Gherkin Contracts in the West Midlands

Gherkin
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 - 134
Rank change year-on-year - - +34
Contract jobs citing Gherkin 4 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.30% - 0.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.75% - 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £434 - £411
25th Percentile £465 - £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.84%
75th Percentile £489 - £438
90th Percentile £500 - -
England median daily rate £463 £438 £445
% change year-on-year +5.71% -1.69% -6.32%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 228 258 360
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.95% 13.25% 15.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 189 247
10th Percentile £384 £310 £360
25th Percentile £422 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £619 £645 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £700
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 0
10th Percentile - £29.60 -
25th Percentile £26.25 £39.92 -
Median hourly rate £33.91 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.23% - -
75th Percentile - £55.63 -
90th Percentile - £56.25 -
England 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 West Midlands

Job postings citing Gherkin as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Gherkin in the West Midlands

Gherkin
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Gherkin in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Gherkin in the West Midlands

Gherkin
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Gherkin within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Birmingham - 3 £483 - 2
Shropshire - 1 £507 -
Gherkin
England

Gherkin
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (50.00%) JMeter
2 2 (50.00%) Selenium
3 1 (25.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (25.00%) CA Gen
3 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) QA Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) QA Leader
2 1 (25.00%) QA Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) QA Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 3 (75.00%) Scrum
1 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (75.00%) User Stories
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Compatibility Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 2 (50.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (25.00%) BDD
3 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) CRM
3 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (25.00%) ERP
3 1 (25.00%) Pair Programming
3 1 (25.00%) Security Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Test Management
3 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) COBOL
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) ISEB
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) Accessibility