Gherkin Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Gherkin
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Gherkin skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 29 -
Rank change year-on-year -7 - -
Contract jobs citing Gherkin 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 0.43% 0.55% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.27% 3.23% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £310 -
Median % change year-on-year +69.35% - -
North East median daily rate £525 £310 -
% change year-on-year +69.35% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 44 31 49
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 18.88% 17.03% 30.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 18 36
10th Percentile £327 £339 £375
25th Percentile £419 £413 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £513 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.31% -14.54% +9.09%
75th Percentile £506 £604 £720
90th Percentile £575 £658 -
North East median daily rate £470 £460 £585
% change year-on-year +2.17% -21.37% +6.36%

Gherkin
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Gherkin as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Gherkin in Tyne and Wear

Gherkin
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Gherkin.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Gherkin

Gherkin
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Gherkin within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -6 1 £525 +69.35% 1
Gherkin
North East

Gherkin
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Gatling
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) TestRail
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Test Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
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%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) QA