Gherkin Contracts in the North East

Gherkin
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 29 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 33 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Contract jobs citing Gherkin 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 0.35% 0.41% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.27% 2.13% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £310 -
Median % change year-on-year +69.35% - -
England median daily rate £500 £550 £438
% change year-on-year -9.09% +25.71% -2.78%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 44 47 59
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 15.55% 19.11% 22.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 21 42
10th Percentile £350 £325 £340
25th Percentile £425 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £575
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -26.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £513 £538 £709
90th Percentile £575 £630 £720
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
Median hourly rate - £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.04%
England median hourly rate £54.70 £62.50 £61.25
% change year-on-year -12.48% +2.04% +2.08%

Gherkin
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Gherkin as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Gherkin in the North East

Gherkin
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Gherkin.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Gherkin

Gherkin
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Gherkin within the North East region over the 6 months to 29 August 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
Tyne and Wear -5 1 £525 +69.35%
Gherkin
England

Gherkin
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Gatling
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) TestRail
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Test Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test 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%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) QA