Gherkin Contract Job Trends in London

Gherkin
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Gherkin skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 356 365 422
Rank change year-on-year +9 +57 +81
Contract jobs citing Gherkin 12 24 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.090% 0.15% 0.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.35% 0.54% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 19 25
10th Percentile £331 £349 £403
25th Percentile £425 £364 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% +15.79% +3.66%
75th Percentile £728 £731 £750
90th Percentile £763 £774 £863
England median daily rate £500 £550 £438
% change year-on-year -9.09% +25.71% +1.74%

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 3,468 4,418 5,889
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.10% 27.47% 26.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,385 3,093 4,399
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £688 £725 £713
90th Percentile £825 £850 £810
England median daily rate £508 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.73% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 20 40
10th Percentile £31.77 £23.80 £34.58
25th Percentile £34.17 £33.54 £36.47
Median hourly rate £51.97 £45.00 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.49% -29.69% +10.34%
75th Percentile £62.81 £61.70 £75.25
90th Percentile £85.95 £75.50 £86.90
England median hourly rate £54.70 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -12.48% +4.17% -

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
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Gherkin

Gherkin
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Gherkin in London over the 6 months to 8 September 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 8 September 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 +5 1 £425 -12.82%
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 3 (25.00%) Confluence
2 1 (8.33%) JBoss
Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (25.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Temenos T24
2 1 (8.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
1 2 (16.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) SQL Server
2 3 (25.00%) DB2
2 3 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (16.67%) MongoDB
3 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 2 (16.67%) Relational Database
4 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 10 (83.33%) Cucumber
2 6 (50.00%) Selenium
3 5 (41.67%) JIRA
4 3 (25.00%) Bitbucket
4 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
4 3 (25.00%) TeamCity
5 2 (16.67%) Git
5 2 (16.67%) Zephyr
6 1 (8.33%) Eclipse
6 1 (8.33%) JMeter
6 1 (8.33%) Postman
6 1 (8.33%) REST Assured
6 1 (8.33%) WebDriver
General
1 8 (66.67%) Finance
2 6 (50.00%) Banking
2 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Front Office
4 1 (8.33%) Back Office
4 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Senior
3 3 (25.00%) Agile Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Agile Java Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Java Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Angular Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Automation Tester
4 2 (16.67%) Azure Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Business Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) C# Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Front Office Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Python Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Senior C# Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Python Developer
4 2 (16.67%) T24 Business Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Technical Business Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (58.33%) RESTful
2 4 (33.33%) CSS
2 4 (33.33%) HTML
3 3 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (25.00%) Node.js
3 3 (25.00%) React
4 2 (16.67%) .NET
4 2 (16.67%) .NET Core
4 2 (16.67%) AngularJS
4 2 (16.67%) gRPC
4 2 (16.67%) Kafka
4 2 (16.67%) SOAP
5 1 (8.33%) JSON
5 1 (8.33%) REST
5 1 (8.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (25.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (16.67%) Data Structures
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (8.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Test Automation
2 7 (58.33%) BDD
2 7 (58.33%) Software Engineering
3 6 (50.00%) Agile
3 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (50.00%) Microservices
4 5 (41.67%) Scrum
4 5 (41.67%) Unit Testing
5 4 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
5 4 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (33.33%) DevOps
5 4 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
5 4 (33.33%) Test Strategy
5 4 (33.33%) User Stories
6 3 (25.00%) Front End Development
6 3 (25.00%) Functional Testing
6 3 (25.00%) Kanban
6 3 (25.00%) SDLC
6 3 (25.00%) Static Code Analysis
6 3 (25.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Java
2 5 (41.67%) SQL
3 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 2 (16.67%) C#
4 2 (16.67%) Python
4 2 (16.67%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
1 2 (16.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) QA
2 2 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Atlassian
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle
2 2 (16.67%) Temenos
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft