Gherkin Contracts in Reading

Gherkin
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Gherkin 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.50% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.21% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Berkshire median daily rate - - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 136 200 220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 22.78% 16.78% 21.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 131 173
10th Percentile £350 £325 £407
25th Percentile £409 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £680
90th Percentile £663 £675 £725
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.71% -4.55% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 4
10th Percentile - £56.50 £72.76
25th Percentile - £56.65 £76.89
Median hourly rate £77.19 £58.30 £79.19
Median % change year-on-year +32.40% -26.38% +143.66%
75th Percentile - £61.60 -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £77.19 £61.60 £78.75
% change year-on-year +25.31% -21.78% +20.23%

Gherkin
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Gherkin as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Gherkin in Reading

Gherkin
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Gherkin in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Gherkin in Reading

Gherkin
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 3 (100.00%) Electronics
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 3 (100.00%) Marketing
1 3 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Test Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Automation Tester
2 2 (66.67%) Data Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Automation Tester
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Data Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Test Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Tester
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Data-Driven Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Digital Marketing
1 3 (100.00%) Programme Management
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Data Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) Data Validation
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Process Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) System Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
1 2 (66.67%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Databricks
1 3 (100.00%) SAP