Gherkin Contracts in Scotland

Gherkin
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 7 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 122 143
Rank change year-on-year +9 +21 +12
Contract jobs citing Gherkin 1 3 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.061% 0.14% 0.82%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.26% 0.68% 3.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 17
10th Percentile - £496 £420
25th Percentile - £497 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £498 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +4.84% +5.56%
75th Percentile - £499 £488
90th Percentile - £500 -
UK median daily rate £483 £538 £475
% change year-on-year -10.14% +13.16% +2.26%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 381 441 651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 23.40% 20.62% 24.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 292 482
10th Percentile £313 £325 £400
25th Percentile £409 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £460 £488
Median % change year-on-year +3.26% -5.64% -0.51%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £545
90th Percentile £600 £673 £649
UK median daily rate £520 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -3.26% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 4
10th Percentile - £36.10 £23.53
25th Percentile - £51.25 £39.09
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £53.38
Median % change year-on-year - +3.03% +13.57%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £61.77
90th Percentile - - £66.71
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £48.43 £65.00
% change year-on-year +29.05% -25.49% +23.81%

Gherkin
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Gherkin in Scotland

Gherkin
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Gherkin in Scotland

Gherkin
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Gherkin within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 7 June 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
Edinburgh - 1 - - 1
Gherkin
UK

Gherkin
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) OCI
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) SpecFlow
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) WireMock
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
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%) Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) Resource Allocation
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes