Gherkin Contract Job Trends in the North East

Gherkin
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Gherkin skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 33 -
Rank change year-on-year 0 - -
Contract jobs citing Gherkin 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 0.69% 0.36% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.85% 1.92% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £509 - -
25th Percentile £512 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £310 -
Median % change year-on-year +67.74% - -
75th Percentile £524 - -
90th Percentile £525 - -
England median daily rate £500 £550 £438
% change year-on-year -9.09% +25.71% +2.94%

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 52 52 53
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 17.93% 18.84% 22.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 22 38
10th Percentile £332 £326 £355
25th Percentile £425 £388 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £460 £585
Median % change year-on-year +3.26% -21.37% +6.36%
75th Percentile £520 £585 £709
90th Percentile £575 £648 £720
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 2
Median hourly rate - £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.04%
England median hourly rate £55.00 £62.93 £60.00
% change year-on-year -12.60% +4.88% -5.40%

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 19 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
Tyne and Wear -6 2 £520 +67.74% 1
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) Gatling
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) JMeter
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
1 1 (50.00%) TestRail
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Lead
2 1 (50.00%) Lead Test Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) QA Test Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) QA Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google