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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 333 378 406
Rank change year-on-year +45 +28 +20
Contract jobs citing Gherkin 24 27 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.13% 0.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.95% 0.79% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 21 27
10th Percentile £355 £413 £285
25th Percentile £385 £525 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -14.55% +15.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £600 £488
90th Percentile £575 - £503
UK median daily rate £483 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -12.18% +15.79% -

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 2,522 3,438 4,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.61% 16.19% 17.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,742 2,206 3,061
10th Percentile £320 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £410 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £561 £606 £600
90th Percentile £638 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.51% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 242 90
10th Percentile £33.91 £22.88 £22.47
25th Percentile £50.00 £43.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £57.13 £64.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.41% -11.43% +17.27%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £80.51 £74.40 £78.12
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -15.38% +28.40%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 +19 11 £389 -29.27% 5
Midlands - 9 £500 - 9
Yorkshire -5 8 £390 -29.09% 1
West Midlands - 8 £500 - 8
North West +9 3 £388 -6.06% 4
Scotland +2 3 £466 -6.38% 3
East of England - 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 £270 - 1
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 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (29.17%) GitHub
2 4 (16.67%) AWS
3 3 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (8.33%) Azure
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.17%) Datadog
5 1 (4.17%) OCI
5 1 (4.17%) SaaS
5 1 (4.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) MongoDB
2 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (4.17%) MariaDB
3 1 (4.17%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 12 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 7 (29.17%) JIRA
2 7 (29.17%) Selenium
2 7 (29.17%) Visual Studio
3 6 (25.00%) Jenkins
4 5 (20.83%) JUnit
5 4 (16.67%) Git
6 3 (12.50%) GitLab
6 3 (12.50%) Postman
6 3 (12.50%) SpecFlow
6 3 (12.50%) Vagrant
7 2 (8.33%) JMeter
8 1 (4.17%) Artifactory
8 1 (4.17%) Cypress.io
8 1 (4.17%) WebDriver
General
1 9 (37.50%) Finance
2 6 (25.00%) Banking
3 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Financial Institution
3 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.33%) Retail Banking
5 1 (4.17%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Developer
2 6 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 6 (25.00%) Tester
3 4 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Automation Tester
4 2 (8.33%) Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Developer in Test
4 2 (8.33%) Software Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Business Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Data Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) QA Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) QA Test Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) QA Tester
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Business Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Software Tester
5 1 (4.17%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) .NET
1 5 (20.83%) Kafka
2 3 (12.50%) Spring
3 2 (8.33%) AngularJS
3 2 (8.33%) Playwright
4 1 (4.17%) .NET Framework
4 1 (4.17%) DOM
4 1 (4.17%) ggplot2
4 1 (4.17%) HTML
4 1 (4.17%) jQuery
4 1 (4.17%) JSON
4 1 (4.17%) REST
4 1 (4.17%) RESTful
4 1 (4.17%) Shiny
4 1 (4.17%) WireMock
4 1 (4.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.17%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.17%) PKI
3 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (62.50%) Test Automation
2 12 (50.00%) Agile
3 9 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 7 (29.17%) BDD
5 6 (25.00%) Microservices
5 6 (25.00%) SDLC
6 4 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
6 4 (16.67%) Change Management
6 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (16.67%) Scrum
6 4 (16.67%) Software Testing
6 4 (16.67%) User Stories
7 3 (12.50%) Data Protection
7 3 (12.50%) TDD
8 2 (8.33%) API Testing
8 2 (8.33%) DevOps
8 2 (8.33%) Mentoring
8 2 (8.33%) Migration
8 2 (8.33%) Performance Testing
8 2 (8.33%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 9 (37.50%) Java
2 7 (29.17%) Python
3 5 (20.83%) C#
4 4 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 3 (12.50%) PowerShell
5 3 (12.50%) Ruby
6 2 (8.33%) SQL
7 1 (4.17%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.17%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) VirtualBox
2 1 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (29.17%) Ansible
2 3 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 3 (12.50%) Puppet
3 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) Splunk
2 1 (4.17%) Atlassian
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle