 498 592
Rank change year-on-year +28 +94 +40
Contract jobs citing Gherkin 29 47 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.13% 0.095%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.51% 0.59% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 40 38
10th Percentile £356 £357 £285
25th Percentile £387 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £550 £463
Median % change year-on-year -12.18% +18.92% -2.63%
75th Percentile £500 £588 £619
90th Percentile £680 £600 £784
UK median daily rate £483 £544 £475
% change year-on-year -11.17% +14.47% -

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 5,718 7,911 10,639
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.49% 21.20% 22.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,948 5,508 7,918
10th Percentile £357 £350 £386
25th Percentile £413 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £788 £800 £798
UK median daily rate £515 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.19% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 265 137
10th Percentile £30.23 £23.80 £30.45
25th Percentile £45.31 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £58.88 £58.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.51% -10.77% +23.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £74.48 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -15.38% +26.83%

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 28 June 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 28 June 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 +4 11 £389 -29.27% 4
Midlands - 9 £500 - 10
Yorkshire -4 8 £390 -29.09% 1
West Midlands - 8 £500 - 8
London +36 7 £581 +36.76% 10
North West +17 3 £388 -6.06% 3
East Midlands - 1 £270 - 2
East of England - 1 - -
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 4 (13.79%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.45%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.69%) GitHub
2 5 (17.24%) AWS
3 3 (10.34%) Azure
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.45%) BlazeMeter
4 1 (3.45%) BrowserStack
4 1 (3.45%) Datadog
4 1 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (3.45%) OpenShift
4 1 (3.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.69%) MongoDB
2 3 (10.34%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (51.72%) Cucumber
2 8 (27.59%) Jenkins
3 7 (24.14%) JIRA
3 7 (24.14%) Selenium
3 7 (24.14%) Visual Studio
4 5 (17.24%) JUnit
5 4 (13.79%) Git
5 4 (13.79%) JMeter
6 3 (10.34%) GitLab
6 3 (10.34%) Postman
6 3 (10.34%) Vagrant
7 2 (6.90%) Cypress.io
7 2 (6.90%) REST Assured
7 2 (6.90%) SpecFlow
8 1 (3.45%) Artifactory
8 1 (3.45%) Eclipse
8 1 (3.45%) LoadRunner
8 1 (3.45%) Maven
8 1 (3.45%) WebDriver
General
1 11 (37.93%) Finance
2 7 (24.14%) Banking
3 5 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (17.24%) Social Skills
4 4 (13.79%) Financial Institution
4 4 (13.79%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.90%) Retail Banking
6 1 (3.45%) Front Office
6 1 (3.45%) Health Technology
6 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (31.03%) Developer
2 6 (20.69%) Java Developer
3 5 (17.24%) Automation Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) Tester
4 4 (13.79%) Senior
5 3 (10.34%) Automation Tester
6 2 (6.90%) Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) Consultant
6 2 (6.90%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Software Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Angular Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Data Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Developer in Test
7 1 (3.45%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
7 1 (3.45%) Front Office Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Senior Automation Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.69%) Kafka
2 5 (17.24%) .NET
2 5 (17.24%) Spring
3 3 (10.34%) AngularJS
4 2 (6.90%) HTML
4 2 (6.90%) JSON
4 2 (6.90%) Playwright
4 2 (6.90%) REST
4 2 (6.90%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.45%) .NET Core
5 1 (3.45%) .NET Framework
5 1 (3.45%) CSS
5 1 (3.45%) DOM
5 1 (3.45%) ggplot2
5 1 (3.45%) gRPC
5 1 (3.45%) jQuery
5 1 (3.45%) React
5 1 (3.45%) RESTful
5 1 (3.45%) Shiny
5 1 (3.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.90%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (6.90%) Data Structures
1 2 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.45%) PKI
2 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (58.62%) Test Automation
2 13 (44.83%) Agile
3 11 (37.93%) CI/CD
4 9 (31.03%) Microservices
5 8 (27.59%) BDD
6 6 (20.69%) SDLC
7 4 (13.79%) Acceptance Criteria
7 4 (13.79%) Change Management
7 4 (13.79%) DevOps
7 4 (13.79%) Performance Testing
7 4 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (13.79%) User Stories
8 3 (10.34%) Migration
8 3 (10.34%) Software Engineering
8 3 (10.34%) TDD
8 3 (10.34%) Test Scripting
8 3 (10.34%) Test Strategy
9 2 (6.90%) Compatibility Testing
9 2 (6.90%) Data Migration
9 2 (6.90%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (34.48%) Java
2 9 (31.03%) Python
3 5 (17.24%) C#
4 4 (13.79%) JavaScript
5 3 (10.34%) PowerShell
5 3 (10.34%) Ruby
6 2 (6.90%) SQL
7 1 (3.45%) R
7 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.34%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.69%) QA
2 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.45%) SEPA
2 1 (3.45%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) VirtualBox
2 2 (6.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (27.59%) Ansible
2 3 (10.34%) Puppet
3 2 (6.90%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.45%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (10.34%) Splunk
2 1 (3.45%) Atlassian
2 1 (3.45%) Databricks
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft