Gherkin Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Gherkin
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Gherkin skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 87 98
Rank change year-on-year -17 +11 +20
Contract jobs citing Gherkin 6 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.37% 0.11% 0.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.49% 0.42% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £401
25th Percentile - £325 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £330 £413
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% -20.00% +42.24%
75th Percentile - £335 £428
90th Percentile - - £434
North West median daily rate £400 £330 £413
% change year-on-year +21.21% -20.00% +42.24%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 404 238 372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 24.65% 25.76% 24.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 187 298
10th Percentile £355 £394 £366
25th Percentile £400 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £554 £600
90th Percentile £627 £638 £808
North West median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 1 7
10th Percentile £52.50 - £67.00
25th Percentile £53.44 £76.25 £67.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £82.50 £71.87
Median % change year-on-year -15.15% +14.79% +79.68%
75th Percentile £77.50 £88.75 £76.75
90th Percentile £95.00 - £81.60
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £67.75 £47.31
% change year-on-year +3.32% +43.22% +16.54%

Gherkin
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Gherkin job vacancy trend in Manchester

Gherkin
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Gherkin

Gherkin
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Gherkin.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Gherkin

Gherkin
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Datadog
1 1 (16.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Selenium
2 5 (83.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
3 1 (16.67%) Git
3 1 (16.67%) Postman
3 1 (16.67%) Robot Framework
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Automation Test Lead
1 5 (83.33%) Lead
2 4 (66.67%) Test Leader
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Test Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Architecture
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) BDD
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (83.33%) API Testing
2 5 (83.33%) TDD
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Coaching
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Microservices
3 1 (16.67%) Observability
3 1 (16.67%) OO
3 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Software Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Grafana
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Prometheus