Gherkin Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Gherkin
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Gherkin skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 - 111
Rank change year-on-year - - +47
Contract jobs citing Gherkin 16 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.85% - 0.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.57% - 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 0 1
10th Percentile £369 - -
25th Percentile £436 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.97%
75th Percentile - - £438
90th Percentile £549 - -
England median daily rate £500 £550 £438
% change year-on-year -9.09% +25.71% +2.94%

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 350 337 320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 18.66% 17.94% 15.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 185 218
10th Percentile £373 £358 £325
25th Percentile £430 £460 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £479
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +14.88% -8.81%
75th Percentile £613 £635 £600
90th Percentile £700 £750 £688
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 2 3
10th Percentile £27.21 £19.33 £17.20
25th Percentile £33.91 £26.94 £17.31
Median hourly rate £50.00 £42.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.34% +141.43% -69.83%
75th Percentile - £59.94 £30.63
90th Percentile - £68.98 £38.50
England median hourly rate £54.70 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -15.85% +13.04% -11.54%

Gherkin
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Gherkin relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Gherkin job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Gherkin
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Gherkin.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Gherkin

Gherkin
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Gherkin in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 12 October 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 - 12 £500 -
Shropshire - 4 £525 - 2
Gherkin
England

Gherkin
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (75.00%) MongoDB
2 5 (31.25%) NoSQL
3 2 (12.50%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 14 (87.50%) JUnit
2 9 (56.25%) GitLab
3 4 (25.00%) Cucumber
3 4 (25.00%) Selenium
4 3 (18.75%) Git
4 3 (18.75%) Maven
4 3 (18.75%) Mockito
5 1 (6.25%) REST Assured
General
1 8 (50.00%) Banking
2 5 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (25.00%) Retail Banking
3 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Finance
4 2 (12.50%) Financial Institution
5 1 (6.25%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (93.75%) Developer
2 14 (87.50%) Java Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Senior
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Business Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Junior
5 1 (6.25%) Junior Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Junior Java Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Business Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (68.75%) Kafka
2 9 (56.25%) Spring
3 3 (18.75%) GraalVM
3 3 (18.75%) HTML
3 3 (18.75%) JDBC
3 3 (18.75%) JPA
3 3 (18.75%) JSON
3 3 (18.75%) OAuth
3 3 (18.75%) OAuth2
3 3 (18.75%) OpenID
3 3 (18.75%) Playwright
3 3 (18.75%) React
3 3 (18.75%) Spring Boot
4 1 (6.25%) .NET
4 1 (6.25%) Java EE
4 1 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (6.25%) RESTful
4 1 (6.25%) Spring.NET
4 1 (6.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (87.50%) Microservices
2 11 (68.75%) SDLC
3 10 (62.50%) Test Automation
4 5 (31.25%) Agile
4 5 (31.25%) TDD
5 4 (25.00%) Data Protection
5 4 (25.00%) Scrum
6 3 (18.75%) Coaching
6 3 (18.75%) OO
6 3 (18.75%) OOD
6 3 (18.75%) Software Engineering
6 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
7 2 (12.50%) User Stories
8 1 (6.25%) Business Analysis
8 1 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
8 1 (6.25%) Security Testing
8 1 (6.25%) Software Testing
8 1 (6.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 1 (6.25%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 15 (93.75%) Java
2 1 (6.25%) Groovy
2 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
2 1 (6.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) WCAG
2 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Grafana
1 3 (18.75%) Kibana
1 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle