Gherkin Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Gherkin
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Gherkin skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 84 -
Rank change year-on-year +3 - -
Contract jobs citing Gherkin 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.093% 0.18% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.67% 1.71% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £575 -
South East median daily rate - £575 £515
% change year-on-year - +11.65% +14.44%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 149 117 181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 13.78% 10.34% 13.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 70 89
10th Percentile £363 £411 £435
25th Percentile £415 £466 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +3.47%
75th Percentile £600 £662 £633
90th Percentile £650 £695 £701
South East median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 14 19
10th Percentile £48.50 £62.50 £51.25
25th Percentile - £64.38 £55.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £70.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £52.50 - £70.00
90th Percentile £55.00 - £71.60
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% -7.69%

Gherkin
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Gherkin job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Gherkin
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Gherkin.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Gherkin

Gherkin
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Gherkin within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 5 November 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
Farnborough - 1 - -
Gherkin
South East

Gherkin
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Gradle
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) TestNG
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Smoke Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Review
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker