Gherkin Contract Job Trends in Swindon

Gherkin
Wiltshire > Swindon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Swindon requiring Gherkin skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Gherkin 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Swindon 1.04% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.76% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wiltshire median daily rate £525 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Swindon

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 Swindon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 21 22 13
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swindon 21.88% 31.43% 9.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 16 11
10th Percentile £378 £419 £463
25th Percentile £406 £500 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £580 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% -3.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £594 £738 £656
90th Percentile £675 - £688
Wiltshire median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% -

Gherkin
Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

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

Gherkin job vacancy trend in Swindon

Gherkin
Daily Rate Trend in Swindon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Swindon citing Gherkin.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Swindon citing Gherkin

Gherkin
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swindon 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Ant
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Thales