Gherkin Contract Job Trends in the North West

Gherkin
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West 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 152 122 136
Rank change year-on-year -30 +14 +26
Contract jobs citing Gherkin 6 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.19% 0.052% 0.073%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.96% 0.23% 0.39%
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
England median daily rate £469 £475 £438
% change year-on-year -1.32% +8.57% -4.37%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 628 427 510
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 19.84% 22.15% 18.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 415 321 381
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £400 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £570 £550 £588
90th Percentile £643 £638 £700
England median daily rate £525 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -1.59% -3.00% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 4 18
10th Percentile £52.50 - £37.63
25th Percentile £53.75 £65.25 £45.88
Median hourly rate £70.00 £67.75 £47.31
Median % change year-on-year +3.32% +43.22% +16.54%
75th Percentile £77.50 £74.69 £71.87
90th Percentile £94.50 £83.13 £75.05
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

Gherkin
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Gherkin job vacancy trend in the North West

Gherkin
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Gherkin
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Gherkin.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Gherkin

Gherkin
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 16 April 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
Manchester -17 6 £400 +21.21% 4
Gherkin
England

Gherkin
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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