Gherkin Contracts in Glasgow

Gherkin
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 66 80
Rank change year-on-year -15 +14 -3
Contract jobs citing Gherkin 2 3 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.26% 0.39% 0.56%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.97% 1.73% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £458 £496 £413
25th Percentile £460 £497 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £498 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +4.84% +5.56%
75th Percentile £470 £499 £506
90th Percentile £470 £500 £518
Scotland median daily rate £466 £498 £475
% change year-on-year -6.38% +4.84% +5.56%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 206 173 179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 27.07% 22.53% 20.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 115 121
10th Percentile £300 £325 £388
25th Percentile £403 £393 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £435 £523
Median % change year-on-year +8.05% -16.75% +10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £500 £634
90th Percentile £607 £575 £738
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +5.56% -7.69% -0.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - £51.50 £16.62
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.88 £21.80
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £30.45
Median % change year-on-year - +80.65% -52.98%
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.50 £39.09
90th Percentile - - £44.27
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £47.73
% change year-on-year - +15.23% +0.48%

Gherkin
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Gherkin in Glasgow

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Gherkin in Glasgow

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (50.00%) MariaDB
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Developer in Test
1 2 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) SDET
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle