Gherkin Contracts in the UK excluding London

Gherkin
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 319 385 397
Rank change year-on-year +66 +12 +35
Contract jobs citing Gherkin 20 14 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.067% 0.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.84% 0.43% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 9 37
10th Percentile £356 £382 £285
25th Percentile £386 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.95% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £530 £575 £488
90th Percentile £603 - £493
UK median daily rate £483 £438 £475
% change year-on-year +10.40% -7.89% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,391 3,290 4,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.69% 15.85% 18.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,652 2,153 3,284
10th Percentile £350 £324 £357
25th Percentile £406 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 199 91
10th Percentile £31.71 £21.63 £22.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -24.00% +27.55%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £74.13
90th Percentile £81.80 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

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 2 May 2025.

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 2 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
North of England +23 10 £389 -29.27% 9
Yorkshire +9 9 £390 -29.09% 4
Midlands - 4 £483 - 4
West Midlands - 4 £483 - 2
South East +48 3 - - 2
South West - 3 £568 - 5
North West +13 1 £330 -20.00% 5
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (15.00%) GitHub
3 2 (10.00%) AWS
3 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (5.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (5.00%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 11 (55.00%) Cucumber
2 8 (40.00%) Visual Studio
3 7 (35.00%) JIRA
4 5 (25.00%) Selenium
5 4 (20.00%) Git
5 4 (20.00%) Jenkins
5 4 (20.00%) SpecFlow
6 3 (15.00%) Vagrant
7 2 (10.00%) JMeter
7 2 (10.00%) NUnit
7 2 (10.00%) Postman
8 1 (5.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
8 1 (5.00%) CA Gen
General
1 11 (55.00%) Finance
2 6 (30.00%) Public Sector
3 5 (25.00%) Telecoms
4 4 (20.00%) Electronics
4 4 (20.00%) Manufacturing
4 4 (20.00%) Marketing
5 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
6 2 (10.00%) Financial Institution
7 1 (5.00%) Banking
7 1 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Senior
1 5 (25.00%) Test Engineer
1 5 (25.00%) Tester
2 4 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Senior Test Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Automation Tester
3 3 (15.00%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Data Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Test Automation Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Automation Tester
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Tester
5 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Business Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Software Tester
5 1 (5.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) .NET
2 3 (15.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (15.00%) PySpark
3 2 (10.00%) Playwright
4 1 (5.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (5.00%) GraphQL
4 1 (5.00%) REST
4 1 (5.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Unix
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 11 (55.00%) Agile
3 7 (35.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (25.00%) BDD
5 4 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (20.00%) Change Management
5 4 (20.00%) DevOps
5 4 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
5 4 (20.00%) Performance Testing
5 4 (20.00%) Programme Management
5 4 (20.00%) Scrum
6 3 (15.00%) Acceptance Criteria
6 3 (15.00%) Data-Driven Testing
6 3 (15.00%) User Stories
6 3 (15.00%) Waterfall
7 2 (10.00%) Analytics
7 2 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
7 2 (10.00%) End-to-End Testing
7 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) Python
1 7 (35.00%) SQL
2 4 (20.00%) C#
3 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (15.00%) Ruby
4 2 (10.00%) TypeScript
5 1 (5.00%) COBOL
5 1 (5.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) ISEB
3 1 (5.00%) ISTQB
3 1 (5.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (30.00%) QA
2 2 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (10.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) VirtualBox
2 2 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (35.00%) Ansible
2 3 (15.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) SAP
2 3 (15.00%) Databricks
2 3 (15.00%) Splunk