Gherkin Contracts in the UK excluding London

Gherkin
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Gherkin skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Gherkin over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 374 395 427
Rank change year-on-year +21 +32 -66
Contract jobs citing Gherkin 14 52 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.068% 0.22% 0.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.43% 1.19% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 38 71
10th Percentile £382 £285 £380
25th Percentile £413 £411 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £488 £533
90th Percentile - £500 £600
UK median daily rate £441 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -7.08% - +11.76%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

Gherkin is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,265 4,374 6,190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.82% 18.31% 20.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,146 3,274 4,408
10th Percentile £324 £360 £363
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £586
90th Percentile £692 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £529 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 91 145
10th Percentile £21.44 £22.50 £20.25
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.65 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £64.00 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.78% +29.29% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.19 £73.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.75
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.65% +10.56%

Gherkin
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Gherkin as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Gherkin in the UK excluding London

Gherkin
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Gherkin in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Gherkin in the UK excluding London

Gherkin
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Gherkin in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Gherkin in the UK excluding London

Gherkin
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Gherkin in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Gherkin in the UK excluding London

Gherkin
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Gherkin within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 May 2024. 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
North of England +27 10 £550 +89.66% 4
Yorkshire +23 7 £550 +10.00% 2
Scotland +14 3 £498 +4.84%
North West +23 2 £413 +42.24% 2
South East +20 1 - -
North East - 1 £310 -
Gherkin
UK

Gherkin
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (7.14%) Figma
3 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) MariaDB
1 3 (21.43%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (57.14%) Cucumber
2 7 (50.00%) Selenium
3 4 (28.57%) JMeter
3 4 (28.57%) JUnit
4 3 (21.43%) WebDriver
5 2 (14.29%) Cypress.io
5 2 (14.29%) Postman
5 2 (14.29%) REST Assured
6 1 (7.14%) Gatling
6 1 (7.14%) Git
6 1 (7.14%) GitLab
6 1 (7.14%) JIRA
6 1 (7.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (42.86%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Tester
2 3 (21.43%) Automation Tester
3 2 (14.29%) Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Developer in Test
3 2 (14.29%) Lead
3 2 (14.29%) Software Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Test Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Test Leader
3 2 (14.29%) Test Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Automation Test Lead
4 1 (7.14%) QA Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) QA Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Software Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Software Test Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Test Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) REST
1 2 (14.29%) RESTful
2 1 (7.14%) ADO
2 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
2 1 (7.14%) GraphQL
2 1 (7.14%) Jest
2 1 (7.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 10 (71.43%) Agile
3 7 (50.00%) Software Testing
4 6 (42.86%) Analytics
4 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 6 (42.86%) Test Strategy
4 6 (42.86%) User Stories
5 5 (35.71%) API Testing
5 5 (35.71%) BDD
6 4 (28.57%) Scenario Testing
6 4 (28.57%) Test Scripting
7 3 (21.43%) Acceptance Criteria
7 3 (21.43%) Collaborative Culture
7 3 (21.43%) Continuous Delivery
7 3 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (21.43%) Defect Tracking
7 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (21.43%) SDET
7 3 (21.43%) Software Delivery
7 3 (21.43%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) Java
2 5 (35.71%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (64.29%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 2 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle