Gherkin Contracts in Shropshire

Gherkin
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Shropshire 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 31 - 55
Rank change year-on-year - - +36
Contract jobs citing Gherkin 1 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Shropshire 0.77% - 2.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.88% - 11.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £410
25th Percentile - - £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 - £423
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.18%
75th Percentile - - £436
90th Percentile - - £437
West Midlands median daily rate £483 - £425
% change year-on-year - - +11.84%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 17 4 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 13.08% 2.99% 19.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 3 26
10th Percentile £421 £360 £413
25th Percentile £456 £375 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £400 £538
Median % change year-on-year +17.25% -25.62% +7.55%
75th Percentile £538 £425 £599
90th Percentile £540 £440 £602
West Midlands median daily rate £507 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -4.76% +6.06%

Gherkin
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Gherkin in Shropshire

Gherkin
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Daily rate trend for Gherkin in Shropshire

Gherkin
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Gherkin within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Telford - 1 £507 -
Gherkin
West Midlands

Gherkin
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Shropshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) CA Gen
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) QA Leader
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Time Management
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) ISEB
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) QA