Gherkin Contract Job Trends in the South East

Gherkin
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Gherkin skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 174 167 202
Rank change year-on-year -7 +35 +46
Contract jobs citing Gherkin 2 12 6
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.048% 0.30% 0.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.29% 1.88% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £432
25th Percentile £525 £313 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £325 £515
Median % change year-on-year +69.23% -36.89% +14.44%
75th Percentile £575 £338 £563
90th Percentile - - £588
England median daily rate £500 £504 £438
% change year-on-year -0.74% +15.14% +2.94%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South 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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 686 639 868
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.40% 15.78% 16.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 491 409 502
10th Percentile £293 £313 £325
25th Percentile £397 £409 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £625
90th Percentile £640 £675 £680
England median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -5.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 17 39
10th Percentile £30.87 £43.88 £48.92
25th Percentile £46.25 £59.50 £52.88
Median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% -6.00%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £73.27
90th Percentile £81.00 £71.95 £78.00
England median hourly rate £57.40 £65.00 £53.00
% change year-on-year -11.69% +22.64% -18.46%

Gherkin
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Gherkin job vacancy trend in the South East

Gherkin
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Gherkin.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Gherkin

Gherkin
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South East region over the 6 months to 29 November 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
Hampshire - 2 £550 -
Gherkin
England

Gherkin
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Gradle
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
1 2 (100.00%) Postman
1 2 (100.00%) TestNG
2 1 (50.00%) Gatling
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Maven
2 1 (50.00%) REST Assured
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (50.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) API Testing
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) ATDD
2 1 (50.00%) Code Coverage
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) QA Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Smoke Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Review
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker