Gherkin Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Gherkin
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring Gherkin skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Gherkin 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 0.60% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.55% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 - -
North West median daily rate £365 £359 £413
% change year-on-year +1.74% -13.03% +42.24%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 44 28 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 13.29% 16.97% 15.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 20 14
10th Percentile £390 £388 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £523 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.39% +16.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £510
90th Percentile £626 £685 £550
North West median daily rate £475 £466 £500
% change year-on-year +1.93% -6.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £30.00 - -
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £67.75 £48.43
% change year-on-year +3.32% +39.89% +19.45%

Gherkin
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Gherkin job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Gherkin
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Gherkin

Gherkin
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Gherkin within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 20 May 2026. 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
Liverpool - 2 £365 - 1
Gherkin
North West

Gherkin
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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 2 (100.00%) Ranorex
1 2 (100.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Automation Test Lead
1 2 (100.00%) Lead
1 2 (100.00%) Test Leader
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 2 (100.00%) OOP
1 2 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA