Gherkin Contracts in London

Gherkin
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 344 366 473
Rank change year-on-year +22 +107 +37
Contract jobs citing Gherkin 9 25 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.072% 0.14% 0.074%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.28% 0.56% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 23 18
10th Percentile £413 £363 £396
25th Percentile £416 £409 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £438 £625
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% -30.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £652 £493 £750
90th Percentile £791 £650 £806
England median daily rate £463 £438 £445
% change year-on-year +5.71% -1.69% -6.32%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,271 4,464 7,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.07% 25.04% 27.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,298 3,349 5,511
10th Percentile £385 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £459 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £725 £700 £730
90th Percentile £838 £825 £813
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 26 40
10th Percentile £33.25 £16.25 £30.68
25th Percentile £36.06 £23.90 £37.84
Median hourly rate £52.50 £37.17 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.24% -43.68% +35.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £68.50 £76.63
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Gherkin
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Gherkin in London

Gherkin
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Gherkin in London

Gherkin
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Gherkin in London

Gherkin
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Gherkin within the London 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
Central London 0 2 £425 -5.56%
Gherkin
England

Gherkin
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 1 (11.11%) Confluence
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) BlazeMeter
2 1 (11.11%) BrowserStack
2 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub
2 1 (11.11%) Miro
2 1 (11.11%) OpenShift
2 1 (11.11%) SaaS
2 1 (11.11%) Smartsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
1 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
1 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 5 (55.56%) Selenium
3 3 (33.33%) JMeter
3 3 (33.33%) WebDriver
4 2 (22.22%) Git
4 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
5 1 (11.11%) Cypress.io
5 1 (11.11%) JIRA
5 1 (11.11%) LoadRunner
5 1 (11.11%) Maven
5 1 (11.11%) WebStorm
General
1 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
1 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Front Office
2 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Software Developer
3 3 (33.33%) Developer in Test
4 2 (22.22%) Senior
5 1 (11.11%) Analyst
5 1 (11.11%) Angular Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Business Analyst
5 1 (11.11%) C# Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Consultant
5 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 1 (11.11%) Front Office Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Functional Consultant
5 1 (11.11%) Python Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Senior C# Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Senior Python Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (11.11%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) JSON
2 3 (33.33%) CSS
2 3 (33.33%) HTML
3 2 (22.22%) .NET
3 2 (22.22%) RESTful
3 2 (22.22%) Spring
3 2 (22.22%) Spring Boot
3 2 (22.22%) Web Services
4 1 (11.11%) .NET Core
4 1 (11.11%) .NET Framework
4 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
4 1 (11.11%) gRPC
4 1 (11.11%) Kafka
4 1 (11.11%) React
4 1 (11.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Structures
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Agile
1 5 (55.56%) BDD
2 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 4 (44.44%) SDET
2 4 (44.44%) Test Automation
3 3 (33.33%) DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 3 (33.33%) Software Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (22.22%) Exploratory Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Microservices
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) Project Delivery
4 2 (22.22%) Test Scripting
4 2 (22.22%) User Stories
5 1 (11.11%) Acceptance Criteria
5 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (11.11%) Front End Development
5 1 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) JavaScript
2 2 (22.22%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) C#
3 1 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 1 (11.11%) SEPA
2 1 (11.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft