Gherkin Contracts in West Yorkshire

Gherkin
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 60 70 102
Rank change year-on-year +10 +32 -
Contract jobs citing Gherkin 2 7 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.36% 0.70% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.72% 3.45% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - - £300
25th Percentile £431 £525 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £444 £575 -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £390 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -29.09% +10.00% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 116 203 350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 21.17% 20.32% 21.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 145 267
10th Percentile £394 £325 £417
25th Percentile £450 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £760 £675 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 6
10th Percentile £84.38 - £61.25
25th Percentile £84.67 - £63.44
Median hourly rate £96.85 £13.87 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +598.23% -80.19% -
75th Percentile £102.00 - -
90th Percentile - - £75.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £96.85 £22.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +330.42% -67.86% +106.86%

Gherkin
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Gherkin in West Yorkshire

Gherkin
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Gherkin in West Yorkshire

Gherkin
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
Leeds -1 2 £438 -20.45% 1
Gherkin
Yorkshire

Gherkin
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Application Security
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA